Transmission failed at 44,000 miles, very expensive to replace.
Head gasket leaks (messy, not a serious problem).
The usual suspension bushes.
My fifth Rover and the best one of all until the diff bearings broke up and wrecked the transmission. I suppose though that as the engine has been chipped to 260 BHP that something eventually would break!
It goes like a rocket - 0-60 in 5.8 sec. Top speed (on a private track) 156 mph and returns a steady 32 MPG in everyday driving.
The ride is very hard and the handling just about adequate.
Overall it has been great fun and in performance terms, nothing else could touch it for the price.
I ought to change it now but what do I buy to replace it!
260 bhp. What have you done to the engine? I find this figure very hard to believe.
Not really, just chip it. My mate's was 255 and that was a 620 TI. Immense fun.
This is not totally unbelievable! It is possible to get 250bhp out of the 1.8 k-series engine, without major engine mods, so it cannot be that unbelievable to get it out of a two litre engine that also has a turbo. They push out 200+ as standard!!!
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If your running 260bhp then stop straight away and turn the boost down, the standard pistons and bottom end will only take 250 max. if you carry on then you'll probably end up with piston melt down or a cracked crankshaft. You need forged pistons and a billet steel crank to run over 250 safely, these bits are available from Moto build or rover specialists.
250 brake is a lot to put through a standard bottom end, and it's true that in the 620ti it probably will end in meltdown. However the 220 turbo was fitted with high quality mahle pistons, which ARE forged and sooo much better than the pastacine pistons of the 600!
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