Broken speedo.
Locks busted.
Seats knackered.
Smoky engine - probably the piston rings.
Dodgy clutch.
Can take a bit of a beating, but ride is poor - when I braked, the whole car vibrates - my mates thought it was a cut and shut!
Gear change is crap & the car has a 0-60 of 2 weeks (think I got overtaken by a lawnmower), but a twin SU carb gave a bit more power.
Can do wicked burnouts in this, but clutch has seen better days.
Boot spoiler is hanging off.
Unconfortable - but has only front seats, no back seats, so what the hell!!
The vibrating when braking will be your brake discs, pay £25 and buy some new ones, a new set of EBC blackstuff pads (£14) and your brakes should be much better.
If you can do wicked burnouts in it, how is the 0-60 so bad. Use an HIF44 carb on an inlet manifold, get it tuned, timing set correctly and the valve clearances done, your car should be quite quick. Stop doing those burnouts too, the gearboxes are fragile. The differential unit in the A-series Mini and Metro's is not strong. With a 998, wheelspinning can break the diff pin, which shatters the back of the gearbox casing sending oil and cogs out of the gearbox and on to the road. If you want to do these wheelspins, get that pin changed immediately for a Competition pin (£16-24) or go for it and buy a Minispares cross pin diff (145 pounds). www.minispares.co.uk for their website, I think it has it on there. If you do break the diff pin, you are looking at at least a new or reconditioned gearbox (about £300-£1000), possibly a whole power unit. This would entail taking the whole power unit out of the car to fix. A lot of hassle...
I appreciate what you have written, but decided to abandon my Metro Sport and it probably resides at the pleasure of The London Borough of Hounslow's abandoned car department. I now drive a 'proper' car, a VW Golf MK2.
Whoever wrote this isn't right metro sports are the best I own one its the nippiest little beast I ever driven.
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The only burnout a metro can do is the type that happens when it has a fuel leak and the whole car gets burnt out! anyone who sings the praises of any car built by BL must be mad! the ride on a metro is best described as harsh, the styling: there is none, the engine: 1960's crap! and as for the exagerated claims to top speed, has your car got a speedo that reads in kilometres?
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