Rover 75 MG ZT

Can’t believe how cheap they still are bmcnut I’m leaning towards a 2.5 V6 Connie SE with an auto box at the mo (quietly slipping into middle age). 😂

Either way the top spec ones seem as cheap as the lower spec models.

Used to have a 75 dizzle estate in old man blue. Remapped and lowered, span the wheels everywhere and upset so many people off the lights and round the twisty's! Also a dead comfy cruiser, probably racked up about 80k miles over the years I had it? Went to the big scrappy in the sky earlier this year since the electrics all gave up in the dash. I'd have another, but with a working dashboard!

Had a 2003 75 Tourer from new (until it died in 2018) - unfortunately 1.8 K series so suffered the usual problems.
Everyone seems to want the Diesels rather then the V6. They are nice cars and now as cheap as chips, even for the high spec Connoisseur models. Build quality isn't that great (everyone on the various 75/zt forums will try to convince you otherwise because they all wear rose tinted glasses and get offended if you try to criticise. . .)
Interior trim trips are curse word, remote locking units on the doors and tailgate regularly pack up, seats wear, ever present air bag warning light is a pain (remove the plug under the seats and solder the wires together), fake wooden dash on later models is pretty nasty, front drop links need replacing every 12 months if you don't buy the original spec expensive ones, paint coverage in door shuts and the like is poor, front tyre wear can be heavy, all this and lots of little niggles all ruined what could have been a really good car.

Just bought a diesel automatic connoisseur

Lovely and smooth very economical and BMW engine to boot

Not the fastest thing on earth but adequate.

Missus had three before all great

I’m familiar with the phrase on here ‘everything has potential’ mmm

I believe lowering is "easy" on BMW E46 coilovers?

www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=253550

the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=252262

Can't be chopped, though the front springs in cold weather do have a habit of self lowering and there was a recall to fit a 'spring protector' around the bottom of the coil on the base of the strut seat to stop the spring puncturing the tyre when it does go. Buy a set of ZT springs and swap them over, or if there's a set of -50 or more springs available sling them in underneath.

I had almost every fault under the sun on mine, but parts availability was excellent at the time and forum knowledge unbelievably good so that I could pinpoint exactly what needed doing and get it done with minimal downtime.

Build quality was good on mine, couldn't fault any of the fit and finish. Only things that let it down was the previous owner not looking after it and the usual backstreet crash repairs, then ultimately the electrical niggles started, but it still drove fine and went for another 4 years without the dashboard functioning as originally intended!

I had a new 75 diesel tourer on 02 as a company car, SE spec in silver. Very comfortable, not the fastest but the boot was always full of my kit. It had to have a new MAF sensor and a mod to where the sensor was fitted. Apparently in heavy rain the intake would suck water in over the MAF and cause issues and send the car into limo mode. This happened to me one busy morning in the fast lane on the M40. Quite a brown trouser moment.

I'm not here to help or 'owt.


For wheel choice, it don't get much better than this



I'm not keen on the red wheels, but it sits sooooo well.


Range rover wheels?





All they had to do, was put a roof on it.


 
Slam it on black banded steels with chrome hub caps, and get a limo to match.



I'll have some of what he's had thanks.




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