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Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 9:41 am
by Johnny 216GSi
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 7:47 pm
by Paul_1978_yorks
Ah so this is he one with 11k on the clock? What a beauty!
#jealous
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 12:11 pm
by Mr Teddy Bear
The 216 GSI had rear headrests, where as neither of my GTI's has, nor is the rear seat back fitted for them. It would appear that the 200 range had a straight horizontal seat back, whereas the 400 all had those small sculpted head rest's, as my M reg' 414Si has em' too!
Slight change of subject; but even back in the nineties there were a lot/some motoring journalist's prepared to give a biased review of what was [ and still is ] a very good car. Car magazines Jan' 1991 three way test of a 216GTi, Golf GTi and Renault 19TS in left hand drive, is a case in point. How many Renault 19's are still around today?
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 5:22 pm
by Johnny 216GSi
Think I've identified the radio in this car. There's one for sale on Ebay here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Rover- ... 1686266019
Looks like it's an Austin Rover special - from the days of the Allegro, etc.
Quite what it's doing in a 416GTi I don't know.
Maybe it was fitted at the request of the purchaser? Or they didn't have their new range of radios sorted out when the R8 first came along?
The thing is - the plugs on the back don't look like the ISO/DIN standard ones. Wonder if the car's wiring loom has been converted?
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 6:45 pm
by itsonlyme
well done, my radio seems to have something missing, this is not a priority at the moment though
IMG_20150525_193020174 by
itstony2012, on Flickr
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 10:02 pm
by 220 GSi turbo
Yes, that is the type of radio that was fitted into lower spec Metros, Maestros and Montegos during the mid 1980s. It should have the ISO block on the back, though.
Perhaps the original owner of the car didn't like the new-fangled digital head unit and preferred a two-knob set instead.
The missing bit would have been the tone control.
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:32 pm
by 216-John
Very nice car, look after her cos she's beautiful
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:38 pm
by E_T_V
220 GSi turbo wrote:Yes, that is the type of radio that was fitted into lower spec Metros, Maestros and Montegos during the mid 1980s. It should have the ISO block on the back, though.
Perhaps the original owner of the car didn't like the new-fangled digital head unit and preferred a two-knob set instead.
The missing bit would have been the tone control.
Yes it is an early low spec maestro head unit. It probably doesn't have ISO connectors on it though. They had DIN connectors early on so may have these. Not an issue to sort out though.
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:10 pm
by itsonlyme
would this radio be appropriate for the car ?
IMG_20150708_160524813 by
itstony2012, on Flickr
Re: need some help to id this car please
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:22 pm
by gbs100
Its a bit new for a 1990 car. but i did have a 1995 214SEI that came with that radio fitted.
