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Hello, what you experienced was manoeuvre braking - your rear sensors detected something that the system thought your vehicle was about to collide with (quite possibly the slope itself)

Perhaps a lesson from which Katie Price could benefit?

Last nights tea was slow cooked Brisket pot roast. Tonight's tea was, somewhat inevitably, warmed up Brisket, Bubble and Squeak, extra Green Stuff to show off and gravy from the post roast liquor. Followed by a choc ice!

To see photoshop done really well, this is the master https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-photoshop-requests-twitter-james-fridman/

Seems the guy has now been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and causing a public nuisance. Well I never.... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13192851/Police-arrest-Jaguar-Pace-driver-31-suspicion-dangerous-driving-control-car-rammed-road-officers-went-rogue-speeds-120mph.html

There is always a solution

Found the ideal car for you. Electric, and in my favourite colour too! What's not to like?

given u have no Comfort mode, that is an indication u don't have DCC. visually, u can physically have a look at the shock absorber to see if there is protruding small cylinder bit, as shown by the red arrow in the pics below. if it does, u have DCC. if it doesn't, u don't have DCC. via the MIB unit - without DCC via the MIB unit - with DCC

I wondered if she had done it on a phone. These magic editing doodads that Apple and Samsung (to name only 2) offer, suggest they can fix or enhance any photo, but when you look at the image on something bigger than half a post card size, it soon becomes apparent. I thought Kate was supposed to be a reasonably keen photographer, so it seems odd that she would make such a rookie mistake. Perhaps one of her children did the edit and after all the ridicule, Kate is taking the heat to save the child's blushes that they would get from friends? It doesn't quite add up to me. No conspiracy here, but it does seem a little odd overall. Anyhoo as has been suggested in various memes, people should stop Photoshopping themselves on their social media, as if they are in an accident and the police use the victims phone, they won't be able to recognise the owner from the images

Tonight will be the other half of the Toad in the Hole I had last night. Scroll up for that. Just sorting out the veg & gravy to go with.

Dry dinner lovers look away now. 👀 Tonight was meat (Pork Chop) & potatoes (cheesy Parmigiano mash) with a lot of Onion gravy 😋 Didn't need the apple sauce in the end.

From £65k to £77k before options... That's not in any way cheap compared to a Kodiaq which starts at £35k ish for similar space. Thats a price difference of £30k!! That buys an awful lot of fuel...

The forum rules/guidelines state no content should promote illegal activity or infringe on the legal rights of others. Helping folk with cloned/pirated interfaces probably goes against that statement so I tend to leave well alone

MY23 refers to cars made from approximately July 2022 (usually after a summer shutdown but not always) with a VIN year digit that indicates 23 as the model year.

Since start and since refuel should be obvious when they reset. Long term will reset something like every 1000 hrs maybe. It's definitely on a reset period whether that's time based or distance. Are you saying they all reset at the same time and quite often? Are you accidentally hitting a button? Maybe the scroll wheel on the steering wheel is faulty?

I had to look up 'Katie Price' and 'Stanley Cup' to make some sense of the post. I'm afraid I do not feel any enrichment from the experience 😞

I do! Bang in the middle of it, as the only scrap metal weigh in place in the region os in my village it is the centre of the universe for the gens de voyage (static) community and has been for 45 years. half the listings on the Facebook groups are ferailleurs offering to take away your scrap vehicles and metal plus of course anything else metallic while your back is turned. Thankfully the old adage about not s***ting on your doorstep seems to be true and I have great neighbours.

