Recent content by Bluesparky

if your tyres were cold, the pressure may have dropped to 1.9, driving will heat them up and the pressure will rise again. Mine dropped from 2.3 to 1.9 when it was 0 degrees.

seems a bit of a step backward

WOW, how long is your charge lead, where do you lose 1kw ????, A 7kW charger is generally 7.4kW, there shouldn't be virtually any loss going to the car. I regularly do the maths of charge given, mileage gained, time on charge, cost of electric used etc etc and the figures work out pretty exact...

our insurance renewal for end of January went from £297 last year to £697, got a quote from LV (got house insurance with them), they quoted £489, tried a comparison site, out of 72 results the lowest was £489 (not LV). So will be going with LV.

seems people make the answer more complicated than necessary, simple maths, the KW you are pumping in multiplied by the hours on charge = the total charge given. Therefore rounding off the figures for simplicity, a 7kw charger charging for 10hours will give 70KW, if you have a 70kw battery thats...

wouldn't recommend a 3.4kw charger in the UK, have seen the ones on UK eBay that say 3.6kw, a bit worrying when the maximum size fuse for a plug top is 13amps. 3.6kw is 15.6 amps, would definitely run hot and most likely melt the plug if they are truly over 3kw, I'm guessing the figures are...

the battery is under warranty, my electric is free via solar, there's enough stress in life without worrying about kw and battery charge percentages, all I know is, I used to spend £80 a month on diesel & £700 per year on road tax, now I spend £0000

I'll never forget Ford calling me when my van was in for a service, "your brakes pads are 60% worn, would you like them replaced?", my reply was " so you're telling me my brake pads have almost 50% pad left?, I don't think they need replacing , do you?" , they all try it on because too many will...

Even more blatant although I didn't go for it. When my car went in for its first service at 2 years old, 12000 miles, mg quoted £487, when I questioned why so high for a car without an engine , they said they could take off the AC service, I said still high, so they took off the brake service...

export tarriff is not worth the extra money to go MCS if you can install yourself, I installed a 5kw system, cost less than £4000, payback is less than 2 years, yes I give some back to the grid occasionally but will install batteries now you can get 10kw storage system that will pay for itself...

gen 1, 12 months, no reliability or build issues

not had any issues with apple CarPlay using a lead in our ZS, but my peugeot which also connects via a lead became unusable when I installed a peugeot app on my phone, deleted the peugeot app and apple CarPlay is fine again.

I have a 5kw system, used zappi to charge from 100% solar yesterday and got 20kw, would have got more but the car was fully charged by then. Car is at home most daytimes so 99% of the time it is only charged via solar. Two reasonably sunny days will charge it from flat to 100% easily, could...

When I booked our ZS ev 2021 in for its first service (went in today) they quoted £487, I questioned why it was so expensive and they removed an AC service and brake service (car only done 14,000). and quoted £287. Before taking it in to the dealers, they wanted us to check it in online, which...

had an issue with my first zappi suddenly not charging or only charging a few percent, was a software issue, software refused to acknowledge there was newer downloads so would not update, myenergi sent a new zappi and been fine ever since