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Why do you drive a metro?; Metro
Topic Started: Aug 26 2017, 10:40 AM (1,631 Views)
Mrbreeze


Ok, here's a topic we all can enjoy, I drive my Geo cause I really enjoy driving it,I added a sway bar to the front, so that helps with handling, 13in wheels which also helps, A/C is a plus, I have 2 other vehicles I can drive but my DD is the 93, I just really like driving it, why do you drive a metro?
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PTA2PTB
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I'm totally awesome! I swear.

To pick up hot chicks. B-)
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WiscoMetro
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Seeking the Science of MPG

Because I had sold the 1998 V6 Chevy Malibu my parents had given me after a year because it was bad on gas in my eyes and I wanted to learn manual. Really I only drove it 750 miles in the year I had it.

Then nearly two months went by and I still couldn't find a 2000-2002 green paint, manual trans Chevy Prizm I had my heart set on. I was growing impatient of needing to bike everywhere. Then on the other side of Lake Michigan I saw a cheap low mileage Geo Metro that hadn't sold in two weeks.
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In my research into finding what car I wanted I had came across the Metro. But I wrote it off, for I was OK with loosing 7 MPG for gaining 70 more horsepower.

But impatient now this Metro piqued my interest. I called my best friend at the time and asked if he wanted to go on a weekend roadtrip in his ultra beater Pontiac Bonneville. That weekend we went, but it was a mistake taking his car. With a significant fuel leak it got only 8 MPG :O , that roadtrip costed me $200 in gas money to him. And so I met the seller, offered 200 below asking and drove my first Geo home stalling and dumping the clutch like crazy having bought it for $900...
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As the cigarette stench slowly faded and I got used to driving a 5 speed I liked it more and more.
I joined the forum shortly after buying it but was always in the shadows, but the came then 4th annual MN Metro Meet.

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Which is a major reason why I've kept it and later bought a second: The great community here!

But I struggled to get even 40 MPG with it. I had convinced a coworker friend who didn't have a car to to buy a Prizm. Seeing how readily it could beat my Metros mileage driving around, it really gave me some regret initially that I hadn't kept waiting for my perfect Prizm. But at that MN Meet we had uncovered the fact my #2 cylinder was completely dead, and I met an engine rebuilder there who is now a ghost on the forum. Within a month, just short of a year of owning the car stage two had begun: A two three cylinder Geo! With so much more power, stalling(which was already becoming rare) became very rare and the mileage that I had hoped for became reality.

Which was another major reason I've kept it, the unsurpassed mileage it gets! How many Prius owners can even say they are almost always in the high 50's to low 60's for their daily driving? And even if they do they don't get the FUN of driving a Metro.

And the simplicity is another reason, before buying the Metro I would have never even tried rotating my tires myself. I've learned a lot about cars from it, and still don't know that much.

:cheers , here's to community, the metro's simplicity, and 50+ mpg!

If you asked me in November 2014 what would I drive right now, I would have certainly said I'd had found my dream Prizm by now. But it has certainly grown on me for this
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is number two , GEO FEVER has got me now.
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snowfish
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PTA2PTB
Aug 26 2017, 11:58 AM
To pick up hot chicks. B-)
Me too. ^o) They seem to flock towards Geos. :wub:

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Back on topic, mine is a daily driver budget hot rod. :nfs

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Mainly fun factor. ^o) Getting 40 - 50+ mpg, driving the way I do, is bonus material. :cheers
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snowfish
Aug 26 2017, 12:23 PM
PTA2PTB
Aug 26 2017, 11:58 AM
To pick up hot chicks. B-)
Me too. ^o) They seem to flock towards Geos. :wub:

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Eggsactly! And, at least from what I hear anyway, they handle really well in fowl weather.

(don't look at me; you started it! :P )
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aero spud
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Multiple reasons.
It's a fun car to drive.
It's a basic uncomplicated car. 5 sppeds, 4 wheels, 3 doors and an engine. No power assisted or operated appliances. No pretenses.


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Bannedfonz
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I agree with Aero Spud. Aside from a few little things, my Geo has been trouble free. A stuck lifter and a distributor o-ring leak have been the only "big" problems that I have had. Paid $600 for it, put about that much into it in updates/upgrades and enjoy driving it. I'm probably one of the handful of people that neither care about mileage nor do I keep a close eye it. It's my daily driver and project, that's really about it.
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charliesdad
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I enjoy driving my metro because it has not let me down! It's peppy and gets outstanding gas mileage..... It has paid for itself in fuel savings alone two times over if not more..... Complicated and sophisticated have no place in the metro equation....

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pvr007
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Because it's economically correct! And they are fun to drive
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Mythstae
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The first Metro I drove, was not mine.
My roommate's Dad bought her a 97 3/5; she can't drive stick.
I "borrowed" the car and ended up driving it for 8 months. Put 20k miles on it.
I was given a broken Metro; Phoenix, also a 3/5, but a 96. Fixed her. Drove her until her distributor exploded.
I bought Belle, a 94 3/3, from the widow of another forum member, after he died. She does not run.
Meanwhile I have the 97 sitting around waiting to be fixed; ate a wing nut.
I currently drive an 01 Swift 4/3, bought from the aforementioned roommate, as it's the car we found for her after realizing that her learning to drive stick wasn't gonna happen. She got another car and no longer needed the Swift.

So why do I drive it?
Well, it's currently my only running vehicle.
Although I'm working on fixing others.
Also, it's the car my Dad taught me how to fix cars with.
Simple, very approachable for a beginner.
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Dystopiate666
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Ate a wingnut?
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Stubby79
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I'm a glutton for punishment!

(ok, not really...they're comfortable, easy to drive, and just as important, easy to work on.)

(oh, and I feel the urge to mock the people who feel the need to drive an expensive, gas-guzzling status symbol)
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Dystopiate666
Aug 27 2017, 03:22 AM
Ate a wingnut?
Air cleaner wing nut.
The OEM one had been lost, the one with the wide flange built in?
So they were using a normal wing nut on top of a washer.
It was unscrewed, and without that wide flange, the nut was able to fit down the hole in the middle of the air cleaner cover, and got sucked into the intake.
There's dimple marks all over inside the engine; on top of the cylinders and on the top of the combustion chamber.
The nut broke apart, somewhere I still have the four largest pieces of it.
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91 ragtop
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Because they didn't sell a Suzuki Vert in the US.


Ken..................

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MR1 Kingsbury
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Mythstae
Aug 27 2017, 10:45 AM
Dystopiate666
Aug 27 2017, 03:22 AM
Ate a wingnut?
Air cleaner wing nut.
The OEM one had been lost, the one with the wide flange built in?
So they were using a normal wing nut on top of a washer.
It was unscrewed, and without that wide flange, the nut was able to fit down the hole in the middle of the air cleaner cover, and got sucked into the intake.
There's dimple marks all over inside the engine; on top of the cylinders and on the top of the combustion chamber.
The nut broke apart, somewhere I still have the four largest pieces of it.
I know that dilemma. Had a nut...(not original wingnut) vibrate up and off the aircleaner stud. then the washer vibrated off and the round collar that fits in the a/c hole. found the nut on top of the number 2 cylinder's broken piston. Beat and pounded into a nearly round nugget in less than a minute before the piston broke

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surprisingly enough there was absolutely zero damage in the cylinder or the valves and only minor pings on the head.
Edited by MR1 Kingsbury, Aug 27 2017, 02:07 PM.
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