Podcast 199 - Standards, Kermit. Standards.
Added 2024-02-25 18:00:06 +0000 UTCRichard remembers a great Muppet Show line from Sam the Eagle and Jonny has been on a business success podcast. Also in this episode, what sort of dog the BMW X6 resembles, a weird car wash, mismatched wheels, cars with hubcaps, the joys of Brent Cross, Boxster coil pack issues and Panda 100HP woes, ordering an odd number of tyres, unreasonable fears about scaffolding, cars named after letters of the NATO alphabet, falling asleep on trains, VW special editions named after bands and the ultimate coach driver.
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Coil Pack Chat --> SNAP! At last service the friendly mechanic gifted me two coil packs. Recent misfire on V8 Quattroporte had me worried. OBD read P03007 which isolated misfire cylinder 7. Didn't even bother swapping 7 with 6 and used the random spare. Problem solved. Will be keeping them in the boot along with OBD II reader. Always superstitious changing them all , as just interfering with electronics might introduce a fault.
Rob Stannard
2024-02-29 17:28:50 +0000 UTCNice B3 Passat estate available around St Helens, if Jonny’s brother is interested
Ed Storer
2024-02-29 09:42:52 +0000 UTCI think you'll be on a Class 800 Richard, and yes, the seats are bloody awful in terms of comfort. They were also designed for a... smoother formation than we have in this county which is why they all were temporarily taken out of service to have the suspension mounting points checked and reinforced after cracks were found a couple of years ago...
Thom B.
2024-02-27 20:58:22 +0000 UTCI believe the third golf special edition you were thinking of is the Pink Floyd. Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd were sold in the UK whilst the Bon Jovi was Europe only, although VW sponsored the tour of the time. I did manage to secure one of the key rings that you got with the Bon Jovi edition new from VW a couple of years back, it appears that where still available new in 2021!
Martin Rawlings
2024-02-27 18:49:59 +0000 UTCIt is reserved for the very end now, so slightly less awful.
Daniel Wilkinson
2024-02-27 11:31:51 +0000 UTCHas happened to me once
Ed Storer
2024-02-27 09:16:12 +0000 UTCI so want to see Harry in a #OTSOT T-shirt https://youtu.be/a0QKPMj6jWs?t=714
Stephen Voss
2024-02-27 08:35:41 +0000 UTCHands up if anyone had the same experience: hears siren, checks mirrors anxiously, relieved when the boys explain it’s from the podcast background, dismissed the siren shortly after again, & found one big ambulance in your mirror in real life lol
Wilson Lin
2024-02-27 01:21:02 +0000 UTCGuys, listen, please. Can we revert the ending theme back to the one without that awful guitar track? I thought it's a joke for one episode but it looks like it's stuck. Cheers mate thanks mate bye!
Kristof Kiraly
2024-02-26 21:47:58 +0000 UTCAccording to CAMRA’s WhatPub website, the Rising Sun in West Bagborough still has the same name, and usually has Otter Bitter on.
Scott
2024-02-26 13:31:32 +0000 UTCOne of the reasons registration numbers don’t always show is if the number has been taken off the car (eg someone put a personalised reg on it). Not always this explanation, but I’ve noticed it a few times.
Ed Storer
2024-02-26 12:37:27 +0000 UTCNot a scaffold pole but yesterday I saw an Octavia that had hit one of those hinged steel barriers on an industrial estate - it had pushed the bonnet back over the screen and then peeled the roof open!
Thomas Hill
2024-02-26 11:26:58 +0000 UTCThey are truly dreadful, the old HSTs used to have great seats but they were retrofitted with these cheap airline seats. Bristol or Bath to London is no fun sat on a barely padded bit of plastic
John Hammond
2024-02-26 10:57:44 +0000 UTCI believe there is a phone app that will sound an alarm depending upon your location. So if you nod off on the train, it would alarm as you approach Bath/Baath, or in my case Redruth. Also I once got on the tube in London, which no-one else was on.. weird I thought, but whatever… It pulled out of the station and stopped in a siding for 15 mins.. aaand then back into the station. 🤦♂️
Adam
2024-02-26 10:48:06 +0000 UTCHappy 200th* Gents!!
Alistair Neish
2024-02-26 09:59:58 +0000 UTCRichard, as I live near Penzance and regularly use the GWR up to London, I (literally) feel your pain with the most uncomfortable seats in the world. However, just download the Seatfrog app and bid for 1st class upgrades = much more comfortable! Great podcast btw 😁
Toby Walker
2024-02-26 08:55:59 +0000 UTCIn the newest Harry’s Garage vid about the TVR Scamander Harry drops a casual OTSOT at 11:57
Charlie Whitfield
2024-02-26 07:27:47 +0000 UTCIf peeing on a train is tricky try a boat on North Sea in a storm. Luckily the motion is regular usually but lively. For added skill points try a shower and a shave (I always went electric). The really brave went for the Friday night special shave. Brave souls. Brave.
Robin White
2024-02-26 06:14:32 +0000 UTCApropos Jonnys peeing in a bar cleaning cupboard: 20 odd years ago a group of my mates went on a 18-30s holiday in Magaluf. First night out and we hit the bars hard. A few bars in and we lost one of the group. We assumed he’d bailed and gone back to the apartment. Several hours later we stagger back, no sign of him. He must’ve met a girl we thought, and with all the care and concern of a group of 18-20 year old boys in a foreign country, went to bed. We surfaced at 10am, still no sign of him. No answer when we called his phone. By 2pm, after eating, heading to the beach and more beers, we’re starting to think we should go to the police station when he rolls back. Turns out in the bar, he’d taken the wrong turn going to the toilets and ended up in a stock room and somehow ended up locked in. No one could hear him banging and hollering over the Y2K garage tunes, so he eventually he took an alcohol fuelled nap, waking in the early morning, with the bar and whole area in silence. He had to wait a further 6hours until the staff turned up and found a very dishevelled English lad and a puddle of piss amongst the bottles of Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Breezers in their stock room.
Giant Iain
2024-02-25 22:51:50 +0000 UTCRe: scrapped cars on the DVLA site, if they've been scrapped more recently they don't show. My glorious Merc estate (D384UAO) was personally dropped off to an EMR site and it no longer shows on the DVLA site. The old MOTs do on that portal.
Sean Hamerton
2024-02-25 20:38:23 +0000 UTCGreat pod guys, I saw Bon Jovi in 96 at Ibrox in Glasgow, I distinctly remember them playing the Golf BJ advert on the big screen.
Graham Dallas
2024-02-25 19:57:52 +0000 UTCMOT expired on the 18th March 2012 for P858PDB
Stuart Richards
2024-02-25 19:08:57 +0000 UTCI am envious of Richard getting comfortable on one of the GWR IEP trains. I went on one from Reading to (nearly) Worcester a few years ago. I have never been more uncomfortable
Tim Organo
2024-02-25 19:08:28 +0000 UTCFirst 😁
Andrew Barnes
2024-02-25 18:02:19 +0000 UTC