Happy to disagree with you here, without prejudice. But I will remind you of the "Law of unintended consequences" and get my "I told you so!" in now. 😊

That is surprisingly little. I have done 55000 miles now on the set of 4 Kumhos that were on my vehicle when I bought it and they were not new then, I have no way of knowing how many miles they had covered before my ownership but I dont reckon many as the vehicle had been driven like it was stolen (clutch cover friction area dished and burned from doing 4wd drag starts) but thankfully the tyres were not scrubbed. In my experience the 2 factors that really influence tyre longevity make the biggest difference during the first few thousand miles, correct tyre pressures (which are probably different to the manufacturers settings) and driving moderately to avoid scrubbing out the inside or outside edges. It may take 3 or 4mm of uneven wear before the driver may realise, that means they wont get the last 3 or 4mm of wear from the tyres that they would if they wore evenly, wear is not progressive, the last 1/2 of useable tread depth lasts twice as long as the first. In the initial weeks on new tyres I use an infra red pyrometer to measure the temperature gradient after a spirited drive and adjust the pressures to even it out, just as I did when racing, after that once wear is measurable I measure the tread depth across the tyre and tweak the pressures again to the optimum, I rotate the tyres once a year and move the least worn tyres to the corners where the most wear occurs, I also mark and note the tread depths to know how much wear since the last rotation. My aim is for all 4 tyres to wear evenly down to the TWI's and a little beyond which is where I am at now after 55K miles, what has amazed me is I expected tyre wear to be higher because it is 4x4. During my very lean years I drove 250000 miles on part worn tyres, I would only ever buy a set of 4 matching tyres that were evenly worn across the width for the reasons above, I would then rotate them by eye, I got great mileage but not as much as the Yeti because I would have to change the set when one wore quicker than the others or clobbered a kerb, I think the higher profile of the Yeti tyres have saved me in that regard.

Yep. It's a relatively quick job, so take your mobile and tablet, have a few coffees etc on the dealer. I was there about an hour or so, also had the engine cover fitted too.

How does the kw/mile figure compare with when you bought the vehicle?

If using an EV, use the sat-nav to navigate to Tesla chargers which are normally just off the motorway. There are literally hundreds of Tesla chargers open to all in France . To map out a route in advance for an EV, use an app like A Better Route Planner to see the journey and potential charging stops. There are others who moan about Tesla chargers NOT being on the Autoroutes / Motorways as they do not want to leave the road corridor. Just shows that all needs are mostly catered for.

An article online from our UK public funded BBC. I like it, others may not..... https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240311-evs-lost-their-luxury-status-symbol-reputation EVs were once luxury vehicles. Now, they're for every driver .........Eventually, EVs for everyone Alongside the lower-cost EVs other automakers are introducing, Chinese EVs could represent a tipping point. Yet experts caution models by BYD and other Chinese EV manufacturers may not hit the market immediately. While the Chinese firm started selling some of its models in Mexico last year, and currently produces them in Europe, Helveston says North America will be a tough market to penetrate. The US currently charges a 25% tariff on Chinese EV imports, which eats into the signature selling feature of these cars: affordability. US President Joe Biden also recently announced an investigation into the sale of Chinese EVs in the US on "national security" grounds, while Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said she is worried about China's ability to flood the US market. "There are plenty of barriers here that are going to make it really hard," says Helveston. "Either they're going to have to import the cars, which is going to make them too expensive, or they're going to have to set up shop here, which is going to be really hard to do." Ultimately, sales are going up and prices are going down – which means EVs no longer carry the cachet they once did. As the cost of batteries drops, automakers are getting close to the point where their EV offerings match their petrol-guzzlers.

What is all this Guff about UK being a rich country and lots of pollution, taking a look around at the state of the country today you would be forgiven for thinking that we were a 3rd world country right now with all manner of services on their knees and the energy resources struggling to cope with demand without the increasing load being applied with EVs needing to be charged on a regular basis. The country would be far better served if there was less corruption among the elites in society, and they were made to pay their fair share towards the services that everyone at some time or other, rely on. Yes I suppose if you take into account all the vast wealth that these elites have squirrelled away in offshore and overseas tax heavens, which are often attracting more interest payments in a day than many people earn in a year, then in theory it is rich country with the wealth controlled by a few. As to lots of pollution, has anyone actually investigated the truth instead of just trotting out what the elites keep sprouting? I said before, if the elites tell a lie often enough and the masses (the public) will believe it because they fall for the BS because its being fed to us by those that we naively elect to be the leaders and run the country because we still have not learnt from past history that our system is corrupt, and we lurch from direction to another depending on the election results each time, like yo-yo's. This is the actual live air quality map for today as of just a few minutes ago and anything in green is good and just look at the UK v the rest of the Europe and the continent, and if you bother to check it out for yourselves, the rest of the world fares even worse, we already have clean air and there less pollution as a whole. Not to sure how much longer that will continue for if we allow these elites to keep dumping raw sewage etc into our rivers and sea sides though, it's time that we as @EnterName said, had the gall to say NO a bit more often, the French do and they often have civil unrest and they get things improved. Not that I'm advocating such events, but as long as we blindly accept what the elites tell us, they keep the status quo going and it will be only the super rich who will have the ability to do things we can do today, while the rest of us will be crippled in our movements etc.

