OT: For spotters of unusual odometer readings...

It's overheating through lack of water for whatever reason that kills them. Otherwise it's a strong engine.

You'd get far more hits with American cars.

Don't be so b****y patronising!

My uncle had an old H reg 214. Ran it up to 220k over 11 years before trading it in. Never even needed a battery in that time either.

Peter

Same with most mass-produced cars. A hell of a lot of cars get stick purely because a lot of people buy them and don't pay any attention to maintaining them. the 1.4 K-series is a superb engine.

Peter

Yes, trouble is it won't take the same neglect as say a Mini or Ford OHV type. It's got hardly any water jacket, so lose the coolant for any reason and you've got to stop quickly to avoid damage.

I've been using that from the start. Cost a fortune. There's something very wrong with the regulator which I've now discovered works in reverse. With it set as the book says, it was on full blast, and 8 quid's worth of gas only lasted a few minutes.

I find my Turbo 130 difficult to set the speed on - it seems to double with a twitch of the knob.

I've got an auto one. Still can't really see where the join is, though.

I'm using an Argon/CO2 mix.

Can see my face in it.

I can get a perfect weld in the middle of a sheet. Butt welds spatter or burn. I've got anti-spatter spray. Or I end up with half a girder on the join. I'm not happy...

Some years ago, my father spotted the remains of his old Avenger (this was a few years ago!) that he'd sold off years before that date, looking very sorry for itself with a note on it saying 'Broken down - gone for assistance'.

He fondly looked it over, then left another note on it replying 'Not surprised that it's broken down, since it's been driven backwards 40,000 miles in the last 5 years!'

Eh? Do you mean American dates?

I wasn't being patronising. Not everyone I've shown it to has even worked it out, let alone spotted it straight away. You must just be more observant than most.

Al

Same here. Obviously a myth put about by clockers who always leave the numbers straight.

John

'er indoors had a fairly uncommon 214S with the 8v carb'd engine. Ran like a dream - dead quiet with good grunt. Sadly the bodywork wasn't up to the same standard so was chopped in at 60k miles and about 5 years old (J-plate.)

I remember looking down in my previous car to see the odo at 11,111 and the time 11:11 - now that was weird!!

Cheers

Dave P

Is this it?

I'll get me coat.

On 12 Aug 2004 01:25:41 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (MBQ) strung together this:

Well, it's a slightly different colour but other than that....

Well, I've never heard of another Rover 1.4 apart from the K and before

We always used to keep an eye out for other ones, but the 214i & 214Si were both far more common and I think they were both 16v. I think, in the end, we've prolly only ever seen a handful of 214S's but that's hardly surprising since FI was almost universal in new cars in 91/92 so one can only conjecture that Rover had a pile of carb'd engines to shift.

That makes me wonder if it was actually a K-series. I'm pretty sure it had a 16v badge on the back - mind you back then when he had it I wasn't into cars much. Just to confirm - they didn't do another 16v 1.4 litre engine that wasn't a K-series did they? How many of them had the 8-valvers? Not many, at a guess.

Peter

No offence intended. It was just obvious to me that it was today's date, and yes - if it had been American style the mileage would have been much lower, so a hit would have been much more likely!

Brian

I found a railway locomotive!

I know! But 05:06 is a little early to wake someone up to tell them something like that