Rover 214 Si

...Eventually we found a Rover 214si (basically a Rover 25) for sale and although initially put off by the idea of driving a Rover I was won over by it. My particular model was a T-reg, metallic silver (although I call it the metallic mushroom as it's not a true sparkly silver), alloys, full Rover service history, 18,000 miles, 5 doors, electric sunroof, remote central locking, immobiliser, power steering, driver airbag and all for £2350. You can read ...
...could be considering buying a Rover as it should contain a good chunk of the information you'll want. If I've missed anything, drop me a line and I'll do my hardest to find out for you. / \ / \ ~ Exterior Looks ~ The doors have raised black plastic horizontal trim designed to protect the doors but I've found they offer pretty limited protection against 4x4's and cars that have a higher wheelbase as the trims are around ¾ of the way down the door, ...

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...my dads 5 year old Rover 214 SLI just after my 17th birthday. I had bought a Vauxhall Nova of my auntie but found a cheapest quote of £1200 for third party fire and theft was just too expensive. My Dads insurance was due for renewal so I shoped around for quotes to put me on my Dads insurance as a named driver. Eventually I found a great quote with CIS insurance fully comp for just £533. So my Dad put me on his insurance, and I started driving the ...
...central door locking with a rover alarm & imobilizer, and a Airbag not bad for a 95 model. If you by a 200 go for the mid range sli with costs only a couple of hundred more but as lots more equipment compared to the si. The engine is also a gem, it's 1.4 multi point fuel injected 16 valve twin quam engine is so good, it produces a healthy 103bhp something it's rivals can only dream off, as you can imagine it's quite quick off the mark leaving much ...

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...is the story of my Rover 214Si. I was 19 years old when I started to learn to drive and look for that all important first car. I considered all makes and models ranging from vauxhall, ford and peugeot but I never came across anything that really tickled my fancy. My friend at the time owned a Rover 414i which I knew was cheap on insurance, cheap to run and tax and after having been in his I knew it packed a punch and sounded brilliant! The 400 ...
...unsporty. However I put Rover into the search on autotrader and came across the 200 and it was love at first site! I opted for the 1.4 engine rather than the 1.1 because I heard the 1.4 offered more economy and performance combined. The 1.6 engine fell into the higher tax bracket. I ended up with a gorgeous Tahiti Blue 1998 Rover 214Si 16v 5 door model. Even though the previous owner had somewhat destroyed some of the interior trim with silver paint ...

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...my mum got her new rover 214, I must admit, I pretty much set my sights on one, for what I wanted it had loads of room, was comfortable, is only a group 5 on the insurance, and had a 1.4 injection engine, so it had the power to cope with the size. I first found the car I have now bought on auto trader, a site I certainly recommend, the search options really go into a lot of detail as to finding the car you want, which is great stuff for lazy internet ...
...12 miles away from my home, so I got my mum to take me up to have a look, everything was in tip top condition on the car, it was absolutely immaculate, except for 2 very small scratches on the top of the boot, everything else was fine, the engine itself was and still is extremely clean, and the thing that capped it for me in fairness, what that it' a year older than my mums, and it has central locking, whereas her doesn' hehehe, she wasn't amused. ...

mr_blonde 01.04.2003 · Read full review
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I bought my Rover 214Si in September 1998 and owned it for just over a year before buying a newer car. When I bought it (for £1,000) it had 100k miles on the clock and I would say was in average condition for a H reg (seven years old) at the time. There are still a lot of these cars on the road so I thought this may help someone looking to buy a second hand car. They would be quite good as a first car really, you can pick up a decent one for around ...
...red with grey trim. The vast majority of these cars seem to have the same colour scheme, I have seen green as well which is quite nice, I haven't seen any in silver though, this would look really good I think! In fact my wife's uncle used to have a white one, used it for their wedding and it looked quite good with all the ribbons on it! You must of seen these cars driving around, I would say they look OK even today, the top of the range ones looked ...

DavidJWest 04.03.2002 · Read full review
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The Rover 214SLI was produced by Rover in collaboration with Honda, hence many of the layout features and buttons you find on this car are the same as many Honda produced in the same era. I originally started driving a 214SLI after I passed my test in April 2001 (oh, just realised I've been driving near on three years now, but thats an aside!). This car was an red H reg and was owned by my parents, and I was put on the insurance to allow me to get ...
...looks like ============= The Rover 214 has the same shape as a lot of Rovers at that time (ie, the 216, 414, 416 etc). It is fairly long and wide (although not to Volvo standards!) and is available in a variety of engine sizes and 3 and 5 door varietys. The model numbers actually stated if the car was a hatchback or saloon, and also the cars CC value. (IE - a 214 was a 1.4 Litre Hatchback, a 414 was a 1.4 Litre Saloon and a 216 was a 1.6 litre ...

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...Service and repairs at Rover dealers are very expensive. ****************UNDER THE BONNET******************** As we know the engine block is the foundation of the engine and almost all of the engine parts are to do with the block. 1. Cylinder bores for the pistons 2.Water passages for cooling the cylinders 3.Oil passages for reducing friction,heat and wear of the engine parts. 4. Mounting surfaces for the camshaft,crankshaft,cylinder head,transmission,engine ...
...Very expensive. *****************MORE BAD NEWS******************** Premature clutch wear Noisy gearbox Cooling system leaks Cracked cylinder head Exhaust goes quick Another problem is a leaking gearbox shaft oil seal, then you get oil leaks and a slipping clutch. This leads to a worn out gearbox because of excessive movements on the seal. It is very hard to get a second hand gearbox. Because of the low cooling capacity and small leaks you ...

gill1960 28.08.2002 · Read full review
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...I noticed a lot of Rover 200s and 400s that were well within my price range. I had previously thought of these as something of an old man’s car, but in the end this proved a big advantage. How, you may ask! Well, almost every Rover I looked at was in good condition and almost all had a service history. This is pretty impressive on a ten-year-old car! There was even a lot of choice, although I was limited to cars with a 1.4 litre engine by insurance ...
...ideal car; a red 1991 rover 214si 3 door. This was brilliant, with a service history and in good condition. Being a 3 door, it even looked less like an old man’s car! The asking price was a little steep at £1395, but a bit of opportune bargaining gained an impressive saving of £395, that’s around a third off! The car was bought from a local dealership, which saved some of the hassle compared to buying privately, with no apparent price ...

