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GG. wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:37 am I get a call from my tracking company as soon as the car moves without the ignition on to cover exactly this.
this time…
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Mito Man wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:57 am Also having never had a car towed I’m curious of the process. I assume you’d go and see your car no longer where you parked it, you’d then call the Police non emergency line because you don’t know if it’s been stolen or not? At which point they’d direct you to the correct pound?
You go to the police pound, walk round it looking for a wall to climb over, do that and run to your car and get shot in the process. Maybe have a friend in a helicopter providing covering fire.
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Make sure and pack dog biscuits full of sleeping pills
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GG. wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:37 am I get a call from my tracking company as soon as the car moves without the ignition on to cover exactly this.
Mercedes Me will alert me on my phone of the Car Moves at all while the ignition is turned off - even if that movement is just tilting. I presume this is in case it's being jacked to nick wheels or the Cat but it also goes off on the ferry if you don't disengage it :lol:
JLv3.0 wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:26 pm I say this rarely Dave, but listen to Dinny because he's right.
Rich B wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:57 pm but Dinny was right…
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In a small local fuel station, V6 FGT.
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Love London during Halloween, a lot of people dressed up and you see the odd car like this.
How about not having a sig at all?
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Wow, is that a Stagea?
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Jobbo wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:36 pm Wow, is that a Stagea?
Nah, not long enough.
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i saw an MG Cyberster today, it was parked nose in so only saw the rear, but it’s definitely got presence! More Aston Martin or Jag F type that shitty chinese knock off!
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I spotted a British registered Ferrari 348 driving through Sliema in Malta a couple of evenings ago. Pretty cool. Doubt the utterly atrocious road surfaces and potholes will do it much good.
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Not a spotted - just sharing as who knew that the Viper had a weird side-terminal battery? (And access is annoying, but not unheard of).

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I thought there must be something a little weird about them as AdamC seems to have been messing around with a dead battery and jumper pack on his for months 😂
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integrale_evo wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 11:29 am I thought there must be something a little weird about them as AdamC seems to have been messing around with a dead battery and jumper pack on his for months 😂
It's a crap design - C5 Corvettes have them also. When I ran the dealership almost all C5s had evidence of a battery leaking at some point. Why add that potential failure point rather than mounting it slightly differently?
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I would have thought by now there would be a more suitable modern equivalent, either a smaller one with enough power which could be mounted normally, or a lithium one which doesn’t care how it’s mounted.
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Rich B wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:01 am That would be a very easy way to steal a car. just lift it onto the back of the truck in broad daylight and drive off. no one would stop you, everyone would just assume it’s being legitimately towed away.
My dog Walker had her Defender stolen this way. Some hi biz wearing guys picked it up and put it on a loader, hardly an u likely event so no-one took a note of the reg.

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integrale_evo wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 12:57 pm I would have thought by now there would be a more suitable modern equivalent, either a smaller one with enough power which could be mounted normally, or a lithium one which doesn’t care how it’s mounted.
Not sure why they can't put an AGM Battery of the same size in there on its side, that's what I'd be doing!
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In Lidl car park lastnight, thought “that’s a bright colour for a nissan” before realising what it actually was. Also absolutely huge, still doesn’t seem right somehow for it to be wearing a lotus badge
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jamcg wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:04 am Also absolutely huge, still doesn’t seem right somehow for it to be wearing a lotus badge
I had a prod around one at an event that Lotus brought one too (plus a couple of Emira's). Mrs mik's E-Tron is a pretty big ol' bus, but the Eletre does indeed look huge by comparison. It is apparently 33cm longer, and 20cm wider (plus around 200kg heavier).
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I’ve seen a few around town in various colours. Black seems to be the best.

They look just like a Nissan/Kia/Hyundai to me which wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t asking £90k for them.
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mik wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:39 am I had a prod around one at an event that Lotus brought one too (plus a couple of Emira's). Mrs mik's E-Tron is a pretty big ol' bus, but the Eletre does indeed look huge by comparison. It is apparently 33cm longer, and 20cm wider (plus around 200kg heavier).
Not that I don't believe you, but I had to go and check.

The Lotus Eletre has a length of 5103 mm, a height of 1636 mm, a width of 2000 mm without the exterior mirrors and a measurement of 2231 millimeters with the mirrors unfolded.
https://www.automobiledimension.com/model/lotus/eletre

It's an SUV just over 5.1 metres long, with a wheelbase in excess of three metres. In both respects, it’s bigger than a standard-length, full-size Range Rover, and significantly larger than many of its key electric rivals, including the BMW iX, Audi Q8 E-tron and Tesla Model X.
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On the scales, our R test car weighed 2682kg, which isn’t even light for an electric luxury SUV (the Audi E-tron S we weighed in 2021, for instance, was 2634kg).
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/lotus/eletre


That's heavier than my Discovery ! And those were criticised for being too heavy.
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