My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

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My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:19 pm

After speaking about me (I repeat, I am French, so be indulgent with my English) and a little about my Rover, I will speak in detail of my car here.

So It is a Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack, I bought it the 12th of September 2018.

The car was born the 29th of September 1989 and is a version without catalyser and so it had 177 HP. It is a manual Gearbox. I bought it to the grandson of the 1st owner. It had 109883 km (68278 miles). It is Stone Grey and it is a Sterling Option Pack version, the highest level in France (See the document). The car was in a very good condition and had only 4 little scratchs on the body (2 on the front bumper, one in the left rear door and one on the mirror shell but not visible at 1 meter) and one little task on the seat. Everything is working except the air-conditioning, the tank level and the heating of the front seats.

I make a big service, changing all the filters and all the fluids and I saw a problem with the clutch slave cylinder which leak. Clearly, I feel some difficulties to change the gear sometime but I never thought about this part (I thought about me !!!). So I command a new clutch slave cylinder to a part’s dealer, and this was not the good one !!! And I discover that It will be difficult to find this part. I asked a lot of part’s dealer, old Rover’s garage, Honda’s garage… and nobody had this part. I had a Jaguar XJ (Exactly a Daimler) and I never had some problem to find some parts, but Rover is not Jaguar !!! So I find something in the USA, but I don’t like to buy in USA (You never know the taxes and if the parts will arrive and not be blocked at the customs) an by luck I saw the good parts new (with a new clutch master) selling by a guys on internet. So I could repair ma Rover. It was the only problem I had with my Rover.

Some pictures of my car, I love to take pictures of my car !!!
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The document of the equipement in France
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Currently the car has 115922 km (72045 miles) that's means I drive a little more than 6000 km (3750 miles) in 2 years, witch is quite a lot because it is only a pleasure car and that I have a lot of another pleasure cars.

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Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989 (Non Cat / Manual)

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Manalishi » Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:02 pm

That is a very beautiful car! Congratulations! And a manual non cat 827, those are rare! I have one myself (vitesse) but no where near as nice as yours.
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:30 pm

Thank you.

Do you know if there is information about the number of différent version of Rover 800 producted ?
and specially the number of Rover 827 non cat manual

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by mercedade » Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:14 am

Lodein, you have an incredibly beautiful car there. Congratulations.
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:29 am

Very nice indeed! Does it have the reclining rear seats too?
Cheers,
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:41 am

mercedade wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:14 am
Lodein, you have an incredibly beautiful car there. Congratulations.
Thank you very much

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:43 am

scoobyh123 wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:29 am
Very nice indeed! Does it have the reclining rear seats too?
Thank you very much.

Yes it has the electric reclining rear seats, and it works very well.

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:07 am

Lodein wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:43 am
scoobyh123 wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:29 am
Very nice indeed! Does it have the reclining rear seats too?
Thank you very much.

Yes it has the electric reclining rear seats, and it works very well.

Lodein
That makes it extremely rare, if memory serves the reclining electric rear seats were only offered for about 6 months. The Mk1 Sterling i had about 20 years ago had them, it's the only one i've seen "in the flesh" that had them although i believe there are a couple on here. :wink: :D
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:20 pm

It is funny, I never thought how rare was my Rover before comming here.

Of course as the automatic gear box was standard in France, I could imagine that my car was a bit rare, but I thought that there were a lot of them in other countries.

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:36 pm

When I bought my car it was in good condition but needed a big wash, what I have done
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After nourishing the leather with a Belgom product
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Lodein » Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:44 pm

I forgot, because love makes you blind !!! but I have another flaw on my car, it's too difficult for me to explain the problem so here are some pictures of them :
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So during the confiment I worked on it and :
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Manalishi » Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:19 pm

Excellent on the satin black trims. It’s all in the details! :)
Henrik
Rover 820 Vitesse Coupe 180bhp -93 (Italy)
Rover 827 Vitesse manual (non cat) -89 (Spain)
Lexus GS450h -13
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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:45 pm

Manalishi wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:19 pm
Excellent on the satin black trims. It’s all in the details! :)
You beat me to it Henrik, i was going to say similar!

Had planned to do mine over this summer but it didn't happen!
Cheers,
Dave

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by Manalishi » Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:41 pm

scoobyh123 wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:45 pm
Manalishi wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:19 pm
Excellent on the satin black trims. It’s all in the details! :)
You beat me to it Henrik, i was going to say similar!

Had planned to do mine over this summer but it didn't happen!
Haha Dave, if you knew how much I had planned for the Summer! But hey, It’s only 6months left until the next! :D
Henrik
Rover 820 Vitesse Coupe 180bhp -93 (Italy)
Rover 827 Vitesse manual (non cat) -89 (Spain)
Lexus GS450h -13
Austin Seven Special -36
Gone:
Rover 820 ti -95
Rover 216 DOHC coupe -93
Rover 620 ti -98

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Re: My Rover 827 Sterling Option Pack 1989

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:44 pm

I think we probably both under-achieved this summer Henrik - our reports would say "Could do better........" :P :lol:
Cheers,
Dave

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'94 827 Sterling saloon
'88 Volvo 760 V6 Estate
'95 827 Coupé LPG gone but not forgotten!

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