Dunc 03.08.2001 (06.08.2001) · Read full review
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...have recently purchased a used Rover 214Si to replace my old Ford Escort which sadly passed away just before Christmas. Having never owned a Rover before I must say what a pleasure it has been to own and drive. I purchased the P (1997) plate car for £1800. It has just over 70k on the clock and came with a years MOT, 6 months road tax and a 3 month 'Drive Assured' warranty (they are a motor warranty insurance company) included in the price. Externally ...
...battery is fitted (at a Rover dealer) 2) Don't let the car battery itself go flat, this may sound obvious but if you do the car will think you are trying to steal it and you can guess the rest and the potential expense. - Alloy wheels (also factory fitted) - ABS - Power steering - Twin airbags One extra not included is central locking which I had kind of got used to, but I suppose I will just now have to get un-used to. Internally the car ...

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...am still driving, is a Rover 214si, I bought it for £950, but keep in mind that it had only 1 previous owner and an exceptional service history. My particular model is a S-reg, metallic racing-green (not as bad as it sounds), alloys which themselves must be worth a few quid, full Rover service history (as I said before the service history is great!), when I bought it it had done 66,000 miles but now it has done 71,000, 3 doors, remote central locking, ...
...tint which is significant to rover and the top of the windscreen has a darker band of green-black to shield your eyes from sun's glare or as a nice backing for you to put a stupid boy-racer logo across, lol. The seats are quite comfortable and can be adjusted forwards and backwards and the seat can be straightened or reclined (but you knew that anyway) although on long journeys it can become alittle tiresome and can make you more aware of it. The ...

mimicmwb 03.09.2006 · Read full review
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...year old. It had the Rover K series engine which was really quite and smooth and packed more bhp than a ford 1.4 The SI didnt really come with any extras except sunroof and I suppose was quite expensive because of this but it did have power steering. The boot was very spacious too and on the whole it was a good looking car well in front of its honda sister car. decent enough motor but lack of gadgets like electric windows made it a bit pricey looking ...

zef 26.07.2000 · Read full review
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...old lad and own a Rover 214 SLi 1994 (old shape) and I love it. It's the second Rover I've owned (had a 414 SLi previously). All my friends laughed when they saw what I had bought, after all they do look like the kind of car a middle aged man would drive, but they're great! For £190 I got a 1.4 Litre, twincam, 16 V Honda K-Series engined car with electric windows, electric sunroof, electric mirrors, power steering, central locking and a lumbar support ...
...for on the old shape Rover 214 SLi and the 414 SLi; Although many of them come with electrics ensure you check they are functioning. On many Older Rovers I've seen the electric windows are sluggish and stick, normally due to the seals around the glass becoming hard and stiff. The electric sunroof seals also bulge with age creating a whilstling sound when travelling at speed. Other issues can be dodgy central locking and gravelly sounding electric ...

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...have had to update the Rover review. Most of the original details remain the same. I've added my new section under my original review. ORIGINAL REVIEW Before I bought my current car - the Rover 214 Si, I took a few cars for a test drive. All were around the same price but this car stood out by far, with power steering, remote centrol locking, immobilizer & alarm and drivers airbag. In my opinion, this is a brilliant little car. It's very roomy ...
...expect them to be and Rover has added little details, which seem relatively unimportant but you notice the lack of thought when you drive cars without them, such as, the interior light comes on automatically when you disengage the remote centrol locking at night and the ignition column lights up, so you don't have to fumble around in the dark. The interior is quite stylish. I've found it relatively good on fuel, equally good around town or on a ...

kez17 30.07.2003 (05.12.2003) · Read full review
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...dream. So what about the rover 214 si 16V then. I find it a pleasing car to drive, the 16v version has plenty of uummpphh in it and will leave many of its rivals standing in the rain. It has a smooth gearbox, excellant transmission and all the little fiddley bits you could want. Electric sunroof, windows, udjustable steering wheel, the only thing it lacks is electric side wing mirrors. Still you cant have every thing. The boot is quite spacious especially ...
...with the recent problems that rover have faced, the resale value has plumeted. The original price for mine was £13,000, I paid £11,400 for it and just eighteen months later its worth about £6,000, hardly a good investment. But if you want a well built quality car, oh and incidently its British, then the Rover is a good buy. Happy motoring. ...

Malmsteen 17.08.2000 · Read full review
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...will have owned my 1998 Rover 214 Si for three weeks on Monday, and so far i have been loving it. I came accross it while trawling around second hand car garages looking for a 1.4 Ford Escort Osprey to replace my Fiesta Sapphire, which as it happens required a new engine. The brooklands green paint linked with a beige paisley patterned interior was a nice combination, if a little old manny. The curvy, rounded lines looked tidy, with the chrome grill ...
...a sporty number. Well, my rover beats it on top speed, 0-62mph times, bhp and its lighter, and the biggest surprise to me was that his 1.6 Seat has an insurance rating of 11 making it hundreds more to insure (both of us are 18). Having said all that, I don't test out my 0-60 times or my top speeds, I'm quite happy toddling along in my wee Rover at the national speed limit. Overall, the past three weeks have been great with my new car, I've just ...

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