Buying a Rover 218 SD - Advice please

The message from "Prasanta" contains these words:

Relax. Enjoy pottering about at low revs with oodles of grunt so when you want to speed up it just whooshes off without fussing about with all that revving stuff the petrolheads have to do.

As mentioned elsewhere, allow the engine to idle for half a minute or so (you can do this while you're parking 'cos you won't need any throttle to park 'cos of the super torque at low reves) so that the turbo can spin down. Actually, I reckon it's not so much it spinning down as cooling down - idling produces very little exhaust heat, and that combined with plenty of cool air on the other end of the casing and rotor will cool the assembly down rapidly. This would stop the hot shaft cooking the stagnant oil.

I don't think there is a turbo on these.

Stuart Sharp

The message from Stu contains these words:

Ah, it was the "I am buying a Rover 218 SD TD" bit that made me think there was. TD's usually used for turbo diesel.

Oops....I was looking at the header, not the post. The later shape

Apologies

Stuart Sharp

Just thought I'd chime in, I've got an L reg - 30mph/1000rpm in 5th makes for very relaxed cruising & 50mpg, but you'l need to use 4th below 40mph or so. The seats fold completely flat if you pull the rear bench up first, you'l be surprised what you can fit in there. Mine's on 148K miles and doesnt burn a drop of oil, it seems the body will fall apart before the engine does if you keep the servicing up. Having said that, someone at works' ones' turbo failed spectacularly at around 145k, taking the rest of the engine with it :)

HTH

Neil

I believe it's a variation of the XUD engine. General consensus seems to be that they run forever with regular oil changes.

Stuart Sharp