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Old 20th August 2019, 15:55   #21
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Default 07-10-2017, 15:44

Some new pictures, inside:
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Old 20th August 2019, 15:56   #22
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Default 08-10-2017, 19:26

I'm not at all an addict to alcohol but in France ethanol is easy to find and much more affordable (£2.44 a gallon - 0.599€ / litre) than 95 or 98.

So without any alteration anywhere in the engine, I am filling my tank with a little more ethanol at every fuel-up.

I'm now driving the 75 with 60% ethanol.
It's amazing!
The start is as immediate as before (even it was 8°C) and the throttle response is brilliant without any lack of power.

I hope to go up to 2/3 ethanol without any problem.
Now that the car is driving brilliantly, I guess that with the normal over consumption due to ethanol, the MPG nevertheless will be good for a KV6.

I'll keep you posted about it.
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Old 20th August 2019, 15:59   #23
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Default 10-10-2017, 16:03

BTW, my 75 being issued from Cowley in the 24th week of June 1999, that is between the 14th & the 18th, she looks now (to my eyes at least!) as an historical car! No less!
Why?

Have a look on what happened on the 17th of June 1999 near Tower Bridge:
https://youtu.be/7SYpJ7jm71k
I'm over the moon that my 75 even by a tiny chance is slightly connected with that fantastic Rover swansong!
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  • This vehicle was the 7,517th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381
  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
  • This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s

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Old 20th August 2019, 16:00   #24
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Default 12-10-2017, 15:11

Autumnal blessing falling on the Admiral...
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Old 20th August 2019, 16:02   #25
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Two little updates, a good and a bad one.

Let's begin by the bad one.

Following my thread about the CD-GPS reader
https://forums.mg-rover.org/mg-zt-rov...ml#post8652762

I received my BMW CD-GPS driver today. The seller was very quick.
But I've made a gamble, I've lost my bet and it's not the end of the world.
No luck: that beasty German one can't work in a Rover 75!
Worse, it reinitialized my trip counter and was making a weird and gnawing little noise behind the dash.
I took it back according the right protocol, put back my genuine one and that's it.
I rest my case definitely and give up with that device which is of no use after all. It was just to put the 75 back as she was when she was new.

But let's go forward and here is the good one.
I've received my empty fob from China or Hong Kong.
Absolutely similar to the genuine one.
But my second fob plastic had been broken or smashed in the middle, showing a hole instead of both buttons.

So I opened the genuine one and easily swapped the little printed circuit board.

Another matter to take off the key itself that looked stuck in one half of the fob.
I delicately cut the old broken half to be as close as possible to the little plastic bit which the key extremity was stuck in.
Planing with an iron file what remains of the half fob by one side, I succeeded in getting out the key and its square bit properly and cleanly.
A child's play to reintroduce it in the new fob with a tiny drop of glue in the back.

And mind that I have re-used the lower part of the original fob with Rover marks, which proves that the new fob is actually the exact copy of the genuine one.
With the leather & metal Rover key ring I've bought on the bay as well, it's now deserving of my British beauty!

Sorted.
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  • This vehicle was the 7,517th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381
  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
  • This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s
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Old 20th August 2019, 16:04   #26
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Default 20-10-2017, 19:28

I've put a 24 kOhms resistor on two wires of the MAP sensor, the earth and the built-in IAT.

Hence Torque is telling now that the intake temperature is -29°C, which facilitate the acceptance of more ethanol by the engine.

But the ECU being a bit touchy, the surgical job just being done, when I tried to start, all the instrument pack lights switched off straight away and nothing happened, the engine was like dead!

I had the idea to take off the negative of the battery, wait a few minutes then on again, but I hadn't any spanner at hand.
Then I thought it might be the fob, so I went back to the house to get the other one.
Thus I put the second key in the hole and all was working again, but the trip counter that had been reinitialized in the meantime.
When I tried to connect that nasty German Sat-Nav CD reader in the first place, https://forums.mg-rover.org/mg-zt-rov...ml#post8654761 the ECU had done the same trick while reinitializing itself.

So all's well that ends well!
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  • This vehicle was the 7,517th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381
  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
  • This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s
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Old 20th August 2019, 16:05   #27
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Default 25-10-2017, 20:17

Since the beginning when fuelling up I was smelling the petrol a little, just during the 20 first miles, and only outside of course, not inside.
But the car being on the bridge at the mechanics and looking at the tank, it was obvious that it was oozing on the right side.
Verdict: the pump seal is to be changed.

And hearing a rumbling noise on the left, nevertheless without play so far, the mechanic added a pair of wheel bearing to be done ASAP.

So I ordered at DMGRS. I hope those little discomforts will be sorted at the end of next week
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  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
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Old 20th August 2019, 16:06   #28
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Default 01-12-2017, 08:12

A long while I haven't given any information about my admiral.
Now that I'm relieved I can make a briefing.

Matt - @DMGRS - sent me the bearings I had ordered last month.
My mechanic did the job as soon as he had got the stuff, but was puzzled by the look of it, no protection of the magnetic ring and not any distinctive side. At the first glance he thought they were not ABS ones. But he did the job.
Bad luck: no longer any ABS, neither speedometer nor odometer!
The other guess but rather unlikely: it might have been damaged during the journey.
Matt was nice and knowing the result sent me another set of bearings.
I waited, I waited, I waited, the parcel tracking being oddly stuck somewhere before the border and obviously the second set was lost by the carrier and it never arrived!
Facing that new issue Matt was very fair and sent me a third set of bearings!
Very carefully packed, each of them in its proper box, wrapped in a kraft paper, and the tracking was as clear and efficient as it should be. Moreover the parcel arrived very quickly. Brilliant.
And icing on the cake, the bearing were obviously ABS ones, with their unmissable ash grey magnetic ring, both side being different at first glance.

So my meticulous mechanic was very pleased, did the job and hurray this time it works fine at last.
But he showed me that the first pair had been correctly assembled by himself in the first place.
So only painful downside: I have to pay a second time a nearly full morning job, that is nearly £100 too much at my own expense... [IMG]file:///home/aurejac/TEMPOR2/forums.mg-rover.org/images/smilies/wtf.gif[/IMG]

But I'm definitely relieved and my lovely admiral can now drive tall on the open roads without being banned. That's the point. Happy end.
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  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
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Old 20th August 2019, 16:07   #29
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Default 01-12-2017, 16:10

I've forgotten to tell that there isn't any longer any smell of petrol inside or outside. The seal was the culprit as my mechanic told me, and he did a brilliant job because actually there were two seals, one on the left and one on the right, both under the rear seat, and he changed the right defective one. Phew!
May I guess that somebody changed the floating petrol pump but omitted to change the seal or didn't put it correctly? Otherwise why that seal deteriorated when all the rest is working fine? I hope the pump may still last a good while...
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  • This vehicle was the 7,517th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381
  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
  • This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s
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Old 20th August 2019, 16:09   #30
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Default 02-12-2017, 07:38

A quick glance under the bonnet...
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  • This vehicle was the 1,190th 75 2.5 V6 Contemporary to be made out of 8,214
  • This vehicle was the 2,032nd 75 in Atlantic Blue Pearlescent (code: JEY) to be made out of 2,572 Atlantic Blue Pearlescent 75s
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