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by Roadwork
Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:03 pm
Forum: Cars and Parts Wanted!
Topic: Beige cloth post '96 Driver's seat
Replies: 3
Views: 4174

Re: Beige cloth post '96 Driver's seat

Cheers Dave, good thinking re. going for a passenger side seat; I hadn't thought about that. At least knowing that the cushions are the same doubles my theoretical chance of finding one! Seems the odds are firmly stacked against it, though - I'll set an eBay alert just in case. Yeah, swapping to lea...
by Roadwork
Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:11 pm
Forum: Cars and Parts Wanted!
Topic: Beige cloth post '96 Driver's seat
Replies: 3
Views: 4174

Beige cloth post '96 Driver's seat

Hi chaps. Was absolutely heartbroken to find that my otherwise perfect driver's seat has developed an upholstery split between the driver's seat bolter and the backrest. I assume it's a case of "they all do that, Sir", but perhaps a few have escaped this fate. If anybody' breaking an 800 saloon or f...
by Roadwork
Thu Nov 24, 2016 7:45 am
Forum: Car Chat
Topic: Hibernation time
Replies: 2
Views: 6446

Re: Hibernation time

Thank you, Charles! I have a pair of Mission home Hifi speakers laying about in storage; so this might be a good use for them when I need to find a use for these speakers! I wouldn't necessarily suggest breaking up a good working pair! Some of the older Missions are absolute classics! I had this set...
by Roadwork
Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:08 pm
Forum: Car Chat
Topic: Hibernation time
Replies: 2
Views: 6446

Hibernation time

Good evening Chaps Firstly, and I'm aware that this is probably exactly the same way that I opened my correspondence last time I chimed in, sorry for my somewhat sporadic visits! I'm not on here often because, well, I rarely have anything interesting to say. I have been posting a fair few of my Rove...
by Roadwork
Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:46 pm
Forum: Cars and Parts For Sale!
Topic: 1999 825 Si In White Gold BREAKING FOR SPARES.
Replies: 84
Views: 49772

Re: 1999 825 Si In White Gold BREAKING FOR SPARES.

I'm de-hibernating my 825si tomorrow, so forgive me for turning up out of the blue after not posting here for ages.... If the lid is in beige plastic, how much for the rear centre ashtray? The two retaining clips at the top of mine have snapped so it no longer stays in place. I've decided to try and...
by Roadwork
Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:34 am
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Re: Roadwork's 825Si

To be fair to the old girl, I blame the fact that it's been pressed back into use after spending two years mouldering away doing 500 miles a year. It's done six thousand in my custody, in 6 months. I can't blame it for throwing a strop every now and then!
by Roadwork
Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:58 am
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Re: Roadwork's 825Si

So, this post brings us completely up to date. At this point I was actually planning to have the Rover off the road and safely in storage for the rest of the winter and through the spring, but it's sadly still marooned ten miles from home. The MOT expired on tuesday, the tax finishes at the end of t...
by Roadwork
Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:48 am
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Re: Roadwork's 825Si

A week after that, progress was thus. ....."Hilarity ensued today, when my line manager and I extricated the Rover from the muddy field, using a tow-rope and one of our A-Class loan cars, and deposited it here....: http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd356/rover8002000/20012012262b.jpg ...Around the ...
by Roadwork
Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:47 am
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Re: Roadwork's 825Si

A few months later, after bleeding the slave cylinder again a couple of times: http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd356/rover8002000/13012012240.jpg ".....That's my Rover, that is. Abandoned on a patch of waste ground next to the dealership, where we all park during the day. The time is 18:08, I've ...
by Roadwork
Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:46 am
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Re: Roadwork's 825Si

Then, a bit later.... "....Elegant little wisps of lovely, playful, joyous steam curled prettily from my front grille in traffic this morning. Truthfully I'd noticed it before; in fact every single morning this week ghosts of steam have lazily eminated from the underbonnet area, I'd put it down to e...
by Roadwork
Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:45 am
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Re: Roadwork's 825Si

I can only apologise for how long it's been since I was last on here. It's all changed somewhat, hasn't it? Very pretty. Anyway. I'll do what I can to bring us up to date with where I'm at with the silver dream machine. In the interim between posts, and with assistance from a Lord Sterling (of this ...
by Roadwork
Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:47 pm
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: The RAT.
Replies: 22
Views: 11579

When I was at uni in 2001, I had my first Rover and the first The Fast And The Furious was released. A terrible film, of course, (albeit very watchable for purely ironic reasons...) but it did inspire me to say; "I'm going to build a 200mph 800." My plan was going to involve the following. Bin the M...
by Roadwork
Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:35 pm
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Good points, duly noted. Thanks chaps.
by Roadwork
Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:54 pm
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Mark's 1991H MK1 820i Auto F/B in Nightfire RESTORED NOV2010
Replies: 122
Views: 85814

Gorgeous. Just gorgeous. Really miss my Mk1.
by Roadwork
Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:28 pm
Forum: Your Cars - Rover 800
Topic: Roadwork's 825Si
Replies: 72
Views: 33459

Richard Moss wrote:Blame that hydraulic damper - it makes bleeding the clutch a bleeding pain.
That's an interesting point... I wonder if it's that that's at fault?