Content by OriginalBigAl in February, 2026

On a standard road map its downhill all the way from just south of Edinburgh to north London. You will need to charge up several times for the return journey. o_O

Pro- russian regimes will trade with them . Many " neutral " countries who see an opportunity to make profit will forgo any moral reservations to trade at advantageous rates , that might include massive countries such as China, India , even the EU to some respect. The USA is not immune from...

Snowy owl.

Was it the workshop / service department you had to push , or the dealer , if different? Here the dealer actively does not get involved, all service ,warranty issues go through the workshop. The dealership only shares the same building renting its space from the family run company whose main...

What do you do when a bird craps on your car ?? Get a new bird ! :p

Because the first regulated official check is at 4 years here , I intend to do the same at 30 months even though my own visual / clean and feel inspection seems to indicate no defects. I will ask the " MOT " guy to also check all the rear multilink bushes as well, basically an early "MOT"...

You can give them a quick inspection yourself. Put on full steering lock and one can be seen on top , a torch helps . It is about 18 inches in in front of the wheel and reachable to clean and get your fingers in to feel for any obvious tears or cracking. Putting on opposite lock reveals the...

May I apologise to everyone, its my fault , yesterday to my wife's anguish I sat down and watched both the Curling and the Rugby. Should have known better ! after watching the recent Cricket tests.

Trump is obviously mental, that is an almost given fact: the sad thing is that he appears , at least publicly, to be supported by a significant portion of the population , the Republican party and of course the far if not ultra right of the political spectrum. The next elections , if they...

June and September , TT and Manx GP , Okells beer ... Kellys ice cream and Devereau's kippers , and the mountain course to traverse. Glorious. 🏍️🚋

In the 90s a friend went to Moscow . He and his wife went into a posh restaurant and ordered a meal. About 20 mins later they heard a familiar "ding" followed by the arrival of their obviously pre -frozen then microwaved scram, and a very beaming waiter who thought this new technology was the...

Let me me explain this as clearly as I can ! without bringing the integrity of anyone on this forum into question. Its Microsofts fault : it only downloaded page 1 .... ooops .

Gary 333 has found info which is not included in the linked some what vague official document. I am sure I have seen something similar in the past , being more specific on individual items and their time / mileage limits , but cannot retrieve it.

I can't remember what I had for tea last night but can still remember all the words to the "Shake and Vac " advert. Which way to Switzerland ???? I think its straight East from here with 2-3 fast charges. ☠️

Agree, wear and tear items are ambiguous, I have looked but cannot find the 3 year limit documentation which might make things clearer. Ha, Ha Gary333 has just beat me to it , if there is a link to the official document ????? Cheers.

As a skinny poor kid born 100 years prior to my eventual birth I would probably ended up as a chimney sweeps monkey , like those in Mary Poppins but without the singing and dancing. Advice : start at the top and work down and check your rope daily.

When I lived in Bury I had one of the many terraced houses around 6m in width like many of its kind. There were a few elderly neighbours who did not have a car and some families with children of early second school age. Parking was relatively simple. As the children went through school and...

If you follow that logic .......... just wait a little longer ! Quids in. :D

Or, more importantly, would you be able to stop others parking there? In effect turning a piece of public road into a private parking spot. I see the theft of "no parking" traffic cones on the rise. :eek:

A well written considered review and going to be argued over post for a time to come. Agree with the door handle , entry and exit contortions which are generic to all the models . Guessing the OP is over 6ft 3in. like myself with a back which used to be more supple than current.

Today is the Chinese New Year , year of the Horse , should I have got the car a card or something ? not sure of the etiquette on this . Will it be miffed and start playing up and report back to headquarters because of my ignorance and forgetfulness. ? It did get a warming input of electrons...

What is more important the car / bike you are piloting or the road you are on . One of the bugbears of my biking days in England was that to travel to the playgrounds of North Yorkshire or Wales you had to traverse boring motorways or built up conurbations to reach them. Even 20 years ago these...

The first MOT ( control technique ) is after a 4 year period here. If a number of parts are only on a 3 year warranty then unless they are obviously failing they could be missed until that 4th birthday inspection and the arguments against a large bill with the dealer / MG would be diminished...

Can I try one, can I, can I , and lets see if AI is listening to this forum? At the Skeleton gold medal ceremony the official Union Flag was upside down and no-one noticed. Well, you are going to have to check now I've got it into your heads ?????? Sorry , I'm in a bit of a mood at the...

The MG ? is a bit of a cross between Robocop and the V for Vendetta mask .

Its all downhill from here.🏂↘️↘️

Heating element ? Which gets you thinking . Would it be more cost effective to make all the steering wheels complete with the heating element and just not connect it both physically and with software for the base versions . Saves on having two stocking and logistic problems and easier to...

As above , when you get in the car , have a look at the headlight stalk , you may have accidentally left the lights in the manual on position. Most of us have done this at one time or another . Leaving them in the auto position will help in future . If this is so , then that will be the reason...

