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So the missus gets freaked out by tech. Try this if you have - or can arrange - a bedroom lamp with Alexa control. Set up a Routine triggered by an innocuous variation on "Alexa shut off the bedroom light". Alexa duly says "OK" and does it, as you'd expect. What the victim doesn't know is that...

I'm sorry Dave but I can't do that.

It'd be interesting to hear how you get on with patchy mobile phone coverage. I'm using a dongle in my MG5 PFL and AA disconnects the wireless connection when mobile data drops out. It's flaming annoying, especially as I live a bit (but not that much) in the sticks. Trawling t'internets shows...

Is your wireless AA connection via built in wireless or are you using a dongle? How do you get on with patchy mobile phone coverage? I'm using a dongle in my MG5 PFL and AA disconnects the wireless connection when mobile data drops out. There's a lot of people with various phones in various cars...

Being a "proper" estate car was what sold me on the 5. Sadly estates (and people carriers) are a rarity in the EV world. I miss that part of my old Passat estate, my Berlingo and my even older Espace. I'd wonder about a VW ID Buzz but the out of my price band. Just gimme a Berlingo EV...

Well. Hopefully this is the final update. As noted above, we were able to get the car to the local dealer for a look at, with the intermittent fault active and seem to have a resolution. The dealer says it was a failing/failed PTC heater and has now got the right mart and changed it out, all...

Thanks. Is that on Android or iOS?

What software are you using?

True, 50kW seems to be the limit locally. Dependent on which route you use to approach North Walsham, ZapMap suggests: Roy's of Wrexham (50kW, £0.62) Old Rectory Hotel Crostwick (50kW, £0.79 - but it's BPPulse, so not preferred) Stumpy's Way Aylsham (50kW, £0.44 [I think. E&OE]) Tescos Aylsham...

There's a live case going on at the moment on FTLA.UK https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/pcn-issued-for-my-ev-while-we-were-parked-in-an-ev-charging-bay/ ZapMap does throw up a few high power chargers in Norfolk

Before you do anything. There are some legally competent types at Free Traffic Legal Advice - Free Traffic Legal Advice - Index (which has replaced pepipoo.com since that site was essentially abandoned by the folk who originally set it up). - A lot of folk have already been helped there to...

Thanks. Works a treat. Surely dead reckoning is a fallback for when GPS isn't available (in a tunnel, near Russia forces etc). Dunno.

Dealer rang this afternoon. New PTC has arrived and --- it's the wrong part, which doesn't fit. As far as I understand it, MG documentation says the original part number had been superceded, so the dealer ordered the "new" part number. It appears the documentation is out of sync with reality. A...

Hello. I've got a 23 plate ZS loaner while my 5 is having its heater fixed (hopefully). I turned on the navigation, expecting to see the map rotate and shift under the car icon as I drove along. It doesn't. It seems to update the position when I invoke navigation but then sits there. I parked...

Minus 28mV per degree C IIRC.

The heating is via an electric element. It's a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) device, the resistance of which increases as it gets hot, making it self-regulating and able to cope with changing airflow as the fan speed is wound up and down. Based on a quick and dirty calc using the...

Well after a VERY uncomfortable week or three, I dropped the car off at the dealers.

Well after a VERY uncomfortable week or three, I dropped the car off at the dealers. Fortunately the heater continued misbehaving itself, so there was a solid fault to work on. I had a call this afternoon to say the dealer agrees it's probably the PTC heater itself that is the culprit. The part...

Well, a few days later it was blowing cold again and has stayed that way since. It's getting <redacted> dangerous now, as it's so much colder these days, plus the air is more humid, meaning the windscreen mists up in a trice. Grasping at straws, I emailed Cleevely EV to see if they can offer...

Google Maps has its occasional issues. A few times now I've told it to go to my house (Google conveniently puts my postcode at the end of my drive). Of late it's been trying to send me to a place about 2 miles away, depending from where I start.