The Geo Metro crosses the 200K barrier
That’s 200K miles, for your metric types. The happy event occurred just before we pulled up to an Arby’s drive-up window yesterday.
I bought this little car just after we returned from South Africa, to replace our Dodge Neon. I needed a commuter car, and the Metro fit the bill nicely. It had about 42,000 miles on it, and was in pretty good condition.
In fact, the car was trouble-free until an incompetent mechanic replaced the timing belt, but failed the retension it. After a few more thousand miles, the belt started to jump off the cogs, fouling up the valve timing. In a very short time, I had several bent valves and a useless motor.
A competent mechanic installed a used engine, and that four-banger has popped along just fine for the last 60,000 miles.
It’s small, but at 35 mpg, I’m not complaining — much.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:42 am
wow. that little baby can go! I love that little car. Someday when I have lots of money I'll fix it up (and find you a new car so I can steal that one).