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Chris A

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  1. Chris A

    Synthetic Fuels

    I can see that the 'fuel' cost of an EV can be a lot lower than for an ICE, but how do the 2 types compare in total over, say 10 years. Purchase, running, maintenance and depreciation?
  2. Chris A

    Synthetic Fuels

    A neighbour a couple of doors down has a Prius, had it for a good number of years, upto 50 kph it uses electric. He is about 100 inside the 50 kph limit of the village then it's 10 to 12 Kms before the next town. The town is small and if you went through you would do no more than 3 Kms in a 50 ,or less, zone. Maybe he just drives at 49 kph everywhere. Neighbour directly opposite has a ZOE as his daily car plus an old diesel one for when they go away. Curiously enough the news tonight had a report about the demand for second hand diesels increasing, due in the main to the cost per kilometre of fuel being in favour of diesels.
  3. Chris A

    Synthetic Fuels

    So, does that mean you put petrol in the tank then the car magically transforms it into electricity to drive you along. Wonderful progress 🙄 There is still the 'fossil fuel' issue. Better still would be to put a bit of radioactive stuff in which the car turns into electricity. I seem to recall someone did something along those lines with a DeLorean . .
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    Synthetic Fuels

    I'll pay attention the next time I'm watching a station with adverts for the French version - I usually kill the sound during advert breaks - I assume they'll be using the same theme. While on the subject of car adds they never now say how much the car costs to buy just how much per month, with lots of small print at the bottom of the screen wizzing past to explain that although the advert has in big letters, say, 200€ per month the small print reads 400, usually because the car in the ad it the top of the range model not the entry level used for the figures shown. The government here have a 'cunning plan' to make it possible to lease an electric car for 100€ per month. Neadless to say the French car manufacturers are scratching their heads over that one! Just as the Prime Minister came up with the plan to change the law allow petrol stations to sell at a loss ( the law doesn't allow selling at a loss for anything other than during official sales periods). That soon got shot down! Supermarkets adimtted thaat they would catch up the loss by increasing prices on some other things. 60% of the price is tax here, so who has the biggest margin for a cut? Supermarkets have agreed to do short terms offers, my local one has it on for yesterday & today' where they sell at 'prix coutant' - cost price. It looks like about 3 centimes off per litre. Worked though as there was a huge queue at mine local yesterday morning. As I had an appointment in town at the beginning of the afternoon I filled up then, still the 12-14 H lunch period and no queue. I did need to fill up as just got back from a holiday. Rant over, lunch calls
  5. That shouldn't have made a difference to postage to Australia, surely
  6. I belive that if you dropped a burning match into a dish of petrol the vapour will burn but the match goes out in the liquid. I'm not going to try it petrol is far to expensive at present . . .
  7. Unless it's under dash wiring 🔥, then with any luck you get to smell the problem before it goes critical.
  8. Don't you mean they took advantage of having a free van to drive round Europe and fill up with cheap booze and could mark it down to road & load testing
  9. Intersting piece of film, thanks for sharing Colin. The bill for paint used in the film must have been HUGE as it looks as if every version of the van was the same vehicle, judging by the registration plate. 🙄 I half expected the pick up to be the same van after being attacked with a hacksaw . . . .
  10. Play your cards right and you might get the cement mixer & rotovator thrown into the deal
  11. I had a couple of times something similar with my Yeti. A small piece of grit stuck between pad/disc/backing plate, can't remember exactly where. It was bad enough to freak out Madame who made me return home . . .
  12. That's what I've got, they can be mounted in any direction
  13. As Puglet1 says, what are the units. Mine were a bit fiddly to set up initially but since then I've had no problems with their use nor with putting the hood up or down. are you certain it is the reels that are causing a problem and not the hood frame, for example?
  14. I also have a 13/60 convertible with them fitted to the standard mounting points on the arches and have no problems with the roof.
  15. The filter was mounted the correct way, there were markings on it. I was just curious and as the plastic was discoloured it wasn't possible to see if there was any debris.
  16. I also use the cheap version just before the pump. I change it when the plastic becomes discoloured, i cut open the last one I removed to see what the state was - pretty clean. At least with the glass/plastic filter you can see if there is any deposit rather than having to open the pump up to have a look.
  17. Just realised I had headphones on so couldn't hear what you were typing🎧
  18. Can you write a bit bigger I'm slightly deaf
  19. There is a system where you can block numbers here as well, doesn't work very well. The gouvernment recently changed the laws so these types of callers had to call from 'proper numbers' not ones they change every 5 minutes. I keep out landline unplugged unless I want to use it, all the contacts I need have the mobile number - hardly ever get cold calls on it.
  20. I hope you you installed it for him and explained very slowly and clearly how it works 😁
  21. Actually I mislead you they have a maximum of 90 hours, so they are slower than you thought. Our watering hole was manned until 4am this morning then opened up again in time for the last batch of riders this morning. They leave in several groups at fixed intervals over a 12 hour period, the last setting off at 5am this morning. At midnight there was a constant stream of headlights coming up the hill to the village. anyone in a car trying to pull out onto the main road would have been well advised to turn round and find a different route. https://www.magisto.com/video/PAIBOwUEQy81RAJpYw?l=vsm&o=i&c=c&fbclid=IwAR2X5cl6WgcozzY3gfL5y5cyGQjz6nx16988wZ68MqO5ffgx_jhtoyfM1lk
  22. You must have done the rewiring a while ago when it was normal for the sockets to be for 2 pin plugs. Now they have an earth, a pin not socket this way old 2 pin items can still be plugged nto them. The current (🙄) house still has a couple of these sockets dotted about the place. After serious thread drift we are back on track due to the mention of 'purple wiring'. Assuming the circuit isn't a 3 phase, then the purple could just be a live. From my book, in French, the colour specs are given as: Green/yellow : earth Blue: neutral Red or any other colour with the exception of blue, green or yellow : live
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