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It is happening over here, a lot of them have become parts importers for earlier model cars that enthusiasts pay silly money for genuine parts, people that have bought grey imports and now have to pay the big dollars to keep it running. The others strip out doors and lights and engines...

Over here in Australia, if you use a second hand part, it must have the vin history as well to ensure it is not a part from a written off vehicle that is on the register, if it is, and it is a part that could be construed to be a safety item, you can not use that part to replace a faulty part...

I find the reversing alarm works great, the 3 car (or what ever the green boxes mean) gap setting tends to slow the MG rapidly when it sees a truck travelling in the opposite direction rounding a bend ..... rather disconcerting when the vehicle suddenly transfers weight from the rear to the...

From what I've experienced in the past, that fully discharged graph is telling you that you have either a high resistance connection or internal cell resistance, or you have a cell that has lost a lot more capacity than the others. You can only top balance - at the end of charging, or bottom...

I'm guessing they have red hair ;) :LOL: I'll be in the bunker is anyone needs me T1 Terry

If it's for the built in vibrator/massager function, there is a thread about getting this feature at a lower price point MG4 Central vibration/rattle Personally, I'd love to buy one ...... till my licence evaporated at the same rate as my bank balance, I have enough trouble keeping the 51 at...

The other reason might be that the figures would be 0.16kWh/km winter and 0.144kWh/km in summer, which don't really inspire anyone to improve their driving or suffering a cold car to improve economy by 0.016kWh/km ..... but then, an improvement of 1.6kWh/100kms wouldn't convince me to sit in a...

Do you know that statistics show that 90% of bald men still own a comb?? . . . . They just can't part with it. :LOL: T1 Terry

And gallons per 100 mile would just do your head in :LOL: T1 Terry

Yesterday, my wife thought she saw a cockroach in the kitchen. She sprayed everything down and cleaned thoroughly. Today I'm putting the cockroach in the bathroom ....... T1 Terry

The wife rang and told me she saw a fox on the way to work ... I asked how she knew it was on the way to work? She hung up on me, how rude, she could have just admitted she might have been wrong ..... T1 Terry

When we started driving the Taxi Prius (it sat in the front yard for 2½ yrs, driven once around the block and a few times across the road to make room for things to be shuffled around) the first drive was from Wollongong to Mannum, the way I went (and got hopelessly lost) covered 1700km ...

Not sure about over there, but over here, our 51 was registered Dec last yr and did roughly 1,000kms in just under 3 mths ..... I think they might be pulling a swifty trying to improve sales figures for the end of yr ...... T1 Terry

Are you saying travelling on the back of a tilt tray doesn't count? Maybe he had the built in vibrator feature turned off ..... that bouncing up and down has to use a lot of battery power ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

Thank you for that, at least I know I'm not alone with this savage drain, I wonder what causes the variation in efficiency ..... I know to turn the air con off, that's a kW on its own, but 700W loss between the ac in and the dc into the battery is savage when there is only 2kW to start with ...

:LOL: Do we get another screen shot for the return journey :LOL: That is one long hill, I thought the engine was gunna fly apart attempting to use compression braking only on my '74 1800 Kombi, after the brakes started smoking and not being terribly responsive. I now know why the 8 wheeler...

Hmmm...... looks like we might have to change our driving style, I thought I was doing ok at 17kWh/100km, down from the 22kWh/100 when we first picked it up, that EV grin as you move off from a stand still or pull out to over take is still new and might take a while the settle down a bit .... or...

Careful, they might add that feature for regen, or flip the car over for high or low beam ..... Careful what you wish for ..... ;) T1 Terry

Maybe it takes more electricity because it's generated from renewable sources, not as concentrated as the coal fire stuff ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

Ahhh, but with slight panel shape changes and light arrangements and colours inside and out and ...... what do you mean the same old same old :LOL: T1 Terry