Podcast 155 - A series of powerful magnets
Added 2023-04-16 17:00:03 +0000 UTCJonny explains how his dad retrieved a broken Avenger key. Also in this episode, drunk Olympics, the gunty cat 1 Series, scraping floorpans, scratching matt paint, the return of the boot cut, alternative superhero Nigel Mansilk, very thin facial hair, the unnecessary speed of Green Day, the ‘90s curtonian movement, the Stone Roses stealing back their second album, people who lose car keys, magnet fishing with Harry Metcalfe, losing track of VW Group cars, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor spoils a rhyme.
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Can any boffins here please tell me which episode it was where wrap-around sunglasses were discussed?
Stuart_esq
2023-04-23 16:16:54 +0000 UTCPropshaft centre bearing carrier detaching itself from the body, a free range propshaft makes a terrible day changing din as it modifies the underbody.
Anthony Bell
2023-04-21 17:44:07 +0000 UTCI’ve had multiple (car) belly scrapes due to being a massive flute and lowering my cars to impractical heights. x
Nathan English
2023-04-21 15:23:58 +0000 UTCDon't blame you there lol
Stephen Voss
2023-04-20 10:09:31 +0000 UTCTried the driving and smiling for the first 3 campers. Didn't take!! 🤣
Alistair Neish
2023-04-20 08:49:44 +0000 UTCJust happened to be re-listening to this pod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rkm2J02oZ4&t=
Stephen Voss
2023-04-20 08:40:41 +0000 UTCNot necessarily related to the cast, but when I was travelling to my parents in Scotland for a few days with my daughter last week when we got onto the A9 I noticed that the road clogging rent-a-camper flutes all wave to each other with a cheery smile as they pass. No doubt comparing the length of queues the have behind them. As the A9 from Perth to Inverness is average speed cameras passing is a bit of a Brian, so to entertain ourselves every time we saw a cheery wave if we were the car behind we would deploy the reverse Churchill signal and giggle as the smiles turned to shock... Childish but helped pass the time!
Alistair Neish
2023-04-19 08:04:17 +0000 UTCOh and bottoming out, high speed bumps in my last Mini Cooper Spwoaaataaah 500. Had to slalom around. Luckily the smaller ones used to be able to go straight through the middle!
Peter Viney
2023-04-18 19:56:11 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard need to check out Bath and West show ground at Shepton Mallet, they’ll have a autojumble at some point.
Peter Viney
2023-04-18 19:54:34 +0000 UTCOur entrance to our car park (parking lot) here at the V Shop is very grindy. Our Polestar an R Type customers always get that GRRRUNCH noise coming in because you come off a fairly quick main street in it.
david marden
2023-04-18 14:36:53 +0000 UTCJonny talking of his detest for fastback SUV nonsense had me crying this morning. Absolute podcast gold of the highest order as always gents.
George Wade
2023-04-18 09:16:58 +0000 UTCThe Panda is after the dreaded red code key which I had with an original Punto. The spare normally isn’t a foldable key I seem to remember from my old 100HP
Andy M
2023-04-17 19:37:54 +0000 UTCSame here, I had a Fiat Coupe. The two golden rules on buying were cambelt changes and all the keys present.
John Hammond
2023-04-17 13:57:48 +0000 UTCThey were anecdotally a grand to replace, and as someone who had 4 small Fiats in the 90s, I was a very careful buyer.
Dave Law
2023-04-17 13:18:09 +0000 UTCMy best/first slowly scraping your car on a wall story was with my mum's Regata when I was about 14. You could drive around our house and I'd become quite good at it. It was narrow but I was practised in turning, but only turning left/anticlockwise. The first and only time I tried driving round the house clockwise I took the first corner far too tight and slowly, painfully scraped the back driver's arch on the Regata. We swapped it for a 405 a couple of years later and I wasn't allowed to drive it until I got my provisional.
Dave Law
2023-04-17 13:16:24 +0000 UTCSurely the title was a toss up between this and ‘convertible towing a caravan’
Rich
2023-04-17 11:48:37 +0000 UTCGoogle Maps once sent me over a farm track in Malta, in a Hyundai i10. Worked well.
