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[Stu_CDX]

Hi there,

I'm looking to purchase my first Maestro... My Gran had one when I was a child... The last I remember of it is a Rusty Silver 1.3L Model, with wipers that didn't work and cracked bumpers.

Ideally I want a Ledbury Maestro...

I am predominantly a Vauxhall person, but I'm going to sell my Cavalier and my Metro to then buy a Maestro to go with my Astra.

[Oli]

Welcome aboard, i'm sure if you have any questions we can help:)
And will help in your quest to find one!

Oli

[Stu_CDX]

Am interested to know...

What sort of person uses this site? I'm 17, a Student from Braintree in Essex.

Over on MIGWEB, it's all Chav, 50Cent, Hip Hop and Side Skirts... And the average user age is 35 hehe...

I am not a stereotypical teenager, in my music collection, there is no 50Cent, but Pink Floyd and David Bowie.

Maybe I was frozen in the 60's and re-heated in 1990 !!!

[Oli]

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[Stephen G]

Hi And Welcome.

There are some Young Users. Me, haighlsby, Metro Lee And Oli That i didn't know of, Were all roughfly the same age, 15 and 16.

Average age would be about 30-40 Id say.

[Stu_CDX]

Hi And Welcome.

There are some Young Users. Me, haighlsby, Metro Lee And Oli That i didn't know of, Were all roughfly the same age, 15 and 16.

Average age would be about 30-40 Id say.

Cool!!!

This is nice to know...

I feel old :o

I've GOT to get a Maestro... I loved my old Maestro VP... Apart from that thing that always told me about my oil being MADLY low...

I'd have a Maestro over a Montego because being a 17 a 1300 is so cheap to insure.

[G51 NAV]

Welcome to the site...

Hardly old at 17, you're not even old enough to legally drink or vote!

At 38 I represent this site's maturer end (well in age at least).

I'm sure that musically members of this site cover a varying spectrum

There were 1.3 Montegos as well as 1.3 Maestros

[fatboy.01]

hello and welcome aboard

[Stu_CDX]

Welcome to the site...

Hardly old at 17, you're not even old enough to legally drink or vote!

At 38 I represent this site's maturer end (well in age at least).

I'm sure that musically members of this site cover a varying spectrum

There were 1.3 Montegos as well as 1.3 Maestros

A 1.3 Montego?? My god, that'd be slow!

[G51 NAV]

Depends on your viewpoint: with a textbook 0-60 of 13 seconds, a 1.3 Montego was only half a second slower than the equivalent Maestro, both of which were considerably faster than our 1998 1.4 8V Vauxhall Astra LS which we owned a few years ago. But yes, I confess a 1.3 Maestro has, in my opinion, just about the slowest acceleration I feel safe with on modern busy roads.There isn't the time to spend a quarter of a mile accelerating up to 30mph, as by that time you can already see the whites of the driver's eyes in the car behind you who was nowhere to be seen when you pulled out. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of new cars even slower though: there certainly are :)

[TLC]

Hello and welcome .If you think a 13 montego is slow think again .As a older member nearing 50 next month ihave quite often had mercs/audi and others pulled up at the lights.Probably thinking that old boy isn't going to move very fast but there wrong cos when iam determind i can prove that my 16 monty estate still has the power it had from new in 1988

[MetroLee]

Hello and welcome!

I don't exactally frequent this forum as much as I'd like, but yes, I'm 16. Sorry for dragging the thread up, haven't been on here for a while!

What sort of Metro do you have? :)

And I'm a bit of a Vauxhall person too, you should join up to VX-Torque (http://www.vx-torque.com/index.php) ;)

[Stu_CDX]

Hello and welcome!

I don't exactally frequent this forum as much as I'd like, but yes, I'm 16. Sorry for dragging the thread up, haven't been on here for a while!

What sort of Metro do you have? :)

And I'm a bit of a Vauxhall person too, you should join up to VX-Torque (http://www.vx-torque.com/index.php) ;)

My Metro is currently on eBay. It's a H Reg, 1990. Not the rather nasty one from the 80's...

I also have a Felicia and an Astra...

Meaning I now do not longer want a Maestro... :(

If only I had the money !!!

[D87 SMW]

Reminds me of the scene from I'm Alan Partridge...

Alan: I'm not driving a mini-Metro, I'm not driving a mini-Metro, I'm not driving a mini-Metro.

Lynn: No, no it's different. It's called a Rover Metro now.

Alan: They've rebadged it, you fool!

:laugh: :D

[Stu_CDX]

Reminds me of the scene from I'm Alan Partridge...

Alan: I'm not driving a mini-Metro, I'm not driving a mini-Metro, I'm not driving a mini-Metro.

Lynn: No, no it's different. It's called a Rover Metro now.

