Content by decrep in February, 2026

That's where "spend a penny" came from.

Did I say I wasn't confused??? Couldn't figure out how to add up 9, $2 coins the other day, had a feeling it wasn't $1.80 but $18.00 just seemed too high, had to ask my wife, and between us we figured it out. This getting old lark is not what it's cracked up to be. And I think T1 is just after...

Are you confused again? securespark was talking about ACC, Adaptive Cruise Control, not Air Con

I don't have personal experience yet, but the number of ancient bad drivers on the road indicates out test isn't that severe. There's instances, of " if you only drive short distances close to home. you'll be OK" Aren't a lot of prangs close to home??? Perhaps that's why.

Nah, Did she hit anything? No -- tick

Well that's a point, my assumption because they appeared straight after your post, was that they were in answer to you could be wrong, maybe they were answering an earlier question somewhere. In which case I apologise to them for attributing confusion to them. It's only theory on my part, but...

Intermittent faults are a nightmare, fault codes just point in a direction, very detailed knowledge of what's in that direction is needed to predict what could have caused the fault code. It could mean hours of work pulling things apart to get to the bottom of it. Dealers just aren't equipped to...

weird isn't it? I thought it was obvious what you meant from the start, surprised to see all the answers telling you how to improve your efficiency. But I thought confusion didn't just creep in. it flooded.

See what I mean here's another one misunderstood you

Mr Spark, I think your use of "pull up" is confusing people, they think you mean "increase" so you aren't getting answers to your question. Sorry I can't help either, but it would be nice to know.

My wife is 81 with a crook knee. She says the wide sill is the worst aspect of the car, but doesn't really complain about it, not a big deal for her.

Had a good session yesterday. improved the nautical mile by a knot, which didn't help, I need another knot or 2). Improved the distance 10km, and moved up 1. I was hoping for the 50km, but the wind really kicked in and I was buggered and in survival mode, so went with sensible option and left it...

OK, here's the kicker. I remember watching Rose Marie with my Mum https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028207/ I remember the song, but not the plot, probably because Mum was always singing it, wouldn't be surprised if we also had the 78 for the wind up gramaphone.

how about Mick and Mockmerensy, good old Charlie Drake. Did anybody see' "The Plank", a young Joanna Lumley was in it, just a silent walk by.

In my case they want to hire somebody that charges a fortune, steps in the middle of the tiles and breaks a few

I'm not old, but this body is, along with it's brain. That's the problem, you go to do something you've always done, and the body can't cope. And the people at work telling you, you're too old to get up a ladder or climb on the roof. But what really drives it home, is when you try to sail...

I have a different perspective. I'm naturally a trial and error DIY innovator, I'm not good at maths, and have little design skills. Some of my mates have 3D printers, use their computers to design stuff and print it out. All totally beyond me. I'd like to go back to a time where I could be at...

I think it depends, on the usage, for long distances with no regen advantage not so good, but short distances will be better than pure petrol, and if you only do long trips occasionally. you'll end up better in the end with no range anxiety

If done right it seems a hybrid is more economical that straight petrol because it has regen. And in some places like remote WA where it's hundred of km between anywhere, range anxiety in a BEV is very real. I agree it doesn't make a lot of sense where there's public charges everywhere.

Had my first service Tuesday, and that's after 2 years here, for $347.00

I suspect we have more Govt control, there'd be political fallout. WA has often done things differently, we had a local gas reserve many decades ago, that was condemned by the Eastern States at the time.

Hope we don't follow suit!!!

No more guesses, so Terry wins, it was 1.3MWh

Had my service today, they had a brand new Cyberster for $124K, drooled a bit, then thought, "NAH"

Can you make chocolate ginger? Or another of our fancies that's hard to get now, chili chocolate?

Of course, makes sense. No very little battery goes into the EV, that only happens when we need to do a calibration charge twice a year and run out of solar. 1.5MWh and 1.4MWH are getting close, can anybody do any better?

Wouldn't be surprised if somebody' trying to, we have a great range of climates here, if cocoa beans need tropical we have plenty of that.

Yep, 10kWh battery 5kW export limit. But isn't this just how much solar we get? Not what happens to it.

I don't know how to do just Jan, so I've done a month, it's half Jan half Feb

Bought a packet from Gilberts this morning, going to be opened with Milo for supper.

OK it's a challenge, have a guess, closest wins, only bragging rights for a prize. I guess it's fair to give something to go by. We have a 9.x kW array. but only a 5kW inverter.

