Podcast 139 - Limp home mode
Added 2022-12-18 18:00:02 +0000 UTCIn their last show of the year Jonny and Richard are in a rustic room together discussing DIY AdBlue, James Dyson’s thirst headaches, Ozzy Osbourne’s quad bike for sale, forgetting which side your fuel filler is on, a man in a Suzuki Carry filling too many jerry cans, the ancient art of hanging a tennis ball from the garage ceiling, drying a damp car interior, how to say Ka, the world’s smallest exhaust pipe, limp home mode, Richard’s dad’s Talbot Solara getting jammed in gear, a Volvo garage with a very long name, the angel fish of cars, off-brand sit-coms, getting ghosted by Chris Harris, the history of the motorsport jacket, accidentally sitting on Richard Hammond’s breakfast, an Australian horribly misusing a Dyson hand dryer, and EMF getting swearing into the charts.
A massive thank you to all our Patrons for your support this year. Officially there’s no podcast next week but for Patrons there’ll be a little Christmas treat next Monday. ‘Treat’ in the very loosest sense of the word. Happy holidays!
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A bit late, but I dried out my non garaged Z3 recently, it's hibernating outside. I'm guilty of daisy chaining 30m+ of leads extension leads, but used a dehumidifier after taking it a short drive to warm it up. It worked really well, I got about 300ml of water out in about 8 hours and it's much cheaper and slightly less perilous than using a fan heater.
Andrew Evans
2023-01-19 12:08:02 +0000 UTCThe triad is EML, TPS warning light and low fuel and a maxed overdraft. Lowest point I ever had.
Andrew
2023-01-12 11:04:22 +0000 UTCEMFs - Unbelievable...... the what the fuck sample is more like a scratch sample and does not really say What the fuck.....not clearly anyway.....Ive just played it 3 times to clear any rose tinted spectacles...... However, the Diceman sample came from the film Ford Fairlane Rock and Roll Detective....... It's let go much freer in the Yello track Unbelievable...... Which is also 100 times better than the EMF track... Get the 12inch and luxuriate in top quality 90s House.....look at the personnel on the track FFS !!!!!! Kupper, Morales.....and Tomie !!!!!......cant get much more Strictly Rhythm than THAT !!!!!!!! https://youtu.be/h0Yacf3Pdg8 https://youtu.be/H642mTHANGY
Mark Podmore
2022-12-27 01:02:45 +0000 UTCAlmost prophetic, limp home mode arrived pulling out of Warminster services on Xmas eve - 40 mph for next 2 hours, at least pulling over to let everyone past and just a complete reminder of 1970’s cars that took 30+ seconds to get to 40 😂
Iain
2022-12-26 18:39:00 +0000 UTCRe Piss Mist… An exceedingly accident-prone family friend (who amongst other things drove her husband’s brand new Volvo 740 estate into a multi storey car park - with 4 bikes on the roof 🤦🏻♂️) had a major piss - and more - mist incident in Andora. Like James Dyson, she does not like sharing toilets. So, having set off from France with a caravan in tow, the crossed into Andora and drove to the top of the mountain pass. Needing the loo, but not wanting to use the cafe toilet, our friend went into the caravan and sat on the porta potti. This has a trap door separating the top part from the ‘cassette’ bottom. The flap creates an air tight seal to avoid nasty odours etc. Having finished the job, she stood up, turned around, squirted a bit of blue into the bowl and turned the handle to open the trap door. This is where the air tightness of the design comes into play. The cassette part of the unit was still at ambient air pressure - at the bottom of the mountain. The air pressure at he top of the mountain being somewhat lower, the contents of the cassette were ‘sucked’ up into the surprised face of our friend. That took a while to clean off. And somewhat ruined an otherwise wonderful holiday. Beware of this caravan toilets! Or just get over yourself and use the services.
Richard Jenkinson
2022-12-25 09:30:47 +0000 UTCI have a friend who has a number of the sniff petrol usernames you're missing The one thing is however, he doesn't know who you are. His username on Xbox has been sniff petrol since we were at school and he was extremely shocked when I told him you existed. He's a top gear fan and finds it frustrating that youve "stolen his Twitter username"
Nathan Henstock
2022-12-24 23:29:55 +0000 UTCWith a few mentions of the Mitsubishi Pajero recently I thought I would share a story. Richard with his knowledge of car trivia may be aware, others may not. I had been to visit my mate Matty who lived and worked in Almeria in the south of Spain, and who was coming back to the UK for a while so we travelled back together. We picked up my car and loaded all his gear into in, before heading home. On the way back down the M3, he suddenly burst into laughter, and when asked pointed out the Mitsubishi Pajero that we were passing. "The name of that car, in English that translates as the Mitsubishi Wanker". Never looked at them in the same light since, and always wondered what was behind the naming...