Alan: They've rebadged it, you fool!

:laugh: :D
:laugh:

Up Yours... It's a ROVER DAMMIT...

(Although, rather scarily... I saw a ROVER 114 GSi stripped down in college next to a 1.3 HLE on a Suffix Y plate and they are identical when they are stripped... )

[D87 SMW]

:laugh:

Up Yours... It's a ROVER DAMMIT...

(Although, rather scarily... I saw a ROVER 114 GSi stripped down in college next to a 1.3 HLE on a Suffix Y plate and they are identical when they are stripped... )

Really? I can't think why...





















Oh yes, because it's THE SAME CAR. Sticking a different badge on it doesn't make it something else...

[G51 NAV]

(Although, rather scarily... I saw a ROVER 114 GSi stripped down in college next to a 1.3 HLE on a Suffix Y plate and they are identical when they are stripped... )
They are similar but not identical. I *think* the font end on the Roverised version is longer for a start, either that or the engine-bay is completely different under the bonnet. Either way I know you just can't drop a K-series into an Austin/MG Metro as it simply just doesn't fit (the Rover version only ever had a K-series). HTH :)

[Russ]

Without sounding like a trainspotter about a class 37:D Ive found there is a hell of a lot of differences between the Mk1&2 and rover metros and you have to be very careful with ebay.When I restored my metro turbo last summer I got stung with stuff like rear window seals that were listed for an austin metro when they were rover and no use at all. Ive just got a rover door which I know im going to have to modify a few things to make it fit.
Had the car on the road 3mths and found a bloody rust bubble on a door bottom even though we'd bare metaled it before paint and etch primered it.
I was going to pst a picture of it but cant work out how to!!

Russ

[MetroLee]

That's quite shocking that it has rusted so quickly.

You can hot pictures via photobucket, or imageshack. Remember to resize the pictures if you are using imageshack :)

[Stu_CDX]

The rear light holes were exactly the same as well as the shape of the rear.

The frint is slightly longer on the R100 than the Austin...

[CountrymanKid]

The front was made longer to accomodate the K-series, the basic bare shell will be identical to the early Austin metros apart from the fuel filler.....even on my rover 100 with the rear bumper off you can still see where the austin metros numper plates were mounted (below the bumper) just they changed front and rear lights, bumpers, bonnet, tailgate, sidestrips, wingmirrors, dash, interior and of course the newer engines and a Rover badge. I have been told that the Doors are identical from austin through to rover but the rover 100s came with side impact protection beams and the rover/austin metro doors dont.

[Stu_CDX]

The front was made longer to accomodate the K-series, the basic bare shell will be identical to the early Austin metros apart from the fuel filler.....even on my rover 100 with the rear bumper off you can still see where the austin metros numper plates were mounted (below the bumper) just they changed front and rear lights, bumpers, bonnet, tailgate, sidestrips, wingmirrors, dash, interior and of course the newer engines and a Rover badge. I have been told that the Doors are identical from austin through to rover but the rover 100s came with side impact protection beams and the rover/austin metro doors dont.

The interior on my R-Metro is EXACTLY identical minus more "Rounded" Heater Controls... ! And I have 2 extra air vents where on the A-Metro has a cubby hole and a digital clock.

The fuel filler on the A-Metro was near on, on the floor IIRc...

But the 5 door seems very nearly Identical...

On my Metro, the interior light has Austin Morris written on it still!!!

With some improvement, they could have kept it going for ever. But the use of cheap metal and using EXACTLY the same design all the way through was detramental.

A Major Redesign would have kept the Metro name in business for years longer.

[G51 NAV]

The fuel filler on the A-Metro was near on, on the floor IIRc...
Early ones yes, later ones no: it was moved up the panel in the late 1980s to where it would remain even after the car became 'Roverised', coinciding pretty-much exactly with when the A-series engine was made unleaded-compatible.

[Austin-Rover]

But the 5 door seems very nearly Identical...

With some improvement, they could have kept it going for ever. But the use of cheap metal and using EXACTLY the same design all the way through was detramental.

A Major Redesign would have kept the Metro name in business for years longer.

As someone has already said, the transformation from A Series Metro to K Series Metro was more than a mere facelift. There were some big engineering changes to the car. The other noteable change apart from the whole front end being different was the front-rear interconnection of the Hydrasag units which gave the car a more competent ride.

Considering the Metro was launched in 1980 and had already had one major revision at the turn of the 1990s (K series) I think it was pretty much done with all it had to offer when it met its demise. To have revised it further as you have suggested would just have been an insult to the car buying public. Especially when you consider the car was now up against stuff like the brand new Punto. Nothing short of a whole new car would have sufficed. The Rover 100 just didn't cut it anymore. Thats not to say it was a bad car, its just that other cars had moved the game on considerably.