rover 25

[raywilb]

I recently purchased a rover 25 for my daughter in law. after reading that h/g go & it having a slight cooling loss I thought the worse. how ever  somebody advised me to switch heaters to full & top up. his advice seems to have worked as it has not needed topping up since.apparentley they are renowned for airlocks in the cooling system however I will change the water pump, cambelt, tensioner & the thermostat + housing (which are already purchased).

[omegod]

Check the inlet manifold gasket for leaking, often mistaken for HGF and much easier to fix

[Bojan]

Petrol or diesel?

[TheBoy]

Generally, check the coolant level regularly, and they are not as bad as made out on the HF front.  Let them run a little low on coolant, the HG *WILL* fail.

Not a bad little car, let down by penny pinching (esp the 2002 onwards ones) and "built in Longbridge".  We miss ours.