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At the risk of getting back to your original post ( :) ) really glad to hear of your experience. We're also rather fond of our car, with good reason. We have a 700 mile trip coming up starting tomorrow, back home for a week, then a 500 mile round trip, back home for a week and then an 800mile+...

Never tried this, I'm afraid, as we have no use for video via the car.

I've had this when the door is slightly open. The car seems to be very air-tight, so the door needs a firm hand. It's given me a real turn, but eventually the penny drops that the door needs closed.

Oh yes, absolutely. We tend to de-google our phones and tablets as much as possible, and over many years have had no reason to distrust f-droid, but the reason I mentioned the source is that sometimes playstore-provided apps don't appear under android auto (sometimes it's the other way around.)...

Not for video in the car, because of this tedious issue of having to keep your eyes on the road :) (We do use video quite extensively at home though, on phones and tablets, especially as we have a local streaming live TV unit.) But yes, in the car it works very well indeed. I was surprised that...

Good point, which herself noted when I told her about this issue, to make her aware if she gets caught. We try to charge on the AC when we go to the village, as it's half the extortion the Highland Council charges. But when away from home, yes, it's almost always DC.

Another +1 for vlc. We install most apps via the f-droid repository, partly because they're all free and partly because they tend to be the full versions of the apps. Works well on our cheapie (almost) no-name phones, and works especially well with voice commands. We have about 30GB of music in...

This thread is making me nervous now, but so far so good for us. Goth Leo has his first birthday next Friday.

I know folk don't like this response, but our music collection is running to around 9000 tracks in opus format. It would be an impressive car-based music player that could handle that in any sane way as it can be pretty unwieldy. So for us, it's acceptable to have lower expectations of the car's...

Don't make me drive the 1.5 miles from the Crofters' Trust office, a trip where I discovered the efficiency meter only goes as far as 20mi/kwhr. I'd rather not discuss the difference getting there, though. :)

Yeah, had a problem again with the dreaded "Access Denied" with my RFID card today but bizarrely it worked when I idly tried again. A BMW was on the fast charger next door and couldn't get it to work via the app. These are our local chargers and normally quite reliable. It's frustrating, as the...

:cool: It's 21.4°C in our Stevenson screened outside thermometer here in Assynt today. As this is a CPS thread, a heads-up: I put the car on to charge in Lochinver yesterday and the destination charger said something like "Authorisation declined". I tried a few times, then had to go to an...

I suppose the thinking is that there are plenty of chargers in Fort William/An Gearasdan, so the distances are manageable, Ardnamurchan always being forgotten. I thought there were some at Ardgour (we have a friend nearby, but I think she charges at home).

Someone on this forum suggested that, after chatting to a technician, one should stop worrying about how to do what, when. There may be something to that idea. Our car has just had its 1st service. We can't charge at home, so either fast-charge or occasionally use a destination charger (11kW on...

These posts are helpful. We have just returned from a few days in Edinburgh, 250 miles south of us, and will need to go to the Borders in a few weeks, then Cumbria a few weeks after that, across to Portsoy in north east Scotland a while after that, then Glasgow towards the end of the year. It's...

If it's any help, you're probably only a third more distance to Inverness than we are, here out west! It is possible that the advice re R33 has changed, as Leah was careful to say they would do any required software, and then when I collected Leo she said that yes, it was necessary to update...

Thanks. Will do. EDIT: Thanks - that was very helpful. Took a while to work out how to pull down the quick LKA menu, but got there in the end. Now to decide what to set the two star keys to.

Yes, we think so. :)

A report back for info -mods - if this needs merging with other first service threads, that's fine with me. First off, one reads the horror stories some folk on the forum have regarding dealerships. We must be very fortunate, as Dicksons in Inverness has been the model of professionalism on...

Yes. It's sturdier than the cover it replaces. I was unsure of the price. On the one hand, on the face of it, it seems a lot for some plastic, but on the other, it's well made, the fitting is cleverly thought out, and the detail such as the net and a soft cubby that came with it, useful. It...