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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 14/09/2026

QOTD: What's the perfect 4-car garage from one manufacturer the year you graduated high school? Actually a whopping 3 models when I did So 993 convertible for summer 993 GT2 for my funeral 928 GTS for long distance 968 Club Sport for daily duties

Photo of a yellow Porsche 968 Club Sport

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 05/09/2026

Maybe it’s a sign of older age, but is it unreasonable to expect a product talking about electrical safety, that you should feel like the guy doing the instructions actually saw the product… The layout at least looks right on the plug, but the earth should be shorter not equal length to the live

Socket diagram showing cables taking equal paths into the socket, when in reality the cables take much longer paths. The cutting guide suggests earth cable should be the same length as the live when in reality it’s half the length

Photo of back of socket which at least has the correct cable path, but repeats the error of the neutral cable being the shortest instead of joint longest cable

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 05/09/2026

Argued this for a long time. I've fitted a double DIN with car play because trying to navigate a 1000 songs on USB etc on a 3 line alpine unit was, well night on impossible. Double screen gives you all the entertainment setup when parked. Rest on analogue. I've added an Ultraguage for temps

Photo of a BMW E88 interior with a clear (wonderful at night) analogue dash panel, a JVC car play unit to the left with proper buttons for AC, seats & everything else.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 01/09/2026

Think they were fairly warm as standard side lights. Emphasises it when shoot only sidelights at night. This was mine with standard bulbs

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 24/08/2026

BMW did do some official ones of the E36 After a bit of searching I managed to source this one to match this one...

Photo of a 1:43 model toy BMW e36 convertible in calypso red

Photo of a 1:1 model of a BMW E36 convertible in calypso red

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 05/08/2026

3 car dream garage, but all 3 must be from the same make. Nobody stipulated street legal, and I figured at least one shouldn't be red...

Photo of a red Ferrari F40 LM in racing livery

Photo of a road going Ferrari F40 in blue

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 31/07/2026

Cheeky run out to Skegness for the day as it’s been an age since we’ve had fish & chips + ice cream by the seaside* *Oh alright it was only last week at Hornsea, but what the hell

Photo of a sandy beach and a glorious blue sky with a bright sun and no clouds

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 27/07/2026

Yep, 4 seater vert, it’s the everything car, though some occasions have needed an angle grinder on the item to make them fit

Photo of a BmW 1 series convertible boot stuffed with half an oven and other things for the tip run

Photo of a BmW 1 series convertible boot stuffed full of bricks

Photo of a BmW 1 series back seat full of 17” tyres. The forth is in the boot

Photo of a BmW 1 series convertible boot with a 27” iMac box in it

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 27/07/2026

Yeah I've replaced the iMac with this MBP now. I just hook it up to a 32" 4k as my primary workstation with keyboard & mouse. I've taken to wrapping bright electrical tape around key wires/adapters I'm likely to forget as it makes them stand out more when at customers.

Photo of various thunderbolt & USB adapters/cables. They've all got brightly coloured electrical tape around them to help them stand out

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 27/07/2026

I know, I mean mine lives with a USB-C hub in constantly, the SSD going through it. I don't need it most days, but, I don't want to have to unplug the SSD to plug in the hub when I want it. Top port is the monitor/power. As I say longer term 14" will give me a third port instead

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 26/07/2026

Oliver, who was very rarely much further than 1/2" away, usually closer.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 13/07/2026

QOTD: Post a rain car from your camera roll.

Photo of an Audi A2 parked in a car park but due to very heavy rain is now flooded

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 13/07/2026

Yeah SSDs have become a "this price is valid for 30 seconds item..." Also rather hoping nothing happens to my T7 4TB... They were £250 for a long time, now they're over £700

Screenshot of the price tracker for the Samsung t7 SSD 4TB. For a long time they held around £250 +/- £10 but spiked February this year and now the prices are over £700

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 04/07/2026

Glad I had the dashcam yesterday, but I'm still head scratching today, I think more research is required @joehallenbeck.bsky.social can a Volvo fly if you bolt the wings on?...

Photo of a silver Volvo 850 estate car with what appears to be a small light aircraft, maybe a glider with the wings removed strapped to the roof.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 24/06/2026

Ours isn’t impressed with not being allowed out today but couldn’t guarantee he’d be back before the later day heat. He’s now mainly ignoring the cooling mat

Photo of a tabby cat laying on a rug with only the bare minimum of him on the actual cooling pet mat

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/06/2026

And her husband is called Richard… Some of the others have come through too, though nowhere near as funny

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/06/2026

The anodised MacBooks are great and all that, but if you put stickers on them sometimes the sticker fades areas of the anodisation Fitting a replacement screen and removing the plethora of stickers the previous owner stuck on, of all the ones to fade the anodisation….

