These pictures make my teeth itch

[ChemicalChaos]

Watchman said:

Needles on some magnetically-energised speedos wobble at low speeds. I wonder if this is acknowledgement of that, and so they only allow the needle to start moving once the car has passed the wobble range of speeds. Just a thought.

Yet everyone else seems to manage it just fine

[Watchman]

ChemicalChaos said:

Watchman said:

Needles on some magnetically-energised speedos wobble at low speeds. I wonder if this is acknowledgement of that, and so they only allow the needle to start moving once the car has passed the wobble range of speeds. Just a thought.

Yet everyone else seems to manage it just fine

So what? I wasn't trying to excuse it, just to explain why it might have been done.

I have seen wobbling speedo needles on a number of cars from the 1970s and 1980s (back then). Ford, Talbot and Leyland - cars my Dad had back then - some of those definitely had low-speed wobbling speedos.

I suspect the one in the picture is a cheap or old design, and this is their way of masking the problem.

[motco]

Mechanical speedos wobbled when oil from the gearbox crept up the cable causing it to drag. Bad ones would swing wildly over a range of tens of miles-per-hour. A properly functioning example worked perfectly from a standstill.

[Matt UK]

Watchman said:

ChemicalChaos said:

Watchman said:

Needles on some magnetically-energised speedos wobble at low speeds. I wonder if this is acknowledgement of that, and so they only allow the needle to start moving once the car has passed the wobble range of speeds. Just a thought.

Yet everyone else seems to manage it just fine

So what? I wasn't trying to excuse it, just to explain why it might have been done.

I have seen wobbling speedo needles on a number of cars from the 1970s and 1980s (back then). Ford, Talbot and Leyland - cars my Dad had back then - some of those definitely had low-speed wobbling speedos.

I suspect the one in the picture is a cheap or old design, and this is their way of masking the problem.

From an Alfa 146 I believe.

[Silver Smudger]

From the ' Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads' thread

[PositronicRay]

Silver Smudger said:

From the ' Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads' thread

Wheels not stored upright?

[Neil H]

They're at different angles?

[bertie]

PositronicRay said:

Silver Smudger said:

From the ' Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads' thread

Wheels not stored upright?

Wheels and tyres stacked like that looks right to me?

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/tyres-advices/how-to-p...


I think the irksome bit is supposed to be the pictures on the wall not being the same height, but the bikes bother me more!

Edited by bertie on Monday 9th March 17:10

[Blown2CV]

Neil H said:

They're at different angles?

well the brackets are both horizontal, it's the top tube of the bikes that are slightly different to each other.

[mybrainhurts]

slipstream 1985 said:

Blib said:

Maybe the guy had a lisp

It's lithp, you 'tard...

[grumbledoak]

Blown2CV said:

well the brackets are both horizontal, it's the top tube of the bikes that are slightly different to each other.

No they aren't - look at the vertical parts of the brackets; they are not parallel!

Hand that workman another beer.

[Silver Smudger]

bertie said:

Silver Smudger said:

From the ' Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads' thread

I think the irksome bit is supposed to be the pictures on the wall not being the same height, but the bikes bother me more!

Both - The pictures at different heights (and his reason for this!) AND the wonky bikes!

[HarryW]

One on the back of a ambulance today

[037]

HarryW said:

One on the back of a ambulance today

Would have taken 30secs to google check that dimension.
Some people!

[Mannginger]

[Asterix]

037 said:

HarryW said:

One on the back of a ambulance today

Would have taken 30secs to google check that dimension.
Some people!

I guess they just rounded up to the nearest whole number, although 2.5 metres would have been perfectly fine.

[Antony Moxey]

Asterix said:

037 said:

HarryW said:

One on the back of a ambulance today

Would have taken 30secs to google check that dimension.
Some people!

I guess they just rounded up to the nearest whole number, although 2.5 metres would have been perfectly fine.

I was more looking at the fact that there's a full stop after 8ft with the 3m in brackets following on from that.

[motco]

Antony Moxey said:

Asterix said:

037 said:

HarryW said:

One on the back of a ambulance today

Would have taken 30secs to google check that dimension.
Some people!

I guess they just rounded up to the nearest whole number, although 2.5 metres would have been perfectly fine.

I was more looking at the fact that there's a full stop after 8ft with the 3m in brackets following on from that.

That and the fact that feet should be 'ft' and metres 'm'.

Yes I know many prefer 'meter' but that causes confusions with instruments with dials or digital displays.

[Adenauer]

Silver Smudger said:

bertie said:

Silver Smudger said:

From the ' Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads' thread

I think the irksome bit is supposed to be the pictures on the wall not being the same height, but the bikes bother me more!

Both - The pictures at different heights (and his reason for this!) AND the wonky bikes!

Bite me

[glenrobbo]

mybrainhurts said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Blib said:

Maybe the guy had a lisp

It's lithp, you 'tard...

No it ithn't, it'th lithp....

I wonder if there ith a dentitht'th practith on the 2th floor?

I've got thith really bad tooth itch.

Edited by glenrobbo on Tuesday 10th March 10:44