Recent content by Kithmo

You can, but they only insure it for the market value at the time you take out the insurance. So if you rely on your car insurance policy giving you new for old for the first year then take out GAP for the second year the Gap will cover the cost of a 1 year old car.

How to overcome seat belt warnings and associated problems. ;)

FWIW, the car will automatically put the parking brake on when you leave the seat.

And a seat belt cutter. (y)

I initially thought mine was developing the broken button fault reported on here by a few members. Until it started working the next day. Then because it worked faultlessly for quite a while until the second time and has worked faultlessly since (about 8 months) I assume it's just one of those...

Ah yes, now I've had another look, it does say the vehicle starts etc. TBH I never noticed it, didn't it say something similar on the old version ?

No, mine's working ok ATM.

Or contact cleaner maybe ?

My guess is it may be trying to tell you your 12v is low.

Mine's done it a couple of times on the drivers door, I didn't try the other door at the time, but it started working again the next day.

That looks like the 30 second auto lock feature to me, which shouldn't engage after opening the boot. I tried unlocking mine, without opening a door, but opened the boot to chuck the key in and the car didn't auto lock. I also did the same without chucking the key in and again it didn't lock.

A poor response by the RAC, does the AA have the same rule now ? When I was an AA patrol many years ago, lockouts and flat batteries were the two most common call outs.

Check Fuse F88 in the fuse box under the bonnet.

I signed up to my account initially using my email and the app has never let me use my phone number to sign in, even though it says my phone number is registered in my account.

I was thinking exactly the same, it sounds like he could have the SE long range to me.