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must have forgot about tesla which is strange for a motoring journalist.

just been over there reading your posts hopefully they will be able to give you the answers you need... from seeing your numbers above it looks like its going to work for you but i'm sure people with bigger brains than me will come along soon. I must say it brought one thing home to me, and that's how expensive it is to run a car!!

yes you can charge from a socket which is brilliant but as you say it does take much longer (about 12 hours ) in my car. it does sound like your in a charger rich area so you should be fine. go onto a forum called speak ev, they are really friendly and much more knowledgeable than me and also there is a chap on you tube called Ian Sampson who is half way through a 4 year blog on switching to a leaf. it really helped convince me to get one as he really does push it to its limits, just make sure you get passed the first 2 weeks "bedding in " because he does go through a learning curve. Tom

Hi silver Just with regard you commute You should always have a plan b and potentially even a plan c. If your charging at work and home you should be fine but what would happen if the work charger went down? In an ideal world you need another charger (preferably a fast charger) within 30 to 40 miles. I'm assuming 1% a mile on the 30kw leaf but that could drop in the worst conditions. I'm not trying to put you off, 60 miles each way is outside its capability so you have to have redundancy. Tom

they are capable of doing that annual mileage as there's a taxi company in devon that has a couple of leafs on 100k with no battery problems and very little wear and tear due to very rarely using the breaks or moving parts etc, but I think you right about electric cars not being there yet (tesla being the exception) we went out the other night had 81% charge 42 mile round trip when we got home we had about 4% left , this was due to the outside temp being around freezing and it was all national speed limit roads ... if you not prepared for that then it can be very stressful.

I can give you my limited (12 months) experience, we got lucky as they were doing very good deals. ignore the finance examples on the website as the salesman sometimes get incentives to sell leafs so its pot luck how desperate they are but if they are desperate they will give you big discounts. we got on a leaf tekna on around £35000rrp 2 year PCP 10k miles £500 customer deposit (Part ex) £3500 incentive deposit £3500 friends and family discount...never met him before £5000 government grant I cant remember the GFV but its crazy high mid to high teens... the general consensus in the ev community is there's going to be a lot of leafs sitting around on forecourts in the next 12 months as they are priced too high in the first place. its a fantastic car and as a second car I couldn't recommend it highly enough however looking at your annual mileage you may struggle to get the pcp within the £283 unless you put in a big deposit especially on the new 30kw leaf which I'm assuming will more desirable in comparison with the 24kw. we are thinking of going down to one car so unfortunately we are going to go back to an ICE car either this year or next year, but I will miss the silent drive, pre heat and the acceleration off the lights which is massively addictive. I hope you find the deal you want because if it fits your needs there really is nothing better. Ps have a look at the Renault zoe same thing in smaller package

Bit of an update on this. I fitted the ts850s and then a couple of months later she part ex'd it and got a ds3 so I had them taken off and am now selling them! This left me with a problem I didn't want to leave her with no winters even though her knew car has all the safety equipment ( esp abs etc ) that her corsa didn't have. So the search began for the best tyres I could afford. This time I was looking for 205 45 r17 speed rating v so the costs were a lot more and I couldn't afford the ts850s again. I ended up settling on the Bridgestone blizzark LM 32s so hopefully they will be ok. Just for those who are interested I paid £340 for the 4, I didn't want a cheap set of ditch finders so hopefully these will be ok. I read a auto express review of about 10 tyres and they came pretty low in, that but they should be better the the cheaper variety so I'm pretty pleased with them.

Hi everyone yes very happy the advice, my wife rang them and then they asked to speak to my daughter, asked if she was ok and said if she needed any help or advice just to give them a call. thanks again

thanks Huskoda I was hoping someone with technical knowledge would be on the forum

That's a very subtle but important difference! I will ask her to tell me the story again. I pretty sure they were both stationary and got hit by the third car. but I will double check.

I will get her or my wife to contact the insurerance asap many Thanks

I know there is a similar topic locked on this forum but this ones a bit more complicated. Its only happened this morning and i'm away from home so details are sketchy. My daughter was waiting at traffic lights in shrewsbury when her car was hit pretty hard from the rear, it turns out that it was a taxi driver who had hit her, and had in turn been hit by another driver and the force had pushed him into her corsa. It appears at first inspection to be just a crack in the bumper, The Taxi driver who hit her has said he is going to pay for her damage but what I don't understand is, if he is going to claim off the guy who started the crash why wouldn't he just add Her damage to the claim? or does it not work like that? another issue is she is in her first year of driving and has a black box fitted. Will this have detected the crash and also should she inform her insurance company anyway? I don't know if this changes anything but coincidentally about 4 police cars turned up directly behind the scene to stop a drink driver and one of them asked if she was ok and then went back to the drink driver. Many thanks Tom

I bought my daughter winters because she isn't awesome and I want to sleep at night to be fair she drives very well considering she hasn't been driving a year yet but she drives to work very early in the morning and our road very rarely gets treated in the winter. Also we bought her a 2003 Corsa as a first car and its surprisingly a decent car to drive however the 1.0 litre engine just hasn't got any engine breaking and even I(I 'm not lewis Hamilton or anything) struggle to drive it smoothly into the nasty corners on the B roads near our house. so all that considered I got some to help her drive in the winter, but part of me did wonder am I actually stunting her driving experience by not allowing her to drive on summers for a winter? I know its an odd thought but if she gets in a car with summers on it may be a bit of a shock! anyway she's as safe as I can make her in my budget (warrior armoured fighting vehicle out of my price range) and that's that

I've decided The cross climates are going to be the next tyre for my faithful octavia..just .as soon as my soon as my uniroyal rainsports wear out!

thanks to all I've gone for the continental TS850s with wheels from pneus online £66 a corner all in which i thought was pretty good. i will be able to sleep at night in the winter now Thanks again Tom