What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

My coffee maker, that I paid £30 for three years ago, has slowly been getting more and more rubbish. Barely heats the water so you have to neck the coffee immediately or it goes cold

 

Bought a new one in the sales.

 

The old one has just sold on eBay, "spares or repairs - defective" mentioned multiple times, for £50

[MarvinsMom]

that Shurgard thing that burnt down in Croydon.

 

i designed that....... well some of it, mostly it was designed by a consulting engineer.

 

BUT-

 

its not the first time something i worked on has burnt to the ground.

 

just as well i decided to change my career! (not that i really had one, it was just a friggin' job)

[mrbenn]

Just watching Ronin - great film. Couple of absolutely brilliant car chases. Where else do you see a V6 XM being chased by an S8 with nitrous? I particularly like the engine note on the Peugeot 406 that Robert De Niro uses to chase Natascha McElhone around Paris. And don't even get me started on the first class rammel in the background.

[mrbenn]

This over on PH:

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1785499

[Noel Tidybeard]

Went down the M6 today to pick my Panasports up.

 

A massive stretch of the smart motorway works are almost done and the speed limit has been raised to 60 accordingly. Takes a fair bit of time off the slog down to the Midlands - which I end up doing a lot for some reason these days.

 

yes your photograph has been circulated and we're watching you!

[vulgalour]

Top speed of a 1700 Princess is 97mph.  Having attempted early in my ownership to see how well it keeps up with traffic in the fast lane, I'm inclined to believe this book figure too.  So why on earth does my speedo go up to 130mph?  There's optimism, and then there's optimism.

[myglaren]

Same speedo across the range?

 

The speedo in my GS only went to - IIRC 100 but often hit the stop and continued to accelerate.

Quoted top speed was only 87mph.

[dollywobbler]

Not that unheard of. I'm pretty sure Cavalier Mk2s had at least 120mph speedos, if not 140. My 2CV is the only vehicle I've driven when you can actually use all of the speedometer (and a bit more). 

[anonymous user]

The top speed markings on speedometers are higher than a car's maximum speed to give children bragging rights about how fast dad's car can go

[Guest Hooli]

My Suzuki goes off the speedo, the speedo lies...

[purplebargeken]

My first ever Toledo speedo hit the stop several times whilst racing a new Ford XR3 in 1981, he could only get about 10 feet in front of me. I was happy.

[purplebargeken]

The Hyundai started to niff a bit when the heater was turned on, think steamy laundrette.

 

Obv pollen filter. Hmm, i only changed the bugger 3 years ago ffs.

 

New one from eBay, fitted in 2 minutes, no laundrette smells now. The old one was yuck.

[Timewaster]

I seem to remember MK2 Escort speedos going up to 140!

 

Standard Sierras read up to 150 but the Cosworth goes up to 170.

 

They aren't THAT fast!

[SiC]

Our A4 speedo goes upto 180mph. Being a standard diesel (which probably was the most common spec they sold), the top speed of this car is only around 130mph. That is around mid position on the dash. This irritatingly means that a good quarter of the gauge is even possible to be used. 70-80mph which is going to be the common max usage speed for like 90% of the world its sold in, is less than half way on the range. Sub 40mph you can't easily see as the steering wheel centre blocks it.

 

Utterly pointless and very annoying.

 

I usually leave the middle screen on speed as its far more useful.

[Tamworthbay]

Saw an absolutely mint ZR at Morrison’s today. Polished within an inch of its life and sporting a baby seat in the back so obviously in daily usage. It really looked like it was clean enough to be sat in a showroom. Nice to see someone looking after one.

[Bobthebeard]

Several huge potholes and crumbling tarmac in the road outside Beard Towers. Getting worse daily as now a bus route. Emailed the council to ask if any plans to resurface etc....

Two days later a van turns up, knock on the door and promises of repairs soon. Took pictures and sprayed white paint around the potholes. Nice. If it actually happens.

[oldcars]

Expenses lose their appeal when you own the company

[Guest Hooli]

Several huge potholes and crumbling tarmac in the road outside Beard Towers. Getting worse daily as now a bus route. Emailed the council to ask if any plans to resurface etc....

Two days later a van turns up, knock on the door and promises of repairs soon. Took pictures and sprayed white paint around the potholes. Nice. If it actually happens.

 

Get some more paint & circle all the ones they missed, I'm sure they'll have left at least half of them as they are pretending they aren't deep enough to be holes.

[MorrisItalSLX]

This popped up on Facebook:

 

 

My local Leyland dealer!

 

Rudder Motor Cars, 130 Kinghorne St Nowra. It was still a Mazda dealer up until 2012, now it is an apartment block.

They were also the dealer that serviced my Jag from 1988 to their closure in 2012 (The Jag was serviced at the supplying dealer, Purnell Motors Arncliffe, prior to 1988).

 

It’s nice to see what it looked like back in the BL days as I have only ever seen it as a (not very) modern Mazda dealer and the only photos I have seen of it are from the BMC days. All I need now is a photo of it back in the 80s or 90s when my Jag frequented the forecourt.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Here are those photos in a bit more detail:

 

 

 

 

And some other photos I have found:

 

 

 

 

And today:

 

[BavarianRetro]

I had an early 80s W123 240TD that could *eventually* cruise happily with the speedo sitting on "p" of "mph".

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This story about 11 e34's bought by a Bulgarian hire company then forgotten about. The ultimate barn find?

 

Never registered, no miles.

[junkyarddog]

Bloody hell!!

 

I'm not a lover of BMW,but I'd have one of them!

[richardmorris]

Same speedo across the range?

 

The speedo in my GS only went to - IIRC 100 but often hit the stop and continued to accelerate.

Quoted top speed was only 87mph.

 

I think the speedometer in my dad’s last BX TXD ( non Turbo 1.9) went to 140.

[Fumbler]

The rev counter on Father's old boss' non-turbo diesel BX went round and round and round. It had no limiter.

[SierraMikeHotel]

 

 

...a good quarter of the gauge is even possible to be used. 70-80mph which is going to be the common max usage speed for like 90% of the world its sold in, is less than half way on the range. Sub 40mph you can't easily see as the steering wheel centre blocks it.

You're right: that's a truly terrible bit of design. I'm not a fan of Audis but it's unlike them to get a design detail like that so completely wrong.

[Amishtat]

Had the needle well past 100 on my Riva a few times, once pointing exactly halfway between 100 and 0. Downhill, admittedly, but still.

[Fumbler]

Don't they bounce all over the place anyway?

[twosmoke300]

And the speedo

[STUNO]

I wondered what had happened to this !

It belonged to my late sisters man and disappeared after his death. Very happy to see all is well with it.

 

 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/specialist-cars/other/auction-1892548145.htm?rsqid=cad4b2ef689f4299a6110571305ac76a