How to: Rover 600 - warm engine starting problems

If you have Rover 600 with Honda engine and experiance warm engine starting problems while you do not have problems starting when engine is cold, you might want to check dry soldering on components in Main Relay.



This is known problem in case of Honda powered cars.



In following pictures you will see where Main Relay is located.





RHD cars:









LHD cars:









When you take Main Relay out and open it you will find it like this:









Example of dry soldering you can see on this picture circled in black:









Now you need to re-solder problematic joints and put Main Relay back in car. This should solve your problem.











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