Evening All

Anyone know anything about em?

Reliable enough???

They seem cheap and spacious enough for a bit of a comfortable motorway cruiser run around type car.

Need somet late model ish and nice ish looking

What do people think?

 

get the right one, and you can have your Ford V8 engine aswell.

 

Decent cars mate. I've had one for the last year and the only problem i've had is a faulty coolant cap. Mines the V6 and apart from being a bit thirsty i can't fault it.

Are you after a petrol or diesel?

 

zt v8, ford v8 and rear drive, when your bored with the normal engine, just bolt in the gt500 engine

 

We had some in the rental fleet when I was valeting - they took the abuse pretty well. I know of a couple of people who had HG problems with the 1.8T, which is a shame as it's the nicer drive around town IMHO. If going for the V6, it has to be the 190 model - much better alloys!

They did a '+' spec, which included Sat nav / TV. Sadly despite ordering some ours all arrived without so can't comment on how good the nav was.

Bear in mind that standard tyres are a something like 225/35 so you'll want to check current prices.....and the state of the roads around you! (Plus side of being in Shirley now - less pot holes )

Economy better on V6 than 1.8T, reaslistically.

HTH
Chris

 

Std fit tyres are 225/45x18, we ran 235/40's on our car. Best choice with sane fuel economy is the ZT190 (better as an estate tbh) and if you run a petrol station then buy the V8

Our V8

 

My mate has just bought an '04 plater - loves it ! Fully loaded, and goes well.

 

how many cars have you got now martin?

 

I wonder how many hes had since he passed his test....

i always thought rovers were shite to be honest, didnt think martin would have a soft spot for them either

 

Well the ford with v8 is best.It is affordable and adorable as well.

 

Not counting!

The Rover 75 and ZT range had a lot of design input from BMW and as a result are quite good cars (75 is a bit boring though), lots of the parts are actually very similar and in some cases the same as BMW.

 

We also had 1.8 N/A auto-box 75's on the fleet which were proper slow!! Also for some reason the interiors seemed better screwed together on the ZT. No idea why that would be....

Chris

 

Chris - I live almost over the road from you between the pub n the shops.

Cheers for the comments guys

I have been looking around and seems all good - anything I should know about common probs wise?

Why does the lower spec car have the better wheels?

Petrol V6 for me - V8 for 100+ miles a day would kill me.

 

Had an 05 plate ZT-CDTi 135+ and it was superb.

Only sold it as my Brother made me a stupid cash offer I would of been silly to refuse

Best thing was, I only gave £3700 for it, one owner, Full history, everything included and was a cracking motorway cruiser with the BMW M47 diesel engine

 

Can't think of a lot but heres what i can remember:

Airbag light - usually just the wiring under the seat. Easy enough to fix.
Thermostat housing - it's in the middle of the V and can split. It can make the car seem like its got head gasket issues. It's not the nicest of jobs.
Inlet - Motors fail and can often cause a rattle. If it's the actual manifold thats failed it can be costly.

Other than that and making sure it has two keys i can't really think of anything. Others may have some ideas.

 

2 Keys - why so important?

 

Costs mainly. Not sure how much they are its just what was mentioned to me

 

Keys are not too bad, they're around £110 and will open the car (manually) and allow you to start and drive away... They need programing to make remote central locking work but thats only about £40.