Perhaps Stuart could monetarise this forum by allowing the motor manufacturers to question the members about problems they have with their new and existing models. The depth and range of experience and knowledge contained here should be worth a pretty penny ?:D From diagnosis of problems such...

Qu,est que c,est , NED SVP.

Just flicking through the French news today and it would appear we are having new " cameras " ! Calm down , these are not going to affect any of us ??? They are to record decibels so if any car, lorry , motorbike exhaust is too loud , 85db+, the camera flashes and the registered owner gets a...

All together now " oooh .... the hokey cokey .... ooooh the ...." :p🎶

That's poor welding, be it either manual or robotic, around 50% has not penetrated into the parent metal creating a crack, and that has rusted . The portion that has joined properly has then had to take the stresses and forces which should be shared across the whole welds and fractured due to...

I now understand your confusion .. Blackpool in summer time is officially the third largest Scottish town/city so calling the M55 a Scottish motorway does have some justification. 🇬🇧 couldn't find a Scottish flag so just rub out the bits you don't want.

Kettle calling pan ? would that be M9 ( Messier 9 ) near to the centre of the Milky Way ? Like to see the Waze route to that one. Plot a course Jordi " Make it so ".

Only if we are on the way to Valhalla,......... whilst stuck in a traffic jam on the M55.

Sugar Puffins. 🐧🐧🐧and penguins.

Well that might scupper someone's plans for an inheritance gift. 😬

I have a very basic , dumb Morec EVSE and that did resume a charge after an outage. The charge and scheduling is controlled by the car. Other equipment in the house which is wirelessly connected to the modem/ router does not re-start. They come on , but then when connecting to the modem find...

So did I .......... eventually!

Is that Johnathon Ross doing an impersonation of , oh I refuse to say his name.:)

My wife has started using Almond " milk" and its around 95+ % water. Wat-er rip off.

Had to look that up .....

He needed those muscles to hold up that mobile phone !

Is that , that famous Irish green fog we keep hearing about.🌫️

Now for the big controversial question : is that with , sugar, salt, syrup , fruit or neither? along with all the other pathogens. I feel a poll coming on! ;)

Change your name to Marty McFly ? Have the Shakers got back in the league yet? ⚽

You might need to check your porridge oats for mould spores ? they could give possible hallucinogenic effects? 🫠

I always had a soft spot for the Fiat Multipla . But I'm weird.

If you are doing that journey daily or even once a week , you have a point . If its only once in a while you will experience some inconvenience and possibly more cost but overall an EV as you have stated will be the better and cheaper option . When getting the MG4 I considered our annual holiday...

Always agreed with that sentiment , but in relation to houses . The best looking house on the street might not be the best inside where you spend your time. Before the advent of the MG4 I would also have given the same response , but strangely I still get a bit of a buzz and emotional...

Going with my head a Berlingo would suit us better ..... but...... for me the MG4 is still a looker and does stick out in a car park , especially in orange. My wife did choose , or at least spot it on the internet when she was looking , knowing next to nothing about cars she went purely on the...

People generally like bigger numbers, bigger battery , bigger range, bigger wheels , bigger boot , I blame the old Top Trumps ( sic ) playing cards on a various range of themes , a favourite pastime in the playground.

From playing with their knobs ? D/R, D/R ,D/R. obviously.

My wife said . " We are getting an EV " . 🤷‍♂️

Those sages of rock n roll AC/DC must have had a premonition when they wrote " Bin city " . Just waiting for the various councils to hand out bins in competition to "Pure cremations ", not a new idea , re- hashed from the plague years, but less personnel. :eek:

As a fellow Lancastrian, we have a song for that , stolen by Millwall fans in the 70s/80s . 🙃

Well the numbers match up!

High voltage electrical items only ? Do they know something we don't ?

Tout bien . Although with a curry I tend to overload it with ginger , garlic and tikka powder so any other flavour is overwhelmed.

Another reason , never advertised , for getting an EV . No heat and the only uncovered spinney things are the driveshafts .

Sheep ! we had Japanese Knotweed here when we took over the property ( 60m sq ) the sheep love it . Cut down and munched , as soon as it re-appears its gone . Took around three years and it finally got the message . 🐑

Always be wary of buying compost from these places , if someone has cleared their garden of Goosegrass or some other invasive plant , and took it to the centre , the seeds can then be incorporated into the compost which is then lovingly cultivated along with the roses. :(

As kids we had to put down our coats etc to form some football posts, your lucky little blighters just have to wheel out the provided colour coded bins . No arguments of " it hit the post " as a battery free noise solves that problem. With 3 dogs 8 cats 12 sheep and a handful of chickens what...

Really!! , we are seeing a different side to you now, what's changed between January and February? :D

I have the same wired problem with Android . If it connects, it works fine until you get out of the car and lock it. The next time you get in and plug in the wire its hit and miss whether it will fire up. Re plugging in , at either the car end or phone end sometimes works as does a 10 second...

Having never bought a "new" car in the UK are there any disadvantages in buying a pre- reg car as opposed to one where yours is the only name on the DVLA document?