Recent content by peterkins

Hi. Dug out an OBD connector thing I'd used on my, now retired, Mazda 3 Sport and installed the V1.2 software on my xiaomi pocophone. I was surprised to find that the connector is powered up whether or not the car is powered up. Explains why I flattened the Mazda battery having left it in for a...

Gotta get one of them air scoops for my EV. If I could get something to push fumes out the back the illusion would be complete.

Thanks for your observations, guys. Car is going in for its first service soon with only 3500 on the clock. Damn Covid. I'll talk to the service chappie about the issue encouraged by knowing its not just me. Having built security and safety critical systems in a previous life I know that a...

Sorry for the brief reply - the cat jumped on the keyboard. Nevertheless, the sentiment is right. Unless the design spec says the car should attempt move while the brakes are applied then I'd say if it did the other thing then it was an implementation error. Foot pedal down or not, don't care...

Is it even relevant?

Hi. Waiting for my OBD connector from Amazon to try out the ZS EV app. Was interested to note that, apparently, the OBD connector has access to the ZS EV battery state of charge SoC. If so, I wonder why, then, the ZS EV doesn't bother to tell my OHME charger what the state of charge is. At...

Can we do a survey? Hands-up who thinks the car should attempt to spin its wheels while the parking brake is engaged. This has nothing to do with what the bio-degradable carbon-based life-form is doing while its in the car. The software is broke. The software is in control of an object that can...

Hmmm. My routine is: Unlock car, get in, stamp on the STOP peddle and press the START button and take my foot off the brake peddle (usually). Wait for the car to settle down and .... Depress the brake peddle, select D or R depending on which way the car is pointing and where I want to end up...

Hi. I came to this forum to see if others experienced the same problem as me. Turns out they do! As far as I can tell, the business with seat belts is a smoke screen as there have been several occasions where I've moved the car around the drive to get it close to the charging point and never put...