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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | so did a few small things on the rover 400 today, removed the speedo sensor to find out why my speedo isn't working, and it seems the inside of the sensor has disappeared. the two remaining pictures is of the exhaust I removed. it was due for a change. I tried to remove the top gearbox oil plug, but couldn't, no matter how big a lever I used it didn't move, so looks like I will have to refill it through the top venting hole.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | It has probably been taken appart in the wrong place at some time when the broken engine was investigated by the previous owner and the inside fell out unnoticed. I have a new one comming | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | found a set of rover 400 wheels in very good condition and quite near where I live, so bought those this evening for £60.  Edited by DotMatrix 10/1/2013 10:35 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | bought and fitted a starter and a speedo sensor from itsonlyme. the old starter was very sluggish and drew a lot of power when starting the car, so if it didn't start the first time it wouldn't start, but this new one is much better    also got a used car radio that I fitted, and dammit it was a hard job to fit all those wires inside the dash and route the wires from the radio to the AV box and bluetooth module. left the phone module out as the radio has bluetooth, so figured I didn't need that, but time will tell once I get round to reading the manual this pile of wires is what I didn't fit.  fitting the radio. had to cut a bit of plastic out inside the dash to fit it as it was much deeper than the old blaupunkt one   sandblasted, primed and painted the two radiator brackets as the were quite rusty and the first thing you saw when opening the bonnet.  everything fitted and bluetooth and AV box hidden under the drivers seat with wires behind the centre console  and all though driving more than 1500 miles since rebuilding the engine still no water or oil consumption to report. hoping very much that it will stay this way for very long  Edited by DotMatrix 21/1/2013 9:33 PM | ||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | Have you installed the radio controls on the side of the steering wheel? They are really handy. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | 111Sli - 21/1/2013 11:11 PM Have you installed the radio controls on the side of the steering wheel? They are really handy. nope don't have those. have been looking on the back side of the steering wheel for the place to mount them, but haven't really looked into it yet or if they do a cable that works with my radio. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Metromartin - 22/1/2013 1:23 PM good work! Those wheels are a bargin! They are 2004/5 year Rover 45 alloys, the last design before them company went bust. Your 400 might have the standard radio remote wires already in the ISO. Check the how to guide to see which 2 wires they are on the ISO connector. http://www.metropower.org.uk/Portal/default.asp?id=279&mnu=279 thanks. yeah the wheels are in very good condition but a bit small for the car only being 15" but then that will be ok as this car will eventually be passed on to the girl friend when I fix the gti thanks I will check for that wire in the weekend. thanks for the link | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | decided to clean the injectors using a bottle of this stuff. hope it will take my mileage up from 31 to the specified 33 and possibly make it idle better when cold, anyway they probably needed cleaning  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | 14.76km/l (34.72mpg) on the last tank of fuel which is not bad hoping its the injector cleaner that made a big difference and not just because I refuelled using a different pump. boring update I know | ||
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 Expert Posts: 2623 Location: Auckland, New Zealand | Almost worth buying a ZS180, ours will do 35-36 pretty easily on a motorway run  . Not so good around town though... | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | MG mad - 12/2/2013 3:27 PM Almost worth buying a ZS180, ours will do 35-36 pretty easily on a motorway run . Not so good around town though...uh sorry. I think my phone km/l -> mpg calculator is set to us galons (3.78 liters). recalculating using uk galon (4,546 liters) and uk mile (1,609344 km) it equals 41,69 mpg edit: but a zs180 would be a lot more fun than a slow 1.6 liter Edited by DotMatrix 12/2/2013 3:21 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 2623 Location: Auckland, New Zealand | That does make more sense. Yeah the 180 is pretty fun to drive | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so I had a problem with the dashboard light flickering and the relays inside the obviously later fitted relay box (hanging out on one of the pictures) was clicking away like a mad. Later it stopped coming on completely, so I fixed that this weekend. First I thought the problem was the red relay box behind the fuse box that was the problem, so I changed that. which didn't fix the problem. so then I changed the light/indicator stalk which did fix the problem. Both the new red box and the stalk came out of my spare-parts MGF so good thing I still have that standing around By the way. check out the birds-nest of wires! Also, the tightening bolt on my alternator was missing so I rethreaded the alternator and tightened my belt. surprisingly easy without removing anything.     Edited by DotMatrix 18/2/2013 6:03 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | everything running spotless with this car so far. uses half a liter of oil approximately every 6000 miles which is understandable since I didn't remember to change the valve caps, other than that its really good. anyway I decided to try and pull out the polen filter to check how old it was and I don't think the previous owner was aware that this filter was there because it was really filthy so I washed and cleaned the whole car inside out, trunk and under bonnet    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | fitted new wheels this weekend. makes the car look newer I think 195/50-15 continental tyres  | ||
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Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | (Y) Try sourcing a mk2 R45 lip spoiler for the bootlid, it would really suit this! | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | 111Sli - 18/6/2013 11:21 PM (Y) Try sourcing a mk2 R45 lip spoiler for the bootlid, it would really suit this! Yeah i know. I saw the pictures of that one which is the same color as mine with a black boot lip and black grille on mg-rover. Looked very very good 40mm lowering would also help a lot What does (Y) mean? | ||
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Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | (Y) means Thumbs up | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | just thought i would update this from my holiday in sweeden in this car the car is still driving nicely although i have now done 18000 km in it. I changed the batteri in my key-fob yesterday because the range was limited to just above the windscreen, this improved the range wastly up to several meters away from the car so this is very good but a bid nerverecking since i have never changed battery in a fob before and didn't know if it could make the car not want to start. Anyway the procedure was take the battery out, push both buttons at the same time to drain power, insert new battery, push lock button 4-8 times until the car locks. Then today i hit a medium sized pot hole and this turned my srs light on in the same way it had previously been on with it flashing breefely then having a pause of 4-5 seconds then flashing again abd so on. This has been wrong before but the problem disaphered so looks like i have something to do when i get home. Stupid srs system! Anyway, nice holiday to you all | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | changed the petrol filter on the rover 400 on my vacation which I wanted to due as I hadn't changed it before in the time I have owned it  changed the heater air filter, but unfortunately I bought the wrong one. the width was right, but it was 3 cm to short, but I made it work anyway by filling the void with foam I cut off.   I had a puncture the first week (also punctured last summer holiday in sweeden, I suppose you are supposed to have punctures in sweeden). had the first puncture fixed and then ran over a massive road-colored rock with my one rear wheel and that gave the tyre a bubble on the side which doesn't look very good. I will take it to a tyre place at some point to see if it can be fixed or if a new tyre is required.  Edited by DotMatrix 13/7/2013 8:56 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So I did a bit of work on the car this weekend. Emptied the cooling system, flushed it, cleaned the expansion tank and put it all together again. A while ago I installed some new speakers in the parcel shelf, but didn't ever fit the speaker covers as they didn't fit, but made them fit with a saw, a file and some glue I read in a very good book about the k-series engine that the heat and radiation-heat from the manifold warms up the water in the block on the exhaust side and also helps to warm the cylinder head on the exhaust side, so I heat wrapped the top part to keep the temperature down. no idea if it helped though      | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | thanks this weekend I changed the oil in the engine as it was due and I started changing the two bug bushes in the rear suspension. what an awful job to do!        | ||
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