"Let them eat cake" eh? 😄

Particularly China has geared up for massive production of lithium based batteries for its own EV market and for exported cars ie TESLA, BYD, SAIC etc. The automotive rechargeable battery technology has moved on from lithium batteries to lithium iron phosphate and very recently to sodium batteries so less lithium is needed. China is going through a bit of a economic hiccup and of its hundred or so EV companies some are to the wall and not the Great Wall (Chinese EV joke). Also the super scaling of battery production, particularly by BYD and CATL, is massively driving down the unit price of kwhs of batteries of each kind. We are just the lucky recipients whether it is buying a RHD TESLA, BYD, MG etc. LG Chem, as in my Zoe, and other South Korean firms are doing the same but no one is close to matching the Chinese in this endeavour.

I just deleted a long reply to Wyx about this issue, because I just lost the will to try and explain it. When I sold my Mondeo, I offered it to a couple I know who desperately needed a car. I was asking £500, which four years ago was crazy-cheap for a 2006 Mondeo Ghia TDCI, well-maintained on 4 newish tyres, with 120K miles. They asked if they could pay me on instalments. Frankly, I'd have just given them the car if I'd been closer friends with them, but another friend wanted the car and could rustle-up £500 (like most of us on here, I suspect), without a second's thought, so I let him buy it and he's still very happily motoring around in it. EVs are an expensive novelty for large numbers of people in the UK.

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Not a chuckle, but I don't get what the Kate photo fuss is all about. Has the media not seen what every single child with a smartphone does with their photos. They come out with airbrushed mannequins that don't even resemble the subject of the photo any more. Kate tweaking something that isn't even in the interesting part of the picture (maybe she had a toy with her that she wanted removing from the shot?) is hardly the crime of the century. Poor woman has had a pretty serious operation it would seem and probably doesn't feel that great to start with. I'm not a Royalist, but as a human being, it seems unnecessarily cruel to put her through this media storm. Back on topic .

Same engine as my Octavia, 1.4TSI. The Golf had a 7sp dry clutch, AFAIK the wet clutch only went into the higher torque models. The wet clutch was reputed to be a smoother unit, somewhat academic though. I am aware of the attributes of S, I alternated between D & S frequently. Frankly it made little if any difference to the situation we're talking about here.

Apparently some guy with same name, or same guy, tried to sell this car back in Sep 2023: https://www.ipaceforums.co.uk/threads/oh-dear…-ev-incident-on-m62.7937/page-5#post-102538 "Working theory is that he was going to either lose money or couldn't get out of the finance so tried to argue the car was faulty and after the first time it failed he tried again."

And we think _we_ have pothole problems ...

Who 'CLAIMED' or wrote RAMMED? Which publication or was that a statement from the Police?

@Graham Butcher It is good that when stop / start is operating that there is nothing to smell. I still do not see why the supposedly low or non polluting vehicles running ICE,s can not just redirect the tail pipe back into the car then, or to a tank in the car that can be taken home and those with off street parking could unload it into their home. All nice fresh non polluting air. Gather all the stuff and recycle it regardless of how powered. Carbon Capture. Hand it back into the filling station or tyre an exhaust centres. It all came from the ground, there is no place else to get stuff, put it back in the ground. Life & death is so simple, just like people. is

