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| Author: | DavPaz [ Sun Mar 10, 2019 23:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Grim... wrote: Heated seats can fuck off. Always make me feel like I've pissed myself. Not pleasant |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Sun Mar 10, 2019 23:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
DavPaz wrote: Grim... wrote: Heated seats can fuck off. Always make me feel like I've pissed myself. Not pleasant It's not too bad if you set the back and side heat to 80% and only put 20% through the base. Wait...can your car not do that? |
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| Author: | Sir Taxalot [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Heated seats are great. Sadly my current car doesn't have them, but Lady T's does. We use the heated seats quite frequently. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:59 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: Grim... wrote: Heated seats can fuck off. Always make me feel like I've pissed myself. Not pleasant They're great for stealth activating and making your passenger thinking they've had an accident. They don't make me feel like I've pissed myself. I clearly don't have enough self pissing experience to recognise the sensation... DavPaz? |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Well, us SAS snipers sometimes have to stay still for days I'll have you know. I've said too much. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Sir Taxalot wrote: Heated seats are great. Sadly my current car doesn't have them, but Lady T's does. We use the heated seats quite frequently. You can buy heated seat cushions off Amazon that plug into the 12V socket - I have some in the Yaris. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Heated seats freak me out. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
I quite like them, but I wonder if they work better with leather seats, as they’re genuinely cold some mornings. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Wear thicker britches. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Heated seats are excellent, you weirdos. We paid money to get them on our Skoda. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:41 ] |
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Heated seats are for cake farters. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 13:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
The heated seats I've had in the past were horrible but on minimum the one in my superb is warm enough to comfort without feeling like I've wet myself. Maybe it's the alcantara, maybe it's the heated wheel. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 13:33 ] |
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Maybe I just wet myself often enough I've got used to it. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 13:42 ] |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 20:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Speaking of Tesla clearly not being a company that has its shit together Check out @TechCrunch’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1 ... 6806622209
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 20:23 ] |
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Agile! |
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| Author: | Sir Taxalot [ Mon Mar 11, 2019 22:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
DBSnappa wrote: I quite like them, but I wonder if they work better with leather seats, as they’re genuinely cold some mornings. They work wonderfully well on leather seats. Cold leather seats are not nice feeling to my botty. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Tue Mar 12, 2019 14:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
I really like them in winter, but even in summer I might use mine for a bit if my back is aching. It can really help to relax it. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Speaking of Tesla clearly not being a company that has its shit together Check out @TechCrunch’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1 ... 6806622209
I do have severe doubts about them, especially now that all the other manufacturers are starting to invest heavily in EVs. But I think that their cars really helped shake things up, I mean I love my little Leaf but it's fugly, it's not something most people see and want. So I'm glad they came along to point out that the way to get people to buy electric cars is to make them decent looking and fast. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Get it Nismo'd!  https://insideevs.com/nismo-your-leaf-f ... -for-1385/ |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 13, 2019 13:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
markg wrote: Zardoz wrote: Have you spoken to anyone about this yet? Fingers crossed the power lines are to the edge of your drive mate. I got a power point that does more than this car is actually capable of, just as future proofing really. They're going to see if they can get away with just lowering the maximum output which will still be more than this car can take anyway. Update on this just in case anyone was still worrying. The pod people spoke to the electricity people again and apparently it's fine because it has a load sensor. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 13, 2019 13:15 ] |
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Pod people
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 13, 2019 13:20 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Obviously as with any car ever I would love to make it faster, but as it is it looks so slow that it's already way quicker than people expect. Vans and 1.6 Focuses feeling racy see it at the lights and think that this is their time to shine, but I deny them. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 13, 2019 13:43 ] |
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| YES
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| Author: | Sir Taxalot [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
The Nissan Cube entered into last night's demolition derby did surprisingly well, I thought. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Has anyone ever had a go with one of these sorts of things? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manelord-Repai ... 07HQ3T1SF/ Been watching some YouTube vids and results seem to vary a bit. Just going round the new car tidying bits up and there's a small dent where it's obviously been hit with a door, the paint is intact. It's just not something I'm fussed enough about to get done professionally. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:05 ] |
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I have used a cheap one and it wasn't stellar. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:11 ] |
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markg wrote: ust going round the new car tidying bits up and there's a small dent where it's obviously been hit with a door, the paint is intact. It's just not something I'm fussed enough about to get done professionally. Have you looked at what's involved with taking the door card off and maybe (depending on position of dent) pushing it back out from the inside? |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:18 ] |
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Yeah, I've got all the service manuals and it looks a bit of a faff. So I don't really want to get into that, the car is super quiet and if I ended up with a little rattle due to a busted clip or something it would drive me insane. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:19 ] |
