It all starts here.
This is currently my daily driver. It's on over 180,000 miles and is essentially a one owner car before me. The second owner had it long enough to make sure it was safe enough to get an MoT and reliable enough to be used as a car. I paid, including having it delivered, less than £500, which is nothing for a Maestro these days.
It replaces a Citroen BX 1.7 non-turbo diesel. I really liked the BX a lot, they're one of my favourite cars, but after moving house I found a diesel wasn't that practical any more since I no longer needed to do the semi-regular 600 mile runs I had been for a few years. All I really needed was a happy shopper. That and the BX started messing me about with an air-in-fuel issue I couldn't pin down that self-healed pretty much as soon as it was sold to the new owner, typically.
In short, this Maestro is worn out. It's not rusty, and it's not particularly abused, it's just well used. It came off the road for only a very brief period of its life when the first owner died and had been spending its time tucked up in a garage which is probably why it had managed to survive for so long. It's had work, it would be surprising if it never had, and I'm in the process of fixing anything that really needs it and improving as I go along. Fundamentally it's a solid little car. The bodywork has some issues, particularly the rear arches, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. The floors are generally very solid and the sills are original except for the usual trailing end repairs that most cars of this age end up needing.
I decided this would be the car that would take me into regular Youtube videos and that has been a decision that so far has helped my little channel grow nicely. I'm also documenting as much as I can so there's information out there on what goes wrong with Maestros, what doesn't, and how to fix things. I'm doing this for the enjoyment of it, rather than any sort of profit, and I've definitely already spent more time and money on the car than it's ever likely to be worth. And I'm okay with that.
This is currently my daily driver. It's on over 180,000 miles and is essentially a one owner car before me. The second owner had it long enough to make sure it was safe enough to get an MoT and reliable enough to be used as a car. I paid, including having it delivered, less than £500, which is nothing for a Maestro these days.
It replaces a Citroen BX 1.7 non-turbo diesel. I really liked the BX a lot, they're one of my favourite cars, but after moving house I found a diesel wasn't that practical any more since I no longer needed to do the semi-regular 600 mile runs I had been for a few years. All I really needed was a happy shopper. That and the BX started messing me about with an air-in-fuel issue I couldn't pin down that self-healed pretty much as soon as it was sold to the new owner, typically.
In short, this Maestro is worn out. It's not rusty, and it's not particularly abused, it's just well used. It came off the road for only a very brief period of its life when the first owner died and had been spending its time tucked up in a garage which is probably why it had managed to survive for so long. It's had work, it would be surprising if it never had, and I'm in the process of fixing anything that really needs it and improving as I go along. Fundamentally it's a solid little car. The bodywork has some issues, particularly the rear arches, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. The floors are generally very solid and the sills are original except for the usual trailing end repairs that most cars of this age end up needing.
I decided this would be the car that would take me into regular Youtube videos and that has been a decision that so far has helped my little channel grow nicely. I'm also documenting as much as I can so there's information out there on what goes wrong with Maestros, what doesn't, and how to fix things. I'm doing this for the enjoyment of it, rather than any sort of profit, and I've definitely already spent more time and money on the car than it's ever likely to be worth. And I'm okay with that.
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