OT: For spotters of unusual odometer readings...

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I don't fancy downsizing, thanks. My main car is a 528.;-)

[SimonJ]

I bet he frequents this web site......

[Al Reynolds]

Al

[tony sayer]

In article , SimonJ writes

Yay!, great fun heres the UK's bible:)

don't forget pylon of the month needs a bit of an update!.

I bet he frequents this web site......

[Gawnsoft]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:26:40 +0100, Paul Giverin wrote (more or less):

pm is an abbreviation for 'after noon' (post meridien)

[Adrian]

Gawnsoft ( [e-mail]) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

True. but the leading zero in "05:06" is an indication that it's a 24-hr clock time, therefore am.

[Bob Eager]

No... 'post meridiem'

[Paul Giverin]

In message , Gawnsoft writes

I think I'm aware of that. I'm not sure what your getting at.

[Michael Cotton]

Don't think there were many carb'd 214's made. Did they use the same engine in the metro though? I had a 1.1 metro with SU KIF carb, not sure if they put a carb'd version of the 1.4 in the metty though.

There were a few early 8v 214's with SPi, not many though as the 16v version was more popular.

[Gawnsoft]

On 13 Aug 2004 13:20:39 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote (more or less):

True - I'd like to say it was my typo, but it wasn't! Ta for that.

[LiviLion]

That's a lot of services!!!! has it ever left the garage?

[Paul Mc Cann]

Once upon a time I was very naughty and allowed a friend in the trade clock a v.old Citroen Visa we had in the family and which he had taken as a trade in. The suggestion was to put 59000 miles on it. What no-one realised was that the odometer read to 1,000,000 miles and not 100,000 plus tenths as usual. The result was a reading of 590,000 miles, which was probably nearer to the truth anyway.

Not nearly as embarrassing as the other gentleman who had a Jaguar with an eltronic speedo clocked. The plonker who clocked it didn't do it right with the result that it re-set itself whilst he was giving a customer a test drive.

[JNugent]

I had a Visa (bought new), in which I covered 139,000 miles in about 5.5 years.

A few weeks later, I saw it for a sale in a used car dealers' (not the main dealer where I had PXd it) with 64,000 miles on...

[Paul Giverin]

In message , JNugent writes

I must start reading these posts more carefully because I thought you said "Viva" as in "Vauxhall Viva" and I was full of admiration that this

1960's car had managed 139K miles in five years :)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I had a Bedford HA van - pretty well a Viva, although made for long after the car had stopped production, which had done over 150,000 miles by the time it finally died. It was a great little van - just big enough for most things a DIYer is likely to need to carry, but small enough for easy use. One of the easiest vehicles to drive, too. Brilliant gearbox and incredibly light non power steering.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

My last car, a BMW 525, was traded in with approx 135,000 miles. And absolutely covered in stone chips at the front. Good otherwise, though, with full MDSH. While negotiating the new car, the salesman phoned up presumably a local specialised who agreed to buy the old one. Dunno who they were.

A few weeks later I saw it in a car park looking immaculate - the whole front resprayed, and several other dings removed. The new owner was sitting in it so I had a chat. He complimented me on how well I'd kept the car. I could read the mileometer, now 60,000...

I didn't say anything - he was so proud of it.

[Paul Giverin]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

Do you know if the engine had been overhauled/rebuilt in that time?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I don't think so - I bought it from a pal who'd bought it at about 40k. It had two stripped oil pump drives while I knew it, though. It was using vast quantities of oil by the time it was scrapped. I would have sorted that, but it had terminal rot too.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like:

Odd front suspension that seemed to work most of the time, but yes, they were good little workhorses. Mine didn't get to 150K, somewhere around

90K before it got nicked. In that time all I'd done was re-case-harden the rockers (about 80K) and service it regularly. Peculiarly, it was easy and quick to hoik out the engine to do the clutch, rather than struggle away trying to get the gearbox out, which many people found out the hard way.

[Guy King]

The message from Grimly Curmudgeon contains these words:

Always fill in the mileage box on the V5 and the tax application- it makes clocking so much harder.