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Hmm looks like a right faff tbh doing it that way. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
I dunno, it looks pretty easy when it works. Just had another quick look at it and it's actually so near the edge that removing the inside panel wouldn't help. Attachment: dent.jpg
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
I dunno, I might just leave it. The plan is for us both to use this car which means it'll probably see worse and so I need to not be too precious about it. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
I was browsing ebay the other day to see if there were any must have, really useful accessories for me Leaf. It turns out there aren't but I did manage to snag a set of these for £20 from a Nissan dealer: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... s&_sacat=0 I thought it would be easy to fit them but it looks like being a right fucking adventure. 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Worth a try with the £15 kit, even if it just improves it rather than removing it. Be a handy thing to have around for any future dings. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
markg wrote: I was browsing ebay the other day to see if there were any must have, really useful accessories for me Leaf. It turns out there aren't but I did manage to snag a set of these for £20 from a Nissan dealer: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... s&_sacat=0 I thought it would be easy to fit them but it looks like being a right fucking adventure. You're in good company! My Cube has those. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
I bore witness to the puddle lights of the Mustang that parks near me at the car park at work the other day. #WyldStallyns |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:51 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Worth a try with the £15 kit, even if it just improves it rather than removing it. Be a handy thing to have around for any future dings. i have the kit but have never used the kit, due to the idea of hot-glueing something directly onto the paintwork feeling too bananas to sensibly countenance. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 13:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
TheVision wrote: markg wrote: I was browsing ebay the other day to see if there were any must have, really useful accessories for me Leaf. It turns out there aren't but I did manage to snag a set of these for £20 from a Nissan dealer: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... s&_sacat=0 I thought it would be easy to fit them but it looks like being a right fucking adventure. You're in good company! My Cube has those. Are they worth tearing away at the interior of my car to fit? |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Mar 20, 2019 14:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
markg wrote: TheVision wrote: markg wrote: I was browsing ebay the other day to see if there were any must have, really useful accessories for me Leaf. It turns out there aren't but I did manage to snag a set of these for £20 from a Nissan dealer: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... s&_sacat=0 I thought it would be easy to fit them but it looks like being a right fucking adventure. You're in good company! My Cube has those. Are they worth tearing away at the interior of my car to fit? They do look nice I guess but you're probably asking the wrong guy. These were already fitted when I had it so I have no idea how much faff they are to fit. Sorry! |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Mar 23, 2019 2:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Speaking of Tesla clearly not being a company that has its shit together what the actual fuck https://twitter.com/SnazzyQ/status/1109250289704427520
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Sat Mar 23, 2019 15:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
JLR droitwich continue to demonstrate their competence - they only just got round to cancelling the tax on the disco Helen gave back in, what, August? Helen couldn't do it because shed already given the v5 back because they put the wrong name on it at initial registration, then couldn't find it some claimed it must have been done... The refund came back with the same wrong name on it, so presumably they never fixed that either. Helen is still so traumatised by it all she can't face going to demand reimbursement of the intervening 6 months, so I'm going to have to do it. I assume this means they've only just sold the car on... Would "gdpr" be a good acronym to throw into the conversation when they inevitably try to weasel out of it? |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 0:03 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Speaking of Tesla clearly not being a company that has its shit together what the actual fuck https://twitter.com/SnazzyQ/status/1109250289704427520
Mates Audi A5 does the same |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
My old Rover did it, my Puma does it. Probably don't leave your boot open in the rain. |
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| Author: | markg [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
Huh? This is a design flaw where if you open your boot in the rain or after it has rained then all the water from the boot lid cascades down into the boot. Every car I ever had with a boot had a big enough gutter to catch it as it ran down. I'd still bloody love a Tesla Model 3, though. I'd just remember to open the boot slowly if it's wet. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:50 ] |
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Style over function? MaliCool |
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| Author: | markg [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:07 ] |
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Designed in California I think is what's going on there. |
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| Author: | markg [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:08 ] |
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I like these but I'm not entirely convinced it was worth the hassle (couple of hours work but thanks to the set of Nissan workshop manuals I found, no broken clips!): Attachment: leaflight.jpg However, Nissan want £250 for these fitted so that means I've made a clear £230 profit. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Mar 24, 2019 16:50 ] |
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markg wrote: Huh? This is a design flaw where if you open your boot in the rain or after it has rained then all the water from the boot lid cascades down into the boot. Every car I ever had with a boot had a big enough gutter to catch it as it ran down.. I guess you've not had a Puma or a Rover 627. |
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Mon Apr 01, 2019 14:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
More progress. I hate painting stuff |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Apr 01, 2019 14:56 ] |
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Right? By the time I'd primed the Tomcat I was thinking "grey" wouldn't be a terrible colour. Are you going to WaxOil it? |
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