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  1. Brian0

    Removal of XPower Caliper Covers

    Really! I presume you have a set of tools. It will be one of them...
  2. Brian0

    BBC Breakfast

    Just watched it on iPlayer. The usual in-depth (not) article for breakfast television. I have to agree about the lane keeping, once or twice I have had to stop it from steering me into trouble. It has great difficulty where the lines are worn or faded, also somtimes detecting an arrow on the...
  3. Brian0

    XPower (only) colour POLL

    It was that or green, the only ones in the showroom and after the test drive I wasn't going to wait 3 months for delivery. The salesman said that the matt green was a real pain to clean, so Camden Grey it was... Certainly a better colour than my silver gray Mundano.
  4. Brian0

    XPower (only) colour POLL

    Camden Grey.
  5. Brian0

    Well that didn't take long ! (minor damage)

    btw the paint code is on the plate on the door frame.
  6. Brian0

    Well that didn't take long ! (minor damage)

    I would go with the earlier suggestion of Chips Away. They are not cheap, but the quality (from our local Reading branch at least) is immaculate. They quoted £1500 for a repair that cost the insurance company £8000 . Chips Away also said that colour matching is no problem, especially on a new...
  7. Brian0

    Infotainment screen literally on the blink

    Had this when it came back from service last week, including an update of the info system. Service suggested lock the car with the key (not the door button) and unlock it again. To my astonishment that worked (for a week so far at least).
  8. Brian0

    Factory Reset, no Infotainment system??

    I fell for this one. The button you need is off the bottom of the screen. The window will scroll if you swipe up from the bottom. No promises, but worked for me.
  9. Brian0

    Upgrade of house main fuse

    The EV charger should have a setting to limit the power taken, monitored by the CT on the incoming mains cable. If the total load would exceed the fused supply (in your case 60A) it should reduce the charging rate accordingly. I had to have this (Zappi) until the DNO came and changed the...
  10. Brian0

    Home EV Charger Recommendations

    We went for an untethered Zappi. Installation by a local electrician who specializes in EV. Works fine great WiFi range and the cable wraps around the box. Went for untethered as the car is a distance from the charger. Only thing to consider is you have to buy a cable, which isn't cheap as...
  11. Brian0

    Granny charger using a smart plug with usage monitor

    To get back to the original question(s)... There are plenty of Power Meters which will tell you how much you have used, just Google Power Meter - anything from £8 to fully certified at £100+. Lots of them will allow you to put in a price per kWh and more and more have an App, so you don't even...
  12. Brian0

    Granny charger using a smart plug with usage monitor

    Thanks for that. I only used the granny charger for a couple of weeks until we had the Zappi installed, and even then just left it charging until the car shut it off.
  13. Brian0

    Granny charger using a smart plug with usage monitor

    Surely the "physical disconnect" is what happens if you switch off at the mains socket anyway, so why would a remote switch be any different?
  14. Brian0

    Locking wheel nut

    Just had a puncture and the garage needed to weld a standard nut onto the (rusty) locking nut to remove it. Of course the wheel nut key was destroyed in attempts before that, so needed the sledgehammer approach for the rest of the wheels 'cos without the key what happens if you get another...
  15. Brian0

    Worst car I've ever had

    top one is the ac charging socket max 7KW bottom one is the (fast) DC charger socket, up to 140 KW if going for home charging, from a normal mains socket, on what is often called a "granny charger" the is max 3KW.
  16. Brian0

    Installing panels on a garden room.

    I'm not sure of the details, but I know the rules are different for installation on a separate property. Check with your local council. Usually they are quite relaxed about interpretation of the rules.
  17. Brian0

    Merry Christmas to all

    Used to go there to visit my Mother at Christmas. My wife named the ladies on the Quayside as "Santa Sluts". Not derogatory, just descriptive!
  18. Brian0

    Merry Christmas to all

    You're tougher than me. I don't call 16 deg T shirt weather...
  19. Brian0

    Has anyone (had satellite navigation badly direct)

    Never ended in the wrong place, but the routing is a menace in the early part of a journey. I just head generally for where I want to be (including the journey home) and it eventually gets the idea of how to get there. On a short journey from Aldershot to Reading it suggested the Blackwater...
  20. Brian0

    Well this sucks (XPower crash tested) ?

    Just handed over the car to the insurance company's "preferred" repairer, whom they insisted I use, despite having already gotten an estimate from our local Chips Away, who appologised that it would take 3 to 4 days. Local ABL 1-Touch picked it up, then said they were shipping it to Sevenoaks...
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