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- Fri May 31, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Do automatic ICE cars need tachometers/rev-counters?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 216
Re: Do automatic ICE cars need tachometers/rev-counters?
Engine noise, speed, rate of acceleration, even time since last gear change… some or even all of these are used to know when to change up or down. You shouldn’t really need to look down at a rev counter I agree with this. If you're thrashing it to the point you're constantly near the redline you sh...
- Fri May 31, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Do automatic ICE cars need tachometers/rev-counters?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 216
Re: Do automatic ICE cars need tachometers/rev-counters?
Engine noise, speed, rate of acceleration, even time since last gear change… some or even all of these are used to know when to change up or down. You shouldn’t really need to look down at a rev counter I agree with this. If you're thrashing it to the point you're constantly near the redline you sh...
- Fri May 31, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump guilty
- Replies: 31
- Views: 398
Re: Trump guilty
This is a good outcome. Can he run while serving a sentence? Seems impossible that he can run for president when convicted criminals can't vote (I think). He could be jailed and still be President, the US is that weird. Despite convicted felons not being allowed to vote, or hold security clearance....
- Fri May 31, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump guilty
- Replies: 31
- Views: 398
Re: Trump guilty
I'm now curious, but also terrified of googling it.
- Thu May 30, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Do automatic ICE cars need tachometers/rev-counters?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 216
Re: Do automatic ICE cars need tachometers/rev-counters?
Mine goes backwards
- Thu May 30, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Moaning
- Topic: State of the Roads
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1396
Re: State of the Roads
Weather. Especially our winters where it fluctuates either side of freezing instead of staying one side or the other.
Re: New 911
Apart from 15 metres faster on the quarter mile. It does the quarter mile in 15 metres less than a quarter mile ? Impressive ! If they're genuinely quoting quarter mile performance as a relative measure and in metres now, it's just an obvious misdirection from discussing how the time difference is ...
- Wed May 29, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: FAO BMW i3-istas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 260
Re: FAO BMW i3-istas
I hadn’t, tbh, they seem to start at £13k but are a touch newer for the price so that’s fair enough. However, I expect she’d want a convertible as that’s what she has now, and the electric convertibles only came out last year so they’re still £35k+. It’s a “no” to that :D I like the quirkiness of th...
- Wed May 29, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20653
- Views: 2996478
Re: Your fleet running reports
Oh. You’re right though Dave! it’s a tall vehicle, noticeably taller than the Cayenne. In other news, I was wrong. This is a vanishingly rare event so it’s come as a bit of a shock tbh. The A-B-C pillars *are* leather ! It’s just that Land Rover have somehow managed to make them indistinguishable fr...
- Tue May 28, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 28
- Views: 502
Re: Speed Limiters - July '24
Which is exactly as it should do; the speed limit changes at the speed limit sign, not at whatever point afterwards you decide to slow down to the new limit.
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: FAO BMW i3-istas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 260
Re: FAO BMW i3-istas
Ah, OK. When it's only doing local trips I think the 3-pin home charger will probably be fine. We might even get away with a single overnight full charge per week.
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: FAO BMW i3-istas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 260
Re: FAO BMW i3-istas
Thanks all - and apologies to Holley for forgetting you had one too ! (but worth checking you get a proper dual charger with it as not all i3's have them except for one of those home plug in ones) ? Is the dual charger part of the car ? I know nothing about this stuff (yet). There's already a hefty ...
- Tue May 28, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: FAO BMW i3-istas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 260
FAO BMW i3-istas
This is Carlos & Mito Man I believe. I suddenly, slightly unexpectedly, have a window to add one to the fleet to replace the MINI. Usage would be daily short local journeys (<5 miles round trip) with occasional visits to in-laws (~70 miles round trip). We obviously have the RR for anything longe...
- Tue May 28, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 28
- Views: 502
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20653
- Views: 2996478
Re: Your fleet running reports
Ah - I wasn't complaining about the roll, that works OK, although you can tell the tyres really don't like it :lol: But that's fine, I don't plan on driving it like that. I meant the general softness, it floats up & down a bit on undulating roads and seems to pitch back & forth a lot, especi...
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 28
- Views: 502
Re: Speed Limiters - July '24
Won't this massively hit new car sales? Especially in the performance sector? No. Customer walks into Ferrari showroom. "Hello I'd like to buy a Ferarri. Does it have a speed limiter ?" "Yes" "Oh, that's a shame, I'll go and buy a Dacia instead, there's no point in buying a...
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 28
- Views: 502
Re: Speed Limiters - July '24
https://www.evo.co.uk/news/22326/mandatory-speed-limiters-to-be-fitted-to-all-new-uk-cars-in-2024 Though the UK is no longer in the EU, it has been confirmed that the UK will still utilise the technology, and it's set to come into force in July this year. aka Though the UK is no longer in the EU, m...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20653
- Views: 2996478
Re: Your fleet running reports
Starting to get the feeling that the suspension is way too soft for my taste. I guess that's the famous trademark awesome ride quality. Twiddle with the suspension settings and put it in dynamic mode instead of auto (using the little knob that sprouts up when you press it :lol: ) It doesn't have th...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Speed Limiters - July '24
- Replies: 28
- Views: 502
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Cars
- Topic: Your fleet running reports
- Replies: 20653
- Views: 2996478
Re: Your fleet running reports
Some progress with cars over the long weekend. Friday - the Bentley finally went. I took it for a brief spin in the morning, I'll definitely miss it for the engine and the general ambience, but not the noise from the suspension that I couldn't work out. Saturday - got back on with the Smart now that...