RE: Shed Of The Week

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BoRED S2upid

20,300 posts

247 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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Theres a reason why Rover went bust. The fact that this was built to compete with BMW and Mercs.

smele

1,284 posts

291 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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£1000 Starting bid for the 205 GTi. Seems like a lot to me, but I suppose that means Shed Of The Week will have more money in the bank for another shed project.

Al 450

1,390 posts

228 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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HeavyRightFoot said:
FWDRacer said:
HeavyRightFoot said:
Oh dear!

The 620ti was one of the few 600's to use a rover engine... not good!

Whilst it was quick, the rover 2.0 litre was prone to problems (eating head gaskets etc.) and this was only made worse by the extra strain the turbo put on the unit!

Imho the Rover 623gsi, with it's 2.3 Honda unit was the better (although slightly slower) car.

Unfortunately they were rare as hens teeth then, so finding a good one now could be an issue!!!!!
It uses a T-Series - not a K-Series, no H/gasket issues on T-series. Serviced properly they'll do 150K without a sniff. The T-series was so strong they let Perkins make a TD out of it.

Edited by FWDRacer on Friday 4th January 12:25
Wasn't the T-series the one they used in the 820???

The 820 were very prone to weeping head gaskets!
T series was used in 200, 400, 600 and 800 in both T and NA forms. It's quite a tidy little engine but was dropped in favour of the aluminium K 1.8 and the ally 2.0 KV6. It's true they were prone to oil weeping from the head gasket, usually at the front right of the block. It's an irritant however rather than a major problem.

Al 450

1,390 posts

228 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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BoRED S2upid said:
Theres a reason why Rover went bust. The fact that this was built to compete with BMW and Mercs.
The 600 was actually the UK's best selling mid sized executive in its day so was more than competitive!

annodomini2

6,906 posts

258 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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Al 450 said:
HeavyRightFoot said:
FWDRacer said:
HeavyRightFoot said:
Oh dear!

The 620ti was one of the few 600's to use a rover engine... not good!

Whilst it was quick, the rover 2.0 litre was prone to problems (eating head gaskets etc.) and this was only made worse by the extra strain the turbo put on the unit!

Imho the Rover 623gsi, with it's 2.3 Honda unit was the better (although slightly slower) car.

Unfortunately they were rare as hens teeth then, so finding a good one now could be an issue!!!!!
It uses a T-Series - not a K-Series, no H/gasket issues on T-series. Serviced properly they'll do 150K without a sniff. The T-series was so strong they let Perkins make a TD out of it.

Edited by FWDRacer on Friday 4th January 12:25
Wasn't the T-series the one they used in the 820???

The 820 were very prone to weeping head gaskets!
T series was used in 200, 400, 600 and 800 in both T and NA forms. It's quite a tidy little engine but was dropped in favour of the aluminium K 1.8 and the ally 2.0 KV6. It's true they were prone to oil weeping from the head gasket, usually at the front right of the block. It's an irritant however rather than a major problem.
I thought they were more prone to eating piston rings??

As the early ones are based on the o-series from the montego.

swaterall98

51 posts

228 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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I had one years ago, and got pulled at 140mph.
It was a beautiful piece of kit, and still looks classy today if you can find a clean one!

cowellsj

681 posts

206 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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qube_TA said:
Looks like a right ol' sleeper.
Was just thinking that scratchchin, never would have thought that was packing nearly 200bhp, you could have some real fun with the Corsa brigade. biglaugh

Needs a tartan rug and box of tissues on the rear shelf for maximum stealth tho. wink

nobrakes

3,247 posts

205 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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"Needs a tartan rug and box of tissues on the rear shelf for maximum stealth tho. "

Yep, room for an AA map on that back shelf as well me thinks. or, one of those ole metal AA badges on the front.

AdamMX-5

2,495 posts

233 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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Didn't realise how popular these were - I bought one on a T about a year and a half ago but couldn't insure it so had to put it on Ebay - my phone rang off the hook. Shame PH have still got the 205 cos this would be an ideal candidate for the next shed - I doubled my money in 3 days.

The journey back from the auction house - a dash down a dual track - was particularly memorable. I was sad to see it go.

Edited by AdamMX-5 on Friday 4th January 14:07

ar0u2211

184 posts

205 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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Judging by the second photo looks like a cut and shut job to me! jester


getmecoat

flattotheboards

6,687 posts

213 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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197bhp, this has got to be one of the ultimate sleepers.

AdamMX-5

2,495 posts

233 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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AdamMX-5 said:
Shame PH have still got the 205 cos this would be an ideal candidate for the next shed - I doubled my money in 3 days.
Scrub that - just noticed it's a 94 M - probably about right as it is then. The £750 I paid for that T plate with 68k up it was obviously bargain of the century!

Edited by AdamMX-5 on Friday 4th January 14:32

Paul V

4,489 posts

284 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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I bought one of these from the rovertech.net site, got one with uprated boost, nicer alloys, a sports exhaust and a whole list of over bits. Paid £700 and a year later sold for £830, it was quite fun having a car that size that could still blow the doors off many things. Only problem was it used more petrol than the Tuscan (may have been down to the mods), ate front tyres and when I crashed my Griff the insurance on it tripled to nearly £750.

Also the gear change can be sloppy but I fitted solid bushes to the linkage which sorted that out.

BigBen

11,821 posts

237 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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BoRED S2upid said:
Theres a reason why Rover went bust. The fact that this was built to compete with BMW and Mercs.
And not Fords and Vauxhalls ?

Dogsey

4,301 posts

237 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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shoutTOWIE! I've found your thread!

hehe

AdamMX-5

2,495 posts

233 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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smele said:
£1000 Starting bid for the 205 GTi. Seems like a lot to me.
Yeah - far better to have a low start and £1000 reserve in my book.

They have changed the minimum reserve recently though haven't they? Is that why Oli's listed it that way?

Edited by AdamMX-5 on Friday 4th January 15:01

Ali_D

1,115 posts

291 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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nobrakes said:
Definately a good shed. Probably still worth best part of whatever it's bought for in a year - eg wave £850 in £20s'infront of the seller and you never know - so that's a big plus.

My only critisism is that it's condition looks too mint. Needs a couple of panels kicked to give it more of a true shed appearance.
rip one in half?

Hoover.

5,988 posts

249 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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We ran a couple of the 600's at work in the fleet and they did shift, but all them suffered with electric window problems ie getting stuck open.

dowahdiddyman

965 posts

218 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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Had one of these years ago, bought s/h from Barclays bank,no ti badges on it so really suprised a few people,biggest suprise was the insurance, me and wife, full no claims 2 clean licences, £1250 fully comp, ouch!

king arthur

6,940 posts

268 months

Friday 4th January 2008
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Hoover. said:
We ran a couple of the 600's at work in the fleet and they did shift, but all them suffered with electric window problems ie getting stuck open.
Yep, the windows problem with dropping out of the runners is far more of a problem on these than the weeping headgaskets. I'm sure it happens on Accords too as it's basically the same door but you only seem to see it on the 600s