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ColinBellsjockstrap

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I couldn't see a dedicated car thread on here, so here it is:-

You can talk about anything car related, anything at all.

I'll start the ball rolling:-

Does anyone drive an electric car, and if so, do you suffer from range anxiety?

What are your views on the new 20mph limits, I've just been on holiday near Bath and they are all over the place....fair enough when kids are coming out of school.

What is your opinion of insurance companies generally?
 
Mine (Mrs H car really) has 4 wheels and gets us from A to B very quickly, this will piss off some as we’ve had it before but it has my wife’s private reg, her abbreviated first name, the year she was born and the first three letters of our surname, bit poncy but nothing to do with me.

I was at a funeral yesterday and an old colleague was there, he’s just bought a Tesla, says he’d no interest in electric cars until he bought it, when he gets out of the car all the lights start flashing, the boot and doors open and it plays Auld Lang Syne! Along with many other things sounds like an incredible driving experience.
 
I do like cars. But they are such a drain when it comes to money. No interest in electric from me so far. And I hate insurance companies. My sons just learning to drive was 17 in October, I reckon its going to cost him 3K plus a year to insure a car when he passes. Bosses at work both have electric audi etron gt. Look smart and apparently are rapid.
 
My missus had a plug in hybrid VW Passat Estate as a company car for about two years. It's range on just electric was rubbish, and it cost an arm and a leg to charge at home. Literally doubled our bills in first six months use.
Luckily, she got a promotion, on a grade where she could opt out of having a company car and get an 'allowance' each month for using our own car. Seeing as she works from home most all days, and if she goes to head office in Edinburgh, or sometimes that London, she gets the train, it's ideal. The tax she was paying as the company car was classed as 'a perk' (but like many, she needed it to do the job) was high, so happily ditched it and went back to a petrol car. A two year old Honda CR-V, which is great to drive and has all the bells and whistles as standard (that aren't in Beemers and Audis etc)

I ditched my car after retiring, just not needed at all.
 
My new wheels:

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ColinBellsjockstrap said:
Does anyone drive an electric car, and if so, do you suffer from range anxiety?
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Yes and no range anxiety whatsoever don’t do big miles these days. As much as I hate to say it, it accelerates like a starship and is effortless to drive, much quicker than my previous car which was no slouch.

If we need to do a long journey we take the wife’s car.
 
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
Looks like great fun. These are invaluable for Farmers rounding up sheep etc. Trouble is they sometimes get a bad reputation due to louts tearing around on them.
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I’ll be riding on the old logging trails and in the middle of the woods. Very much a lout free area.
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I’ll also be using it to rip up tree stumps, move boulders and hopefully put a boat in the lake
 
Barcon said:
My new wheels:

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See the farmers round here on them, even better when there are 2 or 3 Sheep dogs on the back. Scares the crap out of me when I'm following them on the roads just in case one falls off, they never do but it's great to watch them jumping off every 10 yds or so to round up the sheep, like the SAS jumping off a helicopter. I'm sure some of these dogs could drive them.....
 
Tuearts right boot said:
See the farmers round here on them, even better when there are 2 or 3 Sheep dogs on the back. Scares the crap out of me when I'm following them on the roads just in case one falls off, they never do but it's great to watch them jumping off every 10 yds or so to round up the sheep, like the SAS jumping off a helicopter. I'm sure some of these dogs could drive them.....
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I spent the last 5-6 weeks of the summer up north here and saw lots of dogs on the back of them. I’ll be spending all my summers up there from now on in. I better start looking for a dog : )
 
Barcon said:
I spent the last 5-6 weeks of the summer up north here and saw lots of dogs on the back of them. I’ll be spending all my summers up there from now on in. I better start looking for a dog : )
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One went at the farmers market here in town last month....................£28,000 !!!...... for a dog, bought by 3 farmers.
 
1961_vintage said:
I think most people are smart enough to see through the manufacturers WLTP claimed range (ie take off 30%) and the in-car projected range (ie take off 30%).
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I drove a Cupra electric car yesterday.
Although the range when fully charged was a shade under 200 miles, driven normally in B mode,
there wasn't much discrepancy between projected and actual miles and yes, I had the heater, radio and satnav on!
What took some getting used to was the location of the auto gear shift control. Instead of it being between the driver and passenger seats it was tucked away at the rhs of the dash and partially obscured by the steering wheel. Hmmm.
Also there were only 2 window control switches instead of the usual 4. If you wanted to open/close the back windows there is a button marked REAR just behind the 2 window control switches which you need to use.
The satnav/media controls were a bit confusing also.
 
Insurance companies have jumped on the rip off consumers, even more than they normally did, looking at getting a campervan and many people saying they have trebled in insurance costs and if yo7 have a Land drover badge apparently they are really hard or very expensive to insuer now as so many are getting robbed
 
I have driven a BMW 5 series for a few years. There is a stick on the left of the steering wheel that starts a green light flashing if I move it. Anyone know what it it or why I have a green flashing light on the dash when I move it?
 
RadcliffeRick said:
I have driven a BMW 5 series for a few years. There is a stick on the left of the steering wheel that starts a green light flashing if I move it. Anyone know what it it or why I have a green flashing light on the dash when I move it?
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That's the special edition model you've got. German manufacturers don't usually include them in the models that are built for the RHD UK market.
 
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I would like a bit of help,
I have a 2003 mitsubishi montero IO 4x4, (pajero in the uk?). I need a new headlight, right hand side. could anyone tell me the part no ? and what other models where fitted with this same light fitting? would help a lot
 
I gey a £10k pa car allowance for my Jon. Got a diesel Merc which is nice enough.

If I move house soonish I might actually get a bike for a bit of fun on. Nowhere to park it right now.
I'd need to get a licence first thou.
 
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