Recent content by QLeo

That feeling of guilt is all that's left, for you to take responsibility for a random event, having been utterly failed by a set of corporations whose job it was to assist in those events. It's not your fault. The fault is absolutely with the RAC/AA. Your story worries me, though. I've been...

My goodness, that's absolutely dreadful. It mirrors our own minimal experience with the RAC and rural areas; they simply lie about expectations and locations. I wonder if it's worth compiling a list of how to game their systems to actually get them to attend properly.

Having had to go up a 90+ degree bend on a hill that usually requires 50% of power, in the snow, a few times, I would definitely try both eco AND snow modes for this section. I can't be sure, but it felt to me that snow mode does help prevent wheelspin by feeding in the power more gently. There...

I got some MG paint from Brown & Gammons when I had some pockmarks on the car's bonnet. It's exact MG stuff without the dealer markup.

We have friends and family in your area, so we're sitting 10000 miles away watching the weather info closely. Two nieces are sort of in harm's way, one near the coast, but hopefully as you say sheltered by Stradbroke. Another near a river, which might not be ideal. And herself's elderly Mum a...

She's brand new.

There's.... discussion... going on the household about this at the moment. My phone, who goes by the name of Wolfie, has no trouble whatsoever with Android Auto. Herself's phone, going by the name of Sugarplum, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, sometimes disconnects. Both phones the same...

Some time back we had something similar. We topped up somewhere - can't recall the percentage - but it stayed displaying that percentage for about 40 miles and then dropped away. We concluded that the display was wrong - that the actual percentage was higher, and eventually caught up with...

It is a joy, isn't it? This was one of our concerns when we were thinking about the car, as our roads here are very bad. So when we had a test drive, we chose a road we knew was particularly bad. As it happens, on that day they were repairing one section! But the rest we knew to be a real...

Same here. I've used our little petrol generator a few times just to make sure it continues to run, in case, but otherwise the winter deficit has easily been made up by the car.

I think I've worked out what you mean, but the car was definitely unlocked at the time. The alarm also went off a moment after I snapped the inside release. It may have been Just One Of Those Things. Remember we live in an area where, years ago, when we had a Range Rover, someone came to us and...

Yes, it's both comforting and concerning at the same time. It's not impossible someone walking by idly tried the door handle or something, but I would have thought the hoot would have sounded when I opened the door, in that case.

Here's an interesting one, for several reasons. We were overnighting in Inverness after going to the ballet, and took the opportunity to put the car into a slow charger from about 10%SOC. At around 7:30 this morning I walked the half-mile or so to the chargers and all looked well. I clicked the...

Just to report back - I've just been in to Lochinver and thought I'd give the Electroverse card a go on the journey charger, just to see if it now works again. And yes, it did. But we think that the cost we get charged is now the same as with the CPS card - 70p in the Highlands for Highland...

The Electroverse card should work, but recently, our local Highland Council-owned charger stopped responding to the Electroverse card (Not Authorised) and required the CPS RFID card. This is annoying, as it's cheaper with the Electroverse card, and knowing the Council's small-mindedness may be...