1994 Geo Metro from North America - Comments

The car is so small that it gets pushed around by the wind and standing water.

I had to replace the clutch at 210,000 miles.

The fuel pump went bad at 240,000 miles and was costly to fix.

This car just keeps going, I will just drive it until the wheels fall off.

At 6'8" 240 lbs. I fill the car up inside, but I do fit in it.

How many times you had the engine rebuilt? I've never seen one of these things to even get to 200k on two engines and I work at Chevrolet-

I have a 96 Metro 3 cyl manual that went 174K until it lost compression on one cylinder. I am trying to decide what to do at this point. I have never even changed the timing belt.

I drive the crap out of this thing and it keeps on going. I have a name for mine considering it's so small next to my suv. I call it my "keychain".

Best little car around. My first "Geo Metro" was its sister car, the Pontiac Firefly. Put 453,000km (271,000 miles) on it. Apart from the usual wear items (brakes, etc), the car only cost me one timing belt, 1 rad, 1 starter, lots of rear axle bearings, and a engine partial rebuild (valves were shot after 250,000km)! I did the rebuild myself. I removed the valve head, and had it rebuilt in a shop ($200). A bought a gasket kit ($100) and new rings ($60). Replacing the piston rings was simple. Drop oil pan, remove and re-ring pistons. Cleaned the cylinders and reassembled. For $360 and 4 hours work (over two days), I got another 200,000km out of the car. I was forced to dispose of the car after the frame rusted out. A real shame as the car was still running strong.

My second Geo Metro has 220,000km on it. So far, I've replace the timing belt, and lower crankshaft seal.

I think it is a shame that the car manufacturers have stopped building this excellent car. With todays gas prices, I thing that decision is costing them, and us money.

I love my 94' Metro more than I ever thought I could. At first was skeptical of it's integrity until I noticed most of them are still running on the road. The town I live in in Texas has two local businesses that use the same model year vehicle for their fleet. Impressive! Not to mention I like to surprise people when I disclose it's phenomenal gas mileage! I am a lead foot, so I get 26-30 city, and 32-38 HWY. Mine is an automatic. I fixed a seal in the trans. for only $5. WOW!! A/C is still frosty too! Long live the METRO!

My little 97 geo has a few dents dings and 300k miles needs a rebild. But outher then that saves me on gas and is an all around first start runner. I have changed the brakes, oil etc on time from the getgo and it runs just fine.