Recent content by Valiant5

Good on yer, Les! Yes, must have missed you selling your 5, hope you enjoy the 4, and your overdue trip to the Barrel!

Not exactly an annual report, as the trip mileage was set back to zero when the car had its first service on December 22 last year, so this is for 53 weeks and 9999 miles, to be precise! Pleased with the overall 4.2 figure, especially with the low temperatures we've all had for a few weeks now...

Good news for MG owners in the Chesterfield and north Derbyshire area, a Vauxhall dealer is going to change to our marque. Found this out while checking the weekly list of planning applications to Chesterfield Borough Council. Bit anorak-ish, I know! Used to check the lists for stories when I...

And good to hear from you, Les. Your 4.7 figure does trump my 4.3, though I had three months of winter still to come after my service. Still averaging 200-plus miles on a full charge with the outside temperature remaining in double figures, but there's strip to Scotland the week after next and a...

Chesterfield to Trowell services near Nottingham and back yesterday morning. Mild weather still, speed 55-65 depending on conditions. Used just under 25 per cent for 66 miles. Since the trip was reset to zero at the end of December last year when at the dealership for the first annual service...

My wife read a story today in which it was claimed that if all the SUVs in the world made up a nation, it would be the sixth biggest producer of CO2 in the world. Quite simply car obesity!

Might be worth looking at Good Energy, who do one or two EV tariffs. The one I'm on is great, five hours at 5p kWh from 10pm, 18.5p for the rest. Obviously it's higher now as I signed up about a year ago, but the up to date rates are on their website. With my MG 5 I often wait until it drops...

That's such a great idea!

Don't think anyone else has mentioned this, but I've read somewhere, maybe in the manual, that just holding the car with the footbrake should be avoided because it puts strain on the transmission. I always used P until recently when my eldest son also bought a 5 and told me he used the...

Thanks. I do have a couple of friendly sparks in mind :)

Presumably the Shelley could be fitted to the very basic Chargemaster unit that's been on my wall for five years now? Without a very clear video like the Rolec one, sadly I wouldn't be confident enough to have a go myself at fitting it, but it would be a real boon, given that I have five hours...

Very impressive for this time of year. I'm not doing a monthly tally but since resetting a few weeks ago I've been getting 4.3, down 0.1 on my January to early October figure

Detecting cowpats?

If you have a large Tesco nearby, it's likely to have free charging via the pod point app. Only 7kWh an hour, but that's 25-30 miles for free, and you can stay up to three hours. I'd say it's only fair to spend a decent amount in the supermarket if you use its charger. You will end up with...

It's recommended keeping your battery charge level to between 20 and 80 per cent most of the time. And once a month to do a balancing charge where you leave the car charging up to 100 per cent, including an extra hour or three while the battery management system finds the remaining space for the...