Monkhai

Checked and mine doesn’t stop when start stop kicks in off 47. The wiper doesn’t stop either. Are you only connecting to a switched live? If so a small suitable smoothing capacitor in line might be enough to deal with voltage drop issues. Have to stay it doesn’t sound like that if it goes off.

Piggyback the rear wiper circuit? I want to say fuse 47 as I think I used , but I can’t fully remember. Pretty certain I used 40 and 47, one being the lighter socket and the other the rear wiper.

Take an old memory module out and find the sticker on it. Take a picture of the sticker and post it up here. Also any reason you're trying to save an SX... if it was a DX I'd understand

Out of interest, those who have problems with the prestone, is it the yellow or the blue (colder temperature) one that they see issue with? I only use the concentrates and have mostly used the blue, so when I finish the yellow it will be interesting to see.

Ouch. You are of course correct that I'm not aware with the system, however that sounds like a right mess. With the above, I would probably then set up a central scottish API, to allow common payments/accounts etc, let the councils do their own maintainance agreements and installations and specify that to get central money/tax discounts then it must work with the interface. You'd probably get some competition, others replacing the broken chargers with their own so they can easily maintain them. From what you're saying it sounds like the one company having everything and almost nothing to lose isn't working.

Current large family car, with a big heavy diesel in it, 1.5 tonne. Any new similar sized EV with decent range (300 miles +) is upwards of 2 Tonne. I'd like to be wrong, so if you can point to a less than 2 tonne, greater than 300 mile replacement EV car (Octy Sized) , I'm all ears. Chicken and egg sadly.

I wonder if that Honda BOC site is still there now the factory is closed 😕

Shut it down as a company and let everyone go, then sell the infrastructure as an asset to whichever company pays the public purse the most? If you sell groups of a popular and a couple of less popular one and dish them out to multiple companies that’s even better. Cruel, but it’d deal with TUPE if staff are really as bad as is being said. Essentially shut it down and asset strip it.

Maybe they should have included fiddling with stupid touch screen in car controls as something that wasn't permitted.

I'm waiting for somebody to fin or liquid cool the motor on an EV, upgrade the cabling and turn up the current. Thing is they're so quick already, why bother. For EV I can see the mods in making it handle . Saying that with £50k for a family car, you think the manufacturers could do a bit of weight saving too, to try and up the range and handling. Of course having 1 tonne of batteries in a car is always going to mess things up a bit and I do like the idea of hydrogen fuel cells rather than batteries. If they come up with a cheaper, less nasty battery tech, which is energy dense and environmentally handy with a good life then you're onto something.

I think any cheap screenwashes where there isn't enough alcohol, or where people run very dilute concentratiuons or even water in the summer can cause problems with scum build up. That being said I've used VW, sonax, Vauxhall, halfords advance concentrated, autoglym, the blue prestone from costco and also the yellow one when it was needed in a hurry and can't say I've had any problem with any of them. I used to live in very hard water areas and now live in soft and the only thing I found in hard water was that some of the cheaper ones (non VW) did allow the hard water deposits to build up on the fan jets, which then had to be cleaned out with vinegar etc. I also keep a bottle of the 100:1 sonax in the car for emergencies, but that's only summer grade and gets a splash of something winter rated in it as soon as I get home/to somewhere that sells it.

If they serviced the fuel filter, I would think maybe a trainee (hopefully not an experienced tech) removed the clip, got stuck and forgot about it when going to get help. The other option is that clips can break, albeit it would be extremely rare. For example if a lug opened up. That or it’s just hanging on the lower end of the pipe.

I don’t think it’s attractive, but it’s not unattractive. There are a few other cars I like the look of a lot more, but they use more power to do less miles and lack 800V charging.

I was ready to go on an EV6 but decided to wait 3 months as everyone is releasing new EV/refreshes. Most EV at the moment have a compromise on handling/ride, range, charging speed or just how it feels when you’re sat it it. The EV6 was far ahead, but this is another “it’s there but doesn’t work yet” feature. Glad I’m waiting until 2022 now. 👍

It’s fair to say this question has been asked by the OP and answered before.

I'm told the EV6 has pre-conditioning (by two dealers), so can you give me a heads up as to if it's not there or there but not working? Certainly the car has heaters in the battery pack and so everything is there for it. Admittedly I'm looking at heat pump equipped cars, but it would be good to know.

I mean it's tempting and when they ban new petrol and diesel cars, it'll keep going strong for years.

Also how do you get them out? Any instructions/pictures. Edit, actually just realised your first picture is from a video by truckers on the net. Be interesting to see how mucky car headlights get.

Have to say, if a car can't cope with all the lights being on, whilst the engine is running, then it probably shouldn't be on the road. That is after all it's default state on the road, which could include them all being on.

I'd be tempted to swap out the headlights to the correct bulbs and have a look at the rear brakes/handbrake and if you find nothing amis then take it to the local council MOT centre for a second opinion. They don't do repairs so have nothing to gain from failing you.

Many of the policies I see are up to X* Where the * denotes it is unlimited or a higher amount if factory fit equipment. Worth checking to see if there is such an exception on yours?

Fixed that for you 😂😂😂

I’ve hidden your email address so you don’t get a torrent of spam mails. People should be able to reply on thread or send you a personal message (PM) on the forum and you can always share your email on PM if needed👍

I’m the first to admit I don’t like verstappen (or Hamilton much). However letting only enough cars through, so the car on brand new soft tyres could have a go at the car on 40 lap old hard tyres… That was plain wrong. Either let non through or all. If none had gone, then I still think max would have been on him at the end, but it would have been fair.

…. Well that descended rapidly!