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Look at Nokian Hakkapalita tyres and I would advise getting tyres where studs can be added. That way if you drive over and find yourself in need of studs you can get them fitted. I’d advise make sure you have the correct wheel size to allow clearance for snow chains and would take a set. As it’s so warm here compared to there, the Nordic tyres are not particularly suitable for the UK, so you’ll need to change them for any Of K winter that isn’t epically cold. Things to consider would include where you’re driving and can you fit them over there?

All sold, hope you get good use from them Mike 👍

Have a look at the rubber seals on the air vent piping between the dash and doors. Silicon grease spray on a cloth and lightly applied to the rubber seals will help if it’s them.

Price dropped to £200 Confirmation of wheel size at 6Jx16H2 ET48

I’m really hoping when the a6 etron comes out there is a skoda version as a superb..

No, but I can turn off steering assist and lane assist from a single button on the Kia and can select what I want another button to do from a wide range of features. Driver assistance is far from perfect, so you don’t want to take your hands of a steering wheel when fighting the wheel trying to do something stupid.

They’re customisable, which is good. Question is can you set one temperature, one to something else the last to another thing or is it two air fixed. I left skoda for Kia, precisely because of the infotainment mess from the mk8 platform. Turn off auto steering/lane assist was deep in menu, not a button on the wheel. On a test drive on a muddy road the car tried to push the wife into the large bank and kept trying to nudge the car over. Hopefully they learned and have added some sensible and some customisable buttons to the wheel too.

Fixed pricing typo.

Apologies to those asking, life meant I had less time on here. Yes these are still available @simsim and @Nosnx. Updated details in first post, with additional pictures. Wheel tree is for storage of 4 wheels/tyres as shown in picture with 3 on. Wheel tree can be taken apart for easier transport.

Duplicate thread and the other has a reply, so locked this one. Other thread is:

Add a typical solar battery (Powerwall/libbi/Giv AIO) and you’re probably putting 15kWh in to get 13kW back, plus the car. Not such a summer bonus if you have solar, but very hand for a winter’s day. Trading will only get you 13x15p - 15 x 7.5 p = 82.5p, so not hugely work it. if you had a 60kW leaf with v2g you could do 42kWh (7x6= 42) so about £2.40 a day. Guess it’s a degradation question and a would a solar car port generate you more. Where you have solar and a battery and a car though… suddenly you can charge everything overnight to run off cheaper rate during the day and export all your solar.

My suggestion was to remove surface rust , as sometimes the rear brakes do very little under light braking.

As I’ve been posting here I’ve taken a back seat on the thread, but with a mod hat on… please be civil to each other.

Moved it to the classic skoda area though 👍

EV6 GT is limited at about 160-170mph and I take your point about many being fast to 70 and it being over. just looked at the m5 price… you could get an EV and a fun ICE and still have change. When did the prices go north of £100k 😮😮😮

If you charge the car on a plug, and the generator charges a battery below a certain amount it shouldn’t get used that often. A small engine or gas turbine directly runs a generator, the same as the alternator that would be otherwise required. No gearbox or transmission losses would easily save any small loses. As a generator an engine can run at its ideal RPM so would be more fuel efficient than varying revs with load. Finally the weight saving vs directly driven hybrid (mild or otherwise) would only add to efficiency. I believe a number of mild hybrids don’t deliver in the real world also, which suggests a degree of box ticking using 48v and a combined generator/alternator/starter to do some assistance. @Lady Elanore Sadly I’m not sure weight is such so different these days: Newest M5 is a smidge under 2 tonnes and an EV6 AWD a smidge over. https://www.bmw.co.uk/en/all-models/m-models/m5-competition/2020/highlights.html I’m not happy about the trend for fat cars and I miss the control you get from a Manual gearbox, although not currently missing the fuel bills. To be fair I also get irritated by the 101 bongs from driver “safety” systems that are not.

By 2030 I’d expect an electric platform with a generator not an ICE platform with batteries. If you’re currently pulling around a 150bhp petrol engine, a gearbox and a 50L+ fuel tank then there is lots of weight saving easily available. Composite or Aluminium panels hare used, so could be used more to drop more weight. Engines and fuel tanks can be smaller to reduce weight too. 100 miles not real under current testing either, but 80-100 is recharge once a week for many and frankly anything less is really just an ICE most of the time so shouldn’t be sold. EV manufacturers need to look at weight and efficiency too, 3.5 is an ok start, but 4.5 is better for m/kWh. I want an EV that can do a real 400 miles, but I’d rather it came with a 75kWh battery than a 100kWh as it’s cheaper to run. Less weight means better handling too 👍

I’ve seen the clip but no never driven one. Are they any good if you have?

Mild hybrid seems like a joke engine driven hybrid is pointless as you’re carrying a gearbox and drivetrain. For me hybrids should be electric drivetrains, could be petrol/gas even diesel generators and should be able to plug in and charge (AC only) with an electric only range of say 100 miles or 33% of range (whichever is higher). Possibly even a limit on the weight of the engine/fuel side of it to stop companies dropping in a v6 a big fuel tank and a tiny battery.

Van they could probably even stretch to larger capacity say 100kWh standard and 150kW LR both on 350Kw capable platforms. weight/cost would be a factor of course. 400 miles is a car is probably 250 in a van so 250 to 375 mile ranges (at a price) would likely clean up as Citroen/Peugeot vans.

That 98kWh model would be interesting, particularly if it has 800v batteries.

My hope is that the rapid chargers are free and working. The 350s seem to better than most, but far from perfect. Presently I assume no destination charging, but it’ll be nice if every parking space got 16/32 Amp type 2. Hydrogen fuel cells have worked for a long while, it’s the infrastructure that needs to catch up in the Uk (Familiar theme) Your point of doing it right first time is one view, the other would be regular smaller steps to get benefit as quickly as possible. Ability to recharge is a headache for many, so taking petrol/diesel and replacing it with hydrogen is a step. Fuel tax at two rates one for green a much higher for blue should help. I agree neither are perfect, my preference is getting people off ice ASAP.

Older cars are targeted by organised criminals to sell for spare parts. There’s huge demand for used parts for less than new, so they Nick the popular older cars and flog them as parts. Cleaned money. In Birmingham they’re even taking parts off cars whilst parked up for a few hours to sell.

@Graham Butcher i think you’ll find we all got confused by the fiesta comment. If you’d just said something like wouldn’t thieves target large numbers of parked up EV regularly left overnight we might have got your point.

The fiesta isn’t electric, what did I miss? Thieves steal stuff… in other news the world is round, the pope is catholic and bears xxxx in the woods.