How much has been spent (from what you can see)

robjf

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As some of you know ive recently bought a rover 414i, now i am far from the boy racer type but found this car (picture below) and wondered how much has been spent on it, that you lot can see. Could you have a go at itemising how much it would cost to do this to a big standard rover :P

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Thanks again :)

Rob

PS. The headgasket was done just before i bought it ;)
 
Would a grandad do up his rover 414 like that so he could drive into town under the NSL and pick up his pension and his newspaper......

Would a boy racer buy a cheap car to do up and thrash around......

The mesh grill says it all for me tbh, i bet its been thrashed, how the car has been done up tells the whole story tbh.
 
robjf said:
PS. The headgasket was done just before i bought it ;)
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Time to get saving for the next one then :)

Deffo had too much spent on it, wheels, springs, grille, side repeaters and colour coding by the looks of it. can be done for about a grand, less if you do the work yourself.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Would a grandad do up his rover 414 like that so he could drive into town under the NSL and pick up his pension and his newspaper......

Would a boy racer buy a cheap car to do up and thrash around......

The mesh grill says it all for me tbh, i bet its been thrashed, how the car has been done up tells the whole story tbh.
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my thoughts exactly
 
Well i can safely say im never ever gonna spend much on my car (£5 tax disc holder so far as mine wasnt sticky anymore and selotape didnt work) but just bored of my cars plain looks, and yes i know its a rover, but that car does look quite tastey, its nowhere near as bad as some others ive seen.
 
I already need to sort out the fanbelt which squeeks a bit on start up, ill do that myself though.

EDIT - as a testement to rover reliability, heres the events of last night....

I was driving along and suddenly the lights flickered, everything in the car seemed to loose power momentarily, driving on a bit further and everything just died, engine cut out...the lot. So me being clever, whilst still rolling (in complete darkness might add) i put it into 1st and let the clutch go, bring everything back to life. I carried on, was parked up for a few minutes, then nothing, wouldnt start at all. Had a few goes at bump starting her but she was having none of it. Popped the bonnet and had a look, 'hmmm that wire shouldnt be like that', the wire coming from the neg of the battery to the body of the car (ground) had snapped by the battery!. A quick run to the nearest garage to get some sellotape and all was good once more, just got to find something a little more permanent!
 
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