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[bolidemichael]

SpeckledJim said:

Bannock said:

bolidemichael said:

A BBC article on a journey within Wales in an electric car. I'll stick to my ULEZ compatible vehicles.

That article is rubbish, and evidently written in order to garner attention rather than give a proper analysis. She's obviously driven in a Mk1 Ioniq, capable of only 150 miles, which is far lower than most EVs now on the market. It's an early adopter model which is being discontinued from the market as it's obsolete. It is not a car which was ever intended to cover long distances, partticularly across unpopulated rural wastelands, regularly. She's then chosen a route across a sparsely populated region with poor charging infrastructure, AT THE MOMENT. It is improving. The route is 172 miles - easily doable in that car with one charge stop of under 30 minutes, but not really the ideal vehicle for it.

TL;DR - "Woman takes vehicle on journey for which it is not particularly suited, completes journey with minor inconveniences and then moans about it".

Next Week: Moving House, in my Countach.

Not quite... one would have a reasonable expectation of using a vehicle to get from A to B. That's a pre-requisite of any mass-transport vehicle.

[SpeckledJim]

bolidemichael said:

SpeckledJim said:

Bannock said:

bolidemichael said:

A BBC article on a journey within Wales in an electric car. I'll stick to my ULEZ compatible vehicles.

That article is rubbish, and evidently written in order to garner attention rather than give a proper analysis. She's obviously driven in a Mk1 Ioniq, capable of only 150 miles, which is far lower than most EVs now on the market. It's an early adopter model which is being discontinued from the market as it's obsolete. It is not a car which was ever intended to cover long distances, partticularly across unpopulated rural wastelands, regularly. She's then chosen a route across a sparsely populated region with poor charging infrastructure, AT THE MOMENT. It is improving. The route is 172 miles - easily doable in that car with one charge stop of under 30 minutes, but not really the ideal vehicle for it.

TL;DR - "Woman takes vehicle on journey for which it is not particularly suited, completes journey with minor inconveniences and then moans about it".

Next Week: Moving House, in my Countach.

Not quite... one would have a reasonable expectation of using a vehicle to get from A to B. That's a pre-requisite of any mass-transport vehicle.

Thanks undoubtedly to some terrible crimes in a previous life, I've now done over 70,000 miles in a Nissan Leaf. Never more than 90 miles at a time. It has never been charged anywhere except home and work. But because it can do everything I need it to do, it's been fit for purpose.

A-B in my case being 25 miles, not 91 miles, and not 172 miles. It's totally crap at the things it's totally crap at, but it's flumpping amazing at the role it was bought to do.

The money this Leaf has saved me has paid for my penis extension. Now that I have my penis extension, my house looks bloody ridiculous.

[trevalvole]

bolidemichael said:

My three-in-a-row -- a toppy (read, dreamland) but late registered and highly specced E430

Some of the photos e.g. no.7 look like Shilly's of ebay fame.

[Bannock]

bolidemichael said:

Not quite... one would have a reasonable expectation of using a vehicle to get from A to B. That's a pre-requisite of any mass-transport vehicle.

There wouldn't be a huge variety of mass-transport vehicles on the market if there weren't a huge variety of differing needs and routines they are designed to fulfil. I expect the huge majority of people would laugh their nuts off at people buying 1998 Jaguar XJ8s, but here we are, there's a thread here for people who find such things suitable transport. Of course a 1st Gen Hyundai Ioniq fulfils its brief brilliantly. But if you buy one and expect it to fulfil a brief for which it wasn't designed, then you will be disappoint. I wouldn't buy a Ferrari and expect it to transport my family and dog every day, nor do rubbish dump runs efficiently.

As with SJ above, I've been running a Nissan Leaf for 5 years now. It has a range lower than the vehicle in that article, it is inferior to that Hyundai in almost every regard, and yet I often take it on round trips of 360 miles without drama (across Wales, no less), because I know it's limitations and I'm prepared to accept them when taken on balance with the benefits the vehicle brings me, and it's easy to plan around them. It's usual task though is under 50 miles a day, for which it is supremely designed and utterly uncontested.

