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Now you're really clutching at straws, Graham.

Exactly that. The Boomtown festival I mentioned in 2016. Very few, if any, EVs. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boomtown-fair-music-festival-fire-hampshire-evacuated-80-cars-destroyed-a7189156.html This video was originally about breaking the transmission of Corona but I guess it could equally apply to cars catching fire in close proximity to each other. Snapinsta.app_video_754C3BB044ACB73BEFC63CD2A4FD7E96_video_dashinit.mp4

A few years ago at the Boomtown festival in Hampshire dozens of cars caught fire after just one caught fire. It's the proximity to each other not the propulsion type. Very few, if any, were EVs.

One day people will realise my username is @Lee so to tag me it's @@Lee If people think they've tagged me and I'm being rude for not replying it's because they tagged the wrong user. My At-At gif profile pic wasn't an accident. The actual @Lee is gonna one day wake up to a **** ton of notifications. Funnily enough I once met him and he also had a blue Rapid. But his was from the 80s and had a Rover K series engine in it. 🤣 Android 11 from 2020. Still one of the most popular versions I believe. I've had no problems with any apps including the Ookla speed test app I reinstalled tonight to get that screenshot. Carista updated the last month when I needed it after not using it for a few years. NHS app still works as does my HMRC account app. Both banking apps fine SM apps fine etc etc. Obviously mine is still more than just a phone and a camera. After I leave my laptop in the evening it's my means of surfing, shopping on Amazon etc and even streaming direct to the TV. Nothing that worked when I first bought it doesn't still work now. It's not slow either. I once had forty odd tabs in the Chrome browser in the background. Personal info redacted

Never had to use an app anywhere to park tbh not even in Hamburg. I've never had an issue with my UK phones internet speed either tbh on EE. Pixel 2 XL was bought in the UK in 2016. As you can see, no WiFi on and 4g. 70Mbps (88 combined) isn't too bad IMHO. More than enough to stream in 4K. Not that I use it much now there's roaming charges. I was curious and that's actually slightly better than I get on my more modern German SIM mobile.

I've only paid to park in Germany a handful of times in almost five years. Most parking spaces are on an honour system. You place your 'Ankunftszeit karte' (arrival time card) in the window and you get 1, 2, 3 hours free parking in most places. Then there's parking in shopping centres where you take a card from the ticket machine on entry. If you make a qualifying purchase in any shop you ask them to validate your parking and then it's free. Fines for overstaying/ not displaying your card are relatively low. I think last time I was robbed of a whopping €5 🤣

Yep. Niche Japanese maker. Was watching something about them a couple of months ago onTV I think but forgot which programme. Top Gear maybe 🤔 Sorry that was replying to @StevesTruck

Why RTFM when you can go on Brisky and get twenty different people's interpretation of what it says @toot only Skoda I had with no alarm button on the B pillar is a MkI Fabia though I think you could disable it with the key fob or it might have been VagCom / VCDS but never had cause to so I'm not 100% now. Only used the button once on a ferry from Harwich to Esbjerg in SWMBO's Yeti. No idea if it worked or not as I was about four decks above the car.

Search through projects using BossFox as one of your search terms. IIRC he had a go at building a MkI Fabia AWD and abandoned the project. It was a good few years ago now so my memory of it may not be 100%. I believe it was just too damned difficult.

MkII Fabias are awful when it's raining. Opening the window more the a few mm and the water pours in.

OMG this is terrifying about electric vehicles. Just look at this. Five hybrids and two full EV burning. Obviously it's battery relat.... Oh. Dodgy car transporter. https://www.tag24.de/thema/feuerwehreinsatz-heute/flammen-inferno-auf-a5-bei-lahr-brandneue-autos-auf-transporter-brennen-lichterloh-2971731

That's exactly how small residential streets/ roads with traffic calming (and not necessarily Cul-de-Sacs) are here in Germany. As you enter you'll have a blue sign informing you there may be children playing in the street. Max speed is walking pace IIRC. As you leave the sign below will have a red diagonal line through it to inform you that you're leaving the zone. We live in one and it's no big deal.

Yes, well aware thanks but last I read the other week in the Times it was 'up to' £4 for cars.

Oh I'm well aware of them. TBH I don't think that done correctly having your basic needs within walking distance is a bad idea either. I'm also aware that too many folk out there seem to think it's some conspiracy to control the masses and keep them fenced in and surveilled. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/15-minute-city-conspiracy-theory-essex-county-council-1.6808005

Roads in the UK are not the domain of road vehicles and never have been. (Motorways excluded) Pedestrians have priority. This isn't anything new. Fifteen minute cities? What YouTube rabbit holes have you fallen into?

Pedestrians have priority. A rule which too many folk seem to have forgotten.

Too early to be called conclusive but encouraging early data from Wales https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-20mph-speed-limit-working-27779212?fbclid=IwAR30LHT25LonVPwjkJk_lzP_89bnTJ-l3EmyJGWsc0bxLGWrQ-y5dlYsYCI Just to clarify; there is no 'blanket ban' on 30mph areas. It's absolute horse kaka from Sunak. Same spin he threw out the other day about no meat taxes. He was just making things up and claiming to scrap policies that weren't even policies nor planned to be. Now he's claiming he'll end the 'war on motorists'. IMO, this is electioneering spin so maybe make sure you're registered to vote.

@Graham Butcher Colin from Portsmouth is a parody of people who say things like 'what next, people with red flags walking in front of motor cars'. Graham, no. People won't be walking in front of motor cars with red flags. Don't be so daft.

No. Are you Colin from Portsmouth?

I'd agree if there was a 'blanket 20mph' but there isn't. Even Sunak had to lie about it. No great shocker there mind. hewitson10_720p_20230930_020042.mp4

WD-40 is a water displacement product made of various chemicals including light oils and paraffin. As we all know, oils and fats congeal over time. More so in colder climes. That's why it's far better to use the other products mentioned above when dealing with a frozen door lock. That said, we had -18°C here a couple of years ago and my Rapid opened first push of the remote fob. No products necessary. With all that said, what can you even do with WD-40 other than squirt a bit in the keyhole which isn't even where the actual locking mechanism is? Even using the straw through the gap in the door would be almost pointless IMO.

I've only started reading this topic in the past few months and didn't start at the beginning. It's 72 pages long now and you know what? I still don't know what the truth about electric cars is other than they don't use an internal combustion engine (Hybrid excluded)

Only if it's a Fiat Coupe 20 valve turbo which actually beat a Ferrari 348. I doubt a Fiat Dupla could be classed as a Fiat in affordable trim.

An outdated trope IMO. Same as the old tropes about Skoda being skips or having heated rear screens to keep your hands warm.

Electric scooters only have two wheels an China's been pumping those out like no one's business. Are they included in the figures distorting them? Perhaps keep numbers to EV mortorcycles, cars, RVs, SUVs and anything HGV chassied such as buses, HGV's, etc?