How easy was it to change the clock in your car this morning?

[Zelandeth]

107: About 30 seconds.  Mainly because you have to loop all the way around rather than just going back an hour.

 

Saab: About ten seconds.

 

Lada and Skoda: Not applicable as they don't even have a clock!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Very easy - I just prodded it with a biro, much as I would a 1980s Binatone clock radio, which is much what it looks like to be honest.

[Pillock]

Our clock went from being 14 minutes fast, to an hour and 14 minutes fast through lack of being arsed to alter it even slightly over the past 5 years.

 

Time is an illusion anyway.

 

Plus what sort of crap electronics gains about three minutes a year? We can fling satellites around the earth with millisecond precision but VW can't make a clock circuit that's better than a pound shop watch.

[xtriple]

Only just adjusted my watch! None of the cars have been done, I usually get round to it before Christmas....

[myglaren]

Didn't get round to doing mine.

I see it is 12 hours and 6 minutes out so may not bother.

[djoptix]

In the Espace it took bloody ages. Process as follows:

 

Go into onboard computer, find that I can't access the clock option. Look for 4 digit expert code in handbook. Find code. Doesn't work. Google it. Discover that code is the same on all models and has nothing to do with the 4 digit code in my handbook. (It's 4112 by the way)

 

Get into expert mode. Still can't access clock option.

 

Try and access it via the stereo (which just has an IR remote, no front panel). Find all the stereo controls - audio stuff, balance, fader, etc - but no clock.

 

 

Plug in diagnostics. Can't find anything relating to clock. Start considering disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it on the dot of midnight.

 

Do some more googling. Turns out it has a button next to the clock. FFS, the steering lock and handbrake are electronic but the clock has a button?!

[Volksy]

I refered to the handwritten instructions in the glovebox written by my old man from when he bought the car back in 2006.

[twosmoke300]

Is this really a three page thread now ?

[Heidel_Kakao]

Is this really a three page thread now ?

Yup and every time someone posts it gets longer. Someone mentioned earlier they had trouble finding something pointy enough to do the clock in their XM as Citroen for some reason decided to make the hole too small for your normal ball point pen to fit, I find a cocktail stick works well and keep one in the ashtray for this very reason.

[martybabes]

I had a JDM Subaru Impreza a few years ago as part of my mid-life crisis.  The car was very fast but the clock was completely unfathomable.  For 6 months of the year, the clock was fine but was always an hour out for the other six months.  The microwave in the kitchen is another appliance from the Land of the Rising Sun that defies any attempt to set or alter the clock.  It reminds me of the days of the video recorder in old peoples' house where the clock display just flashed all day and all night, every day, for ever.

[billyboy406v6]

I spent the extra hour gained just thinking about, and then thought sod it !

[andy18s]

Lexus required a run to the local shop,then a quick 2 bucket going over......

efa

[tooSavvy]

... Possibly worth 4.

 

Every little helps....

 

"There were two old men, sitting in deckchairs..."

 

 

TS

[scaryoldcortina]

[John F]

I still haven't bothered.

[willswitchengage]

It's that time of the year again everyone!

[Saabnut]

I was told my clocks have to go back this weekend. Trouble is I cannot remember where I bought them.

[Zelandeth]

My father's second Ford Fusion (56 plate I think) was the first car in which I had to resort to the handbook to figure out how to change the clock.

Buried several layers deep in the menu accessed from the stereo.

[MikeR]

In the past I have resorted to putting a GMT sticker on the clock !!!

[MorrisItalSLX]

Since the stereo in the Corolla has been replaced I have no idea how to set the time as it didn’t come with the instructions, so I just disconnect the battery and reconnect it at 12:00.

[Supernaut]

The analogue clock in my BMW has plus AND minus buttons. Easy.

[LightBulbFun]

Just a little knob you push in and twist IIRC  

and thats goes for all 2 Invacars fitted with a clock LOL

[Lord Sterling]

Rovers - easy, but haven't changed them in a few years.

Micra, easy, even on Sony Xplod stereo.

BMW - Had to resort to handbook. Then resorted to YouTube after I found I didn't have the handbook for the radio.

Vectra - Ok~ish.

BMW 1-series - Done for my mate yesterday.

Sometimes I'd sit in cars for MOTs and adjust all the clocks correctly in various cars.

[Skizzer]

12 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Just a little knob you push in and twist IIRC  

 

and thats goes for all 2 Invacars fitted with a clock LOL

(At the risk of feeding the everything-is-about-Invacars monster ?) That looks like a Leyland parts bin clock, shared with the XJ-S no less:

Edit: And also the Lotus Elite, now I come to think of it:

[richardmorris]

Quite quickly compared to the microwave, oven, wall clocks and watches.

[Timewaster]

The Sierra has a flat battery anyway, the spitfire hasn't got a clock. 

I'm hoping the daily will update itself via the phone or something, other wise I may have negotiate endless menus and sub menus and I will lose the extra hour faffing about with it. 

[Fumbler]

Shit I forgot to adjust the Micra's clock. It'll definitely be easier than re-doing the central heating programmers, however.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Here we go clock changing again...

[chaseracer]

Had the Blingo so long, I can almost change the clock without looking.  Pretty sure the Zanussi does it automatically.  The Dyane doesn't have a clock.

And doesn't need one, given where it still is!

[myglaren]