I just drove a Metro and think liked it :)
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Arthur Jackson said:
LeeThr said:
and about the 6th head gasket
Another 'k' killed by badly trained mechanics?!So my cousins dad played hell with them. Even had the manager of the branch up at the house to look at the car. Who turned up in his best suit having not met my uncle. (Not the person you cross and expect to get off lightly, when he wants to speak his mind, run in the opposite direction) Manager turns up and basically tells my uncle Do 1, im not doing anything. My uncle told him your looking at this car and I dont care if you get oil over that suit. Eventually agreed (although I suspect this was probably just to get him off his back and to save his suit) they had fooked up and would rebuild the engine at their cost. But it was that fooked it was just easier, scrapyard new engine and drop it in. HGF on that engine so they did it whilst putting it in as well. But each time the standard HG has gone back on, not the uprated one which apparently cures the fault. So when this one goes, my dad is going to do the job and put the proper one on.
Well my cousin being my cousin thinking she knows best about everything. Pain in the arse b
h that she is. Was looking the other day at buying another Rover 214. FFS, she hasnt learnt from the 3 years of having this one there worth fk all, dont go anywhere, spares are a bh, and not that reliable. So might as well just keep this one going for the cost of the gasket rather than get the same thing again.
She will not be told. She's currently in Uni studying child whatever the hell it is to become a primary school teacher. It took her 4 go's to pass her driving test, 3 for her theory. Her mind is just so much like a child as well.
Note to self - must stop getting so worked up and ranting about pain in the arse cousin who is currently living in the room next door to me.
h that she is. Was looking the other day at buying another Rover 214. FFS, she hasnt learnt from the 3 years of having this one there worth fk all, dont go anywhere, spares are a bh, and not that reliable. So might as well just keep this one going for the cost of the gasket rather than get the same thing again. She will not be told. She's currently in Uni studying child whatever the hell it is to become a primary school teacher. It took her 4 go's to pass her driving test, 3 for her theory. Her mind is just so much like a child as well.
Note to self - must stop getting so worked up and ranting about pain in the arse cousin who is currently living in the room next door to me.
Funnily enough, with the K series HG issues I reckon battering it is the way to go, I really looked after my BRM and warmed it up carefully and used top quality oil and the HG went, I had a Metro GTi and it was a bin I bought in haste, body was very manky, interior whiffy and an air of misery about the whole car, the radius arms were on there way out and that coupled with ditchfinders meant it was a car you didn't trifle with in the wet, so apt was it to swap ends. I wanted rid of it, not because of what it was as they were a decent little car, but because it was clapped out and embarrassing, the wife as usual wouldnt listen to my case for changing it so was stuck with it, I hatched a plan and decided to destroy it.
The issue was that the MOT was coming up and I could see a weekend changing Radius arms and welding, probably needed £200 or £300 spending and the wife would let me do it, as it avoids changing the car (female logic), so in the three weeks to MOT time I drove the doors off it, absolutely zero mechanical sympathy on its 100,000 mile engine, my thinking was I could scrap it if the engine or box went, so tricks like hammering it from cold and my favourite, bouncing it off the rev limiter in third through the airport tunnels at Manchester, all the way without changing gear (when it was quiet), was like when my three year old has a go on Gran Turismo when it is set to manual gears and he cant get his head round shifting.
So, net result to my efforts, fuel economy of under 20 mpg, the slight flatspot went and the bloody thing was running sweeter and faster than it ever had, did the Radius arms, got an MOT and kept it another two months, assumed, given the scrote that bought it that it wouldnt see the remaining MOT out, so, I was surprised when I saw it fly past me, thoroughly bazzed up and pursued at speed by a Saxo VTR that was getting a pasting through Trafford park, this was two years later !
The issue was that the MOT was coming up and I could see a weekend changing Radius arms and welding, probably needed £200 or £300 spending and the wife would let me do it, as it avoids changing the car (female logic), so in the three weeks to MOT time I drove the doors off it, absolutely zero mechanical sympathy on its 100,000 mile engine, my thinking was I could scrap it if the engine or box went, so tricks like hammering it from cold and my favourite, bouncing it off the rev limiter in third through the airport tunnels at Manchester, all the way without changing gear (when it was quiet), was like when my three year old has a go on Gran Turismo when it is set to manual gears and he cant get his head round shifting.
So, net result to my efforts, fuel economy of under 20 mpg, the slight flatspot went and the bloody thing was running sweeter and faster than it ever had, did the Radius arms, got an MOT and kept it another two months, assumed, given the scrote that bought it that it wouldnt see the remaining MOT out, so, I was surprised when I saw it fly past me, thoroughly bazzed up and pursued at speed by a Saxo VTR that was getting a pasting through Trafford park, this was two years later !
This post made me laugh out loud in a good way when i saw it! i had a k reg 1992 metro 1.1i rio when i was 17 and it was brilliant. it was nippy and frugal and i found myself looking at them on ebay a while back.
I needed a short term car a few years ago and bought one at an auction. It was my best find ever. Recently serviced, fsh, oil was gold and seats looked like they had not been sat in. Loved it!
Then i lent it to my sister who was going on a trip to ireland so i put it in her name to save hassle and speedong tickets in my name. Lo and behold she tells me it is wrote off. I say no problem as long as you are ok. But then i am wondering where she got the deposit for her new megane convertible. She later admitted she had traded it in.
Bit gutted as i woul have kept it as my 'teen car' and kept it forever.
I needed a short term car a few years ago and bought one at an auction. It was my best find ever. Recently serviced, fsh, oil was gold and seats looked like they had not been sat in. Loved it!
Then i lent it to my sister who was going on a trip to ireland so i put it in her name to save hassle and speedong tickets in my name. Lo and behold she tells me it is wrote off. I say no problem as long as you are ok. But then i am wondering where she got the deposit for her new megane convertible. She later admitted she had traded it in.
Bit gutted as i woul have kept it as my 'teen car' and kept it forever.
SlowStig said:
Jacko, where abouts do you live then? I assume near manchester by you mentioning trafford park and the airport! If you are ever in Southport then let me know and you can come and have a go in mine to see the difference between standard and improved handling/speed is!
Cheers Stig, thanks for the offer, not down there that often but will bear it in mind !As for the guy who's sister traded his Metro in, trade her in, what a git !
It just had its first run ours, been tearing round the field all afternoon and it performed very well, kids had great fun, youngest can now jump in and drive, change gear, do emergency stops, really took to it and did his first handbrake turn
car was cleaned off and put away, hopefully they will not break it and leave it intact enough to be still worth doing the conversion.The old diesel one goes on Saturday, scrap man said he would give me £80 for it, that will keep them in petrol for a while !
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