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My 4 has seen 3 Highland winters now, fair amount of driving on salted roads and very few washes during those winter months - not worth bothering with a black car ;) Gave it a decent wash on Saturday, jetted behind the arch liners and along the length of the sills, all looks fine TBH. The...

Aye, the dealerships are no doubt struggling, the century long gravy train of ICE repair is slowly closing. Doesn't excuse theft by deception though IMO :(

Yep, typical upselling BS, some might call it attempted robbery TBH. The ' brake pipe cleaning' is a new one though :unsure: Can you not find a machine shop that will skim your discs ? I know they get scabby but I would imagine they will have at least one tickle in them before they hit the min...

Check out Grant's smart repairs on the youtube. Operates in the North London area, seems very honest and skilled judging by his uploads. That split should stitch and weld easily enough, skim of filler and bob's yer auntie ;)

I have my suspicions re quality but it's difficult to say for sure. The local councils in the UK have never been more penniless if they're to be believed and this is reflected in the conditions of the roads surfaces nationwide I think. The screen on mine lasted 2 years almost to the day before a...

Pretty sure i remember Tesla owners commenting about a similar noise a few years back, was traced to the battery casing flexing due to the heat from rapid charging :unsure:

Makes me wonder why manufacturers don't do away with on board chargers and just have a simple DC port. It would save a decent amount of weight, space and cost . Home chargers would be more expensive with the step up transformer and rectifier it would need but I can't see it being prohibitive...

Me too, 20k was the best I could do with the fronts on a 2.0 tdi Leon estate I had before the MG. I've driven 'with spirit' in the 30k I've covered in the MG so far, made use of the crisp handling on the twisty roads in this area and quite often have to apply a dab of opposite lock leaving...

Good to hear your update spence, nearly 100k now, wow ! Interesting that you say you couldn't notice any difference between a much lower mileage one and yours, this is a major advantage of EV's IMO, the simple turbine smooth power unit is kind to the rest of the car I think. An ICE's pistons...

I've not yet had the chance to sit in a model 3 but I have noticed an enticingly low and vertical looking steering wheel on cars that I've looked at while walking past. Might be the only thing I would get on with though, Tesla's minimalist interiors don't float my boat :confused: MX5 is lovely...

The camera clips into a plastic holder that's bonded to the windscreen, there's a 2 piece plastic cover that clips over the camera/ holder . The cover is fairly easy to prise off but a little fiddly to reinstall as the mirror gets in the way . There must be data processing happening within the...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296907143410?_skw=mg4+wheel+bearing+front&itmmeta=01JGP7ADK70NQ2FNMPXF29HFFD&hash=item45210b This should be what you need.

The luxury I must admit I miss from ICE, doubt batteries will ever compete with the energy density of liquid fuel in my lifetime. Pretty much all I miss though :)

Reminded me of the Ford focus I ran a decade ago, I had a gizmo wired in-line with the common rail pressure sensor which 'tricked' it into running higher pressure thus giving more power. Fine for a good couple of years until one rainy January evening at 60 mph I heard a faint 'ping' and the...

It's possible I guess. I'm so opposed to using public charging that I usually arrive home with 20% or so, try to balance charge once weekly though.

Yes, looking at the power readout it basically halves when temps are around freezing. Max I see is 12% compared with 25% when ambient temp gets above 10 degrees, I do wish that they had displayed kW though :rolleyes: I think LFP in particular is very stressed by high currents in or out at low...

Whaaaat ?? how do you expect them to pay staff wages and fill the coffee machine without making up unnecessary jobs ?? Shame on you.

Picked up a large stone chip a month or so ago and just filed it in my mental 'to do' list. The recent cold snap had me blasting the heating and the chip turned into a large crack ☹️ Had expected a long wait but I booked Autoglass Inverness via my insurance last Sunday and the glass was...

I'm the same, this is my third winter with the car and the first time that I've tried using the battery heater. The LFP battery is particularly 'sluggish' when temps are around zero, tardy acceleration and half the regen is usual for at least 20 miles I've found. Heating significantly cuts the...

If you pop the bonnet you'll see the upper coolant reservoir showing some flow if the IBH is active, will also start to warm up after a while. I have been using the battery heating recently when daytime temps didn't rise above 2 deg, definitely helps to release max amps for safe overtakes much...