Magic odometer moments

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EdT

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5,102 posts

284 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Was heading down the M4 today & this happened:



Admit there was a little bit of planning..

Quhet

2,419 posts

146 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Where did you stop to take that?

Impasse

15,099 posts

241 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Was there a traffic jam on the motorway?

AJXX1

334 posts

119 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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@ the two posters above - given the OP still appears to be alive and posting on PH one would assume he pulled over in a safe place or even took the picture after getting off the motorway.

anonymous-user

54 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Good work, looked at the headline figure a couple of times before I noticed the 78.9 on the trip.

J4CKO

41,530 posts

200 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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My dad told us, when we were kids that when his Capri had gone over 100,000 on the way home it beeped the horn when it happened to mark the occasion, and we believed him biggrin

Funny thing is now, of it did that it wouldnt actually seem remarkable.

Roo

11,503 posts

207 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Hyde

514 posts

148 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Not the best photos in the world but here is one of my Minis turning 100k miles
(I was not driving it at the time, my wife was)




MitchT

15,864 posts

209 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

255 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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J4CKO said:
My dad told us, when we were kids that when his Capri had gone over 100,000 on the way home it beeped the horn when it happened to mark the occasion, and we believed him biggrin

Funny thing is now, of it did that it wouldnt actually seem remarkable.
Given the reliability of the electrics on that era of Ford, it would be quite believable smile

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

100 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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This for me was pure chance, as I pulled into a car park space sometime last year.



Yes, I am the kind of person who resets the trip computer at the stroke of 10,000 miles.

And somewhere in my Photobucket account is the blurry photo of the time I got 123456 miles on my old e36 with 789.0 on the trip computer because I was bored enough to work out when I had to hit reset then as well.


poppopbangbang

1,837 posts

141 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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I've got one coming up on my Porsche. Considering it's a 996 and they are all meant to blow up with IMS failure or bore scoring at 60K miles it's doing pretty well!


KungFuPanda

4,332 posts

170 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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All your warning lights are on though...

AlexRS2782

8,042 posts

213 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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I managed this last year in my 205 GTI:




And this on a Focus RS many years ago (taken by a friend when I was driving):


Cledus Snow

2,091 posts

188 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Not the greatest photo but...


33q

1,555 posts

123 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Managed to get my Focus to its first service bang on 12500 miles as per scheduled service interval

Steff

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263 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCxHY1rJg4

Edited by Steff on Thursday 17th March 10:01

EdT

Original Poster:

5,102 posts

284 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Steff said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCxHY1rJg4

Edited by Steff on Thursday 17th March 10:01
Love it !

andyr30

613 posts

186 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Just recently on my 56 plate Renault Trafic


xRIEx

8,180 posts

148 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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AJXX1 said:
@ the two posters above - given the OP still appears to be alive and posting on PH one would assume he pulled over in a safe place or even took the picture after getting off the motorway.
Given the telltale on the dash and the speedo is resting on 0mph, one would assume the handbrake was on and the car was travelling at 0mph.