Monkhai

In a German court case (and appeal) the court decided when using it the driver had the same responsibilities/liabilities as if using a mobile device. https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-illegal-germany-crashed/ https://www.sbdautomotive.com/en/insight-touchscreen-distraction

Have you say in anID3/Golf mk8/Seat leon with the same system and seen if the bugs are there? I hate the system in all the cars I've tried it in, so I'll probably go out of group for the next car. If it's really that bad, then you have consumer rights, particularly within 6 months, so I'd look to use them. If it's on finance, then you have a few additional options with the finance company. TBH, if it doesn't work and affects the functionality of the car, then you might want to consider rejecting the car as not fit for purpose. I believe (but do check) that if within 6 months, the onus is upon them to prove the fault didn't exist at the time of sale, rather on you to prove it was.

Air return from turbo?

This is the difficult bit, as COVID has totally skewed the numbers. Would I drive more than 100 miles a day back to back, yes very regularly in the past, however now probably less, but when I do drive it tends to be a long drive then another long drive for a few days back to back. Clearly I'm going to need to think hard about how often this will happen and see what DC chargers are available locally, as £20 for a 10-80% after a long journey, then up to 100 overnight can also work. If it's only occasional it's a chaper option, if it's regular it gets very expensive very quick. Cost wide for the three phase connection and small additional charger cost, then you're looking at pay back in 3 years on just the extra power into the car in a 5 hour window, if you need it often enough. Thanks for the reminder on the solar excess too. We're now looking at the viabilities of the batteries of various sizes, to perhaps store some of the excess if it's not enough and then charge from the batteries. Another option vs 3 phase is to charge up a larger battery from solar during the day, top it up from cheap rate at night whilst charging the car, than adding that to the car if you need it outside of cheap rate, but before the sun comes up. It's amazing how complicate this all becomes when you start to (over) think about the options.

I think I’ve resolved a suitable charger purchased direct from an installer rather than tying myself to a companies product. Still on the fence on 1 vs 3 phase, partly on speed but also that you can put a lot more in during a discounted charging at 11/22kW. - 44-88kWh vs 28 in during a 4 hour @ 5p - 55-110kWh vs 33 in during a 5 hour @ 5.5p Question of course, is will I actually use more than 33 with any regularity. Yes then worth it, no then not. Does anyone use solar to charge up the cars as obviously if it’s viable, then money is best spent on more battery capacity. I imagine we wouldn’t get more than 5.5-6kWp of panels on the roof, so that’s a bit 50:50 too.

I’ve just got the enyaq left to drive the EV6 is lovely except for a few pieces of gash white trim/highlights on the dash. The standard stereo on the EV6 isn’t up to the standards of the standard in an octavia either. The fast charging however….

Having a dig a zappi seems a reasonably clever device, especially if coupled with other items from the range. Does anyone know which, if any, if the smart chargers can pause/lower the charge rate to keep the house below 100 amps total?

The connect to solar and active load management might be needed. Finally got a price for three phase, which on the face of it is very reasoanble. Next hurdle is oh no we don't do three phase smart meters currently, so you can't have a car tarrif Debating wether to just pay the capped rate and wait until three phase smart meters happen or just give up, stay single phaase and risk problems in a couple of years when the boiler is replaced with a heat pump.

I've started a thread on home charging options: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/499379-home-charger-options/

Speaking with the dealers it seems most have a deal with podpoint and BP Pulse for home charging points. Both offer 7kW 1Ph and 22kW 3Ph options. At present Podpoint is about £50 cheaper, but BP pulse offer free use of chargers and membership charging rates for 2 years from date of installation. (eg £50 gets you 2 years of cheaper charging rates, and maybe maybe some free slower chargers). Does anyone have any thoughts on which of these companies are best (or any other companies) and if there are any advantages of using the suppliers that the manufacturers have arrangements with or otherwise? General background of plans are below, so then it's a case of if any of the providers work better/worse or have issues with any of the below. Hoping to have a decision on 1/3Ph shortly (if I ever get a quote), so then it's just a case of working out who. I've been pricing up a solar array (probably without batteries at least initially) and we can get a maximum of a 5.5-6kWp array on an east/west split. Not getting a battery just yet as I'm guessing the car can soak up anything we don't use from the solar and the rest can go to hot water. Once we've got a year of real use, maybe add a battery of the appropriate size.

Does anyone know much about the BP Pulse charging or is this better off on a whole seperate thread?

