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Based on experience only, the engines with which I am familiar are the M100 (in a 6.9), and the the M112 and M113. After owing a 6.9 for 15 years, only the front main seal , the harmonic balancer and the timing chain were replaced. Since then no further work has required to be done by the next...

As the thread title suggests . I am after your biased opinions, based on your own experiences - that should exclude things like a DB601 or a DB605 !🙂

Saw in the Rover Club Mag: For sale: A Rover 75, with a 4.5 V8 engine, RWD, 146,000 klm, $29,000 Possibly one of only two in Australia, approx. only 150 built. Engine is Mustang pushrod V8, as originally built by MG Rover. Weight 1655 kg, length 4750mm, 191 kW, 410 Nm A real competitor to the...

It as taken 21 years for my (now venerable) E55 to pass the 100,000 kilometer mark. Probably not the lowest distance covered for a W210, but maybe in the lowest 10 percentile. Condition commensurate with distance covered.

I lived with an AUSTIN MAXI in the UK for 15 months. I thought it was quite OK ! :) It was able to keep up very well, way back in 1971, on the European autobahns.

Older classic Rover and Rolls Royce cars have always had brilliantly harmonised colour schemes, inside and out. Even with off beat colour combinations I have always found it irksome that modern Mercedes cars are most commonly found in single colour black, silver or white, and only rarely, in...

I bought my 6.9 on a whim in 1999. I sold it on a whim for a small profit, to Mark Hertz (MB Club NSW Events Director), in 2014. I told my daughter and boy, was she disappointed. :( She had it in mind to use it as a wedding car. I HAD to borrow the car of him about a year later, to be used as...

I am still following this project with a great deal of interest. I remember the car coming back from Canberra, because I followed it back to Glenorie, towing another Rover on a trailer behind Styria's Captiva. I am going to make a special appointment to look at at the current state of work. I...

Rover also produced a quite small V8 powered car of a later vintage. It was based on the Rover 75 (1999 - 2005) The original '75' of this vintage had a 2.5 litre east west engine. A 'badge engineered ' MG ZT version was also produced for the same years. It was considerably modified for 1998...

Have been reading up on this engine. M156 engines were made in house by AMG, they power the E63, S63, ML 63, CL63, C63, and SL63 cars. From what I have read (mainly on Benzworld), these engines have two problems that only come up after about 100,000 kilometres. The first problem concerns the...

A quality car like any Mercedes should be should have top quality materials used in ALL parts of the car. That ain't so with current cars, especially when it applies to headlights, unfortunately. As with all other modern cars, the plastic headlights can haze after a few years. All is not lost...

Bill: Styria tells me that Lemforder spheres are getting harder to come by. Lemforder spheres, In Styria's opinion, are superior to Bilsteins, and last longer. About 18 months ago, I was speaking to a Citroen owner, who lives in Canning Road, within walking distance of Woolies. He said that...

Is there anything equivalent to this article on the Shadow 11, which is probably the nearest Rolls Royce product to the 6.9?

For me it is just over 13 years. Originally delivered new in Hong Kong, but built to ADR's. I have owned only one other car a longer period. That car is now in Japan.

The colours of the Top Gear cars are fabulous. Why is it that all modern Merc's are finished in black, near to black or occasional silver. Why is it that they can't come with standard colours of a nice red or green (as these are), or blue? All other manufacturers seem to be falling into the...

There are two types of leaks in the hydraulic suspension system: Those you may be be able to see (external) and those you may not be able to see (internal). It is the second sort that can occur in the struts or one of the valve bodies. I this case these components can be suspected as have...

Is there a 4 or 5 speed American auto transmission from the muscle car era? Auto transmissions from this period do not have electronic control, and therefore should be more adaptable to the 6.9. I know of another alternative currently installed in an American muscle car: -three speed auto with...

With a car like that, as with all old cars, condition is the most important. Performance helps, but it is not the main thing. My brother in law bought seven Rovers for $700 in a job lot. He had them all on a property near Buladelah, but two were lost in bushfires, before a shed could be built...

Yes. show us some pictures, and let us know of what work needed to be done. I am sure that we would all be interested.