Repost: Mileometer stuff
I love mileometer stuff
I hate it when people reset my trip counter, as I have carefully set it to 000.0 at the exact moment that the main mileometer reached a multiple of 1000. This gives fun things like 03333 (333.3) and 007007 (007.0). Yeah, sad.

However, this habit allowed me, not too long ago [Edit for RP: now about 27000 miles ago], to watch the mileometer in my battered old Ford Puma to go from 99999 (999.9) to 00000 (000.0), half-way up the M11.

I was smugly happy for the rest of the day, and now that I come to think back, I'm still smugly happy now.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 0:26, 8 replies)

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WhenI was about 13, I used to get a bit of a buzz from watching my digital watch go from 23:59:59 to 12:00:00. At the end of the month it was even better, because the day and the month would change as well.

I get the bit about the mileometer too, but I have to say nowadays watching the thing tick round another 1,000 miles is slightly spolied by the fact it means my car has depreciated by another 500 quid . . .
( Not Pineapple anymore, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 8:21, closed)

My old Ford Escort
went to the knackers yard just after it ticked over 98700 miles. Another month and it'd have clocked to zero again.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 8:39, closed)

I had to pull over and take a photo
when my old car reached 77777.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 9:44, closed)

I missed
my Land Rover ticking over to 200,000 by 4 miles. I had been waiting and waiting, and then got distracted by doing something crazy like watching the road. Still gutted.
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:38, closed)

I videoed my last car going from 99999 to 100,000.
Which was a bit pants because it had a digital odometer.

My current shed on wheels (Mk6 Escort) has the old-fashioned sort, but as I've already seen a car go round the clock once I didn't feel the need to video it again last year when this one did - it's on (1)09,100 miles now.

Though I am planning to zero the trip meter at exactly the right point (11,666 miles I reckon) so I can take a photo of it with 12345 and 678.9 showing.
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 11:40, closed)

My 1994 Ford Explod^Hrer is at 340,000 miles.

Every time it's cicked over the 100k increment, we've gone for ice cream. I'm figuring one or two more before the poor old feller has to be put down.
(IHaveComeAmongThee__Twice Tissues on the left. Self-esteem on the right., Tue 6 Jul 2010, 1:21, closed)

Wow, that's impressive
Where are you posting from? The moon?
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 11:40, closed)

Boulder, CO. Closer to the moon than most of you lowly sea-level-or-thereabouts-dwellers by about 1 mile (altitude here is 5250-ish feet, according to my GPS/satnav).

But from 1993 to 2007 I was in the concrete jungle of Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale/Mountain View area).
(IHaveComeAmongThee__Twice Tissues on the left. Self-esteem on the right., Wed 7 Jul 2010, 23:24, closed)