Essential spares
 

As time goes by and part become scarce, what parts would you say are recommended to keep as spares.
Alternator & Starter for a start, any thing else :shrug:

Id say a couple of wheel bearings possibly

a couple of donor cars :D;):getmecoat:

are they like doner Kebabs ? or did you mean DONOR cars ;)

If you have the space 2 old 75`s to strip to shell would be very handy indeed

yeah i meant donor cars ,, i have the msfortune of using a dyslexic keyboard.:D:D

Trouble is everything is essential after it starts going wrong.

But I doubt any motor factor type manufactured parts will be completely unavailable inside the next 10 or more years either. Rusting body shells and crash damage will do most of the cars in by then anyway.

Where have all the Sierras gone?

When I had a TR7 (sold it in 2007) I was able to buy all parts (very few were NLA) from Rimmer bros.

TR7 production finished on 1981 and they still support the car with most parts available.

I would not worry about stocking up, imho parts will be available for many years.

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I agree. however anybody with space who likes to tinker with car. wont do wrong stocking some parts he/she might need in long term??

Couple of spare pipes and slippers :)

I dont think that essential spares will become scarce for a while yet although the non essentials are already scarce/non existant eg powerfolds and switches.

However I have had for some years a policy of buying a spare or spares of any part which could possible go wrong on my two (after a search through this forum and others to see what the common complaints are) AS LONG AS THE PRICE ASKED WAS LESS THAN 25% OF LIST.

My theory being that if anything does go wrong I have the part and it cost a lot less than list giving cheaper running costs. Or If nothing goes wrong I can at least probably sell the parts to another owner for what I paid when I eventually give up Rover ownership.