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Old 23rd March 2019, 13:26   #11
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I have been driving British rubbish for years. We were in Germany to see my son, in a rubbish Rover SD1 3.5 V8. On the way back there was a hold-up in Belgium on the m/way. Boiling hot weather, well they have better weather than us, don’t they? Lousy British weather, anyway we were stuck for quite some time. I noticed that after a while Merc and BMW owners were getting out and had their bonnets open. It was because they were boiling up. Sat there in the SD1, engine running no problems, and I noticed some were looking over and wondering why I had my engine running, also had the heater fan on full blast with all windows open. When we started to move some of them appeared to not be able to start their cars. That’s the trouble with British rubbish, it keeps going.
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Old 31st March 2019, 23:58   #12
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Maybe it's where I've lived and who I mix with, but no-one has ever made a disparaging remark to me about any of the Rovers I've been driving since 2004. The nearest was a garage who diagnosed HGF by glancing at my 820 through the window.


In fact people are nothing but complimentary about my 75 but this may be because they are cocooned in soul-sucking grey, black and silver plastic with black carpets and dark grey cloth seats. Like my neighbour with a new VW that that's been in the garage 6 times with engine and gearbox warning lights. That came on again yesterday.
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Old 1st April 2019, 08:57   #13
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my only reply to any comments .. is "well its never let me down in 15 years. most reliable care I've ever had .) refering to the CDTI .


But then wifeys Zr is fast approaching 120k of silly short trips and never failed to work in 12 years



Mind you only get these odd comments from " Experts" at Car shows .
usually about HGF irrespective of what car it is



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