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But it was not a gamble as he could have gone many miles beyond zero no bother. Push it to the extreme, sort of well past 20 miles past 0% SoC then he might have risked conking out but a few odd miles, no worries. Tesla model 3, in BJ's run until it stops did show model 3 did somewhat quit rather abruptly which showed Teslas, like him, are not quite a clever as some might think. LFP chemisty does seem to act a bit differently to NMC lithium.

No @lol-lol but an Uncle with a haulage company with a few trucks and another whos business was buiding and construction with dozens of vans and lorries. Places to go, work and get home again. But then no Motorways north of Perth and few dual carraigeways back in the day.

Skoda dealer says it’s for the road sign recognition feature. I’m not sure what the fix is yet.

His trip is entirely on the motorway, maybe he doesn't gamble with £100 fine and three penalty points

I tend to find just cruising with the trucks, safe distance but bit of aero assist so around the 56 mph they are doing. Would not do 50 mph and mess up the trucks by forcing them to pass. False economy, better to do 56 in their slip stream. You don't work 25 years in logistics, and have an uncle who owned/ ran 50 Artics, and have lots of sympathy for truckers. I like trucking and I like to truck.

Are you keeping them in for MOT or going to risk it, saying that technically replacing Xenon right LED isn’t against test criteria

Is this purely Motorways in England with EV drivers that are on a go slow because too tight to pay public charging? @lol-lol did the same in ICE vehicles to hypermile. I did sometimes, but i would use a fast Coach that apparently had no max speed limits and would be happy to exceed even 70 mph. Winter night time i did draft hgv,s in my Corsa E. But twice was stopped by police because tgey were high value whiskey lorries anx the drivers called thd police. ABERDEEN bypass.

He is not as smart as he thinks he is. Tesla are known, like Renaults, for having substantial sub 0% buffers. He makes too much of being a few miles short of range to charging station. He recently moved from a S to an 3. According to Bjorn Nylands testing and did over 30 miles past 0% SoC. Drama queen who should know better.

Partly explains the congestion on the motorways, having to keep to 60 in the 2nd lane to overtake Lorries but maintain your range? if you're that worried stay behind them.

Hi all, What is the signs of a failed PCV valve.. On tick over the car is a bit lumpy, Taking the oil filer cap off when the engine is running, There is a vacuum pulling the filler cap back down and the engine revs speed up. Don't know if this is a sign or not? Thanks..

Dug out my solar filter only to find it smashed 🤦

Interesting video by Dave Takes It On, where he tests ignoring the system on a Tesla which is telling him that he needs a charging stop to complete the planned trip. Then the car suddenly tells him (which he knew it would) that if he were to keep below 50mph, he should be able to make the trip and arrive with about -3% of range left. So, is it another way to slow down travel in the interests of road safety? The same argument that Wales used when dropping 30mph roads down to 20mph? Similar to what our government are planning to do on rural roads?

@lol-lol you posted before about new pylons. These are not what are planned to run up and down and across Scotland. The High Energy Transmission network upgrades in Scotland are being planned and carried out by 2 private organisations not the National Grid. Also not a Public Organisation.

Why muck about, just change the whole car! Older ones were better.

Quick question: have you actually seen any evidence of this spacing and animals / crops using the space created? I personally have not; there are loads of solar farms near me, and they all seem to cram in as many panels into a field as they can, along with all the controllers and grid connections. I'm puzzled just as to how having solar farms is protecting the waterways. The farmers are saying that they are being encouraged to take land out of production, and this is leading to ever more importation of food crops that they could be growing. Isn't that just shifting the CO₂ problem onto other countries when they produce extra food for the UK and also the same with the road transportation of those foods to the docks, shipping them across the seas, and then further transportation here in the UK?

Did you ever figure out the real source for this sound?

Probably to do with embedding of the nut's mating face (and that of the balljoint if textured) being different on the two types of wishbone, together with the fact that when a fastener is tensioned by torque alone, a very high proportion of that torque is used in overcoming friction, rather than actually extending the screw. There's a lot of techy stuff about pre-tensioning threaded fasteners, and the general trend towards using a lower torque followed by an angle tightening stage is mostly about reducing the variability impact of this friction.

The new T pylons are some much less obtrusive. Shorter, squat. Saw a row of them from the M5 which are in place to take power from Hinkley C to the high voltage national grid. If tol many complaints then bury them like in Snowdonia. I gather Belgium is burying electricity lines as a national policy now.

Loads of stupid radio phone in,s in Scotland over pylons and the £250 a year for the some. People seem to not understand about the substations and objections. Michael Shanks MP is a waste of space IMHO. Secretary of State for Energy Security. & Chris Stark Climate Expert is a plonker IMO. He spins some real crackers. Him and others are so keen for new nuclear in Scotland. Some how missing the point that there will still be those peed off about mega pylons. There is no Labour or Tory UK Prime Minister that will be able to force new nuclear on Scotland it needs to be the will of the people. So ask them if they want Nuclear power stations in Scotland. They might vote yes. But ask everyone who pays taxes in Scotland not just those on the voters roll.

It's not giving up it is help protecting both the land and the waterways. Just leave gaps between the solar arrays and crops will grow better and animals have some. shade. Over waterways the panels vastly reduce evaporation and preserve water for the dry periods. The power generated can be used to help with the irrigation needed to counter act climate change in part being brought about by the increased levels of CO2 furthering the Greenhouse effect we are increasingly suffering from.

Currently in the garage for repair.

Always the worry and especially during half times on big football matches which is where Dinorwig would be in standby to go from tickler to full 1.8 GW in about 20 seconds. Something powerstations with either gad or steam turbines cannot do due to thermal stresses. Hopefully the Gren Glen hydro will be on stream early in the next decade. If not brownout could become a thing.

well I`m going to admit defeat on this one. Can`t see any way round it unless Skoda do the decent thing and re evaluate doing map upgrades for older models.

I apologise for the fact that this subject has likely been covered numerous times, but I'll ask anyway. My 2018 Superb estate has an Amundsen MIB2 unit by all accounts (touchscreen with 2 rotating knobs) and I have entered my VIN number into the Skoda portal for the latest maps. The download has 1 folder called Maps and a labelled md5sum.txt file. According to the manual on the portal, there should be 2 folders - MiB1 / MiB2 and an info2.txt file. How do I go about updating the SD card with just a Maps folder or is my system too old to update now? Thanks in advance.