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MG ZR ZS ZT Technical - buying a zt

am thinking of buying a zt 2.5 bin informed cam belt needs changeing at 60k miles.. can anybody inform me of any think else i should be aware of .. not gonna be a typical rover n bits drop off [ jus jokeing ] can anybody advise me
s r french

The cam belt change on the V6 engine is 6 years or 90k, whichever comes first.

Check that the inlet manifold is not rattling and that the radiator fan is correctly working on all speeds.
Ralph Gadsby

Ralph, how do you check that the radiator fan is correctly working on all speeds? Is there a quick procedure to check this out?

Best wishes, Brian, ztt 190
brian Rainbow

MGR advised 6 years or 90k, but in the case of the ZS180 (same engine) Haynes recommend 4 years and 60k, cars with mainly short journeys or stop/start needing it sooner than those with m,ainly long-distance motorway miles. My ZS has only done 35k but is now 5 years old so I'm opting to do mine next week. At a workshop it is a £600/700 job although some say they have paid less. MGR parts alone come to £300 and it's quite a big job. No point in pushing it just to get a wrecked engine.

I think the inlet manifold thing affected early cars and MGR beefed up the linkages later on, there is very little if anything about this recently on the MGR fora.

Radiator fan or heater fan working on all speeds? cars with basic aircon rather than climate control have a 4-speed manual heater speed switch and the resistor for this can burn out. Climate control is done differently although Haynes don't show how. Likewise radiator fan is just a single-speed on or off without climate control, and again Haynes don't show if it is different for climate control. I do know from elsewhere that it is two (at least) speeds with climate control, and two ways of achieving it. One way is with a single-winding motor with a resistor in series for slow speed and this can burn out which causes problems for the climate control. The other method is with a multi-winding motor which may well have three speeds. This can be tested by turning down the temp low enough to get the chiller blowing cold air, and this should run the cooling fan on slow or medium speed, see http://forums.mg-rover.org/showthread.php?t=137032.
Paul Hunt

This thread was discussed between 14/08/2009 and 15/08/2009

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