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scotta wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 2:03 pm Next week i have booked the A110 into Litchfield for their remap

Great value upgrade that. Power/weight jumping from a healthy 227 to more like 282 bhp/tonne.

mik wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:52 pm Then the range estimate goes blank. Not zero. Blank. No estimate offered. “Low Power/Low Range” bing-bong warning. Shit.

No turning back now. Just keep going. Slowly. Feather that go pedal. 6 miles feels a lot further at low speed, with “Low Range” messages bonging at you every minute or so.

“Yes I know”.

“Yes, I KNOW”.

“YES I CHUFFING KNOW!”

You are Mat Watson AICMFP.

Re boring 911 news - the rattle that was supposedly solved has come back with the cold weather. FFS.

i had a few hours of fettling today on the Lotus. I had a little list of stuff:

- reattach the battery where i’d disconnected it and fit a new cable for my ctek after the old one snapped.

- sort out the handbrake light. there’s a little lever which i presume had broken off that presses a button to turn the light off. a new part was £16, but after vat and postage worked out at £40. So as a medium term temp solution, i just hot-glued a lolly stick to the side of the lever. It’ll be covered by the shroud anyway and works perfectly. I’ll order the switch when i order some other stuff so i can share the postage costs.


- then i fitted seat belts because the harnesses were a faff on normal roads. i didn’t quite realise how simple/quick this would be.

- i decided i’d try wrapping the upper dashboard trims in alcantara-a-like, they were scratched and always looked scruffy. I’m not 100% on the results, but it didn’t take long and cost about a tenner. i’ll see how i feel about it - i can always take it off and try something else (repaint/wrap).

- now i need to get it MOTd again and back into service.

Model 3 strikes again

Uk power networks still not admitting that it’s something on their end/equipment that’s not right. House was pulling 14kw when this happened so hardly approaching the 100amp fuse limit.

Do you work for the Daily Mail

A big electric oven can pull 30A which is the maximum a Type 2 charger will pull!

Yes of course it’s not the cars fault, it’s just that it pulls enough load to show that there’s some problem. It always happens on a Sunday evening and has happened ever since they built a new estate up the road a few years ago. My suspicion is they didn’t upgrade the electricity network sufficiently and the voltage drops. Their solution is they can’t do anything about it aside from upgrade to 3 phase for a mere £15,000