Tallest car won't work, its only available as a petrol 😇

Mine only get used when I need to do quick an overtake. Using the left paddle to drop a couple of gears feels marginally quicker than using the kick down. Holding the right paddle then puts the car back to whatever drive mode it was in before. tom

I have a pre facelift model and it always resets the driving mode to "normal". It's a little annoying but its now my of my start up routine, seat belt on press 'mode' button twice to select "individual" and off we go. I would agree with BTandSid that Cross Climate 2 tyres on 19" rims are excellent. The quietest and most comfortable ride I have ever had in car. Much better that my Yeti on 17" rims (also with Cross Climate 2). As others have said the Sat Nav no longer get travel updates so if you want to avoid traffic you need to plug your phone in (Pre Face lift) or connection wirelessly (Face lift) and use Waze or Google Maps. Obviously plugging your phone in means it charges as you drive so I would favour the pre Facelift model but it is splitting hairs really. Oh the other thing is pre Facelift will have a Skoda badge on the back, the newer ones will have the letters S K O D A. Obviously price, condition, mileage, colour (if you are bothered) and what options you want (upgraded speakers, heated steering wheel, heated windscreen ,digital dashboard, etc) are key. Brilliant car and highly recommended.

Mine is the same as Yogi-Bears. I always have the "spiders web" of destinations display when I first turn on the ignition but a press of the Nav button (top right of my Amundsen unit) displays the map of current situation. No route is needed. Also the screen displays the Speed Limit for your location which is very useful at times whilst driving.

Looked at base (SE Technology) spec to compare engines 1.5tsi 150PS WLTP 46.6-53.3mpg 122-130g CO2 2.0tdi 150PS. WLTP 53.3-56.5mpg 130-139g CO2 £560 extra with diesel fuel regularly 5-8% more than petrol (summer) and nearer 9-12% more in winter (as it is similar to heating oil), on face of it might cost more to run the diesel. The pricing is also very close to the £40,000 extra tax threshold, it appears if you want SEL spec estate, if you add metallic paint then over the £40k. Even adding couple of options to base spec means have to watch the tax threshold

BEV,s are in the hands of many business users, and people like Nurses, Carers, Home Helps, Social Workers, Emergency Workers, taxis, couriers, trades people, fast food deliveries, chemists, so Fleets, Lease Companies and owned by Motability Finance. Just cars used by employees or those that opted for a BEV or got landed with them. Then those that want to own or lease them. They are what they are, if you do not want them or can not afford cheap ones then just say 'No'. ............. I doubt any member here is a Trader in Minerals / Metals or speculate in world markets so you just need to see what reason might show on Social Media, Media or business news. There might be various reasons given. Depends who tells you.

Love that guys work

Look up the meaning of ignorant and you will see it is commonly used as a rude and insulting term. You would be better using 'ill informed' as it is not rude and insulting.

My original yeti was a diesel and it had an annoying rattle from around the engine bulkhead definitely not a knock though, turned out it was the metal pipes that ran across there from the servo. The clips installed from manufacture wasn’t enough so I packed them with foam sections. I put a post and pictures on here that was probably 2012 right enough.

I'm a bit of a cynic over these stories tbh. They never seem to lead to a recall or safety notice which implies nothing found. I'm sure with older petrol driven similar incidents it was fairly normally to see the driver get nicked later. Why was the Jag doing 90mph? If the throttle was stuck or a connection left open why 90? Top speed it limited to 124 but assuming there is a fault why would the limiter apply? Cynic talking - guy got caught doing 90 and rather than take the 4 points he's blaming the car for a bit of publicity too.

With the increasing ranges of EVs and judging by comments often made by those who buy or own these EVs, options should be offered to make their lives even easier and more comfortable.

With just the resistors in place you'll measure 6v between the resistors but introduce a load(battery!) then it all changes. Voltage drop more determined mainly by V=IR over the first resistor where the current drawn will be determined by current through the second resistor and drawn by the battery. Something like this will do the job... https://www.amazon.co.uk/EBILUN-Converter-Voltage-Changer-Regulator/dp/B07HCC8C6Z

Not sure if Newton's cat has appeared before ...