OT Today I was late for work - quiz

[ARW]

That is not me. It usually has to be a broken down van, closed motorway, mass flooding, locked up for the night etc to make me late.

I set off on time, the same time I always set off at. 60 mile journey with a good 50 miles on the motorway and dual carriage way (3 miles of the DC with a 40MPG limit and specs cameras) but arrived at work 12 minutes later than usual.

I normally allow 55 minutes for the journey.

So what went wrong?

The only clue is that my "new" van is in the garage for some work doing so I have a 68 plate Peugeot.

[Andy Burns]

speedo in kph instead of mph?

[Adrian]

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Adrian

[Tim Lamb]

Another carefully placed roofing nail?

[Robin]

van stuck in second gear all the way

[ARW]

Very close:-)

Limited to 70MPH with no warning signs on the van. But that was 70 on the van dashboard display. Sat Nav and Google maps both showed the speed at 66MPH.

[ARW]

It had a bit of a fit when I went for 6th and found out that was where reverse was.

No 6th gear

[GB]

I once had a test drive in a Honda NSX, which is a lovely car.

I changed down from 6th gear at 80 MPH. I meant to select 4th, but actually selected 2nd by mistake. There was a *lot* of noise, mainly from the salesman sitting next to me. The good news is that Honda engines can withstand considerable over-reving for short periods without spewing bits out of the crank case.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

It went into limp mode at some point as we all know loan cars are on the bottom of the list to get maintained. Brian

[nightjar]

Why would anybody put a warning sign up saying this vehicle cannot exceed the maximum legal limit?

GPS based speed indications are generally more accurate than vehicle speed indications, particularly when travelling in a straight line*, but that does not mean they are necessarily correct.

• Around bends, they measure the straight line distance between their sample points, not the actual distance on the road.

[ARW]

No idea, but there are thousands of vehicles on the road with such stickers. And it could not reach the maximum legal limit by 4 MPH.

The A63 where the roadworks are is pretty straight.

I always calibrate new vehicles with a sat nav etc on a straight road.

[GB]

The journey took you over 20% longer. That's not the difference between

66mph and 70mph, is it? :)

[The Natural Philosopher]

but it is near the difference between 66 and 77 mph which is 'what the speedo says and 'you wont get busted for it'

[ARW]

You old git:-) You are now taught never to gear down but to brake.

[ARW]

But it's the M62 to Hull form Leeds. Camera free. I normally do 95MPH.

Fuck all on the road after the M18 turn off.

[Andrew]

Pump up the tyres to increase rolling radius ? :-)

[GB]

I felt suitably humbled by the incident, and bought a Mazda MX5.

[Cursitor Doom]

Was an apprentice in some way responsible?