Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Loanranger

Isn't it annoying, though, when your car's manual is a generic thing that covers every variant of your model? You need to read about five times as much verbiage than is necessary just to figure out which bit refers to your specific variant. I have read my manual and continue to do so, I definitely need to get out more, as I know there are probably still things it will do that I haven't accidentally happened upon. Have owned it for eight years and I know it has bluetooth but no idea how that works. It has a phone cradle, which I paid to have installed when I bought a cheapo phone to use in the cradle. I suppose all that is old technology now but it suits me. I don't have a smartphone.

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

OH can find a location on his iphone and send it to his BMW's satnav.

The dealer was showing me how to do that this morning with my new car.

I still don't know how anything that wasn't on the old one works, so this could be an interesting few weeks. The console looks really similar, but works completely differently from my limited time in there.

kabayiri

silvercar wrote: »

OH can find a location on his iphone and send it to his BMW's satnav.

Wait until the car gets annoyed at the way you roughly inflated its tyres and decides to take you to the desired destination "the long way round"

kabayiri

SingleSue wrote: »

I generally read the manual several times before even attempting to drive a new (to me) car. If the car itself doesn't have one, I look it up on the internet....guess what I have been doing for the last few weeks?

You got it! Digesting the instructions on how to use all the gadgets on my soon to be delivered car, the boys think I have taken OCD to the absolute limits now, I've read it all the way through about 5 times!

The last car I bought was 6 months old, off a guy who confessed he was an "options freak". Half the pleasure of buying for him was poring over option lists. Fair enough - his choice I guess.

I ended up with things like cargo nets in the boot.

However, the thing I liked the most was probably the simplest : a driver side arm rest. It was also the one option I would probably have not included had I chosen.

Of course, you could do what I do and stumble across these features now and then!

SingleSue

The person who bought my current car new also appears to have been an options freak....it has everything that was on offer at that time (1997!)

The best thing is that they all still work.

Drove my parent's car today and by goodness did I miss the rain sensing wipers......

CKhalvashi

SingleSue wrote: »

The person who bought my current car new also appears to have been an options freak....it has everything that was on offer at that time (1997!)

The best thing is that they all still work.

Drove my parent's car today and by goodness did I miss the rain sensing wipers......

I had a Ford Scorpio which was in the same position. That was built in 1994 and was originally from Germany (I assume, anyway, as it had German plates in the boot for the whole time I owned it)

It was one of the best VFM cars I've ever owned, and I sold it for what I paid for it having put 180000km on it and owned it about 2.5 years.

Doozergirl

kabayiri wrote: »

Wait until the car gets annoyed at the way you roughly inflated its tyres and decides to take you to the desired destination "the long way round"

We had a BMW where the sat nav didn't know that the M40 exists. Given that it is the most useful way for us to get to London...

Wheezy_2

M3 overturned car leads to closure as air ambulance lands
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/m3-overturned-car-leads-closure-9971868
And who was stuck on the northbound M3 between junction 3 and junction 2 from 5 to 9PM?
Me. :mad:
Luckily the car was well stocked with 4 half litre bottles Harrogate spring water and 2 boxes of cereal bars containing 4 bars each.

Generali

Wheezy wrote: »

M3 overturned car leads to closure as air ambulance lands
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/m3-overturned-car-leads-closure-9971868
And who was stuck on the northbound M3 between junction 3 and junction 2 from 5 to 9PM?
Me. :mad:
Luckily the car was well stocked with 4 half litre bottles Harrogate spring water and 2 boxes of cereal bars containing 4 bars each.

Poor beggur. What a crap way to spend a Tuesday evening....sober (I am making an assumption there).

I met our account manager from Bloomberg today. Lovely woman although so she should be given the eye-watering amounts of money we give her each year. She helped me get around having to pay about $250,000 in licence fees which was nice. MSCI won't be so impressed but what I'm doing is completely legal and ethical so they can stick it frankly.

It was a glorious spring day today. Gonna chuck it down tomorrow though.

zagubov

Wheezy wrote: »

M3 overturned car leads to closure as air ambulance lands
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/m3-overturned-car-leads-closure-9971868
And who was stuck on the northbound M3 between junction 3 and junction 2 from 5 to 9PM?
Me. :mad:
Luckily the car was well stocked with 4 half litre bottles Harrogate spring water and 2 boxes of cereal bars containing 4 bars each.

I have been stuck on the A3 for four hours. No accident involved, sheer weight of traffic.

Always got audiobooks with me as the radio gets old very quickly at such times.