Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

Archev said:
New Berlingo adventure happening tomorrow. I’m driving via Ayr to Newton Stewart to deliver crockery and I’m taking a Raclette grill with some cheese and assorted hams and garlic sausage, onions, potatoes and courgettes. No prizes for guessing what’s for dinner tomorrow night 👌.
I’m in the process of finding a Berlingo for my Daughter. The one she’s keen on is rather beautiful but has a strange appendage and I wondered if you guys have ever encountered anything like it. None of my Berlingo’s have ever had this sort of thing between its seats (oo er you lot will go off on one now 🙄)View attachment 39068View attachment 39069
What the dickens can that be beside the steering wheel?? The extra pedal flummoxes me too. She’ll never be able to charge this car at home nor at her work (at a wind farm 🤷) and I’m told there’s gallons of oil to change periodically? Water and ad blue needs to gurgle about it’s inards and you have to be wary of wearing a clutch in the wrong gear or something ???
What on earth is this lassie getting in to.
Am I failing as a parent ? 🙄
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What is her reasoning/excuse after seeing how easy yours is to live with ? It's a little hard to comprehend unless there are extenuating circumstances.
That completes the questioning for the prosecution. 😀
 
Gomev said:
What is her reasoning/excuse after seeing how easy yours is to live with ? It's a little hard to comprehend unless there are extenuating circumstances.
That completes the questioning for the prosecution. 😀
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She listens to too many friends who of course know all about EVs. My car is fully insured with her as a named driver and I’ve offered it on many occasions.
She can’t charge at home
She wouldn’t feel in control
Etc etc etc
She’s an exceptional driver.
She was totally against automatics but since starting on this wind farm job she parks up just off the main road and uses a jeep to drive the last few miles up a very rough service road. So she’s left with little option but to drive whatever’s available. Sometimes it’s an automatic so she just has to get on with it.
I’ve suggested that it’s ridiculous for a company involved in wind farm building is using diesel vehicles 😱??

The rant goes on and on ad evnitum 🤩

“You’re trying father, very trying” 😍
 
Archev said:
New Berlingo adventure happening tomorrow. I’m driving via Ayr to Newton Stewart to deliver crockery and I’m taking a Raclette grill with some cheese and assorted hams and garlic sausage, onions, potatoes and courgettes. No prizes for guessing what’s for dinner tomorrow night 👌.
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Well the meal was excellent but no thanks to the Raclette grill.
It heated for approximately 30 seconds and no more. Then we realised that the breaker had called enough in the consumer unit. Luckily the microwave stood in to help out and we did have our wonderful gooey melted cheese after all , just not the way we planned.
Now I know we bought that grill in 1994 whilst on our first road trip in our new Maestro turbo diesel which as far as I know was the last dark blue example ever made. We drove to Paris via the tunnel and bought the grill on the way back.
Well the grill has lasted longer in time but never did anything like the mileage that the wonderful Maestro achieved.
Not sure about the tonnage of melted cheese produced nor the quantity of crepes achieved on the top plate but I guess the guarantee will be long gone ??
 
Archev said:
Well the meal was excellent but no thanks to the Raclette grill.
It heated for approximately 30 seconds and no more. Then we realised that the breaker had called enough in the consumer unit. Luckily the microwave stood in to help out and we did have our wonderful gooey melted cheese after all , just not the way we planned.
Now I know we bought that grill in 1994 whilst on our first road trip in our new Maestro turbo diesel which as far as I know was the last dark blue example ever made. We drove to Paris via the tunnel and bought the grill on the way back.
Well the grill has lasted longer in time but never did anything like the mileage that the wonderful Maestro achieved.
Not sure about the tonnage of melted cheese produced nor the quantity of crepes achieved on the top plate but I guess the guarantee will be long gone ??
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You must have been amongst the first users of the tunnel, a pioneer. :)
 
Everest said:
Something's gone off the rails.
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Not sure I was ever on them. Found the picture I thought I’d sent though. My best friend then wife ever beside our maestro turbo diesel a few days into ownership. Fabulous car wish it had been electric 🙄
 

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Yawn ………….
Checked with Waze and e-routes in the My Citroen app. It’s about 70 miles to Ayr.
Did a new adventure.
Charged the Berlingo to 100%.
Drove motorways M9, M876, M80, M73, M74, M77 to Tesco’s at Silverburn, Glasgow.
Picked up lamb steaks and broccoli for dinner.
Re- entered M77 to about Fenwick where it continues as the A77 to Ayr.
Stayed in a house - shock horror - no tent or sleeping was disturbed.
Subsequently set off with ample oodles of electrification giving a pretty fair certainty of getting home and not joining the phantom masses of EVs languishing by the roadsides with owners begging for tow trucks.
I crossed the A77 and set off along the A70 through Coylton and Cumnock. I crossed the M74 at junction 12 near Uddington then continued on the A70 to the Hyndford bridge over the river Clyde.
Continuing on the A70 to Carstairs where I briefly joined the A721 ………. It was about then that I remembered I was driving an EV and should beware of driving through lands apparently devoid of chargers.
I checked in with the Wizard of Waze and the Citroen App and found that instead of ending on around five to ten miles of range, I was liable to have about 30.
I checked in with the old Tum and found it was rapidly running out of range. The fair town of Linlithgow provided the solution to that in the shape of a Domino’s Pizza place where half of a stuffed crust Hawaiian pizza provided power to allow me to complete the journey home and still have half the pizza available for another day of adventures tomorrow.
The Berlingo? Oh it came home with 30 miles worth still available and is now plugged and sipping its seven penny octopuses in readiness to join me.
I seem to miss out on all the excitement and despair predicted by the newspapers.
Yawn ………….. G’night for now
 
Best picture from yesterday’s Red Arrows display in Ayr where the next aircraft are intended to be built. These current jets retire soon and the replacements are to be assembled here.
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