Subaru obviously... having the indicators on the correct side of the wheel (and the mileage) would date it to probably pre 2000, but judging by the dash layout - after 1996. Non turbo since the redline and the top speed on the speedo are too low. Legacy or Imprezzer is a more difficult question! ;-)
I like watching out for odooddities too, but somehow since getting a car with an LCD readout, rather than mechanical, some of the magic seems to have gone from the number spotting, going from x99999 to y00000 is particularly disappointing.
(x-post added for the u.m. obsessives)
My Car's just done 123456, I spent ages waiting for it, and then missed the event.. :-( Ruined my day that did...
Mat
I think that will suit folk like Al and me :-)
Mary
A few years ago, in the days of mechanical odometers, I was looking forward with great excitement to the first time ever having a car when it went right round and back to zero. It was when there were only 5 digits, and it was to go from 99999 to
00000. But when the time came (and I can even remember I was near Salisbury at the time), all the little wheels started to move, then click... click... click... It stuck half way round. aaaaaargh!!!Had to have a new speedo as it just sat there clicking the whole time but not moving, so started again from zero anyway!
As they have 6 digits now, I guess I'll never have the opportunity again. Sob, sob!
BobC
Aww - I'm genuinely sorry about that. Really.
Mary
Not Subaru either! It is 1997.
I did have an old Honda Accord many, many moons ago (J-reg ['92 or '93 IIRC] and that had 97k on it when I bought it - ran it to 153k before it went to that great forecourt in the sky and I seem to remember the indicator stalk being on the "right" side, so maybe one of those?
John
Ah, ok someone that shares switchgear - Mazda or Mitsubishi I suppose would be the likely options then...
If I had five pounds, you could claim them! It is a 97 Accord Aerodeck.
There was a saloon Accord built in the same factory (in Ohio I think) which did 1 million miles! I will be happy if I get to a quarter of that!
Al
I'm surprised nobody has commented on the line-up of the digits. If I went to buy a car and the numbers lined up as badly as that, the alarm bells would be ringing in my ear: "Warning, clocked car!"
People did comment after the first time I posted. I bought it at 80k and it had a fully documented Honda history, so I'm guessing it's just a rubbish odometer?
Al
Why thanks Al - I'll have a pint on your behalf later :o)
Aye, they were good cars, them Accords. I'm sure you'll get there :o)
John
I wondered how the speaking clock coped with BST so stayed up and listened: On the third stroke it will be 1 59 and forty seconds - pip pip pip On the third stroke it will be 159 and fifty seconds - pip pip pip On the third stroke it will be 3 o'clock precisely - pip pip pip ............. and so, off to bed.
Verily, it's worthy of .....
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:47:24 +0100, "Mat C" mused:
I know how you feel, I had my car lined up to show 88888 on the mileage, 888.8 on the trip and I was going to be doing 88 mph when it all digitally 'clicked' into place.
I forgot.
Lurch wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Probably just as well. Health & Safety would do you for the ensuing two lines of fire down the highway, assuming they could follow you into the future...
They'd wait and catch him on the way back.
I was in a friends car when the digits on the odo clicked to 100000. She was so excited that she pointed through the steering wheel at them.
Too bad that we were turning right at the time, as the wheels straightened, her arm caught in the steering wheel and she drove, in a perfect arc, through a traffic island!!!
She wasn't even blonde...
In article , Al Reynolds scribeth thus
Wont be a Mondeo with that number of miles on;(...
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