Weird Odometer Reading?

[ZR2grizz]

I was getting out of the mountains today and happened to look down at my Odo and the mileage caught my eye. The gaps left from the one's made it look like a reading of 12,12,12, so I snapped a phone-pic (notice the speedo is at zero, so yes, I took precautions). Anyways, I was bored and thought I'd post it up and ask if anyone else has had other weird odometer experiences.

 

[StevieC]

What did we ever do without Cameras on our phones!

 

[moribundman]

Why do you think that's weird? A "1" simply requires less space than any other digit in a typical 7-segment digital display, hence the "gaps." Although this could be an LED display, it looks very much like a VFD (vacuum fluorescent display), which were still used in some 1980s cars and are still used in many alarm clocks, VCRs, etc.

 

[getnpsi]

I drive roughly 700 miles a week. Id say at least 3 Saturdays in recent memory 666 crept up in the trip meter when I was looking. It's not hard to miss on the other hand, most of us look at the speedo often. I am a numbers person, and my girlfriend isn't, so weird occurences I have to keep to myself or tell strangers on the web I'm afraid

 

[Shannow]

getnpsi,
if your mind works on numbers and pattern recognition, you'll see stuff like that all the time...I do.

Can walk across a paddock talking to someone, and get attracted to a single 4 leaf clover...simply because it's different and caught my eye.

 

[crinkles]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
getnpsi,
if your mind works on numbers and pattern recognition, you'll see stuff like that all the time...I do.

Can walk across a paddock talking to someone, and get attracted to a single 4 leaf clover...simply because it's different and caught my eye.


+1 your mind chooses to remember the 666 but not any other numbers you flick your eye across..

 

[oilyriser]

Was the 12:12:12 flashing, by any chance?

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: getnpsi
666


An unholy palindrome indeed!

 

[Shannow]

If it was 668, at least you'd know who was next door.

 

[Kestas]

I too like those neat numbers.

 

[oilyriser]

Soon it'll be 123456

 

[PandaBear]

I thought you saw a default flashing error code. You made a firmware engineer all excited about a potential to hack the ECU.

 

[Gary Allan]

At least you didn't see 601 on the display.

 

[ZR2grizz]

Some of you guys are hilarious, I was just pointing this out as a goof. I'm a bit nervous when/if it makes it to 13,13,13 though!!! Hope there's some more witty replies yet to come.

 

[oilyriser]

anyone remember 71077345 ?

 

[Gary Allan]

Yes, when standing on my head.

 

[BuickGN]

I too noticed the 666 when I was pulling into the driveway a month ago and ended up driving around the block real quick to change it.

 

[Patman]

I always snap pics of my odometers when they reach some sort of milestone, here are a few:

 

[brianl703]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
Although this could be an LED display


LED displays do not work well in the lighting conditions you find in a car. The choices are pretty much an LED or incandescent backlit LCD display or a VFD display.