1997 Geo Metro Review

okay so here we have my do to me 97 Metro see if I can show you guys the inside here it's a 5-speed manual manual everything I think this is the base model but it does have AC in it I haven't tested it out but the lady said that it needs a little bit of work has almost 170,000 miles fuel gauge fluid your your coolant temperature gauge it also has this dowel over here on the side you know it's pretty typical of every car so you can adjust the brightness on everything high beams again you know you know they deal with that that's got to speed windshield wipers nuts have a backseat metal first very small as I drop my keys for the most part the car is in pretty decent shape if I had to give it a and out of ten I probably give it about a seven I'll show you guys around a little bit here's the glovebox pretty small but it's pretty normal sized it has dual airbags change holder right there one power out pork this car does need a little bit of work it's currently right now it's spitting out a check engine code and it's p 0 400 which is the exhaust gas recirculation there's some problem with the EGR EGR valve or one of the components within the system oh I'll drove it on the block here in a minute but you know II brake right here another little change compartment or whatever you want to call it got your side map holders here your two door speakers up here and your back speakers here in the back is really not that all not really all that much to show about it I'll show you guys underneath the hood and also show you guys there's no say here we go it can fold the seats down obviously it does have a spare tire underneath here I just vacuumed it out today but it's still a little bit dirty it also came with a set of chains which I'm never gonna use small jack window visor this is how far the seat folds down you know I'm actually probably going to remove this back seat I don't really want anyone driving around in the back with me just because of safety reasons if I was to get in an accident so the hydraulics and the hatch worked great things only in 97 so everything should honest should work fine I just change on it not too long ago but it's a very small engine very small it is it is throttle body and our tuned port injection I need to work on the EGR back here that's what the forums are saying is the kind of issue with these is the EGR kind of gets all messed up and everything so I'm gonna have to dig into that and troubleshoot it I bought some carb cleaner to clean it out and everything so we'll get to that as we get to it also I bought a whole whole tune-up deal for it new rotor cap wires everything you'll see that in another video when I actually do it but I actually spent about a hundred bucks and you know tuned up parts and everything for it the oil dipstick back here the air filter is actually in pretty good shape there was about two or three different Hornet nests in this thing so I had to take care of those really quickly it does need new motor mounts which honestly that's not that big of a deal I don't know which ones it needs but I think I'm just going to replace all of them alternators back here AC compressor right here and actually really surprised that this thing even has a see very small transmission I could pretty much lift that thing out by hand and that's what the forums have been saying to EVAP canister there's a master cylinder very small battery fuse boxes and look how small the radiator is so I'll go ahead and start it up she only had one key for it and for the most part that seems to run pretty good it'll run a lot better it's running a little rough because of the EGR issue and just because it needs an overall tune-up though the spark plugs do look new I would do the tune-up right now it's just hosting my tools or at work so I have like nothing to work with here I might go over to my dad's in a little bit actually because he's got a ton of tools so yeah I'm gonna drive it around the block here set the camera down put my seat belt on it does seem to grind a little bit when I do mean a very little bit going into reverse and it has the typical reverse gear worn so if I can do this no power steering either which for something this small it's basically a go-kart with a windshield and a manual transmission and for you guys with the shifting fetish and I'll do a zero to sixty in it once I get it all tuned up and everything that will happen fourth gear at 30 miles an hour when I was driving it back it was in a nearby town called Exeter it's about an hour away from me so it was just about a 60 mile 60 mile trip but I think it was well worth it I didn't it's not really the fact that I thought this was just an outlandish great deal because there's there's other Geo's on Craigslist right now that are going for a little over twice as much as this one did well and the ones that are actually in worse shape are around the same price or even lower so for some reason in California at least in Fresno these things have a fairly high value to them and there's me starting it in second no yeah it was on e in Exeter and I put four gallons in it and did you see that little shift light to but it I put four gallons in it and it put in three-quarters of a tank so this thing has a very very small tank on it which is gonna be great once I get it fixed up because I'll be driving it pretty much every day to work well let's see if I can get that light to turn on again and there she is so put the camera back here drive it around once more and I think that'll be it almost into the video I'll Drive back to my house really quick and that'll be it so this is just a quick overview video obviously as time passes on I'm gonna do more updates I'm definitely gonna update you guys on the fuel mileage once I do start driving it I'll post videos of me driving it to L'Amour and that's the main plans as far as I know right now I might go to pick and pull tomorrow or Monday I'm most likely gonna get this thing registered in my name Monday and then I'm gonna have to get its marked as well so I'm gonna have to really get my ass in gear and start fixing this thing and get it ready to get smogged and California will be happy so let's park it back in the drive and this thing takes out no driveway space by the way and that's good enough for government work and I hope you guys enjoyed the video so peace out

Channel: Hank's Garage

Views: 66,909

Keywords: Metro, overview, geo, 1997, cylinder, gas, saver, fuel, sipper, speed, manual, engine, start, review, repair, automobiles, cars, vehicle

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Length: 10min 31sec (631 seconds)

Published: Sun May 08 2011