Recent content by BrianG

How to swap an HV battery

No this is ridiculous, all that is needed is a bracket. I am having the same trouble!

I view it as success when I am 3 miles from home and the GOM goes to 3 dashes! I have an early ZS, with the 42 KW battery and it is perfectly feasible to do more than 300 miles in a day. In fact with all the new charging facilities that are going in I would have no issues attempting a 450 mile...

Is there a bump in the road? I have an issue caused by someone bashing the front of my car. The no. plate has a crease across it and it must have had a fair wallop but the brackets holding the radar gadget are now broken. The rest of the front has stood up to what must have been a fair old bash...

The roads are broken. I don’t remember so many rough roads in all my life. I travel mainly in Hants but they are beyond disgraceful. As for spares, you would think they would be shipping plenty over. With their sales figures now so high and not a massive variety of cars it ought to be easy!?

Unfortunately they are building 200 houses on the Longbridge site, I have read.

Ah that reminds me, don’t rush the start up. That is the way for things to freeze. It isn’t seriously slow but just give things time to boot up in their natural sequence. If things stop, switch off and reboot.

Drive it back where? Whilst the MSA network is severely lacking, there are now plenty of chargers in the UK. I shudder to think what it was like 3 years ago but now the problem is finding them because the signage is not as bold as petrol stations.

I think it is very good. Of course I paid only £23,500 for mine, it was in the first batch. So really good value for money. When you look at the components they look as though they are from the same bin as VW. The early write ups by the motoring press showed them all up to be winkers , they were...

Hi Guys. I am afraid you need to do a bit more digging. Ofgem gave permission for the DNOs Ito invest in power supplies to most MSAs in August 2021. It is the DNOs that are dragging their heals. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2021/05/dno_green_recovery_scheme_decision.pdf I...

Had my ZS EV for 3.25 years. Initial software updates were buggy but got fixed over 12 months. But I did have one failure. After charging at a Tesco Rapid charger I could not charge at home. Was advised to get the AA out and the guy said that it was obviously a software issue out of AAs ability...

Warm weather and touring type driving, speed kept to 50 mph and below and you can stretch out the time between charging. Previously the best I got was down more or less the same route was 5.7 but in normal mode. I don’t often use Eco mode but there was a fair few motorcycles out and new speed...

Well my ZS v1 got 6.2 yesterday! Hot day and slightly down hill on the A32 which is mainly restricted to 50. That was the screen when I got to Lee on Solent.

You need to download the apps for the different charger owners. Start with ZapMap for what might be a complete list/map but it does contain errors. If you are an octopus energy customer you can pay for charging via your electricity bill. See Electriverse. And remember just 10 minutes charge will...

We started buying estate cars when we had young children. With a couple of years without we went to a Passat estate which my wife drove primarily. She then complained it was too long, and certainly some of the London Boroughs had you because the parking spaces weren't long enough and you could...