Ed Storer
2023-04-17 11:39:03 +0000 UTCCan anyone remember the episode where Jonny talks about purchasing a KTM Mini Motocross bike for his daughter only to end up selling it after he realised it was a death trap? Trying to locate the episode to show my Dad, who did something similar with me, only I rode it and may still have smatterings of PTSD.
Tom Harries
2023-04-17 11:01:13 +0000 UTCI believe FIATs of the mid-2000s had one flip key (blue or latterly black) with a spare non-flip non-remote flat key, which still had the immobiliser transponder in it. Not too difficult to cut and code a spare if I recall.
Ed Storer
2023-04-17 09:41:19 +0000 UTCLeaves on rails again...? The number of times trains were cancelled because of "rain" and "leaves on rails" when I was working in London was very odd....
Andy Pinchock
2023-04-17 09:34:43 +0000 UTCI absolutely love Jonny's bungled travel woes.
Sean Hamerton
2023-04-17 08:35:58 +0000 UTCFiat went through a phase of having three separate keys in the 1990s. An ignition key, a blue key and a red key. If the blue or red were missing, it was generally a good idea to walk away from buying the car as the red was a master key for encoding other new keys and absolutely astronomical to replace.
John Hammond
2023-04-17 08:00:15 +0000 UTCA few years ago, some friends and I were on a automotive chod tour of Malta in a rented Mk5 Fiesta. We set off in search of some long forgotten trucks we’d heard about. Up front is the driver whose credit card has been rinsed by the deposit from the hire company, and the other providing directions from Google Maps. Without warning the road goes from tarmac to rural track which was heavily grooved by tractors using it. The Fiesta is 4 up with portly blokes and soon comes to grief as it drags the floor pan against some unforgiving Mediterranean soil. Stuck in that do we progress/reverse debate, the conclusion is that 3 of us get out to improve the ride height and walk alongside it as the driver nervously scrapes his way along the track whilst we laugh about how it isn’t on our credit cards.
John Hammond
2023-04-17 07:57:39 +0000 UTCYour stories about keys reminds that when I went to visit my friend the other day, I accidentally left my keys in my car. Luckily it didn't lock itself and it was a nice area so didn't get nicked.
Julian Hale
2023-04-16 20:54:36 +0000 UTCYou guys would like the switchable magnet I made using a 3D printed case, some slugs of 12mm steel and twelve 12x12mm N50 Neodymium magnets. It switches 'on and off' mechanically by rotating. Instructions available on YouTube from a guy called Andrew Klein. I got a replacement used steering column for my 1990 Discovery (because the bearings in the old one were shagged) and it came with an ignition barrel and ignition key that is a 30mm washer with the key blade welded to it. It's brilliant. Can provide photographic proof. I also hid the spare key to my MX-5 when going on holiday in such a safe place that it took me six months to find it again.
Matt Tester
2023-04-16 19:53:42 +0000 UTCI would love to meet Jonny’s brother Greg, but I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t give a toss about me.
Ed Nicholson
2023-04-16 19:04:20 +0000 UTCI don’t care if cars were never mentioned just listening to you two chatting always brings a smile to my face. Thank you
Steve Morton
2023-04-16 18:25:24 +0000 UTCOh dear. Better luck next time
Steve Morton
2023-04-16 18:24:21 +0000 UTCYes, it was the 23:32 that was cancelled.
Smith and Sniff
2023-04-16 18:19:51 +0000 UTCAs Richard has most probably realised the last train from London to his part of the world is 23:32… happy full recovery.
Steve Morton
2023-04-16 17:40:59 +0000 UTCJust on the way home from Goodwood, apart from a veritable ocean of tweed there were a number of people sporting auto-jumble hair and teeth - sometimes both. Couldn’t take any photos of said gents as it would’ve been a bit obvious.
Peter Heamon
2023-04-16 17:05:14 +0000 UTC
