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  • TLC
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    TLC

    And i thought my monty est was doing well at 278.000 from new in1988/with only a slight oil leak from the cam covers.

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  • G51 NAV
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    Originally posted by C191JOE
    Steady John,

    The VP's not used to winter, well late autumn, come to that! Just a few days when the roads were dry and the Council hadn't spread salt all over.
    I miss A251's comfy velour seats - JOE is grey leather, not as comfortable by a long way.
    Don't worry, I have no plans to use it in icy/bad weather Which if last Winter is anything to go by means it prolly won't drive out of the front gates during any time from bloomin' November to next April: six months of soddin' Winter we had up here

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  • Miracle maestro
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    Originally posted by C191JOE
    Steady John,

    The VP's not used to winter, well late autumn, come to that! Just a few days when the roads were dry and the Council hadn't spread salt all over.
    I miss A251's comfy velour seats - JOE is grey leather, not as comfortable by a long way.
    Agreed.
    Others can keep leather I prefer fabric too.
    I sat in a leather seated car for the first time a couple of years ago -it was a hot day (I was wearing shorts!) and it brought back bad memories of childhood and having my thighs stick to the pvc seats of our Triumph 1500 :laugh:

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  • C191JOE
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    out for the winter?

    Steady John,

    The VP's not used to winter, well late autumn, come to that! Just a few days when the roads were dry and the Council hadn't spread salt all over.
    I miss A251's comfy velour seats - JOE is grey leather, not as comfortable by a long way.

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  • G51 NAV
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    Prolly not wrong

    All change at the end of September as the MG Turbo goes back into the garage for Winter hibernation and the VP comes out for a change

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    Mileage & Useage

    All very well having it standing around in a garage, keeping the mileage down. But when running a fossil fueled (i.e petrol) car becomes unfeasable as we are priced off the road by fuel price increases, taxation, the rantings of the climate change brigade, etc, or the stuff simply becomes unavailable due to limited resources. Might as well have at least used it before it becomes a museum piece

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  • Simon
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    My Maestro's on 180K. Its "new" engine (fitted 2001) has now done 80,000 miles. The gearbox is on the way out, unfortunately.

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  • MaestroTurbo
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    Pfff all these low mileage cars, in the turbo alone last week i did nearly a 1000 miles and it wasnt cheap! The Monty always does at least 3-400 miles a week and on busy weeks that also does 7-800 miles, its not unknown to be doing a 1000 miles a week at its peak... maestro up to 141k, monty 202k.

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    To go back to the ford thing, my Dad's boss had a mk1 Mondeo TD which clocked up 330,000 miles. Before the crank fell apart!

    Our fleet is a mixed bag. 35k Mini, 60k Maestro, 139k 2CV!

    Ian

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  • threelitre
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    Originally posted by matthewsemple
    My MG Maestro Turbo has more than all three of your combined!
    My father's MG is still happy at more than the double of that. I have probably too many cars myself, so that the mileage is split between them - the Maestro still taking the majority...

    Alexander

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  • G51 NAV
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    :laugh:

    Yeah they can quite easily swallow-up the miles. Before buying the Turbo our previous EFi's had all been the daily hacks, though I looked after them as much as I could

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  • matthewsemple
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    Mileage

    Originally posted by G51 NAV
    The combined mileage on all three of them is 106k:

    MG Turbo: 30k
    VP Maestro: 40k
    MG ZR: 36k
    My MG Maestro Turbo has more than all three of your combined!

    Last edited by matthewsemple; 11th September 2006, 22:10. Reason: Mileage

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  • Guest's Avatar
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    on the subject of mileage, when i bought my maestro TD on the 23rd of july it had 51,900 miles on the clock. today, the 11th september it has 57,436 on the clock. This car is a true daily hack

    thats amazing though john, a very special car

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  • Guest's Avatar
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    Thats nothing John!

    When I bought my van 3 years ago, it was just about to turn 90k, three years on, it has done 126k and in the last 8 months, I have been doing more miles than ever what with the new buisiness and all. I now average about 400-500 miles a WEEK! This is what happens when you have to use somthing every day.

    Mind you, in comparison, I think the DLX has covered about 2000 miles since I bought that and that must have been two or more years ago now.

    Rich

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  • G51 NAV
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    The combined mileage on all three of them is 106k:

    MG Turbo: 30k
    VP Maestro: 40k
    MG ZR: 36k

    My dad always said that when he started driving in the late 50s if a car had done over 50,000 miles it was rebuild-time. I assured him that, to keep with tradition, modern Fords are still the same :laugh:

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