The Car thread

[Raj]

2 hours ago, Milo said:

I recently got a ‘why would I want to learn to drive?’ response from my 18 year old. 
 

Could’ve kissed him

Will save you a good few grand and headaches too!!👍🏾

 

P.S Do you really live in a Surrey mansion?

[Izzy]

22 minutes ago, Raj said:

P.S Do you really live in a Surrey mansion?

I've seen photos and his driveway is longer than Melton Road

[Zear0]

20 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I've seen photos and his driveway is longer than Melton Road

Jokes on him though when has to put the bins out

[FoyleFox]

10 hours ago, The Bear said:

The best thing about electric adjustment in seat positions is when it gets saved to your profile so you can instantly restore it if it goes out of whack.

 

Also multiple driver profiles means each seat position can be saved for every person that drives the car and auto adjusts to them when they get in the car. 

 

Memory seats are an essential if your car sharing. Can't be doing with faffing about to change it every time you get in. 

9 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said:

I'd much rather go for a comfortable seat over whether or not it moves electrically.  Couldn't do without the heated seats though.

And, these. I've discovered the joy of cooling seats this summer ☀️ 

[Zear0]

9 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

 

Memory seats are an essential if your car sharing. Can't be doing with faffing about to change it every time you get in. 

And, these. I've discovered the joy of cooling seats this summer ☀️ 

Heated wheel and seats enabled remotely in the app on cold mornings is some car decadence I will never do without.

[MC Prussian]

Can't fault Renault for not trying. Concept Gordini.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Just worked out that even if I was only charging my car at motorway services prices it would still be cheaper to run than the old 2.0 petrol car it replaced

[Legend_in_blue]

9 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Just worked out that even if I was only charging my car at motorway services prices it would still be cheaper to run than the old 2.0 petrol car it replaced

 

My weekly "fill" this week was 8p less than diesel currently is per litre on the M1 services at Leic Forest 

 

 

[Izzy]

7 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

 

My weekly "fill" this week was 8p less than diesel currently is per litre on the M1 services at Leic Forest 

 

My diesel saloon is nearly 10 years old but I look after it by regular servicing and always putting in premium diesel from BP or Shell.

 

Filled it up today.

 

That'll be £125 please sir.

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

11 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said:

 

My weekly "fill" this week was 8p less than diesel currently is per litre on the M1 services at Leic Forest 

 

 

Someone's still driving my old Mazda according to the DVLA records and I hope for their sake they're driving it gently on long runs and not sitting in traffic to do the school drop off and getting about 25 miles to the gallon

[Bellend Sebastian]

Used a Tesla Supercharger the other day and I couldn't argue with the rate (it was busy and I don't drive a Tesla) but the £75 pending payment seems a lot when you've bought £16 worth 

[Raj]

My daughter passed her test last week first time at Wigston!!

 

Now on the look out for a little run around.

 

The insurance isnt so bad considering- but she has to have a black box which monitors her driving which i think will probably be a good thing in the long run.

 

 

[Grebfromgrebland]

2 minutes ago, Raj said:

My daughter passed her test last week first time at Wigston!!

 

Now on the look out for a little run around.

 

The insurance isnt so bad considering- but she has to have a black box which monitors her driving which i think will probably be a good thing in the long run.

 

 

Try and avoid the black box if you can. They can sometimes be unreliable and give false impressions of bad driving causing the premium to sky rocket 🚀 

[Raj]

9 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Try and avoid the black box if you can. They can sometimes be unreliable and give false impressions of bad driving causing the premium to sky rocket 🚀 

Read so many mixed reviews about these black boxes and the pros for and against.

One mates  lad DIDNT have a box and his insurance was cancelled cos he was done for speeding in the first 3 months!

 

 

Another friends son has the below and within 6 month they said he doesn't need to use it cos his driving was always above the score required- swings and roundabouts i suppose...

 

 

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Raj