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Selling price for a Rover 75?

  • 11-05-2010 12:46pm
    #1
    mackeminexile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭


    Hi, was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. My girlfriend has a '99 Rover 75. Due to personal reasons it has no tax or NCT. Needs the wishbone bushes changing and new brakes to pass its NCT along with a few bits of minor work. Its the 2L Auto version, lovely inside with the walnut trim. Gearbox is fine etc. She needs to sell it but I have no idea as to pricing it with the problems. Can anyone help? Thanks


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I'm guessing under a grand without the NCT.

    Even less, depending on how expensive it is to fix. that said you may be lucky and find someone that falls in love with it. I've seen an 01 petrol 75 with NCT for 1300


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nigh on impossible to shift one of them, without a test and needing the suspension and brakes it's worth sfa. Was the timing belt ever done on it ?


  • #4
    mackeminexile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭mackeminexile


    I thought that would probably be the case. As far as I know the timing belt has been fine, never replaced.


  • #5
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    mackeminexile wrote: »
    As far as I know the timing belt has been fine, never replaced.

    It's quiter an expensive job to do, it's something that needs doing on time or you risk wrecking the engine. Even if I got this car for 500 quid and did the jobs you outlined, it would be a very expensive 99 75 when it was finished.

    Suppose all you can do is chance your arm and advertise it for 999 on donedeal.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yep, as Colm says the timing belt on the KV6 is quite expensive, between €600 and €900 if you find someone willing to do it. Although reports of KV6s with broken belts are rare and due to the cost many are never changed, it's a 90,000 mile / 6 year interval iirc.


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  • #7
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,304 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    mackeminexile wrote: »
    I thought that would probably be the case. As far as I know the timing belt has been fine, never replaced.

    They are all 'fine' until they snap one day. They don't 'give trouble'

    [I know most people on this forum know this]


  • #8
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    It's worth feck all in PMO, it's worth much less than that will the problems you list. No tbelt change makes it utterly worthless. Personally I'd take it off your hands for a couple of hundred if I could get insured on a 2L petrol, but that's not going to happen soon.


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