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My wild guess is that it might be a sticking relay, but I'd expect that to affect both headlights. So the next wild guess would be the electronics in that headlight. Probably an expensive repair, hopefully under warranty.

Yes, but after completely draining the 12V battery, there can be some wrinkles. Firstly, some 12V chargers might refuse to charge the battery if the voltage is very low, say less than 6V. I have a lab power supply that doesn't care how low the battery voltage is, but many owners won't have one...

I don't believe that it's practical to replace an EV auxiliary battery with a leisure / deep cycle battery. Deep cycle batteries tend to come with threaded studs rather than automotive posts. The whole idea of deep cycle batteries is to supply low currents for many hours. They are not supposed...

Sorry for the rather late reply. I'm about to replace my MG4's auxiliary battery, not because it seems to be directly causing any issues, but because the car has 5 annoying warnings on every start-up, including "Adaptive Cruise Control not available", and someone here said that their similar...

Yes, the M is a multiplier, not a unit. All the big (>1) multipliers are capitalised, M, G, T, E etc, except for 'k' for kilo. All the small (<1) multipliers (m, μ, p etc) are lower case.

I haven't changed mine yet, but I've figured out that it will come out without removing that bar (albeit with some effort) towards the front of the car once the cover (or froot/frunk if you have one) is removed. It's just 6 of those "Christmas tree clips". This reveals a largish space in front...

A total eclipse of the heart🎵 moon. Southern hemisphere only, or parts thereof. Blood red moon.

Moon in totality. (In great south)

For a while I thought it was one athlete in a motion capture suit transmitting to multiple robots. And that may be so for the first segment where the robots all did the exact same thing, including one very slight misstep at the end of one sequence. But in later parts they'd have to have...

Is it this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Burnham A sensible, moderate republican? But my understanding of the US system is that after the vice president, the presidency goes to various elected officials. You can't install someone as president that wasn't elected to...

37.7°C here around 3pm. Nothing like what @T1 Terry has experienced, but very hot for us. It was forecast to be the hottest day this century for Brisbane.

No, eZS is an enthusiast written app for Android only. Search the Google app store for eZS if you have an Android phone.

Ok, slightly out of context quote. But I wonder if drivers will get tired of the car having less peak power at low states of charge. As the sodium cells seem to go down to less than half voltage at low SoC. More flux weakening will be needed to buck the motor's back EMF down to the low battery...

Any idea why neutral "gear" makes such a difference?

I have it on my ZS pre facelift when reversing down our sloped carport. Someone said try using neutral. This makes no sense to me, but it cuts down the squealing dramatically, about 90%. So I do this all the time on the carport now. I also found that when the brakes are wet from washing the...