High Milers

Bringing an old thread back to life as my Rover passed a major milestone today, 500,000km!

Sitting in the garage now, the distance covered over the past 40 years is 310,648 Miles, (500,143km), using a conversion factor of 1.61, which given the limit of reading of the speedo is perfectly acceptable.

Over half a million km, and in the year of its 40th Birthday too. Well done my Rover!

Proves beyond all doubt the wonderful engineering of Rover, and the very best way to look after your Rover is to drive it and drive it often.

Ron.
 
Fantastic achievement Ron. :D

At current rate of mileage it'll take my 15 years to get to that figure :LOL:

Dave
 
chrisyork said:
That is an awful lot of miles, Ron! Well done!

To put in perspective against other vehicles, a UK High Speed Train running on the Paddington to South Wales and the West of England route does roughly this mileage in one year. They are now around 35 years old....... They have recently had their first engine change though.

Chris

They had an engine swap for something cleaner, quieter and more powerful. An individual motor would have been swapped out or given heavy overhaul many times over 35 years.
 
Dear Old KXC676H, the 3500S manual prototype/workhorse has over 500k under her wheels. And she has the original base unit, we're not in Trigger's Broom territory.

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She currently has a later Engineering shop engine (EXP), but had many before her retirement as a Rover road test car.
 
I wish I knew what sleipnir's mileage was... I know we're on 245000 now but no Speedo connected from 1995 till my ownership means I have no idea what the real mileage is. The fact it was going up the a1 from Huntington to Peterborough means it could be 100k more....
 
It does seem that circa 140k was about the limit for a 4-cylinder, anything I've seen/owned with a major mileage had had at least one engine rebuild.

Unless the body's been very well maintained that's about the limit for a base unit as well I'd think.
 
NickDunning wrote,...
Unless the body's been very well maintained that's about the limit for a base unit as well I'd think.

The base unit on my Rover is completely original. No rust or modifications in any way shape or form. I tend to think that is the key, being in Australia, the Rover is a far more reliable car, or indeed for that matter anywhere away from cold wet salted roads.

Ron.
 
Appreciate the comments Willy and Dave :) Fingers crossed I'll still be going when my Rover reaches a million km!

Ron.
 
I changed the engine breather filter on my Rover today. The 4.6 litre engine installed in July of 2007 now has 213,734 miles (344,112km) on it. It still looks mostly silver inside the rocker cover. The only lightly stained part is the rocker assembly. The Rover itself has covered 415,873 miles (669,556km). My Rover's original engine was a different story. The rockers were very dark brown and covered in grit, indeed everything inside was dark brown, but not black. Oil change intervals were much the same, 2000 miles being fairly normal. Different oils though, the original 3.5 ran on Castrol GTX, then Pennzoil GT Performance, both being 20W50 multigrade oils. Oil filters were either JRA, Coopers, or Pennzoil.
My 4.6 has only used Penrite HPR30 20w60 mineral engine oil, save for running in when it had a fill of Penrite running in oil. Oil filters, Ryco, Coopers, but by far the majority being K & N. In terms of air filters, my original engine ran with genuine paper filters up until 1988 (63,097 miles) when I swapped over to Unifilters - oiled foam filters. Even at this time in 1988, the engine was already stained brown inside. Finer filters (also oiled foam) replaced the Unifilters in February 1995 at 138,261 miles. I continued to use these filters with cleaning and reoiling as stipulated right through till 2007. My 4.6 used the same filters for the first 1000 miles, then swapped over to very large K & N cone filters, which I have used ever since.
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Engine oil cap with 213,734 miles - clean, no brown deposits or staining evident.
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Rocker assembly is quite clean considering.

Ron.
 
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