The one that’s leading my search has a 7 year warranty on the battery, others have 5/10. I don’t know what vw group are offering. I don’t think it’s a problem for a lease/pcp and hand back. Besides, when fuel hits £2 a litre and ICE cars are banned from city centres you could claim their values will tank. Right now whichever way you go you run a risk.

I think the issue is it's not just the cost of the petrol/diesel, otherwise I might not bother either. You have the fuel, which is 30-50% more vs public charging and massively more vs home charging. You have the road tax, and a painful first year tax, plus another tax for anything over 40k. Then you have congestion charges, which don't always apply to EV. Then you have pollution taxes (ULEZ), which don't apply to EV Then you have some cities which ban diesels from the city centre all together. Yes EV charging away from home isn't simple... but neither is going into a lot of towns our way any more either.

Tbh… every company should provide a socket on every space even if only 50% can be used at full power at the same time. that solves the issue of charger hogging.

I genuinely hope not, because if they win this year, all the little tantrums, some alledgedly unsportsman like behaviour and a whole pile of excuses could be justified. I just think the behaviour is unbecoming a winning team (Any team).

Chill guys... Long and short it sounds like the ID3 at the dealer was a bad example as in something wasn't right with it. It makes little difference even then as the touchscreen to turn driver things off is just dangerous. If Gizmno can tell of a way to turn things off safely (single press ideally) whilst driving, such as the mental lane assist then that might change my opinions of course

I do agree it's an extra half tonne over the golf, but this one had pretty small discs at the front and what looked like (but may not be) drums at the back. We are comparing against other EV, but we have a couple more to try, so will be able to compare there.

Question is, who would be co-driver for the team? Obviously Mil would be overtake like a king in the 2.0 fabia

Sadly I'm not kidding when I said i felt sea sick

Was that 0.2mm out of spec before or after Verstappen touched it in park ferme?

No, I will admit we didn't as it was a test drive. It would have accounted for the general wobblyness of the feel, but I am not sure it would account for what felt like an underdamped/sprung car under breaking. As the ID3 is aimed more at a city car than a motorway cruiser, I can only think (and could be wrong) that the suspension has been left a bit softer to soak up the bad roads for the high weight. However when you get onto a DC and have to brake hard, the car literally rocked forward then back on stopping like a rocking horse. Interesting to read that, I might see if I can hunt out a max as that was one of the ones we were considering along with the tour. This one wasn't a tour, it was a standard range model. I imagine it didn't help that we've also had a drive of a few others, including the EV6 before hand. Comparing an ID3 to an EV6 and iPace isn't really fair. From the two replied above it does sound like something was not right with the one we drove.

PHEV should really be confined to 3.5kWh or 7kWh chargers as they just don't need anything faster, plus there should be a 1 hour time cap. The battery is likely in the region of 10-20kwH and even though it might be empty the car can move without it I really think anything faster should have a time cap for EV and a very short/more expensive tarrif for PHEV. Whilst I don't have an electric, we see cars in shopping centres plugged in when you arrive and 4 hours later they're still plugged in. Some poor sod in an electric car is looking for a charging point and actually needs it.

We've just driven an ID3 and I have to say, it's the worst "new" car I think I've ever driven if you want to take it out of the city. The suspension left us feeling sea sick as it really struggled to controll the weight of the vehicle, particularly when coming to a reasonably abrupt (but not full) stop. Has the dealer failed to do something/are there options for better suspension or is this a typical setup? SWMBO thought it didn't brake well (She wasn't wrong compared to others), dislike the suspnesion (If I'm honest I didn't believe her until I drove it) and hated the touch screen as she felt it was dangerous. There were too many presses and too much having to look to turn on/off normal features, particularly the I'm going to try and slam you into the debris at the side of the road "lane assist"

There is cleaning of the tanks periodically at least and when times are tight I imagine some skip or extend this out. On an older car I did the fuel filter and found what appered to be sand on the dirty side of the filter along with a very black filter. Admitedly this was a diesel, but even so. My only worry would be a £75 fitted fuel filter issue could quickly turn into a £300+ fitted fuel pump issue. Then again I am very skeptical of anything that claims it's for life.

I think that’s exactly my issue. Fuel quality is generally good, but it only takes one trip to a petrol station which doesn’t maintain its tanks as well as you’d like. These exist in the UK and Europe, and whilst they’re rare I imagine it would mean new pump unit not just an external filter. If the filter is just integrated but can be cleaned/replaced that’s a different story.