2023 Renault Twizy, or: Calimero the amusing commuter egg

checked in for another update , and more pics i enjoy this diary..

Not much to report at the moment, besides that I'm really happy that I've bought me this funny bucket. - With the big V10 Audi I had to drive quite some distance to get to a favourite bit of road, but with the Twizy every road is a favourite road. LOL

Anyway, I gave it some much needed interiour lighting, which puts an end to the blind search for the keyhole and the "D" button:


And as a random anecdote, a coincidental "evolution of the small car" parking row, from tiny to fat:

20'000km (12'500mi), done in 11 months (bought on April 21th 2023), and it reached this milestone even before its first annual service

^ That was properly wierd today, it felt like it was snowing in summer, because before noon it was all still lush green, but soon after it was January again:







Proper fun with the Twizy because the steering is direct and unassisted so you can feel very easily what the front wheels are doing. - Granted I did a unwanted slide under breaking while crossing those train lines, but it was slow and catchable. Phew.

We had some summer tires numpties too this year, who went too early for the tire change, but then went out in the snow anyway... result: A unusual amount of crashes over the last weekend, especially on the Autobahns.


Anyway, first annual service avec le Twizy, at 21'300km (13'230mi), almost exactly 1 year to the day after the purchase. - What had to be done?:

• Topping up a spoonful of braking fluid
• Cleaning of battery terminals (were already a bit corroded, probably because I concreted the battery and its surroundings with slush from time to time, whilst playing snowplow)
• Half of the screws of the battery carrier (or battery tray) had to be tightened again (presumably loosend due to heavy mechanical stress when grounding it at full speed on uncleared winter roads)

That was it.

Brakes, says the friendly Renault man, are still fine, no problem, despite of me bombing around with the little bucket every day like there is no tomorrow. We'll take another look at them again during the winter tire change, at the end of autumn.

Conclusion 1: Absolute peanuts.
Conclusion 2: IknowIknowIknow the Twizy is not designed for hardcore winter service, so (mis)using it all year round like I do for sure will take a chip off its lifespan, but that's what I'm already doing anyway the way I'm staking up the kilometers/miles.

Little fun fact: On straight roads the limiter comes in at 85km/h (53mph), but downhill and on recuperation it will let you lose up to 90km/h (56mph), wohoo!

Oh, that made me giggle

Ah, I think you have to also change the sevcon unit to do that, that is what you used to do anyway on 2017 onwards…double the torque is quite noticeable.