Snowy
2022-12-24 18:00:37 +0000 UTCI once suffered the opposite of a limp-home road trip. Back in the piss-stinking Elise, pre-piss incident, I had to endure a drive home from Cambridge after the butterfly in the plastic throttle body melted and refused to close properly. This led to the engine idling at around 5,000rpm. The only way I could drive the car without looking like a hulking great bellend at every set of traffic lights was to keep my foot on the brake and slip the clutch enough to shed a few thousand revs. It takes an unsurprisingly short amount time for the cabin of an Elise to get fogged up with the aroma of burning clutch. Once outside the city, I enjoyed the delight and privilege of the first Elise with mechanical cruise control. However, the cruising speed in 5th was about 106mph, so I chose 4th gear as a more legal, more manageable option. I arrived home with the clutch looking and smelling like a used coffee filter and set about my makeshift fix. I used an old mattress spring to connect the throttle body to the bodywork, which succeeded in holding it closed. Unfortunately, the downside was a throttle pedal with the same weight as a clutch in a 1980s Italian supercar. I drove it like that for about three months until my local Lotus dealer finally managed to get a replacement, non-melting TB. Merry Christmas.
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2022-12-23 12:42:54 +0000 UTCThe first time my mum tried to fill up my Ampera she rang me to say the fuel flap wouldn't open when she pressed the button - turns out she was trying to open the charge flap by the front wheel, which is on the opposite side of the car!
Will Flack
2022-12-21 12:39:32 +0000 UTCI had to check the Talbot models mentioned since we didn't get them here in Sweden by the same name. Noticed that the not so sweeping lines of the Tagora was true to the name of the designer, Roy Axe.
Lennart Mäkinen
2022-12-20 21:24:13 +0000 UTCThank you gents for another year of humorous banter. Enjoy the holiday season everyone 🎅🏿🎄🕎 !
Jeffrey Smith
2022-12-20 17:10:31 +0000 UTCJonny, I'm pretty sure Tiff did thank you for his new jacket from skoda otsot. Thanks for keeping me sane again for another year chaps, have a jolly good festive season and roll on the next cast👍🏻👍🏻
Chris Jarrett
2022-12-20 07:17:25 +0000 UTCI also pay for premium, I thought it was the wrong podcast at first. The same Amazon ad is at the end too.
Matt Tester
2022-12-19 23:49:04 +0000 UTCYeah I had a netflix one. Since I pay for spotify premium too that was pretty annoying and very cheeky.
Tom Gillespy
2022-12-19 23:04:29 +0000 UTCWent out on a drive to listen to this and my Panda 100HP went into limp mode. I'm blaming it on the title of this podcast. Thanks Richard and Jonny! OBD reader won't connect either so its time to phone the specialist tomorrow and see if I can get it looked at. Right before Christmas. Great.
Tom Gillespy
2022-12-19 23:02:31 +0000 UTCThe closing piece of Jonny doing unheard impressions of his Uni flatmate suggests to me there is still a tonne of unused Sniff and Smith video out there. I love the Prelude 2.2 Yeah video so any snippets we haven't seen could be good Patreon fodder for those who contribute.
Stuart Richards
2022-12-19 22:55:12 +0000 UTCThe discussion surrounding amusing voicemails reminded me of a string of WhatsApp voice messages left on woman's phone by a persistent, aroused and very Aberdonian man: https://youtu.be/FSIwH0Y2wN0 They've become a local legend in Scotland and feature his mates doing their best impression of him at the very end. A local club in Aberdeen even once did a "still nae spickin" night where you could go and meet the bloke himself. Enjoy.
Harry Barnard
2022-12-19 21:47:38 +0000 UTCI just started to play the Spotify version of this, did you realise it has an Amazon advert at the start before the Car and Classic segment? I was very confused for a while.
Matt Tester
2022-12-19 19:20:21 +0000 UTCI dried my Pao out by leaving it running on the drive with the heater on (foot warming mode). Worked beautifully except something in the dash may have melted and I can't redirect the air anywhere else. Need to take the whole bloody dash apart now.
Robin
2022-12-19 18:51:46 +0000 UTCIs the tennis ball parking apparatus not still a common occurrence? I definitely have one for my significant other as she’s not as confident in a tight garage with an older vehicle with no parking sensors. Was a no brainer for me to put one up.
Dan DeRoo
2022-12-19 14:42:38 +0000 UTCTry a cheap spot cleaner for a wet car, I used one to suck up the excess water when my Volvo C30 had a leaky windscreen seal. It won't dry it fully but it will at least suck up the excess moisture. I then drove around with the heater on feet setting and max temp for a few days and it did the job.
