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Caffeine and Machine visit
Whilst I’m into month 5 of my sabbatical / aka jobless, I have a lot of time on my hands so took a long overdue blast today on the A272 in the M5 to visit ‘The Hut’, the newest of three pubs of the Caffeine and Machine family located in Hampshire. Drive was damp but very surprised upon arrival at a car park full of sports cars, modern classics and other exotics. Seems it’s not just me evading work these days.
Official opening of The Hut is on the 17th (Sunday) so expected to arrive to an empty car park, but clearly business was booming even today. I got marshalled in and shown a parking bay next to a trio of Porsche’s. I never take for granted how lucky I am to arrive anywhere in the M.
Really pleased to have found my piece of petrolhead heaven which allows me a spirited 40 min drive there and back and the opportunity to interact with other car nerds!
https://caffeineandmachine.com/
My favourite was the E28 M5 which looked splendid with not a spot of rust anywhere.... -
F30 Reversing Camera
So after a 3 month wait I finally took my 330d into the dealership to get the faulty reversing camera replaced. At the end of last year, the image had become 'greyed' just like a thick foggy day. I went to the Service Dept. and the workshop foreman came out to have a look at the problem.
I selected reverse and showed him the poor image. So imagine my surprise when he turned the iDrive controller and all of a sudden, the image became crystal clear with vibrant colours. All he did was adjust the contrast, which had been turned to minimum. How embarrassing! But all sorted in a couple of minutes. I'm thankful that they never got around to doing a diagnostic check, as that would have been expensive.
I don't recall ever changing the camera settings. Oh well - lesson learned.