Recent content by QLeo

If I may add a mere opinion, as your question is one of preference. I have 25+ years in the technology industry, though no experience of the automotive software industry. But, rather like the spurious urge to compare the way EV batteries and powertrains work because we all have experience of...

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Well yes, panels are getting cheaper, but the last pair of 400W we bought, they wanted (and got) £300 for delivery to where we are. Re the lead-acid versus lithium issue I've been describing, I know there are all kinds of "ideal" discussions, mostly by people either who have never tried this, or...

As I said, on-grid requirements are a very different kettle of fish, and you will almost certainly find your LFP lasting a long time. I tried to choose my words carefully re the choice of lead-acids - I think you may be thinking of output whereas our concerns are very much input. If the battery...

Yeah, we don't have a diesel generator, just a little petrol one, but until Goth Leo came on the scene, we'd need it perhaps a couple of times a week in winter. Goth Leo does make things easier as we can risk discharging the house battery deeper, then spend plenty of time on Leo's power to get...

That feeling of guilt is all that's left, for you to take responsibility for a random event, having been utterly failed by a set of corporations whose job it was to assist in those events. It's not your fault. The fault is absolutely with the RAC/AA. Your story worries me, though. I've been...

My goodness, that's absolutely dreadful. It mirrors our own minimal experience with the RAC and rural areas; they simply lie about expectations and locations. I wonder if it's worth compiling a list of how to game their systems to actually get them to attend properly.

Having had to go up a 90+ degree bend on a hill that usually requires 50% of power, in the snow, a few times, I would definitely try both eco AND snow modes for this section. I can't be sure, but it felt to me that snow mode does help prevent wheelspin by feeding in the power more gently. There...

I got some MG paint from Brown & Gammons when I had some pockmarks on the car's bonnet. It's exact MG stuff without the dealer markup.

We have friends and family in your area, so we're sitting 10000 miles away watching the weather info closely. Two nieces are sort of in harm's way, one near the coast, but hopefully as you say sheltered by Stradbroke. Another near a river, which might not be ideal. And herself's elderly Mum a...

She's brand new.

There's.... discussion... going on the household about this at the moment. My phone, who goes by the name of Wolfie, has no trouble whatsoever with Android Auto. Herself's phone, going by the name of Sugarplum, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, sometimes disconnects. Both phones the same...

Some time back we had something similar. We topped up somewhere - can't recall the percentage - but it stayed displaying that percentage for about 40 miles and then dropped away. We concluded that the display was wrong - that the actual percentage was higher, and eventually caught up with...

It is a joy, isn't it? This was one of our concerns when we were thinking about the car, as our roads here are very bad. So when we had a test drive, we chose a road we knew was particularly bad. As it happens, on that day they were repairing one section! But the rest we knew to be a real...

Same here. I've used our little petrol generator a few times just to make sure it continues to run, in case, but otherwise the winter deficit has easily been made up by the car.