Guess you don't want to see my Jan numbers?

Over here I think it's mainly the Bathurst, but since the Ford/Holden rivalry has gone, I don't know how it's going.

Clouds are definitely a blanket! clear nights are much colder than cloudy nights. However, clouds also reflect the suns rays back into space, so you get cooler days. I don't know what the net effect is. I have a feeling humidity level, (water vapor in the air with out cloud formation) has little...

Super glue surely?

Looks computer generated to me, those guys probably had nothing to do with it.

My surf wagon only works when I don't want it to!

Nah, that tricks for mango smoothies

We don't do consecutive days, usually Wed and Sat. you don't need to get too hungry.

You have to watch auto pilot! I do tend to indulge a bit between fasting days. But today I had one banana for breakfast. there will be light lunch, and Dot will probably make soup for dinner.

I confess, my wife introduced me to iced coffee on a stinking hot day last week. Great drink when it's pushing 40C, especially with a big dollop of icecream!

Yep, easy to do, must admit I feel a bit guilty about our overseas trip, but that's no reason not to buy an EV. It does sound a bit hypocritical, but it's an apple and orange thing, buying an EV, (if you can afford it, is no hardship, but missing out on a bucket list holiday is something else...

No particular diet as such, just reducing calories to 500 - 600. Here's the University of Sydney's take on it. The Healthy 5:2 Diet

The thing with the 5 - 2, it puts the body into a different mode, it uses, the bad stuff previously stored, just cutting down food intake generally doesn't do that.

Best I achieved, about 10 years ago, was going to the 5 - 2 diet, semi fasting 2 days a week, after a month I'd gone from 75kg to 62kg. felt terrific, heaps of energy. But been slack with the diet lately and not as much exercise, gone back up over 70kg. Not a lot of energy anymore, but that...

That's the sort of water I love to sail on, but it's hard to find when It's blowing 20kts!

You can have some of mine!

I think they are removed for shipping, then they aren't tightened properly before delivery.

I was waiting for the double declutch at some corners, change down about 3 gears, didn't happen when I was watching, got bored and turned off. I think me 2l 1974 Alfa GTV sounded nicer, certainly louder.

I have heard, that when parts are in very short supply, the service people may sometimes swap the good part out from a new customer and put into one that's been waiting for a while. With any luck they can continue doing this for a while, and keep charging for a new part that only gets used...

spending money needlessly is never a good option

Have to agree wholeheartedly, you have to live life while you can, postpone anything, and your likely to miss out. Waiting till you retire is a classic,

The beauty of the 4, it's so versatile, you can drive it smoooth and slow, or fast and furious. It does either mode very well. Whatever you do experiment with OPD, you just may fall in love with it like I did

I took the 4 for a drive today to test a couple new GPSs, found a few excuses to stay on the road a bit longer, just love driving this car.

I guess I'm just a control freak, but I have a lot of trouble being comfortable with anything that wants to take over from me. Hate ACC hate LKA, hate Windows, hate Macs, hate commercials, I'm sure the list goes on. I'd probably be an anarchist, but there's too many problems with that.

I've been trying to lower our carbon footprint for a long time but a BEV was financially out of our reach, until the MG4 came along. Now we are fully solar with house battery. I'm getting closer. As a HUGE bonus, It's fantastic to drive, wife loves it (really her car). Financial considerations...

That's exactly what I have now, not updated since Feb 23. Mine is going in for a service later this month, and they say they'll update the LKA thing, I'll know more after that.

Are sheep involved as much?

Another weird one! I've used remote climate control, but only opened with the fob, which worked OK

Thanks PeteC, that's cleared that up, I'll give it a try myself later. I guess there's an optimum level of power and braking that does a good clean without stressing anything. I'm guessing it would be safe to keep power under 10???????

Had a nice phone call with Melville MG. Michelle assures me they can do the LKA software fix under warranty. Just have to drive to Perth in rush hour, that won't be pleasant!

Some of us like to be able to drive like that, without messing about with the screen to turn LKA off

If you are correct, that means we can't assume any behaviour is consistent over the range.

Woops!!!! Silly old fart time, @ReintjeWA has put me wise, there's more than the John Huges dealers around, I'll rung around Monday, I'm more than prepared to go somewhere more profesional. Back tomorrow with results.

Thanks mate. Silly old fart, I thought John Huges was the only MG agent. I'll give Wangarra a ring and see what they say.