Imperfections

May 13, 2017 12 Replies

Driving on motorways, I constantly invent new games for my attention.



My latest fad is to look for small manufacturing imperfections on virtually every new car on the road. It can be misalignments, asymmetric gaps, non-matching colours of bumpers, both front and rear, thus not due to accident refitting.



The thing I'm looking for has absolutely no consequence for the owner, only for the discriminating connoisseur. I can imagine how cars are 'sufficiently' designed and assembled at speed: "That'll do m8 - Next".



This really downed on me when I spotted a newish Bentley coupe; the tail lights were so flush that you though they were part of the body itself. TLC. But you have to pay the price for that.



Apologies fo posting this in case becomes contageous.



Not a Bentley. Those heaps of s*it are crapped-out in the VW factory in Wolfsburg in Germany and bear no resemblance at all to a proper Bentley (the last of which were made in 2003 I believe). True Bentleys and/or Rolls-Royce cars are/were only ever made in England.

My little (similar) pet hate is noticing wonky number plate fitting. I would refuse to accept a new car with a wonky plate.

And they glue them on to avoid the screew holes. But manytimes they fall off after a short while.

Yeah, the Bentley Coupe is actually an Audi 7 slighty folded, the Bentayga is a Q7 slightly folded. Also and the RR is actually a bmw 7 But don't tell anyone.

Yep, my nephew paid 56k for a brand new Range Rover (about 5 years ago) and got pulled up on a motorway for no rear plate about a month later. As he is quite young the cops were very zealous about checking it out, he made up a temporary plate from cardboard, on the spot, and they let him carry on. He was not amused and complained very strongly at the dealers. They gave him some freebie to recompense him.

Yes. If it is screw fixing, you'd assume the dealer would have a jig for drilling the plates.

I remember a tale on a forum of a brand new Skoda being delivered with the number plate self-tappered through the tailgate skin, rather than using the plastic plugs provided, so it seems not.

Not surprising. Probably given to a lad straight from the job centre.

An almost new BMW limo pulled out right in front of me in London, it must have been a hundred grand or more, rear plate on the wonk, it looked so bad, a real embarassment to the dealer, cannot now remember the name, but I noted it at the time as one to avoid.

My experience of London BMW main dealers was they were all to be avoided. Although I didn't try them all, of course.

I tend to keep my eyes on the road rather than looking at cars but recently seeing one of these for the first time the rear number plate arrangement fell clearly into a WTF moment.

Square plates offset on a 4x4 particularly with a rear mounted wheel are ok and essential with a 'real' land rover, but offset oblong ones ?????

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The fact it's also hanging a wheel over the median line is also somewhat telling. It's out of control AKA dangerous driving.

Having had to dodge yet another oncoming car with both offside wheels "offside" on a right hand bend (left to me) this morning, I pondered why they don't go up the kerb at apex of left handers. Now I see they start and end with 2 wheels offside.

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