Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[bobdisk]

Nice car! ( I installed a new viewer called Deepin Image Viewer, and it shows it. Using Chromium for Linux for Autoshite now, problems gone!😁)

[Six-cylinder]

Just makes me a City X owner feel inferior!

[Eyersey1234]

3 hours ago, brownnova said:

Winnar!!!!!

I’d love a Maestro!!!

Is that to teach SMOLL_Brownnova to drive in? 😂

[AnthonyG]

@SlowsilverThe dashboard in all post 87 Maestros is a Montego one.
From memory by there was  a very half-arsed refresh of the Maestro in late 87 or spring 88 and the Montego dash was a major part of that.  I assume all switchgear, controls on this one is all Montego as well. 

I have a HBOL for Montego 2.0, if you need any scans. Or you/Chris can have it if it helps. Let me know and I will chuck in the post.

[hairnet]

32 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Just makes me a City X owner feel inferior!

even sat for 10 years ours will have less electrical problems

it was nice when it ran

 

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

The dashboard in all post late 87 Maestros is a Montego one. I assume all switchgear, controls on this etc is all Montego as well. 

I have a HBOL for Montego 2.0, if you need any scans. Or Chris can have it if he wants it.

Thanks but it came with a HBOL that does not line up with what in behind the dash.

[HMC]

Where do the body colour bumpers line up in the maestro range? My younger self remembers y reg models  on the road with them but I don’t remember late clubmans with them?  As ever leading the way but also going backwards in development terms!

[AnthonyG]

This is the picture in the Montego HBOL, which covers the dash and instruments in your Maestro; 

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, brownnova said:

Winnar!!!!!

I’d love a Maestro!!!

Weirdo!

[AnthonyG]

6 minutes ago, HMC said:

Where do the body colour bumpers line up in the maestro range? My younger self remembers y reg models  on the road with them but I don’t remember late clubmans with them?  As ever leading the way but also going backwards in development terms!

Base Maestros had metal bumpers at launch, all the others from L upwards had plastic body coloured ones.

Metal bumpers were reintroduced on Clubmans when they become a bargain basement spec in late 1989. ‘Posher’ Maestros were dropped at this point to encourage customers into the new Rover R8.

[chaseracer]

22 hours ago, richardmorris said:

But practically modern cars just don’t have the boot space.

Mine certainly doesn't!

[chaseracer]

20 hours ago, dean36014 said:

I still miss that xm...

I know what you mean.  I had a shot of your old car at the FoD last month and it was lovely - much tighter than either of the ones I had.

[beko1987]

22 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

This is the picture in the Montego HBOL, which covers the dash and instruments in your Maestro; 

Simply circle in red the bit that's broken

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, Slowsilver said:

P.S. What kind of person voluntarily spends 2 hours in the cold and the pouring rain sitting in an old Maestro swearing at the dashboard? Answers on a postcard please.

Did Ms. McKenzie swear back? 😁

[SiC]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Thanks to Slowsilver for turning out on a very wet miserable day. The wet weather prevented lots of pictures and standing about admiring it.

The car started with a jump and we added some petrol, while I did the paperwork Slowsilver gave it a good look over and declared while it had been stood for 10 months everything worked except one fog light so I drove it home.

 

From the pictures that looks extra ordinarily clean. Especially for the miles it's done. Was it garaged for a lot of its life?

Keeper? 

(I'm talking about the car here to be clear, not @Slowsilver 😁🤣)

[SiC]

Do these have the shonky old Lucas 10v mechanical regulators or did they move to something solid state by this point?

[wuvvum]

38 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Base Maestros had metal bumpers at launch, all the others from L upwards had plastic body coloured ones.

Metal bumpers were reintroduced on Clubmans when they become a bargain basement spec in late 1989. ‘Posher’ Maestros were dropped at this point to encourage customers into the new Rover R8.

You could still get an LX though right up until the end of "normal" production, and that had body colour bumpers.

[richardmorris]

P.S. What kind of person voluntarily spends 2 hours in the cold and the pouring rain sitting in an old Maestro swearing at the dashboard? Answers on a postcard please.
 

 

If you are questioning your actions. Rest assured that your mental faculties are all there. You’re just weird.

[hairnet]

53 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

This is the picture in the Montego HBOL, which covers the dash and instruments in your Maestro; 

enter the dragon {/nerd]

 

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Just makes me a City X owner feel inferior!

At least it's not a

 

[hairnet]

props to steve for being mech. eng. gofer

so what else are you doing @Six-cylinder as this wont satisfy you

weird has left and normal has happened so there room for more weird

make it so [/picard]

[Cord Fourteener]

Nice Maestro there! Well bought.

[Slowsilver]

4 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

This is the picture in the Montego HBOL, which covers the dash and instruments in your Maestro; 

What I really need is a picture of the part of the wiring diagram which shows the connections for the temperature and fuel gauges and senders. The Maestro ones only show the wires going into different pins on an unmarked connector and not coming out again, with no sign of any kind of voltage regulation.
 

[Ghosty]

The new Hubnut video has surprised me somewhat... 

[Mr Pastry]

9 hours ago, Slowsilver said:

What I really need is a picture of the part of the wiring diagram which shows the connections for the temperature and fuel gauges and senders. The Maestro ones only show the wires going into different pins on an unmarked connector and not coming out again, with no sign of any kind of voltage regulation.

Not teaching you to suck eggs, but the gauges are likely to have a separate feed from the fuse box so it might be worth checking things at that end before getting too involved in the dash panel.   

[N19]

Top buying! Have always had a soft spot for Maestros. Used to be two parked on the Dollis Valley estate, rotting... Disappeared now though. Its lucky I neither have the money, time nor space for another car. 

[ProgRocker]

Not too many people say this but: Cool Maestro! 

Gluttons for punishment, we had 2 Maestros in our family in 1991/2: an early MG 1600 & a nicer 1987 1.6 Mayfair. 

[SiC]

There's someone near-ish me that has three Metros on the drive. Even Streetview shows two of them. I wonder if there is any hidden in the garage. Bet there are a few other people in this world that have been hoarding them.

I've yet to drive one. Very nearly bought BeEP too.

Heard mix things about them but usually extremes. Some say they're dire, some say they're quite fun to drive.

 

Edit: looking at that picture I noticed they must love the royal family a lot!

[timolloyd]

Maybe it's a retired Mr Bridger?

[Talbot]

13 minutes ago, SiC said:

 

Y tho?