1991 Rover 214Si starting after 3 years off the road

My Dads old beloved old 1991 Rover 214Si starting up. He drove it home and it was parked up in 2005 when his new car arrived after 142,000 faultless miles.
She still went like a dream but had suffered an accident (collision with a drunken priest!) in the mid 90s and the poorly repaired paintwork was letting it down so unfortunately it wasnt really worth repairing :(

Its been started occasionally... but how easy will it be after the winter?

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• Rover
• 214
• si
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• series
• austin

[McVaio]

Maybe it *is* worth another (good) paint job.

[Plews]

it had a collision with a drunken Priest in the mid 90s ha. The garage that repaired it did what looked like a really great job until a few year later when the paint started to fade and eventually fall off. Hence the dodgy bonnet, mismatching drivers wing and door.

[andy4157]

I dont believe this for a minute

[Plews]

Ill do you another one! Its still standing there...

[jimvtecgreece]

oh my...still great cars...

[BLAKEYBBLAKEY]

STARTED REALLY WELL CONSIDERING.

[pilotman750]

Despite what people say there was a good car, sold my g reg early 214si with 150,000 miles and was still running nice, had never even been welded!

I paid £45 for it with the headgasket gone and about 100, 000 on the clock

[MrJbfan2010]

@quirpco No, it is the Rover K-Series engine. twin cam 16v

[quirpco]

That's a Honda engine, isn't it?

[Tait011]

haha, your engine bay looks rather damn clean!!

[VOLVORULEZ1995]

@Plews Isnt longbridge knocked down?

[rovercrew]

@Plews you got that right mate, the K series engine kicks ass ^_^ most people who have such big opinions about Rover generally know very little, and have probably never even driven one before.

[Pent1um]

sound like new

[StencilMax2000]

I can hear some popping at low rev, but still after 3 yrs car starts normally without any problems. Despite the fact that its really old, definately with that good engine It could propably overtake 1.6 or even 1.8 without problems ! :) nice car 5/5

[MrMoterKid]

My dad had two of these cars, they were great! A green '90 and a dark blue '94. He sold the green one and scrapped the blue one after the head gasket went. And me nan and grandad have one in the more modern shape. Bloody brilliant cars.

[blaster2012]

Just go to the scrappy and get another bonnet,you'll probably even get one the same colour.These cars are great,mines a 1991 with 158,000 on the clock.Just started it after 6 months on SORN,and the battery wasn't even flat! Amazing.