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the truth about electric cars

If you think that Amazon only sell high quality items, no dodgy or fake stuff etc, then you would be wrong, they can be duped like anyone else. Not everything sold on Amazon is actually "sold" by them, they can and do operate like Aliexpress etc and be a shop window for either suppliers, they even ship from Amazon warehouses etc but you not buying from Amazon.

By Graham Butcher · 11 minutes ago11 min
the truth about electric cars

Organisations like Amazon ensure that they sell items of good quality for the sake of their long term business.

Their are sales platforms were goods of dubious quality, perhaps Temu is one of those and Amazon Haul, their apparent response to Temu, the prices are so low then "Buyer beware" might apply.

I have been over delivered on quality for incredibly low prices on goods from China 🇨🇳 and studied Asian Pacific politics and economics with the OU and seen China trade's rapid progress in volume and quality and they do sometimes sell at below the price that even the Chinese consumer can buy hence, when the UK was in the EU, Anti Dumping, counteracting etc duties were levied on Chinese origin goods.

This is most evident in Chinese EVs imports but since UK left EU they have levied ADD but UK has not hence the massive level of Chinese EV imports even with our steering wheels on the other side !

By lol-lol · 24 minutes ago24 min
Droning sound?

Actually, there might still be something in that tailgate sound hook sound deadening business. I tried similar with my manual tailgate using a bit of thin foam sheet wrapped around the bar that the tailgate catch hooks onto. Also put some of the same material around the adjustable stops on the side of the tailgate and there has been a further modest but noticeable reduction in road roar and thrumming over sharp road ridges. Panel resonances can be a subtle phenomena and whether I've reduced vibration transmission to the tailgate panels or whether the tailgate movement was driving panel resonances in the main car body, maybe a bit of both, but partial isolation of the transmission has had some effect. The foam won't last long though before it shreds. Also the noise reduction may only be noticeable following all my other obsessive noise reducing measures I've undertaken.

By croquemonsieur · 28 minutes ago28 min
Park assist

Parking in a tight space between 2 cars yesterday afternoon, my attention slipped for a moment while reversing slowly towards the car behind me and the car stopped very suddenly with a sort of bang, which at the time sounded rather like a small collision. Oops I thought and I got out to see if I had pranged the other car, but no - no scrapes or dents. The rear proximity sensors must have actioned the emergency stop procedure, whatever it's called, which is reassuring. Maybe in future I could be a little more relaxed when parking in tight spaces, knowing that the car itself will stop me in time, or maybe that's trusting technology too much to work consistently every time.

By croquemonsieur · 54 minutes ago54 min
Xenon to LED upgrade?

I got tail light and fog light bulbs from AliExpress:
LED rear indicator bulbs
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005102438682.html

LED reversing bulbs
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006067983978.html

LED fog light bulbs
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010051387090.html

Just make sure with the reversing and indicator ones you select the correct option when ordering to get the right pin configuration.

And Bevinsee headlight bulbs. I had one fail and the were excellent at organising replacement under warranty. Highly recommend these:
https://ebay.us/m/GEjuI6

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