Photo of a space grey MacBook, you can clearly see where a sticker has previous been fitted that read DON’T BE A DICK

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 02/06/2026

I run exactly the same guage in the E88, no not even a close match on display wise, but the Ultraguage is £100 and some nifty BMW look vent gauges are nearer £500, so I’ll live with it Update speeds prompt in BM so speed might be Suzuki. I run a single page of temp/speed and changed a few alarms

Photo of an Ultraguage mounted in a BMW which for some stupid reason doesn’t have a temp gauge. So this does this and a whole lot more

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 28/05/2026

It was one of those days...

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 28/05/2026

Erm..... #NotAI Think at the time (2007) I titled this one "International 3 point turn competition doesn't quite go to plan"

Photo of a really confusing traffic jam, traffic is heading both directions, and perpendicular to the road.

A police officer looks on helpless

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 23/05/2026

I mean even Porsche doesn't give you a huge option more. Eleven shades of grey, two almost identical reds, two fairly similar blues, a yellow, but at least that Oak Green is bloody glorious. Only have you even seen one specced it in?!

Photo showing Porsche configurator for the 911

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 20/05/2026

Yeah Graham (Eason (Great Escape Cars)) was good enough to lend us the keys to this for an hour or so back in 2019. It was lovely. Could have tootled about in it forever.

Photo of a grey 2004 Porsche 911 40 jahre at a jaunty front 3/4 angle pose, parked on gravel diagonally like a right ****head

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 19/05/2026

Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car. And following up from earlier discussions of some quarters being dismissive of older cameras. Shot on the Canon D30 (yes D first) with its whopping 3mp, 3 focus points & 11 shot buffer (in jpeg)

Photo of a rally spec Subaru Impreza car on a dusty tarmac rally stage, plumes of dust that its kicked up give the left of the shot a hazy feel

Oh and it cuts right through this, as the car is bright yellow

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 17/05/2026

Mind instantly goes "Mel Collins on the saxophone" to @tbyrd423.bsky.social suggestion. But I'll chuck this in the mix for the Drop a great live album

Photo of the Queen Live Magic album cover, Freddy in his infamous white pants & yellow jacket

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 08/05/2026

I've got a good excuse. This is me with my first car. For clarification, I'm the one with my head out the sunroof, so it's about 8 years before I could actually drive...

Photo of a black Ford Capri laser, a woman stands posing in the open door, whilst a dumb kid has his head sticking out of the sunroof.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 07/05/2026

Yeah I’ve not done 200 miles in a single hit, but very much an advocate for roof down winter driving jonbradbury.com/2013/03/cabr...

Photo of a red bmw convertible surrounded by snow.

Some idiots been driving it with the roof down

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/05/2026

Yeah thanks to a days NB MX5 rental, I’m a serial offender here Audi 80 vert v6 09-11 BMW e36 323i (may 6th FB just told me) 2011-2019 BMW e88 125i 2019-current

Picture of an Audi 80 convertible on brancaster staith harbour (Norfolk)

Sunset photo of a BMW e36 323i convertible

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/05/2026

I got round this by owning both. If you just want to cruise about steadily the Audi is superior. I think it looks better, it's the more solidly built, great to sit in, just feels "so". But in v6 form it was nose heavy. The BMW was nowhere near as well built, but far far superior to 'drive'

Photo of a green Audi 80 Convertible parked on the foreshore at Brancaster Staithe. The small fishing boats are bobbing in the water, the sky is blue

Photo of a red BMW 323i Convertible parked on Blackrock Sands, Wales. The sky is dark blue with lots of fluffy clouds, the sea is a long way out

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 04/05/2026

Drop your favorite Star Wars character. Wrong answers only.

