The main problem I have had with this car is the gearbox that packed up after about a month (However I had been pushing the car).
I need to replace the rocker cover gasket for just ten pounds.
All the Rover/Austin Metro's I have driven seem to have quite bad brakes.
Other than the problems I find the car to be quite a nice first car however after a while it fells a bit slow, but it can surprise. Even cars such as a Renault Clio and Ford Fiesta have no chance from the lights.
Non the less if you have more than one passenger in the car it becomes slugglish.
But if it wants to take off it can take sharp bends with the back hardly stepping out of line. (Not recomended for legal reasons.)
The seats as long as you have a safety belt on will hold you well.
The dash is very gloomy (There's not even a rev clock, normal clock or lighter.)
My brakes are dodgy they ever over work or they leave it until the last possible moment before activeating which makes the car very fun to drive.
Consider taking an adult along with you next time you buy a car.
Might help.
Funny how only people with crap cars feel the need to talk drivel about leaving other cars at the lights and owners of fast cars don't mention it.
Well thank god someone out there thinks the metro is a good car, its better build than fiesta's and clio's and is a great little car super-duppa!
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I have to say that while a 1.1 K series powered metro might have a 1.1 HCS fiesta from the lights, the metro isn't a patch on a fiesta, or as I call it, a real car! the metro is terribly built, with godawful suspension and brakes, the fiesta feels like a larger car miniaturised, the metro feels like you are driving a biscuit tin. having had both, the metro is clearly the worse car.
Nothing wrong with the brakes that a good service engineer can't fix I have a 1993 Rio 1.1 and it is a great little car best I have ever had and I have had quite a few over the last 40 years.
My wife's 1994 Rover Metro Tahiti finally died of electrical faults (no garage would look at it for less than £150) and the council towed it away thank god.
Just replaced it with an Audi A3 diesel TDI. Now that's a real car.
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