kroney's your man

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:08, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

nah, he's got a car.
The problem i have is that although the car in question is genuinely a good little motor, it's worth next to nothing thanks to the stupid rover badge on it. Same exact car (almost) with a honda badge in the same condition would go for twice what i can get for this one.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:09, Reply)

what is it?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:10, Reply)

A car, you prick.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:11, Reply)

rover 414i

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:17, Reply)

alright Alan

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:18, Reply)

yeah, i know.
it was free at the time as the head gasket had gone, didn't take 2 days to sort it out and about 200 quid.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:32, Reply)

my mum had a rover with a honda engine
it went like shit off a hot shovel, that car.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:14, Reply)

exactly,
it's a very dull looking rover, with a nice honda engine and in very good condition, and yet. alas, i am only going to get about 800 knicker for a 1500 quid car.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:17, Reply)

a 620?
They were about the best one

I had a 214 for a while, nice enough car, but the head gasket went if you so much as looked at it funny. Terrible engine.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:17, Reply)

i think my mum's was a 216? but this is going back YEARS

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:18, Reply)

K series
bag of shite. Metal head gasket with an iron block on an ally head.

You might as well tattoo "this car will blow up at 40,000 miles" on it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:20, Reply)

Yup
and built like a sandwich with the head bolts going all the way to the sump, so needing a stupidly complex loosening and tightening sequence, during which you couldn't move anything. Utter shite.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:23, Reply)

only if you're a hamfisted oaf,
me and a friend sorted the engine out in a day and a half.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:32, Reply)

Or if the fucking thing goes 300 miles away from home
as the one in my old Freelander did.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:35, Reply)

yeah,
that's true.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:36, Reply)

head gasket was done about 6 months ago.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 25 Sep 2013, 15:31, Reply)