Topic: 8 of a kind! (Read 1659 times)

DaveCombs · « **on:** October 05, 2005, 11:23:54 PM »

It happened today, after just 41 days of ownership...

w00t!

root · « **Reply #1 on:** October 05, 2005, 11:29:57 PM »

wow, 30,000 mi/yr at this rate, that a lot.

DaveCombs · « **Reply #2 on:** October 05, 2005, 11:31:18 PM »

Yeah. Can't... Get... Out of driver's seat... Attraction is... TOO STRONG...

I'm powerless to it.

-KT- · « **Reply #3 on:** October 06, 2005, 12:09:43 AM »

Quote from: DaveCombs on October 05, 2005, 11:23:54 PM

It happened today, after just 41 days of ownership...

w00t!

Thats awesome. I saw when my car had 666 as the mileage but couldn't stop to take a pic, was a shame.

root · « **Reply #4 on:** October 06, 2005, 09:01:18 AM »

heh, are you driving in this pic, btw? why is the blinker on?

Midnight_Speeder · « **Reply #5 on:** October 06, 2005, 09:04:38 AM »

He probably pulled over to take the pic.

Hexedit · « **Reply #6 on:** October 06, 2005, 09:12:24 AM »

I'll get one with nine 3's in a month or two.

DaveCombs · « **Reply #7 on:** October 06, 2005, 09:53:24 AM »

Quote from: Midnight_Speeder on October 06, 2005, 09:04:38 AM

He probably pulled over to take the pic.

Of course I did. The blinker is from the hazard flashers.

Safety first, kids!

Krupo · « **Reply #8 on:** December 26, 2005, 02:32:21 PM »

I was clocking ridiculous mileage for my first two months of ownership. And then I promptly parked the car for the better part of a month.

But way back in week 5 of ownership I snapped these shots.

I'm not sure if anyone would ever need it, but I have a big-ass high-rez version of the second pic at http://krupo.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-of-kind.html

Edit: the two images aren't popping up despite the fact that the code is here. Here's the links without the IMG code in case they're not loading here.

And could someone let me know if it's mazda3forums or blogger that's giving me trouble?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4874/1916/400/Eight%20of%20a%20kind%20%285%29.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4874/1916/400/Eight%20of%20a%20kind%20%282%29.jpg

Edit #2... so *now* it works? And all I had to do was experience this error message:
"ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved"

Weird.

wytwolf · « **Reply #9 on:** December 26, 2005, 03:05:28 PM »

krupo if you copy and paste the links they work, but if you just click on the link they don't.

Krupo · « **Reply #10 on:** December 26, 2005, 03:21:22 PM »

Seems to work as it should now; I think blogger temporarily vomitted binary or something.

holeydonut · « **Reply #11 on:** December 26, 2005, 03:50:51 PM »

Hmmm, i wonder if you will reset your trip odo at 8,000 miles so you can get 888.8 at 8,888 total miles.....

JT · « **Reply #12 on:** December 26, 2005, 04:23:37 PM »

Quote from: holeydonut on December 26, 2005, 03:50:51 PM

Hmmm, i wonder if you will reset your trip odo at 8,000 miles so you can get 888.8 at 8,888 total miles.....

I was thinking about taking a picture of all 9's before it rolled over to five digits, but I forgot to set it up to work out that way. I guess I'll have to wait until 99,999 miles and 999 on the odometer.

holeydonut · « **Reply #13 on:** December 26, 2005, 04:28:47 PM »

Yeah - but you're too busy calculating your mpg to turn your trip odo up to 999

JT - So watchu' up to now-a-days?

JT · « **Reply #14 on:** December 26, 2005, 05:08:36 PM »

Quote from: holeydonut on December 26, 2005, 04:28:47 PM

Yeah - but you're too busy calculating your mpg to turn your trip odo up to 999

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JT - So watchu' up to now-a-days?

Well, it's college hoops season, so most of posting time is spent on my team's message boards.

cbogey88 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2005, 01:51:45 AM »

haha kick ass. i gotta do this for 7s. Just rolled over 6666 today. Gotta remember to reset that thing @ 7000

xxbraunxx · « **Reply #16 on:** December 28, 2005, 03:47:09 PM »

3 is my lucky number. I'd be pretty happy if those 8 of a kind happened to me.

DaveCombs · « **Reply #17 on:** December 28, 2005, 04:39:16 PM »

Assuming you haven't rolled past it yet, when your odometer hits 3000 miles, reset your trip odo.

That's the basic rule; to get the series of numbers you want, get that many thousand miles on the odo and then reset the trip odo to fill in the rest.

holeydonut · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2005, 05:22:32 PM »

And if you want 123.4 on the trip odo and 12345 on the total odo - make sure you reset at 12222 miles :p

echanchisai · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2005, 02:16:06 PM »

I just passed 2222 lol. Not as exciting as all 3's.

superjudge · « **Reply #20 on:** December 29, 2005, 02:38:54 PM »

I passed 33333 a few weeks ago and it was cool, but I didn't think its a big deal lol. I usually do not really pay attention to numbers on the odo except on road trips.

holeydonut · « **Reply #21 on:** December 29, 2005, 04:31:53 PM »

Heh, my first car was about to to over 100K miles - and I was going to take a picture of it.

At 99,998 miles, my all-digital-GM-dashboard caught on fire. Sucks.

RB · « **Reply #22 on:** December 29, 2005, 07:28:02 PM »

A picture of the dashboard on fire

would have been much more entertaining than a pic of the odometer at 100K.

holeydonut · « **Reply #23 on:** December 29, 2005, 07:55:20 PM »

It wasn't really as intense as you are picturing. The display just went blank and a lot of grey smoke (that cool grey smoke you get when you wire electronics up incorrectly) came out of the steering column.

At 100,002 my power steering pump went out... that was fun too.

GM sucks.

JT · « **Reply #24 on:** December 30, 2005, 07:35:34 PM »

Quote from: holeydonut on December 29, 2005, 04:31:53 PM

Heh, my first car was about to to over 100K miles - and I was going to take a picture of it.

At 99,998 miles, my all-digital-GM-dashboard caught on fire. Sucks.

Krupo · « **Reply #25 on:** December 31, 2005, 10:52:16 AM »

Quote from: holeydonut on December 29, 2005, 07:55:20 PM

GM sucks.

Yeah, I was going to say...

Also, my trip B odo hasn't been reset since I started on this stupid photo quest, so if I'm in a situation where I can take more shots, I just might.

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