YMMV. But you will note the lady who wrote that article did indeed get from A to B and back to A again. I wouldn't advise her to do it regularly, just as I wouldn't advise her to buy a unrestored 1976 Morris Marina and try to do that regularly. Or even once come to that.

[Ben Lowden]

bolidemichael said:

sdh2903 said:

tobinen said:

Is Ian banned? I've not seen anything contentious

Doesn't take much for grumpy scrump to wield the ban hammer these days

Bang, bang, Scrumpy's banning hammer, came down upon his head

Clang, clang, Scrumpy's banning hammer made sure, he was dead.

I'm disappointed to see this sort of behaviour. Scrump is a fantastic member of our community, and we should all be grateful for him and his dedication to PH.

If a post on PistonHeads breaches our rules of posting, it will be removed by any one of our 30 moderators.

You shouldn't need reminding of rule 23 in our rules of posting: Abuse towards our moderators will not be tolerated and will result in your account being suspended or banned.

So it should really be no surprise if this sort of behaviour does result in action being taken against you.

[Mezzanine]

Ben Lowden said:

bolidemichael said:

sdh2903 said:

tobinen said:

Is Ian banned? I've not seen anything contentious

Doesn't take much for grumpy scrump to wield the ban hammer these days

Bang, bang, Scrumpy's banning hammer, came down upon his head

Clang, clang, Scrumpy's banning hammer made sure, he was dead.

I'm disappointed to see this sort of behaviour. Scrump is a fantastic member of our community, and we should all be grateful for him and his dedication to PH.

If a post on PistonHeads breaches our rules of posting, it will be removed by any one of our 30 moderators.

You shouldn't need reminding of rule 23 in our rules of posting: Abuse towards our moderators will not be tolerated and will result in your account being suspended or banned.

So it should really be no surprise if this sort of behaviour does result in action being taken against you.

Really? Read the room…

I would say Scrumps is almost an active member of this weird little corner and I hardly think anyone is actually ‘abusing’ him?

[Swervin_Mervin]

So does criticism (mild ribbing at that) constitute abuse?

[Krikkit]

Ben Lowden said:

bolidemichael said:

sdh2903 said:

tobinen said:

Is Ian banned? I've not seen anything contentious

Doesn't take much for grumpy scrump to wield the ban hammer these days

Bang, bang, Scrumpy's banning hammer, came down upon his head

Clang, clang, Scrumpy's banning hammer made sure, he was dead.

I'm disappointed to see this sort of behaviour. Scrump is a fantastic member of our community, and we should all be grateful for him and his dedication to PH.

If a post on PistonHeads breaches our rules of posting, it will be removed by any one of our 30 moderators.

You shouldn't need reminding of rule 23 in our rules of posting: Abuse towards our moderators will not be tolerated and will result in your account being suspended or banned.

So it should really be no surprise if this sort of behaviour does result in action being taken against you.

I don't believe for a moment that was a serious attack on Scrump - he's been a welcome contributor on this thread before.

However, we've also had several members given temporary bans for posting indiscretions (not really disputed, I might add), but without notice to the thread that x or y post contravened the rules sufficiently. There's no feedback for the rest of us, people and posts just disappear.

The mod team at PH do a fantastic and usually thankless task, but it would perhaps be helpful for the rest of us if members were temporarily banned for posts to be told who, for how long, and what it was for.

[SpeckledJim]

Heads on spikes, pour encourager les autres.

[phil_cardiff]

bolidemichael said:

A BBC article on a journey within Wales in an electric car. I'll stick to my ULEZ compatible vehicles.

Wales suffering from Westminster controlled sh*t transport infrastructure? I am shook, as the kids say...

[phil_cardiff]

Bannock said:

bolidemichael said:

A BBC article on a journey within Wales in an electric car. I'll stick to my ULEZ compatible vehicles.

