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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

One would hope. Sending the mini ot dealer for MoT so they will deal with it I suppose. The Mazzer, well we'll see.

I'm genuinely having trouble telling cars apart these days the designs are so similar and deadly dull. thise LEDs will be a PITA to change (and no doubt very expensive) if they break or get nudged.

Should be a sweet spot for mpg and reliability. suspect that engine could do 500k with care, the rest of the car will be like Triggers broom.

My only real problem with the Scoobs are that they are a bit slow for me as an evreyday car. But we're going to rejig all our motors I think (bar the coupe).

Is anyone up to date with the MOT Vs dash lights situation. I've a couple of cars with 'informational' lights /alerts. Mrs' Mini has a "check drivetrain" alert up after it went through a heavy rain shower. I'm pretty certain it was nothing more than a fleck of water on a sensor but I can't clear the alert with a normal OBS reader. Similarly my Quattroporte has a "Service Overdue" light up. Apparently they near to impossible to clear unless you have Maserati software which no one does but them pretty much. Just wondering if these will actually be an issue or not.

Just wait till your car is a write off because the onboard software is unsupported after 7yr. Plenty people chucking away other (otherwise usable) electrical kit for the same reason.

Did you nick that one George? I don't want a new one. Told the chap no electric, no hybrid. Keep it simple.

Trying to reconcile all our cars right now. Current thinking is that we could replace the Jimny and and countryman with something like a Scooby Outback or forrester. That'll load lug and be comfy enough to go on holiday (slowly) plus do my winter days in the field. Then we'd freed up to get somethign silly with 4 seats. Maybe that M5 comp I've hankered after or an M4 etc. Remover the need for a big boot and the choices open out. But I have stated no hybrid, no electric. I think this is probably the last chance to get someting big and oily

So 18month is on and looks like the Mazzer has to go. No for any problems just that reality means we need a bit more of a load lugger. The mazzer has a huge boot but it's a slot so great for 2 but a struggle for 4. Also my Mrs has refused to drive it as the 21 inch alloys are worth about 30% of the car and she's notorious for knocking kerbs. I will be sad to see it go, it's so preeety. It's also increadibly comfortable and a properly nice place to sit in. It's foibles are forgivable, it's not the best to drive, the gearbox has it's own mind, the CD player can't really be used because the gear selector is in the way. But it's been completely reliable and not too bad on fuel. People keep asking me if it's broken yet and it genuinely hasn't not a sqeak or a rattle even. I've made one enquiry on a 530d Touring but the dealer very much gave a "we don't want your car" price.I spoke to the dealer I bought the mazzer from and he'd quite like it back though we haven't agreed a price. He's off on a hunt to find a replacement since ideally we'll do a deal again. So fingers crossed next car is some form of V8 estate.

Yes and I have signed up to volunteer for this

No. But they do provide evidence to support additional police patrols or modification to roads to improve safety. However, for HGVs it might be different. The time code on each picture IS verifiable as it's linked to a proper interet timesource. That could be compares to the tacho on an hgv. i.e. there is a picture of you at x location at y time. this is a 40 what does your tacho say?

Tesla well know for quality issues. they're a drivetrain manufacturer learning how to put together a car. Most car manufacturers have been building cars for 100yr+ in one form or another. They might choose not to use every lesson learned but they do have a lot of experience in all the tricky little areas that are needed to make a car. I think Tesla still has the air of fasion and rebellion about it for now but this will fade and if they can't up the quality they'll start to look like a French manufacturer. Pretty cars that fall apart.

Bloody low drivers

Getting the pi in and working was a way to try to get around that. I work from home in a room that faces the road. Noise defintey changes on road conditions, the car sound faster when the road is wet for instance. And yes some cars sound faster than they are going. But some cars are phenominally over the limit and that is obvious. Often it's the same cars. I now recognise a few of them. A beat-up old Focus ST, a new Fiesta ST, Blue 3 series etc, I see these cars every day and have thought they were always too fast. Pi is proving it to some extent. We are getting more police presence on the road and most visits result in 3-5 referrals to procurator (so court appearance not just 3 points).

the Pi records all cars speeds above 17mph to generally exclude cyclists and pedestrians. The percentage speeding is significant but not the majority. The app can chart by hour the average speed but also records each event. I'm working on a way to extract the data as a CSV so it's easier to plug into Excel. It's not perfect and the AI can glitch where it detects more than one object on a vehicle, I've noted a few unlikely speeds (clocked a bin lorry at 88 but it was probably stationary or close to 5mph as it was collecting so the AI has glitch on an part of the image shape) but these are fairly minimal and generally obvious. We actually have the data from the council monitoring but I'm not particularly adept at excel analysis. Can upload if anyone wants to play.

Going back, that was the council prior to the VAS signs going up. It was the usual setup with a couple of pneumatic tubes

We have 3x VAS signage up that does exactly this. But they don't record or even log speeds.