If the 2020 and 2021 cars are physically the same then you could go by mileage. But the 2021 is significantly better with improved interior, soundproofing (eg double pane front windows), efficiency, and the heat pump makes a huge difference in the winter.

I pay £17.50/month for Denplan, which includes two check-ups / hygienist appointments each year. I’ve needed one filling during the last 4 years, which was included in the package. They’ve also fitted me in at short notice for an x-ray when I bit down on stone in some food – random appointments and minor treatment like this don’t attract any extra bills.

Quite happy with the system as it’s set up at the moment.

And, I’ve stopped doing the grant too, far too much hassle, when I’m busy at most times

Is the idea that the homeowner applies for the grant, or do they just accept that the price is £7,500 higher?

a 2020 Dual Motor with the sport wheels this morning.

Lease company gave me a purchase price of £20k on my 2021 Model 3 LR with enhanced autopilot, so £24k is a rip-off. You can pay Tesla £1000 to get the performance upgrade on a dual-motor, so unless you’re particularly tempted by giant wheels this is the easiest and cheapest way.

Try to find a 2021 or newer if you can, as they have numerous improvements over the previous generation including the heat pump. The sweet spot would be a late 2022, as this gets the AMD Ryzen infotainment but keeps ultrasonic parking sensors.

Varies by motorway. The M1 closures towards the bottom are usually supposed to be from 10pm, but they’re diverting traffic off 30 mins to an hour before this time in my (frustrated!) experience.

Landing means you need a landing system, this is just reinforced gridfins for capture.

It lands on itty-bitty little feet that stick out from the side, not the grid fins.

Sounds like your 12V to 5V converter is faulty.

Louise Haigh has gone up in my estimation.

Yes, also in mine. And my feeling is that if DP / P&O are prepared to throw their toys out of the pram at this point, they were never serious about investing anyway.

Not really visible to the naked eye in North Yorkshire but the diffuse glow was bright enough to not need a torch when walking around areas with no street lighting. Looked good on the camera though.

Are you sure you’re not trying to run 24v tape off a 12v supply?

The really bright stuff is 24v.

The subsequent fire investigation confirmed that the vehicle
was powered by a diesel non-hybrid internal combustion engine.

I’m not an expert but I am a fan of knee-jerk reactions, so it sounds to me like all diesel vehicles should be banned from car parks.

Obviously the car has its own insurance (hopefully, but it is being driven by a Range Rover driver flying out of Luton after all), but does Jaguar Landrover share any liability for the fire?

When you add to that the fact the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refers to Palestinians as, quote, “human animals”

He’s a repulsive man but he didn’t say that, as the article you link to makes clear. If you’re going to link to something off-site instead of making a reasoned argument, at least read it first.

Yes – if the car doesnt support talking to the charger ( as our car – merc eqc – doesnt support)

AFAIK no charger supports this.

Only thing you can do is try not to worry about it, which is easier said than done. The moment I notice it, I become aware of every ectopic beat or short run of bigeminy or trigeminy, until I forget that it’s happening and it goes unnoticed for a while again. It started after a bout of Covid-19 last year, but I’ve had a history of occasional PVCs showing on ECGs for years.

As you say, it’s like a whack in the chest followed by a cough when it happens. Did exactly the same as you when I had the portable ECG on and decided to see how far I could push things. There’s a whole series of unpleasant wobbles as my heart accelerates but once it’s gone through about 140 bpm it behaves itself.

Fatigue (lack of sleep as opposed to just a lot of exercise) and stress affects mine in roughly equal measure. Not impacted by alcohol or caffeine in my case.

If you need to do an exercise ECG in the hospital and are a half-decent runner, you’ll need to make it clear in advance that the Bruce Protocol is not suitable and that they’ll need to pick something else or hold the last stage.

heaven forbid these thing’s should ever be user servicable!!!!!

Well, the whole point of gas appliances is that they AREN’T user serviceable.

You may find that once the PRV triggers, it doesn’t necessarily return to the closed position and might need to be reset manually. The first question that needs to be answered is why it triggered in the first place – if you can’t get to and test the expansion vessel, then you can either add another vessel of equal or greater capacity in the heating loop somewhere, or as a short-term bodge, introduce some air into a radiator and lock both valves open.

Come to think of it, why don’t Prime Ministers (and Ch. Ex.) pay BIK on the Downing Street flats?

Put it on a charger for a bit. I was surprised how long it takes to recharge a car battery while driving – the AGM in my old Volvo was only partially recharged after a 5 hour motorway drive when I accidentally drained it by leaving a door ajar.

