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Old 11th February 2019, 13:39   #3
Raspberrycai
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Rover 75 Saloon, Merc 190E 1.8, '91 Yamaha SR125

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My brother told me about this one, i've been looking at it a bit. Is it an early longbridge or late cowley? If i'm not mistaken the black sills mean it's a cowley.

It seems to have a fairly mixed MOT history, it's had a lot of suspension problems.

2.0 V6, i'm not experienced with the V6 but i've heard it's a decent engine as far as reliability is concerned, and 150,000 miles isn't too bad as long as it's been serviced at the correct intervals.

In the past 13 years it's only clocked an additional 22K miles according to the DVLA, so it's barely been used for the past decade, but that means that in its first 5 years, it covered 124K miles, which is quite a lot. That's almost 25K miles per year. Wonder what it was used for?


The interior all seems fine for the age and mileage aside from the rear of the passenger seat peeling off. Bodywork on the car seems pretty decent.


The airbag light is on but that may be the connectors under the seats.

No engine light on the pictures but obviously the dealer may have cleared the codes with an OBD2. Also no pictures of the engine bay.

Obviously, it is pre project drive and isn't bad spec, with dual zone climate control and electric windows all round. It could easily be upgraded to higher spec. Obviously, white is quite a rare colour for the 75 too.

I'm in no position to buy at the moment, but if I was i'd at least consider it. The dealer is coincidentally right round the corner from where I bought my 75, literally a minute's walk away.
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2004 Rover 75 Saloon - Connoisseur S.E - 2.0 Diesel CDTi - Platinum Gold - Auto.

1991 Mercedes 190E 1.8 (Nico) / 1991 Yamaha SR125 (David)
This vehicle (Nigel) was born Wednesday, 15th September 2004 @ 08:14:39 and was the 103,810th 75 to run off the production line, out of 112,381 - This vehicle was the 3,096th 75 CDT Connoisseur SE (135) to be made out of 4,744 - This vehicle was the 303rd 75 in Platinum Gold (code: MCN) to be made out of 1,685 Platinum Gold 75s
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