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It’s dawned on me that with so many other cars and projects competing for my attention I haven’t really said much about Maestros here lately. If I’m honest that’s because there’s been very little to report. When I haven’t been trying to send Allegros to Italy or Triumphs to Bromley, my faithful MG has been tediously reliable.

Here’s something worth thinking about, though. In one clumsy moment this evening I dropped a plastic seat belt buckle from just a small height onto a ratchet resting on the floor of the car. It didn’t just crack, it virtually exploded. Bits of shattered plastic and springs all over the place – what a mess! Looking around the car there’s not only the trademark crack in the dashboard but minor cracks in other bits of plastic trim too. Clearly the plastic trim in Maestros (and there’s lots of it) can become extremely brittle with age. That’s not a problem while it’s easy to find replacements, but I can see it causing many of us headaches in the future!