That article is rubbish, and evidently written in order to garner attention rather than give a proper analysis. She's obviously driven in a Mk1 Ioniq, capable of only 150 miles, which is far lower than most EVs now on the market. It's an early adopter model which is being discontinued from the market as it's obsolete. It is not a car which was ever intended to cover long distances, particularly across unpopulated rural wastelands, regularly. She's then chosen a route across a sparsely populated region with poor charging infrastructure, AT THE MOMENT. It is improving. The route is 172 miles - easily doable in that car with one charge stop of under 30 minutes, but not really the ideal vehicle for it.

TL;DR - "Woman takes vehicle on journey for which it is not particularly suited, completes journey with minor inconveniences and then moans about it".

Edited by Bannock on Friday 20th May 14:39

'She' is a bloke.

[Geekman]

Ben Lowden said:

bolidemichael said:

sdh2903 said:

tobinen said:

Is Ian banned? I've not seen anything contentious

Doesn't take much for grumpy scrump to wield the ban hammer these days

Bang, bang, Scrumpy's banning hammer, came down upon his head

Clang, clang, Scrumpy's banning hammer made sure, he was dead.

I'm disappointed to see this sort of behaviour. Scrump is a fantastic member of our community, and we should all be grateful for him and his dedication to PH.

If a post on PistonHeads breaches our rules of posting, it will be removed by any one of our 30 moderators.

You shouldn't need reminding of rule 23 in our rules of posting: Abuse towards our moderators will not be tolerated and will result in your account being suspended or banned.

So it should really be no surprise if this sort of behaviour does result in action being taken against you.

What did I miss? I don't think I've ever seen anything even approaching abuse in this thread.

[0a]

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

LONG drive (by my standards) tomorrow. 572 miles, should be a good run-out for the LS. I don't anticipate doing an R129 or BolideMichael speed-run, but I plan to at least make some progress. Gonna be a long day, but the Cairngorms await

Get that speed limiter tested! I checked my 430's (reassuring to know it's there for safety's sake).

[RicksAlfas]

Blimey. Best just post Car Gurus links from now on chaps.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

swiveleyedgit said:

Emeye said:

CDG



I don't think it looks too bad in that colour with those alloys

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373822230235

Those wheels do a good job of looking like a set of ten quid plastic hub caps

Heathen. It's a beauty.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Emeye said:

Does anyone know what happened to Ian?

Friday just isn't Friday without Ian.

Banned by a mod called kink apparently. Not sure whether it's a yellow card or a red.


ETA I see I've missed some chat on that.

Ben's responses are perfectly reasonable but somewhat at odds with my own experience. Some bans are arbitrary and capricious. I don't know about Ian's but I certainly felt that mine was.

Edited by CharlesdeGaulle on Friday 20th May 18:20

[steve_naive]

0a said:

Exactly what was wrong with my 190. New distributor cap, rotor arm and leads cured it.

Hoping that cures the old 280se I bought recently (and documented in this thread).

Stalling in gear when warm.

Bought new injectors, dizzy cap and rotor, leads, plugs, you name it. What a bargain. Lol.

[TyrannosauRoss Lex]

0a said:

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

LONG drive (by my standards) tomorrow. 572 miles, should be a good run-out for the LS. I don't anticipate doing an R129 or BolideMichael speed-run, but I plan to at least make some progress. Gonna be a long day, but the Cairngorms await

Get that speed limiter tested! I checked my 430's (reassuring to know it's there for safety's sake).

We'll see, I doubt I'll be doing that sort of speed though, the fear of losing my licence is too high these days!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

My high speed dash through Germany today involved at least one camera flash and one traffic jam ('stau') that satnav gleefully informed me would add 3 hours to the journey as the A8 was 'impassable'. Being the renegade outlaw that I am, I turned off the motorway through a 'no access' woodsman's track and followed a bunch of Germans through the woods to clear village roads. Result.

At my hotel I have discovered the most amazing vending machine which cleverly dispenses cold beer bottles in exchange for a mere €2.50. Its the most impressive thing I think I have ever seen.

When the roads weren't at a standstill they looked a bit like this.

[21st Century Man]

Kph, give over! Our Panda does that regularly.