Podcast 134 - The trouble with touchscreens
Added 2022-11-13 18:00:06 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard have a big moan about modern car interiors. Also in this episode, the Cupra Tormentor, a small problem with the MG4, the joy of a real key, turning off a moving car, controversial takes on sunglasses, Grand Designs double Legacy, an unloved Fiat household, accidentally taking the bowling alley shoes, feeling like an M3 CSL in nightclub loos, the Queen’s X-Type at auction, arrester bed update, the interestingness of scrapyards, buying a bag of tortoises, and what’s cooler, The Sweeney or The Italian Job?
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I bought my Rover 75 Tourer for £400 with a buggered clutch master cylinder in january, replaced it myself for £20 and the car has been sublime. It’s my first car and it’s a little bit expensive on the insurance but worth the extra £200 or so a year over a polo/fiesta. Rover 75s are those cars that if you know how to work on them yourself they can be series bangernomics contenders.
Finn Hendrie
2022-11-17 20:45:48 +0000 UTCFunny story about Cupra, I ordered one in October 21 (a Leon, not a Tormentor) and was told it'd be delivered in February... Then May... Then August... Then November. The latest bulletin is March 2023. Oh how I laughed and laughed.
Simon Barrett
2022-11-15 23:16:45 +0000 UTCGreat show as always, this week was a huge trip down memory lane having owned not only a marea but also a tempra ( both in my early 20’s, and no I didn’t get much). Odd fact, the tempra had not only the well known digi dash but also a lancia engine. About as close as I think I’ll get to a delta.
John Taylor
2022-11-15 14:03:19 +0000 UTCBonus of bowling during covid = keep your own shoes on. Given the covid swilling about the air the alley met its bug spreading quota without the help of the shared clown shoes.
David Carss
2022-11-15 11:54:01 +0000 UTCI've a lot of love for the mid 1990s Fiat range, I think it was a high point with the good looking Punto, Bravo, Marea, Barchetta and Coupe. The top spec Marea had the lovely 20v 5 pot engine and there was a very subtle Marea Weekend in which somebody had transplanted the 20VT engine from a Coupe, albeit in a very stock exterior package. I don't know if it is still on the show circuit like it used to be.
John Hammond
2022-11-15 11:21:51 +0000 UTCGreat news that VW group are bringing back buttons. Having been a serial Audi buyer, similar to Jonny the touch sensitive/haptic rubbish totally stopped me from getting another one when the time arrived to replace current car. I could only assume that the technology cost less to manufacture than putting some buttons in. So hopefully the tide has now turned on this technology.
Dave Smith
2022-11-15 08:06:32 +0000 UTCYes Richard you got it pretty much spot on, The P38 was pulled out by my Father In Law with his DAF recovery truck from his coach firm. I'll email you with all the other hilarious aftermath events of his original accident that precluded the construction of the escape lane.
Nigel Hancock
2022-11-14 22:51:05 +0000 UTCBowling shoes were dead trendy in the eighties after the Jam stated wearing them. I think I stole mine from a bowling alley somewhere in Bristol, a fair few miles away back in the day.
