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Still an absolutely insane £3,000. But I’d love them!

£3,500?!?!?! Holy feck!!!

Yeah. Well, that’s not true. Oh did I say I “do it all day”? I don’t and it doesn’t. Really? Who told you that then? How many F1 drivers do you know, or have even had a conversation with? I know two and have met at least 10 others and not one of them have said they get “used” to the acceleration, the braking and cornering abilities and the speed, far from it in fact. They all say you have to have the utmost respect for the car or it’s performance will bite you. “…..the relatively slow 276bhp Superb 4x4” Really? Relative to what? A Tesla Dual Motor in Ludicrous mode? A Bentley Conti GT perhaps? Or a Ruf GTR? As I’ve pointed out before, “the relatively slow 276bhp Superb 4x4” is faster to 60 than a 289 AC Cobra and it is a £38k mass produced 5 door car. It’s performance which could only been achieved from a super car 20 years ago and just dreamt about for a “normal” vehicle which a salesman, bank worker or teacher could buy; it’s plenty fast enough for me.

Most of my driving is 6 mile round trip twice a day and a few longer urban runs. I’m getting an average 27.7 over 783 miles. When we did a trip to Ireland last year, we averaged 36.6 over 1,400 miles. But what you won’t get on the 1.5 is 276bhp in front of you, put down to all four wheels and the big grins that can deliver!

They’ve never been up for replacing trim under warranty. That fact is, they’d all be failing if it was down to detergent damage, so no, it’s a manufacturing fault, pure and simple.

🙄 Sigh…. you still don’t know what you’re talking about.

Well, I think I would. I got one from Vredestein when I had an issue with sidewall collapse and they paid compensation.

Oddly, just because you haven’t see it, doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened as, believe it or not, you are not the worlds leading authority on tyre wear, construction and destruction.

Yeah, as you point out, your experience is far, far worse than mine. I’d be getting onto Pirelli about them TBH.

Just goes to show the MoT test has too many areas which are open to interpretation. Our P7’s have 31,178 miles on them from new and they all have cracking around the outside edge of the tyre. Passed the MoT without an advisory 10 days and 34 miles ago, and they are very tough. In spite of protestations from another member recently, they still have at least 10k miles in them; no idea if they’ll start delaminating before then, but whoa betide Pirelli if that should happen.

I like DCC. Didn’t pay for it as such as it’s an L&K so it was standard and I bought the car from a Briskodian so he’d taken 45% depreciation. I especially like Comfort on motorways and sport on quick B roads, but like you, Normal is exactly that.

I’ve used a CTEK M5.0S for more than 5 years, first on out MKI for four years and then on our 280 for the past six months and it works fabulously.

Taking a crowbar is far too drastic for my liking. Like everything, the position one sits in the driving seat be comes habitual. So I purposely moved the position of my ar$e over to the left by about 10mm each time I got in the seat and that fixed my similar issue.

Yes, you absolutely do not know what you’re talking about.

1. Well, that's actually just your inexperience causing you to spout such nonsense. 2. Well, that's a pretty dumb and wholly inaccurate analogy 3. 0316

Hardwired our Nextbase cam via the fuse box behind the glovebox. Placed the cable behind the airbag on the A Pillar, under the headliner to the smart assist camera housing and then to the dashcam. No ferrite core needed and no DAB interference issues whatsoever.

I replaced the standard bulbs with these last year. They’re excellent.

^^^^ Correct on both points. The car I mentioned above was stationary.

The P7’s on our 280 are exactly the same as Danoids and it passed the MOT last Saturday without any advisories. It’s annoying, given there is probably another 10k in them.

Manoeuvre Assist certainly works on ours. It once stopped me from rear ending a car when I was completely distracted.

I removed mine as I couldn’t stand all the badges. There was some shadowing left but they were gone in a couple of mins with the DA, Dodo Juice min cut compound and an ultra fine black pad. .

Thanks for your contribution too…🙄

I’d find out if it can be spec’d as you want it first and then make a decision. What do you have to lose?

Appalling. Don’t give up, keep pushing them for goodwill. Has it always been main dealer serviced? What dealer are you using? If they’re not playing ball, call them out and SUK on Twitter, FB, LinkedIn. And write to your MP.

It’s not going to log anything; what would the point? They cannot give the data to Policing, that’s for sure and it will be one of the four systems to switch it off. Easy-peasy. I certainly wouldn’t let that put me off.