My pregnant wife and I have recently bought a new car - a five-door VW Golf giving us a bit more space for the new member of the family. Along with the usual CD player and Power Steering, I think we might have found a fantastic hidden feature that the salesman missed.
On driving it for a few weeks, Eloise reported some weird occurrences with the speedometer. In one particular spot on the A43 towards Northampton, the speedo suddenly drops from 70mph to 40mph, then instantly back-up to 70mph in a strange, quivering, Geiger-counter kind of way. I tried it myself and the speedo acted exactly the same.
My first reaction was that the nearby overhead pylons were creating some interference with the car's computer, but this was quickly dispelled with a trip up the A5. Strangely enough, near our new offices at Cuttle Mill the speedo reacted in the same fashion, but not quite as strong. This location has no Pylons nearby. In both places there are deep valleys or dips, which we then thought must be the feature of the landscape that is creating the occurrence.
However, after further miles around the country and local area, including dips, hills, under pylons and over bridges, we can't get the same speedometer reaction as at the same spots on the A43 and at Cuttle Mill!
My over-active imagination can only conclude that the VW Golf has the ability to locate a hidden phenomenon, possibly underground water as dowsers do with copper rods. The other possibility is that one day we'll hit 88 miles per hour at the correct spot and get zapped back to 1955. With no way of getting 'Back to the Future', it would be the first time anyone was 53 years late for work (or is that 53 years early!?).
If anyone can contact Doctor Emmet Brown or a qualified mechanic, maybe someone can shed some light on this oddity.
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