Viewing `98 Rover 400 advice needed

beetlebailey

Hi All,

I`m looking to spend around 600\700 euro for a cheap second car to do the odd message and basically keep me out of the rain during the winter.Something with 4 doors,decent boot and not over 1.6 is all i need.

I`m no fan over Rovers but I saw one with a long nct and low asking price so i`m veiwing tomorrow.Are these cars total ****e boxes or does the honda engine\gearbox make this model a usable run around?

Thanks.

itarumaa

I think that when price is considered, any car can be total nightmare or a good buy, cannot see Rover would make any difference about this.

Why is the person selling the car is important, maybe there are problems in the future that he/she does not want to spend money at.

And rest of this is just basic stuff that you have to check with any car.

colm_mcm

As far as I know, they don't use Honda engines.
There are plenty cheap corollas and other jap stuff out there.
Why bother?

beetlebailey

beetlebailey wrote: »

Hi All,

I`m looking to spend around 600\700 euro for a cheap second car to do the odd message and basically keep me out of the rain during the winter.Something with 4 doors,decent boot and not over 1.6 is all i need.

I`m no fan over Rovers but I saw one with a long nct and low asking price so i`m veiwing tomorrow.Are these cars total ****e boxes or does the honda engine\gearbox make this model a usable run around?

Thanks.

Unless it's an auto neither the engine or gearbox is Honda. If it's sound it is no doubt a usable run around despite not having a Honda powertrain :rolleyes:

zilog_jones

These have Rover K-Series engines (only the old boxy 416i had a Honda engine, or 1.6 auto as above), which seem to cause a lot of trouble with head gaskets - but any examples that are still running now can't be that bad, surely?