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City Rover --- gonnay no gonnay no
britishtrident - 27/7/12 at 02:52 PM

This week a mate was offered an immaculate very low mileage City Rover at a very very low price and ask me to do some research, it turns out the parts situation in th UK for these is non-existant............ really nothing is available much beyond brake pads and other service parts. Even OEM style brake hoses cannot be found.

I am really quite surprised as XPart promised to continue parts support

perksy - 27/7/12 at 03:05 PM

Did they ever sell enough of them to warrant continued parts supply ?

britishtrident - 27/7/12 at 03:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by perksy
Did they ever sell enough of them to warrant continued parts supply ?


Actually quite a few around but you don't see many on the the road cos the type of buyers were oldies that do only 500 miles a year .... I jest not I know of 2 with less than 3,000 miles on the clock.

Davey D - 27/7/12 at 03:33 PM

Arent they just a re-badged TATA ?

britishtrident - 27/7/12 at 04:06 PM

yes Tata to any chance of keeping them on the road

zilspeed - 27/7/12 at 05:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
yes Tata to any chance of keeping them on the road


Boom tish !!

I'm here all week, try the fish

Mark Allanson - 27/7/12 at 05:45 PM

Caterpillar bought the rights to all Rover parts after they slid beneath the waves

britishtrident - 27/7/12 at 06:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Caterpillar bought the rights to all Rover parts after they slid beneath the waves


Sold long before the crash Catepilar logistic were sold the rights to form what is now Xpart ---- asset stripping or what?
History repeating I can remember when Unipart was sold off.


[Edited on 27/7/12 by britishtrident]

smart51 - 27/7/12 at 08:05 PM

It's mostly a Tata Indica but with body and trim changes to Roverise it. It might be worth seeing if eBay can get you tata parts posted from India.

froggy - 27/7/12 at 08:32 PM

i had to skim the discs on the one i used to look after plus the fuel rail rotted from the inside out wrecking the injectors ,utter guff and cant be cheap enough , injectors were £600 for 4 so i literally hammered a set from a 1.4 k series in to keep it going

myke pocock - 27/7/12 at 09:45 PM

Check this one out and look at the 5th photo!!!

2005 ROVER CITYROVER SOLO SILVER spares or repairs 30.000 miles mot | eBay

steve m - 28/7/12 at 01:22 AM

hahaha pic 5 !!

britishtrident - 28/7/12 at 07:22 AM

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Originally posted by steve m
hahaha pic 5 !!


Note also perfect hand print it has propbably been pushed more miles than it has been driven.
Mental note not to push a City Rover by the tail gate.

[Edited on 28/7/12 by britishtrident]

dhutch - 28/7/12 at 09:19 AM

Presumably, 'revised suspension' or not you should be able to get any parts you need from Tata? Dont know what there UK parts base is like but you can probably get them shipped over for a reasonable price. Having been to Pune a few weeks ago, theres certainly enough of them out in india, along side the zuc swifts and motorbikes.


Daniel