Aspman

I think I've seen that Porche in town before. Not usually a fan of white cars but that pearl white on the porker looks good. Must be slumming it if they're shopping at the Factory Store there.

We'd like to be able to activate our downstairs hall light from upstairs. We could get smart bulbs etc but we have about 10 downlight spots in the hall and that's a fair old wodge to replace with hue bulbs. Wondering if there are non-smart wireless light switch options anyone is aware of?

I think my Jimny appreciated at least on the forecourt

It is possible to make DVDs from the files on an SD but it's very unlikely that the files will be compatible with such an old system. If you want sat nave then a seperate stand alone system, or a new screen that you can link to your phone is likely your best option.

It was always going to be so. as soon as there were enough EVs on the road they just become 'cars' and are therefore a target for taxation. ICE cars will get hit with punative taxes as well soon enough to drive them of the roads. But I'm sure that expensive exotics will be somehow exempt through 'classic' rules. So your chap with a 20yr old Ferrari won't pay but a 20yr old transit will.

Absolutely. When we went through the lockdown car shortages when the factories and chip-fabs we're shut down car prices went through the roof. As predicted when the shortages eased the prices stayed exactly where they were. Now we are paying luxury car prices (according our VED bands) for some very ordinary cars. But you'll note that depreciation largely affected the buyers and less so the seller. Trade-in prices are as a poor as they ever were but second hand car prices are higher than ever so the profit margin is higher. Some of that is justified, dealers costs are higher than ever too but I would love to know if dealers margins are up. Cars have aways been a mugs game, you just need to accept the losses on them.

got a picture I'm afraid but it was a mint late edition, Golf R32. Looked completely standard. Was silver though rather than the blue it looks best in.

Gentlemen, hang onto your breakfast, I give you the new Mini Countryman Hideous yet also completely bland and characterless

You might be up for a record for the oldest non-spam thread resurrection

Makes sad noises - https://www.smallbonecars.co.uk/detail/1341755/used-maserati-quattroporte-3-0-dv6-4dr-automatic-clitheroe This was mine if anyone ever finds they're looking for a Maserati Q.

It's symptomatic of the short termism in western governments. they need to show return or improvement within a 4yr cycle so consideration of a 10-50yr cost is very rarely considered. For a politician better to get the road built now for nothing then to borrow £200M, even if it'll cost billions over decades. the long term is always someone elses problem.

Whatever the automatic gearbox in place I always put it in neutral if I'm stopped for any length of time. In D the car is still pulling forward and putting pressure on components. I guess arguably changing from D to N also wears components but you have choose one way or another. But I'e never tried shifting whilst moving. I've never had an issue with braking to stop with an auto.

Hmm plenty of big tech companies have been working on holograms for decades and got precisely nowhere. [clicky click] Ford is patenting the idea of how to use a hologram, not inventing the hologram projector.

Basically you are encouraged to waste leccy, you only get free above your average consumption. We signed up to it (why wouldn't you) and I think we saved about £2 over 3 or 4 events. You did have to opt in to start with but then they went to auto if you'd opted in previosuly. If you had a big battery you could opt to charge during that time but if not it's a bit of pointless marketing. They could just discount everyone's power but no.

Late to the thread but is anyone compairing tradein on ICE? I'd humbly suggest that trade in deals are worse than ever anyway. And the difference between trade-in and forecourt price has never been higher. Maybe EVs are worse but I think ICE deals are pretty awful too.

I drove my first electric car today. Evvah. They left a BMW ix1 when they took the mini. So I drove it (all of 50m to the back of the house). No comments on the drive at all tbh but I would say that the interior of this £45-50k car was ghastly. It felt very cheap and quite nasty. Wonder if EVs have allowed manufacturers to put in some 'futuristic' features which are in fact outstandingly naff and cheap.

I'm somewhat reassured that my garage looks pretty much the same as Lee's right now If I find a way to make it look nice I'll take photographs

Gamekeeper at the shooting was admiring of my Jimny, asked me every time if it was an auto cos he's buy it off me. They get them modified to use to feed the birds. Maybe cheaper or more useful than using the polaris buggies. No idea.

Just looked it up, the Jimny SZ4 was list price £14,700 in 2016. Deprecation (to me) of £3700 or 25% in 8yr. Potentially looking at the listings I guess someone has bought one of these and made money over that time. Salesguy said the prices online were too high really didn't know who would be paying that sort of price (£20k for an old auto, they'd sold new edition Jimnys for not much more) and thought that they were being stockpiled for some reason. Might be true might be rollocks.

is it an expensive card in a cheap reader? Might be using an old format USB which won't go fast enough or is causing an issue with the card.

Short end to this tale. I was talking to a couple of dealers both with similar cars. Spoke to second dealer late yesterday and he came back and offered an additional £2k for the Jimny, Had a dealer down south willing to pay more. So for me £11k was good enough to avoid the hassle of selling private. I am soon to be the owner of a Subaru Outback. Not the most exciting car in the world but possible one of the most all round cars.

Disables bays? It's not an auto? Actually saw an auto listed on autotrder. £20k for a 66 plate which is crazy https://trackssuzuki.co.uk/autotradervehiclelocator/?vehicleid=202407252138420&VRM=MA66RZU&extref=&location=651787

Not an advert... Long story short got too many cars trying to consolodate. Had my Jimny in for service and mot and ended up with a big bill just over £900 (major service, MOt and some front suspension work). Trade in figures for that car seem to be way off to me. Getting offered £9k with them sitting on some forecourts at £15k+ with more miles than mine. I've never sold private, is it awful? Best places to do it? Likely to get a lot more than the trade in anyway, just coz those cars are listed at £15k doesn't mean they would sell after all.

My sugestion would be to focus on the TV as a TV. As other have mentioned manufacturers are notorious for not supporting apps on the their own devices for long. I think LG was held up for having abandoned some of their smart apps while the TVs were still being sold as new. It's better (imho) to have a good tv then add on a device than an handle the apps for you. We have an of Amazon Firecube for the main TV and a Firestick on the second. The cube is 3yr and there is no sign that Amazon are not supporting it. Ditto the stick. The cube is more powerful and much more slick to use. To us the TV is just a screen and we do all viewing choices through apps on the cube. If you don't want to buy into one of the big manufacturers products then you can look at Roku boxes or build your own.

I have lots of stuff in my garage, tools and thingies. I have a few stacking shelf units but still struggle to get everything organised. Any super organised garages. Show me! I need help from the Marie Kondo of garages