British Barge Content-my Rover 75 V6
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I'm surprised you had that much trouble fitting the head unit. I've got a similar one and it didn't need any soldering. It wasn't 100% straightforward - as it was a later car it has a sort of BMW loom in the dashboard, except the pinouts aren't 100% compatible. So I grabbed a universal ISO to Quadlock adaptor off Amazon, and put the pins in correctly. I also needed a DIN to ISO connector for the aerial if memory serves.
The fiddliest bit was getting the steering wheel controls and the unit lights to work, but after buying a mini ISO connector and the set of pins, I got the whole thing working without making any adjustments to the car's wiring. I could put back the original unit with a broken CD player and no reception of anything except Radio 4 long wave, if I wanted to.
The real fun was jailbreaking it to run a custom ROM so that I could get rid of all of the janky graphics. Here's mine.
The fiddliest bit was getting the steering wheel controls and the unit lights to work, but after buying a mini ISO connector and the set of pins, I got the whole thing working without making any adjustments to the car's wiring. I could put back the original unit with a broken CD player and no reception of anything except Radio 4 long wave, if I wanted to.
The real fun was jailbreaking it to run a custom ROM so that I could get rid of all of the janky graphics. Here's mine.
My parents have just renewed their insurance and are on their third year of a 2004 just-before-facelift 75 Club SE Tourer with the BMW CDT / Getrag manual.
Just spent 180 quid on some handbrake cables (3!), a pair of back shocks, a bottom engine mount and a service kit. I gave 495 sheets for that car 2 and a half years ago, and it's broken down twice: once for failed alternator brushes and the second a burst PAS hose. I put a clutch/flywheel and various bits and bobs into it, retrofitted Xenons too (best mod ever) and it just goes on and on and on.
The old man wants to replace it but my mother will have none of that. Cheap to insure, 50-odd to the gallon all the time and does an amazing all-round job. It will be mine when they eventually replace it. The only real criticism I have is the clutch seems woefully hard compared to many other cars. They are used to it, but it kills me driving in city traffic. Best kept secret I reckon
Just spent 180 quid on some handbrake cables (3!), a pair of back shocks, a bottom engine mount and a service kit. I gave 495 sheets for that car 2 and a half years ago, and it's broken down twice: once for failed alternator brushes and the second a burst PAS hose. I put a clutch/flywheel and various bits and bobs into it, retrofitted Xenons too (best mod ever) and it just goes on and on and on.
The old man wants to replace it but my mother will have none of that. Cheap to insure, 50-odd to the gallon all the time and does an amazing all-round job. It will be mine when they eventually replace it. The only real criticism I have is the clutch seems woefully hard compared to many other cars. They are used to it, but it kills me driving in city traffic. Best kept secret I reckon
AppleJuice said:
Pistom said:
They really shouldn't have been made with anything less than 6 cylinders.
Shame the 2.5 M57 6-cylinder diesel didn't fit transversely. 
Would've suited the 75 perfectly - especially with an automatic gearbox.Being as the 75 seems to be getting a fair bit of love (well, and hatred on the shed thread, predictably!) on PH recently, I thought I'd resurrect and update this thread.
After deciding my 75 was way too nice and rare to use everyday (yup, that was always going to happen), I ploughed a faintly ridiculous amount of money into the car in 2020 getting it fully resprayed and renewing every exterior chrome trim piece with new old stock, sourced from around Europe. My internet search history that month wasn't pretty viewing.
The wheels were also refurbished, and other jobs such as a new thermostat, VIS motors and handbrake shoes/discs & pads were completed, along with four new tyres.
I did toy with selling the car recently, but decided I just couldn't let such a rare (pre-production and low mileage) car go. A trip to Norfolk the other week to visit my folks confirmed it's an exceedingly agreeable way to travel. Still smells divine, too-the early cars were prior to Rover's well documented "Project Drive" cost cutting, so all of the trim is of beautiful quality, the leather is thick and the wood is real, not from a plastic tree.
After deciding my 75 was way too nice and rare to use everyday (yup, that was always going to happen), I ploughed a faintly ridiculous amount of money into the car in 2020 getting it fully resprayed and renewing every exterior chrome trim piece with new old stock, sourced from around Europe. My internet search history that month wasn't pretty viewing.
The wheels were also refurbished, and other jobs such as a new thermostat, VIS motors and handbrake shoes/discs & pads were completed, along with four new tyres.
I did toy with selling the car recently, but decided I just couldn't let such a rare (pre-production and low mileage) car go. A trip to Norfolk the other week to visit my folks confirmed it's an exceedingly agreeable way to travel. Still smells divine, too-the early cars were prior to Rover's well documented "Project Drive" cost cutting, so all of the trim is of beautiful quality, the leather is thick and the wood is real, not from a plastic tree.
k for that car!
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