I know its not a proper answer, but 2 months ago traded in my W reg volvo estate. (same age as your Rover)

full service history from new, cambelts, mitchelin tyres with 5mm tread etc etc...

thing was the suspension and clutch had started giving up, the car had 105k on the clock. not a spot of rust, and clean leather inside...but it was only worth £500 trade in.

Didn't want to sell private...

tried quite a few places,,,and £500 even with 8 months tax and a clean MOT with 10 months remaining was the max amount...it was worth £150 if I'd scrapped it in Aylesbury...

i'd owned the volvo for 8.5 years, and had a lot of memories but the cost of fixing the clutch and suspension knocks would have cost twice the cars value....

i'd seriously think about part-exing the car whilst still driveable...

paul.

'''Gordonbennett - you must be nearly as old as me!.'''

And we're proably as worn out as one another too, working all hours the good Lord sent in those days to be able to afford to run a car at all i shouldn't woner..;)

Some of these threads need some common sense input, the clutch is slipping a bit, quick part exchange a perfectly good car and buy one that may well have far worse issues with it....did the owner of the next car have a similar online thread after he misfuelled it, so part ex'd it for one that has a DPF problem and on it goes.

Clutches as with many other things *can* be salvaged quite cheaply, but the only way to do this is to immediately go about fixing it before it gets worse, if left the slipping will cause heat damage to all other parts and you run the risk of the rivets holding the clutch plate wearing grooves through the pressure plate and flywheel effectively scrapping them, a complete clutch assembly will come with a new pressure plate but a normal flywheel should last a lifetime and will be expensive DMF or not.

Course i'd be doing my own, but the same still stands if your sending it in for reapir, the longer you leave it slipping the more expensive the fix.