Photo of a very depressed robot waving his hand

For clarification this is the original Marvin the Paranoid Android and not the fake from the much later film

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 03/05/2026

Super Copter/Cobra Played many many many hours of this

Picture of a Super Copter handheld game from the early 80s

Handheld is used loosely, more of a knee top as it was quite bulky

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 02/05/2026

Post your warning sign So, a customer phoned recently, how’s things? Oh ok but my house fell into the sea. Oh **** Further along, do you do websites? No not really. I just need a static site Oh I can do that, here I’ll show you one I’ve got Oh **** sorry just remembered the background image…

Photo of a sign on a cliff edge that’s fallen into the sea “unstable cliff edge road closed”

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 30/04/2026

Post a random cool car photo you took on another year, with no explanation. Filling up last year

Photo of a rather fruity red Porsche 911 waiting to refuel

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 26/04/2026

Yeah working not driving it today, but the sentiment stands. Our love for them stems from drives, adventures, friends, antics (legal or otherwise), bumps, not wrapped in a cloth and maybe driven a few miles at 2/10ths to a pub

Photo of a BMW 125i convertible out on a drive, and as we’re 80miles from the coast, and the sea is visible, this definitely isn’t home

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 21/04/2026

Yeah pretty much I'd say we just need to stop using QR codes on any public printed material, because too much scope for people placing rogue stickers over the top. Don't issue them, don't scan them.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 13/04/2026

Isn't this just standard affair? It's quite usual to shift something with the BM 'vert and you get to either end and someone comments how the hell did all that get in there?? Bar big furniture we moved house with the Audi 80 vert & E36 vert

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 08/04/2026

I get it every time "buy a Toyota lad", we have to go back to 2017 to even find an advisory on the mot history (though this in part why we (well I did) chose this one). He loves his Verso-S (and the Corolla Verso before that...) Of course I have different ideas of a Toyota... #mmmmV8

screenshot of a cars mot history with a clean pass every year

Photo of a sensible Toyota, a sensible Lexus RC-F with a V8 engine...

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 31/03/2026

I always liked the hazard placement in the E36, could brake/gear down & flick the hazards on with your thumb for those 'moments' on the motorway. E88 puts it top & centre on the dash, which is clearer to see, but much further away from where your hands are...

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 24/03/2026

Another garden project done. Our old fence was, well knackered to be fair, and this winter finally did for it. New wood ordered, new posts in (never doing that again), and new wood up. Just a shame in the main we can’t actually see it, this is neighbours side

Photo a patent pending make sure the damn thing is straight contraption

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 18/03/2026

Ah balls, I forgot the odo will tick over 95,000 today with a few miles, and now its in the hands of the mechanic, so no photo for that one. So now it's international crash the MoT history website & see how close to 95,000 its tested on... Hang on, WTF, a recall? Also it's tested already & YAY!!!

Screen shot of the MoT history showing a pass for todays date and 95,001 miles

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 13/03/2026

When in the north, stock up on northern things

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 05/03/2026

Anyway good to finally get out for a few hours. Didn't bag the 24-105F4L because 'weight', DID bag the 800F11 besides weight, and the 35F1.8, nothing in-between. Made for some interesting choice of compositions. These are both shot from exactly the same spot...

Photo looking out over Withernsea beach shot using a 35mm lens, in the distance in some spots, they are people.

Stood in same place, looking roughly in the same direction. Now with the 800mm and the fishermen are very much clearly visible

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 01/03/2026

This one, more about the shadow. Often dropped in films/programs based here in a nice little 3 second clip shot at night...

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 20/02/2026

My only issue is now my macro setup can sometimes be nose heavy, I could do with being able to find the lens mount for the old EF 100mm usm I never bought at the time

Photo of a canon camera on a travel tripod with godox mf12 on a small magic arm

Phot of a canon r6 with a ridiculous macro setup of canon 100mm usm macro, 1.5x teleconverter plus a few stacked extension tubes just for full measure. It’s also equipped with the godox mf12 twin macro ring

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 17/02/2026

Photo of a tossed pancake in a frying pan

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/02/2026

It's only because I took the camera we have proof! New Years Day Beeley Moor, no ****ing rain!

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 02/02/2026

Yep, I've only seen evidence of two on the launch, and the plates on these BMW shots are fakes, so no idea which car they used for the images on the left...

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 02/02/2026

See this is a big problem for me. I’d really like to recreate this press shot of a 1 series at Jerez circuit 1500 miles away) on the press launch with mine Because the Jerez car IS my bloody car now Also means I’m unsure if some BMW press shots are mine with a fake plate

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 23/01/2026

Oh yes. Back in 2021 I deciding having made no carpentry besides a little fence made from 2 pallets, I was bored of waiting for the shed builder to get to my slot, sod it I’m going to buy £1000 worth of wood and just do it myself, and impressed actually pulled it off, and better than shop bought

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