Ian Miles
2022-11-14 20:48:02 +0000 UTCBrilliant! I remember coming down the M6 from a Mini event in Blackpool and doing it alongside a mk1 MR2, who joined in 🤣
Adam
2022-11-14 19:22:22 +0000 UTCI had a mate who did this one night in his Mk2 Fiesta whilst passing under a long metal bridge at the back of the main station in Edinburgh. An almighty bang echoed round under the bridge, setting panic into a group of drunken revelers who thought a gun had gone off. Oh the things we do 😂😂
John Hammond
2022-11-14 15:44:56 +0000 UTCI used to flick the ignition off (momentarily) when driving on my 1340cc Mini with a straight thru exhaust. Mainly because as it had a carb it allowed a bit of fuel air mix to go through the engine and into the exhaust (as I didn’t dip the clutch) so that when the ignition is turned on again it ignites and sends a flame firing out of the centre exit upswept exhaust…. Very useful if some tool is right up your steam pipe on the motorway at *ahem* “70” in their then-new mk3 golf GTi, as they tend not to like flames firing at their new paintwork 🤣
Adam
2022-11-14 15:22:54 +0000 UTCThis pod needs a trigger warning for the chat about car 'infotainment'. I don't think I'll ever understand why car makers don't understand the things that are seemingly consistent gripes amongst, well, everyone except the car makers it seems! Having to wait ages for it to become fully available, stuff hidden in touchscreen menus and my personal favourites from my current e-208: 1) defaulting back to radio every time you turn the car on even though you almost exclusively listen to bluetooth audio and 2) Remembering what heated seat setting you had on, so you get in the car the day after a cold day, and 2 minutes later, wonder why you've wet yourself (it doesn't help that you can't see the heated seat control from the driver's seat as the wheel obscures the sight line!) I now have a handful of things that I check whenever I look at a car, and they immediately have an impact on whether I would choose that car as one I'm interested in or not. Its always the seemingly trivial stuff, I guess they all do the 'main' stuff well enough these days.
Dibz
2022-11-14 15:14:59 +0000 UTCYou two should do a walk around a Concours d' Lemons...
david marden
2022-11-14 14:50:13 +0000 UTCThere was a trend in the 90s of Nascar drivers wearing very tiny sunglasses....
david marden
2022-11-14 14:23:36 +0000 UTCI have an Enquq IV 80 sport line and absolutely the swab test sunroof opener is absolute bob cheese! I’ve had the thing a year and still can’t figure out actually how it works properly!
Simon Jones
2022-11-14 10:43:25 +0000 UTCThe Sweeney pilot ‘Regan’ was written by Ian Kennedy Martin for a series of 1 off dramas called 'Armchair Cinema' for ITV. It proved so popular that the series was commissioned; but he disagreed with the producer (Ted Childs) desire to take it from a set based series to a more action packed series filmed on locations. Ian left the project, and his brother Troy took his place on the production of the show. The writing was brilliant and it still holds up well today. The main characters rather than being Dixon of Dock Green-esq were in truth deeply flawed individuals driven in some part by the nature of their job. The Italian Job is a jolly caper but the Sweeney is a very real reflection of the mid 1970s. The quotable dialogue in the Sweeney is a joy – John Thaws warning as they go to apprehend some villain: “watch him George, he’s a weirdo but he’s hard enough to roller-skate on’. The show along with ‘The Professionals’ was wonderfully lampooned by Nissan in TV adverts for the Almera GTI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9K_EkU9KZE On another note, can I nominate my Cupra cartoon villain as the Cupra Cyril Sneer.
John Hammond
2022-11-14 09:34:32 +0000 UTCArgh, I almost bought an E34 540i manual estate about 7 years ago. I was a student at the time, so bottled it at the thought of a 20 year old BMW V8 going wrong and bought my old E46 330i instead. I still regret that decision to this day, despite my 330i being my favourite car I've ever owned.
Dean
2022-11-13 23:38:18 +0000 UTCGenuine leather is the lowest quality of Leather and is a marketing term. from lowest quality to best is goes: Genuine leather, top-grain leather then full-grain leather. Bentley use full grain - I'm sure they would have told you that.
Conrad Uno
2022-11-13 21:13:13 +0000 UTCI like to think the Cupra Tormentor is the arch enemy of the Conquistador from many pods back.
Graham Dallas
2022-11-13 19:56:16 +0000 UTCU2 chumps need to watch kevtee on YouTube re scrapyard obsession - he collects scrap cars en-masse for Trent’s and some of the stuff 😱
Robert Clay-parker
2022-11-13 19:03:42 +0000 UTCAccidentally taking the bowling alley shoes, my older brothers are old school soul boys. They were easier to nick than buy at the time. Have a bit of proper soul. https://youtu.be/DUokhz-6mzA
John P
2022-11-13 18:09:06 +0000 UTC
