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  1. bigmike20vt

    Are you a top revenue earner?

    oh I know... tho forgetting the Jag they were all well considered bargain hunter cars. my yellow peril is and will probably always be my favourite car in have ever owned. (it was reliable as well) but cost me £6000. the red one (iirc) £6500. the 350z was £12k so getting more expensive but...
  2. bigmike20vt

    Breakdown cover cost increase

    every year my mum threatens to leave and gets a better deal (a bit like car insurance). I pay my bank £14 a month - I think it is - and get the top tier RAC for both my wife and I on both our cars, as well as world wide travel insurance Inc stuff like skiing and scuba etc. ,(there is no...
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    When are you going fully electric?

    the harvi is a device which works with the zappi charge point . it allows you to monitor how you use your energy, whether you are using electricity, selling it, or whether the electricity is going to your car or to your house . it is a wireless device. the zappi can also do the same but is...
  4. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    smashing! mine didn't and tried going wireless which ended up being flakey so had to run a 2nd wire to it. works fine but bit messy.
  5. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    I think it's a fair point about performance cars needing more tlc , tho funnily enough the single most reliable car I ever owned was my nissan 350z. just needed an exhaust which my garage were brilliant they gave me one free, paying labour only as some fast and furious type had took theirs in...
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    When are you going fully electric?

    nothing wrong with the zappi but if at all possible get the grid CT clamp wired into the zappi rather than wirelessly using the harvi (your installer will understand)
  7. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    Well for one you just have a lot more "sundries" which need wear and tear replacement......... Have you never needed to replace an exhaust, radiator, cambelt, clutch, oil/filters, ...... ok brake disks and pads can go on an EV, but not as much (i drive entire journeys without touching the...
  8. bigmike20vt

    weird house.battery problem

    to answer my own question, i just got a reply from GreenScape - our installers - they can confirm the issue is because Solis are updating their software and have broken something..... They have contacted them to ask how long before its back, but the important thing is this is a software issue...
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    When are you going fully electric?

    all cars can go wrong and I realise i am tempting fate here...... but the general consensus from what i have read seems that EVs are far more reliable over all tho. the issue is a lot of the time finding an independent garage to work on them, and so having to pay often insane main dealer labour...
  10. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    perhaps... but you still get those in modern ICE vehicles as well. We have inherited all the risks in my wifes car. I wanted an EV, she wanted a petrol backup after some initial teething issues with our EV meant she still has no trust in them.......... so we ended up with an I3 with range...
  11. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    i have been looking around wales, I love North wales (South is nice too but I am from the backdoor to North Wales so i am biased as that is around where i grew up). Charging really does need to improve a bit in Wales, no doubt.
  12. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    I would also add in 4) and this may be a pipe dream and am sure many won't like it anyway. but if you are daily driving from London to Scotland or back then I would say perhaps driving isn't the best way anyway. we should have a better rail network which is cost effective and you can...
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    When are you going fully electric?

    my view is generally 2) and 3) but there will absolutely be a market for cars with a massive battery which will do a genuine 350 worst.case.scenario range (So a WLTP of 450+ miles). hopefully tho these will be niche vehicles and not used as Chelsea chariots. the battery tech is still improving...
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    weird house.battery problem

    Hi I have 3 pylon 2.4kwh batteries and a solis inverter. the system is still working fine however this morning the battery is no longer showing state of charge. it's just a grey filled in battery. looking at inverter settings it thinks the SOC is 100% (and SOH is 93%) . clearly that isn't the...
  15. bigmike20vt

    Is murder sometimes not murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility?

    IF they were hospitalised for life then sure. my worry of these cases is they will do a short shift then be "in control " for them then to be let out again. so many times the people with mental illness who commit horrific crimes and it turns out they had history and were known about.
  16. bigmike20vt

    Spec my wife a small car please.

    to some people a car is just a tool to get from A to B, if it's cheap, reliable and practical enough for what its needed for everything else is irrelevant. the people on this forum (including myself to a point) are a minority. I can't argue against that tbh
  17. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    could he not get done for that with his video used as evidence? pretty sure that has been done before!.
  18. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    indeed...... i am all for an honest discussion highlighting areas where EVs are still not really up to speed yet and where a diesel is still needed as a work vehicle (long range full sized transit van capable of doing 200 miles under load with a lot of torque) but 1) how many transit vans...
  19. bigmike20vt

    When are you going fully electric?

    if you already have your car this is useless advice, however if not or for other people thinking of getting an EV, if you are buying at a main dealer you can investigate as some will throw in a chargepoint (not always just with new cars either - for instance Jaguar were offering one when i got...
  20. bigmike20vt

    PSVR 2, anyone interested?

    as a company I am no fan of meta, but they are the main reason why vr hasn't failed already imo. companies like HTC or pimax can't be expected to be the majority catalysts,.it's the likes of Sony, microsoft and valve who I believe have failed to deliver. both have produced / funded some decent...
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