The metro has an MOT! - Page 2

Admiral Huddy · 26-03-2007, 10:26

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Originally Posted by Matblack

My first car was an MG metro (non turbo) in white with red seatbelts

. I thought I was the mutts nuts

MB

I had one off them too.. Was it like a metalic blue.. ? I got it nicked. I was just an old A type engine lifted straight out of an Austin Allegro iirc

Pebs · 26-03-2007, 10:29

Huddy you plank, read your own post! It was white!

Admiral Huddy · 26-03-2007, 10:50

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Originally Posted by Pebbles

Huddy you plank, read your own post! It was white!

Ahh selective reading syndrome..

This is a side effect of selective hearing syndrome.

Nutcase · 26-03-2007, 12:17

Cor, all you posh lot with their MG ones, mine is but a lowly L

I did have an MG metro engine in my first Allegro though (yup, I had two!). Was too much for the poor gearbox though, when doing a wheelspin I knocked 12 teeth off the diff

Was pretty quick for an aggro tho up to that point

Methinks someone wants to retire - just been quoted over £300 to change two suspension pipes

Roberta · 26-03-2007, 16:30

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Originally Posted by 8 I3ALL

I saw this thread and thought it was going to be a post about Daz going for a medical !!!!!

Ha ha! Me too!

Daz · 26-03-2007, 17:04

Mine's not due till the summer

8 I3ALL · 26-03-2007, 17:16

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Originally Posted by Roberta

Ha ha! Me too!

Great minds.........

Soz Daz but it was just too tempting !!!!

Nutcase · 06-04-2007, 18:38

Was ready to attack the thing with a sledgehammer today

Did the suspension pipes last weekend, and have been going through the list of advisories. Managed to blag a new fuel filler pipe off ebay during the week - the one on there had the structural integrity of a rice pudding skin. Went to fit it today and the old one fell to bits while undoing it. Guess the new one HAS to fit then. Shame the vent pipe on it is shorter than the original and a larger diameter. And the stub of pipe it attaches to on the tank is so close to teh body of the car you can't get the hose back on.

3 hours later and it's on and bodged - book time is 1/2 hour. Used a saab hose to join it up - the metro is slowly being assimalted

Nutcase · 04-05-2007, 07:21

And a month later, I'm going to use the dcar "in anger" for the first time today. Me slow

Might have to earn lots of money and use the garage that pumped up the suspension again - the lady at the desk is HAWT

Shame she knows my car's a battered old metro

Jonny69 · 04-05-2007, 09:33

Wehey, nice one. Mine passed on Tuesday so I'm out terrorising the streets of Kent in my Pop.

26-03-2007, 10:29	#12
Pebs Easymouth Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,716	Huddy you plank, read your own post! It was white! __________________ ...faster you naughty little monkey! Running through hell, heaven can wait!

26-03-2007, 17:04	#16
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	Mine's not due till the summer __________________ apt-get moo

04-05-2007, 09:33	#20
Jonny69 Noob Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Socialist Republik of Kent Posts: 5,032	Wehey, nice one. Mine passed on Tuesday so I'm out terrorising the streets of Kent in my Pop. __________________

26-03-2007, 12:17	#14
Nutcase Moonshine Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chelmsford, innit! Posts: 3,979	Cor, all you posh lot with their MG ones, mine is but a lowly L I did have an MG metro engine in my first Allegro though (yup, I had two!). Was too much for the poor gearbox though, when doing a wheelspin I knocked 12 teeth off the diff Was pretty quick for an aggro tho up to that point Methinks someone wants to retire - just been quoted over £300 to change two suspension pipes

06-04-2007, 18:38	#18
Nutcase Moonshine Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chelmsford, innit! Posts: 3,979	Was ready to attack the thing with a sledgehammer today Did the suspension pipes last weekend, and have been going through the list of advisories. Managed to blag a new fuel filler pipe off ebay during the week - the one on there had the structural integrity of a rice pudding skin. Went to fit it today and the old one fell to bits while undoing it. Guess the new one HAS to fit then. Shame the vent pipe on it is shorter than the original and a larger diameter. And the stub of pipe it attaches to on the tank is so close to teh body of the car you can't get the hose back on. 3 hours later and it's on and bodged - book time is 1/2 hour. Used a saab hose to join it up - the metro is slowly being assimalted

04-05-2007, 07:21	#19
Nutcase Moonshine Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chelmsford, innit! Posts: 3,979	And a month later, I'm going to use the dcar "in anger" for the first time today. Me slow Might have to earn lots of money and use the garage that pumped up the suspension again - the lady at the desk is HAWT Shame she knows my car's a battered old metro