Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

[Cookiesouwest]

5 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

Maybe the scanner does not work for white on black?

[Six-cylinder]

Saturday 31st July Evening @mat_the_cat is camping in the FoD for an event at Silverstone.

My thought is does anybody else want to come over for an evening talking car rubbish?

If the weather is with us we can light the garden fire basket.

There is plenty of room for camping if anybody else wants to stay over.

[Crackers]

1 hour ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Maybe the scanner does not work for white on black?

That hadn't occurred to me actually, but I had something similar happen to me somewhere in the Rover. I might have to go round and do a car park group test. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

That's clearly a programming failure. Some eejit only coded it to recognise post-August 1983 plates.

[N19]

The car park in St Albans doesn't properly read the Capri's numberplate, but it at least consistently mis-reads it so I can work around it. 

Not accepting old numberplates is odd, since some will be used as private plates by the SUV brigade, and a regex for numberplates is probably flying around online somewhere.

See also: telephone numbers either incorrectly formatted or incorrectly rejected. Niche use cases but not difficult to sort.

[beko1987]

My L reg zx never had its numberplate read in the car parks in Marlow I used to use... 

Amazing how often I only stayed for 10 minutes/50p...

[Andyrew]

Work car park of kwality*

[hairnet]

Disaoint - won't be in the country

[Saabnut]

That weekend is Saabfest at Prescott Hill Climb, so whilst I will be in the area, I will not be able to attend.

[Ghosty]

Isn't 31/7 FOTU? 

I might go for that as I've got paid leave that weekend. 

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

That weekend is Saabfest at Prescott Hill Climb, so whilst I will be in the area, I will not be able to attend.

31st July is just an Evening gathering in addition to the next FoD weekend which I am about to announce for 21/22 August.

[hairnet]

14 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

That weekend is Saabfest at Prescott Hill Climb, so whilst I will be in the area, I will not be able to attend.

That's disapoint x 3

[Six-cylinder]

21 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Isn't 31/7 FOTU? 

I might go for that as I've got paid leave that weekend. 

Yes 31st is FOTU and that's 92 miles away!

 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

damn and buggery 21/22 august too many motherflippers off work!

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes 31st is FOTU and that's 92 miles away!

Knowing that FOTU finishes late afternoon this doesn't bother me much, I could pop over for a while around probably 6/7pm and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Knowing that FOTU finishes late afternoon this doesn't bother me much, I could pop over for a while around probably 6/7pm and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

It should be a nice evening if the weather is with us, but I do understand this would be a lot of driving for some.

[mat_the_cat]

2 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Knowing that FOTU finishes late afternoon this doesn't bother me much, I could pop over for a while around probably 6/7pm and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

That's exactly my plan. Convoy!

[Ghosty]

8 minutes ago, mat_the_cat said:

That's exactly my plan. Convoy!

All the yes. Who's in  

[High Jetter]

10-4 rubber duck

[mat_the_cat]

???

[LightBulbFun]

20 minutes ago, mat_the_cat said:

???

Oooh I think I know what we are singing next FoD gathering evening!

https://autoshite.com/topic/34511-ebay-tat-volume-3/page/4582/?tab=comments#comment-1654701

 

[Six-cylinder]

Google has a cruel poke at Mrs6c's Visa Cabriolet while doing a picture search!

[Six-cylinder]

I visited my favourite garage today and they have taken on an engine build for a customer/friend on a newly acquired Triumph 2500TC Auto. It is a really solid car and I wish it was mine in spite of the missing lump.

[hairnet]

needs v8

 

[Six-cylinder]

Mrs6c ZX TD estate played up last night and would not switch off without stalling it and even then a couple of warning lights stayed on until I disconnected the battery. Today I took it to my favourite garage and it switched off and on just fine. I have been concerned about the gearbox and a grumbling noise so asked they checked that and it turns out to be OS front wheel bearing, so not so bad.

I collected my Beetle today after a light oil change service and MOT. It was too hot for roof down so used the aircon instead.

Today Mrs6c bought the Mercdes 200TE home loosing water and as her ZX is still at the garage so the 156 Sportwagon is going to be pressed back into service.

[Snake Charmer]

31 minutes ago, hairnet said:

needs v8

 

I saw one for sale a few years back in need of restoration I would have loved to own, a factory 3ltr V8 with Ferguson 4 wheel drive. 

[Yoss]

On 7/19/2021 at 10:18 PM, hairnet said:

needs v8

 

God no! Nothing beats the sound of a Triumph straight six with a nice exhaust. Nothing. 

[richardmorris]

On 7/19/2021 at 10:20 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6c ZX TD estate played up last night and would not switch off without stalling it and even then a couple of warning lights stayed on until I disconnected the battery. Today I took it to my favourite garage and it switched off and on just fine. I have been concerned about the gearbox and a grumbling noise so asked they checked that and it turns out to be OS front wheel bearing, so not so bad.

I collected my Beetle today after a light oil change service and MOT. It was too hot for roof down so used the aircon instead.

Today Mrs6c bought the Mercdes 200TE home loosing water and as her ZX is still at the garage so the 156 Sportwagon is going to be pressed back into service.

My cx did that- the start stop solenoid stuck.

[Six-cylinder]

21/22 August Date set for next Field of Dreams weekend

Yes game on again, talking, drinking tea, camping, car fixing, build a railway!

Put a date in your diary.