How often does this happen??

I hit 111,111 miles today.. and my trip meter shows 111.1 miles..

I'm a car dork:

Mercedes?

Heh, and look the outside temp gauge still appears to be working.

Yup! good old 300SDL Turbodiesel. I had to replace the LCD at 200,000. Mostly they fail due to ppl not venting the windows and letting it sit in the hot sun with no window shade.

Druggist did you actually pull over to take the pic? Looks like your blinkers are on....

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Yeah, it looks like he pulled over. I would like to have seen the speedometer read 111 mph too. Maybe next time.

Not the odometer but here:

BRRRRR

Please. If my PC at work hadn't taken a dump, I had a pick of -20 something on the therm. Was windy, too. -40 something WC.



Oh, and, again, no pic...but I took one of when the TBSS said "1337" on the odo.

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Nerd alert!!!!!

Yes, I pulled over. It was near Ferris, Texas...south of Dallas. I was driving to Houston today.

About the -2F... I was in Maine earlier this year...it was -2F... that's cold.

I've still got my Christmas tree lights up this year

Robert,

What kind of car?

I hit 166,666 in the 944 while driving from TX to Seattle, I think near Monticello, Utah.

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discovery

and you're only doing 43 mph in a Porsche??

Typical Disco! LOL

haha, I was waiting for that

In the vehicles defense, this was on an off road trip, ABS fuse was pulled (because ABS sucks offroad)
The chitty K&N cone filter let water get into the MAF and tripped the check engine light
I broke the ribbon tape behind the steering wheel a LOOOOONG time ago, and airbags are for wimps
and the cool looking H means center diff lock is on

You know them too well.....

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I was lucky to get that fast in Utah... seems like the whole state was under construction from the Colorado to the Idaho state lines. Guess they've gotta get it in during the summer when there's no snow out.

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I was lucky to get that fast in Utah... seems like the whole state was under construction from the Colorado.

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I had the same d@mn thing happen to me in Southern Utah one time.

The road was under construction "installing a new bridge" and surface "I hope". I kid you not you had to drive below the bridge into a dry river bed and then back up to the road which at this point became dirt only until we "finally" made it to Colorado.

Not a warning sign or anything to let you know this was going on up ahead.

Luckly I was driving a Toyota 4X4 PU, I could only imagine what this would have been like in a normal car.

awww dood.. that's too bad.

HollywoodBQ, why does your oil pressure gauge say 5.4?

That would be 5.4 bars of pressure.

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what kind of car is that and where do you live?

Silly Aussies...

It's a Grand Cherokee.

HollywoodBQ, you might want to keep an eye on that oil gauge, you could have an oil pressure sending unit going bad. It's not something to really worry about though, and it's an easy and cheap fix if it does take a dump.

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sts - 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee RHD - Sydney, Australia
bubel - thanks for the advice.
catagbq - the silly Canucks and the silly Euros use the same set of gauges too. If you're Class of 2004, then I'm about 12 years older than you, so you wouldn't remember this. In the 1970s, we were taught the metric system in school because the US was going to convert to it any day. 30 years later, the only metric signage I've seen is the speed limit signs around Houston Intercontinental Airport. Of course the vehicle manufacturers used just enough metric bolts, etc. that if you work on your own car, you need both sets of tools.

Going through some photos and look what I found Sure do miss my car.

Saw an older version of your Jeep here in CR, H-wood. Some postal chick for rural mail was driving it by my crib.

Weird seeing the person driving from the "wrong" side.

Did it take a while to get used to driving like that?

HollywoodBQ,

Can you compare driving experience between M3 vs 911? I've driven 911 many times but never driven M3.

Thanks,

Druggiest, unless you intentionally planned that (which I bet you did), the odds of that randomly happening would be astronomically high. Even if you planned it (which I bet you did), it is pretty darn cool.

Heck yeah I planned it. Wait til you see 123,456 on the odometer and 123.4 on the trip meter. I should be hitting that some time this year...

nice

Druggist, I rembered your 111, so Took this in rush hour traffic...

111 Degrees!




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