Used car guide · 1959–1967

Rover 3 Litre buying guide: what to check

What goes wrong on a used Rover 3 Litre, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides and what to check before you buy one.

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Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

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What usually goes wrong with a Rover 3 Litre?

We haven’t found widely reported faults for the Rover 3 Litre in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully.

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score