Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[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?

[bobdisk]

11 hours ago, Ghosty said:

The new Hubnut video has surprised me somewhat... 

And me, what does he want that for?

[HMC]

Despite them having a Vw gearbox (is that correct?) I’m yet to see a pineappled one.

[HMC]

I’ve always wanted a gold VDP or Mayfair one, and I’ve no idea why. Because.

[AnthonyG]

18 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.
 

I’ll have a look but can’t promise magic results 😀

If  it gets too hard I’ll just post you the whole book! 

[SiC]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

Despite them having a Vw gearbox (is that correct?) I’m yet to see a pineappled one.

That is correct. I was a bit disappointed to hear they don't have the a-series whine. 

[adw1977]

23 hours ago, N19 said:

Used to be two parked on the Dollis Valley estate, rotting... Disappeared now though. 

This one and a white van?  Shame they've gone, but I think that whole estate is getting redeveloped in stages.

[N19]

2 hours ago, adw1977 said:

This one and a white van?  Shame they've gone, but I think that whole estate is getting redeveloped in stages.

Yeah, they'd been there donkeys years, gone now. The estate is getting a badly needed revamp but the area they were in isn't being touched I don't think. 

[hairnet]

check out the ads he talks about

 

[Mrs6C]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

check out the ads he talks about

 

That Trevi looks to be in rather better condition than ours!