DaveMiller
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DaveMiller last won the day on 28 June 2020
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Yes, I would use the recommended higher pressures if *fully* loaded. The figures aren’t unusually high, nowadays. My E-class Mercedes requires 39 psi all round for just me in it, and my van runs at recommended 75 psi.
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Data only sim recommendation
DaveMiller replied to MesaSunrise's topic in Skoda Kodiaq MKI (2017-2023)
I use a “3” card successfully. They usually come with a certain amount of data, AND have an expiry a certain number of months after you start using them (eg 20 GB for maximum 12 months). Are you sure the card is not time-expired? -
Slight noise when accelerating and turning left
DaveMiller replied to Doombar's topic in Skoda Kodiaq MKI (2017-2023)
A sort of faint metallic scraping? If so, mine does it - always has, but it hasn’t got any worse in 4.5 years / 18,000 miles. -
Well, a roof tent is usually a device that folds out, and has a ladder, so you can climb up and sleep in the tent, up on the roof. Total weight of tent, plus fold-out solid floor, plus ladder plus added roofbars is probably already quite a few of the allowed 75 kg, so any people sleeping in it would need to be remarkable skinny!
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... which would then make the car illegal. Not a great idea.
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Mmmm. I feel an experiment coming on, with a large cardboard box …
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Much easier is to put your hazards on - the light is intermittent, but bright.
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Ah, I see. Thank you!
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With phones, I think you’re picking up the time from the nearby antenna of the cell you’re in - a few miles at most. And the people running the antenna know which country it’s in, and whether we’re in summertime. With gps, you’re picking up signals from multiple satellites, each 22,000 miles up, some of them directly above countries quite far from you, and those satellites have no way of “knowing” who or where is receiving their time signal. The conversion of known place to the time that that place should currently have would need to be programmed into the car itself, or rely on internet correspondence, with the car regularly reporting to a convertor its exact location. Possible, but a bit expensive, compared with asking us to click a box, twice a year?
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But do those things normally travel? I’m guessing that they don’t want to make too many different versions of the system, and yet sell the cars in many different countries. You’d be asking a lot of a satnav/info system to get it right if, for example you were travelling from Eastern Chile (which does use summertime) over the border into Bolivia, Paraguay or Argentina (which don’t). Similarly if, in Australia, popping from somewhere on the northern edge of New South Wales (which uses summertime), just down the road into Queensland (which doesn’t). It’s quite messy in the middle east, too.
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The gps signal will be a reference time, not the time we think we have. The gps signal won’t know whether humans have decided to change to summertime. If you set “gps automatic”, the clock will remain precise, but you’ll need to manually tell it (by ticking and unticking the box) whether we’ve put the clocks forward or back.
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Personalised Plates... Cool, or Sad?
DaveMiller replied to Yogi-Bear's topic in General Automotive Chat
Apart from the British Standards code and the supplier of the plate, no other letters or words are legal. The extra wording on the bottom, about “Marching on Together” is what makes it illegal? -
Personalised Plates... Cool, or Sad?
DaveMiller replied to Yogi-Bear's topic in General Automotive Chat
Oh, blimey! Well, I lived in Leeds in the mid-eighties. Back then, no-one ever called it “lesixtieds”! -
Personalised Plates... Cool, or Sad?
DaveMiller replied to Yogi-Bear's topic in General Automotive Chat
Lesix tidsu? Nope, still not getting it. -
Personalised Plates... Cool, or Sad?
DaveMiller replied to Yogi-Bear's topic in General Automotive Chat
OK … Lego Day Surgery Unit? I don’t get it.