John Hammond
2022-12-19 09:40:53 +0000 UTCI had the same experience of a Banger Rally in Rome, ended up scrapping a good Citroen ZX; and had turned down the offer of bringing a free Carlton GSI back to the UK. Didn't have the time off work to return the drive of 2-3 days back sadly.
John Hammond
2022-12-19 09:37:02 +0000 UTCAnd on the limp home side of things. I did a banger rally a few years ago. Gentleman in a BMW 1 series (not a banger but he was there as backup)went into limp home mode coming off the ferry in Calais and drove all the way to Venice and I assume back, in limp home mode. I had a £400 Citroen C5. Made it to Prague without a hitch. Left the car at a breakers yard as it was going to cost more than the car was worth to get it home. Still regret that decision.
Marc
2022-12-19 08:34:39 +0000 UTCMy Dad was also an engineer, smoker of a pipe in the 1970s and a fan of Rootes Group products owing a Hillman Minx, Imp, Avenger and Sunbeam Rapier fastback in successive order. He was adamant that they were all better than the equivalent Faaawd & BL products. Then he decided he’d buy a Celica ST2000 fastback and that was a move to the unfashionable world of Toyotas. My favourite story of his Rootes era was him deliberately letting the trolley jack go on the Rapier whilst my Grandad’s foot was under the wheel. My grandad concealed the resulting injury for a good 30 years before a short hospital visit resulted in the doctor questioning the historic injury to his foot. As for sitting on food, I once left a Mars bar on the driver’s seat of a bus I was about to drive, I dropped it because I was fighting to hang my coat up. I plonked myself down in the seat and drove it for the next 3 hours, getting frustrated by my fruitless searches of my jacket pockets and around the cab for the bar. By the time I found it, it was nothing but a melted mush shaped with the imprint of my arse. Thanks for keeping us all entertained in 2022, have a happy Christmas both.
John Hammond
2022-12-19 08:29:59 +0000 UTCMy brother in law has a tennis ball strategically placed in his garage. He does keep his “Astin” Martin in the garage, so can possibly be forgiven.
Marc
2022-12-19 08:19:09 +0000 UTCMisread this and wondered how one should best apply the cat litter to your moggy for optimum drying potential.
Simon Turner
2022-12-19 00:47:16 +0000 UTCI think you missed the Peel session by Leaky Bic Incident.
Seth Kennedy
2022-12-18 22:17:02 +0000 UTCCat litter works for drying a car out.
John P
2022-12-18 22:08:07 +0000 UTCListening to your podcasts has made my 50 minute commute in my new job (twice per week) infinitely more bearable since I started in July! Thanks so much for everything this year, and here's to a more stable 2023. Take care chaps!
Richard Gledhill
2022-12-18 21:27:20 +0000 UTCFretting as I can't currently get car in the garage as it's got a botched front door (2'6" wide) waiting to be sold on eBay. Garage also has condensation issues which I have no idea how to resolve.
Maurice Barnes
2022-12-18 20:32:58 +0000 UTCI need to write in properly about my multiple international limp home roadtrips in my old Smart Roadster and the stupid cause for it, along with how Belgium destroys cars in general. Also I don't have a Freelander Mk1 technical jacket to go with my Freelander but I do have water in the rear boot cubby. I put a towel in to soak it up and the towel froze completely solid last week, then a gearbox fault appeared and the auto box locked itself in fourth for half of a journey. Fun times. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to both of you.
Matt Tester
2022-12-18 19:52:43 +0000 UTCI had a nasty limp home moment in a Lotus Elise. S2 Toyota S model, think that's the prefered spec for Mr. Porter. Going north up the M5 just about to start the hill from Avonmouth to Cribbs where it gains an extra lane. Drop to 4th, give it a boot and phhhht, engine light on, and no power. 4th lane of the M5, rapidly slowly, trying to get to the hard shoulder without getting punted. Park up, call RAC, who say 4hrs, to which think "sod that", start the car and it's back to normal. Happens again, but not on M5, take it to the dealer "software problem" fiddle about it and it was fine after that
Bruce Driffill
2022-12-18 19:14:53 +0000 UTCThanks guys for all the fun episodes this year. Have a great Christmas and New Year. Yes my car lives in our garage and in the past I’ve used the hanging tennis ball trick. But these days I have a spare coping stone off our gate post on the floor that I roll up to and it works nicely! Try a dehumidifier to dry out the inside of your Honda?
Steve Morton
2022-12-18 18:43:30 +0000 UTCThanks for all the podcasts/output this year gents 👍🏻
David Carss
2022-12-18 18:10:01 +0000 UTC