You can go from 60A to 80A on a looped supply, and there are no restrictions really beyond that provided the charger has current limiting. I used to be on a loop, and the only thing that Northern Powergrid mentioned when they came to up-rate the fuse to 80A was that it’s first-come-first-served, so if you and your neighbour want a car charger there might be issues.

Not possible to run a new feed to my place at the time due to grade 2 listed building.

I’d go for a PAYG 3 sim. Will cost you £15 but you will get calls/texts to and from the UK included in the package, instead of just data.

(good quality summer tyres with decent tread remaining have never made me come up short under braking or steering).

You clearly have absolutely no idea what kind of difference that driving on winter (or decent all-season) tyres actually makes.

My dad added a 7kW charger at his farm (he has an AirBnb in a glamping pod). The number of people who turn up in EVs and expect a free charge is astonishing. He set the price at 26p/kWh and still has issues with people filling up and legging it if he doesn’t get the cash out of them in advance.

Obviously AirBnB refund it out of the deposit but you can’t imagine someone filling up at the petrol station next to a hotel and thinking that the tank of fuel is included in the stay.

And apparently the government agrees with them, as in “yeah okay, we won’t be doing that anymore”.

It’s worse than that, their attitude is “we’ll keep doing that, but this time we’ll remember to write it in the Big Book of Bribes”.

and glasses are stupidly expensive.

So what do you suggest the millions of people who need glasses and aren’t the beneficiaries of a bloke with £250 million quid in the bank do?

I remember Starmer debating Sunak and declaring that he would never, ever, use private healthcare. Is getting someone else to spunk £6k on glasses not a bit hypocritical?

I tried one out of curiosity to see what nights out of bed do to my blood sugar control (answer: not pretty), but would hate to wear one full time. They don’t work on skinny people and the filament irritated the muscle on the back of my arm.

I really hoped we had turned a page on behaviour like this, but at the earliest opportunity this episode has shown us that behind all the huff and puff all politicians are made of the same stuff.

For me it’s more worrying that the leader of the Labour Party is clearly so disconnected from the average person in the country. What’s it saying when someone on £163,000/yr can’t afford to buy his own suits and glasses?

Football thing is complicated. I’d be happier if the cost of the box was recharged to the security services and funded out of public money than I am that he’s getting it as a gift. There’s no point saying “no strings attached”, because no one in their right mind would make a donation to a political figure or party and not expect something in return.

One imagines that the cost of providing a posh suit and some glasses will be more than offset by tax changes in the upcoming budget that shift the burden onto lower and middle earners by scrapping salary-sacrifice pension savings and the single-person council tax discount, while the ultra-rich see no changes.

while Germany has all but eliminated it.

Just because Germany looks modern it doesn’t mean that they aren’t hostage to exactly the same corruption that you see in banana republics. German car manufacturers have an enormous vested interest in fossil fuel vehicles and are putting significant pressure on their government to maintain it against competition from China / Korea / Tesla. Similar pressure applied by Shell etc who need to sell the fuel.

It’s taken years for VAG to come up with a platform that can rival Tesla for range, and it still has ropey infotainment. Taycan or Audi equivalent is nice but nearly 3x the price of the Tesla.

Cost of a new boiler in comparison to the house is tiny. I would look for any clues that the owner takes a bash at DIY electrics instead.

I can only echo what others have said. Neighbours 100%. I arrived early and had a cup of tea with my prospective neighbours before the second viewing. The houses are usually about the same age so a discussion about the issues they might have had with their house will be useful. Also a quick look at the cars for any with giant exhausts and a listen out for barking dogs.

Parish council meeting minutes worth a read too, they tend to highlight antisocial behaviour issues in the area.

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If you look at the UK August YTD volumes, there’s been 80k new diesel’s registered versus 674k Petrol, 214k BEV, 100k PHEV and 170k HEV. The total with some kind of battery propulsion is 484k.

Nearly a million new cars in less than a year? Mind boggles.

Have you tried the “I’m leaving” line with Virgin Media to see if they’ll offer a retention discount? Sounds like they’re just as evil as they were when they were known as ntl.

Council “definitive right of way” maps also have an OS layer, but it goes right down to some enormous scale.

Flexiroam has worked well for me for over a year now. I’ve got a 3 PAYG sim that handles UK data and a big chunk of the world, and then Flexiroam does the rest. I think I pay about £10/month for Three, and then top up 30GB once a year on the Flexiroam.

Bear in mind that with your data-only SIM you’ll be limited to using WhatsApp or similar for voice, and will pay through the nose to receive calls on your existing number (I think EE are now up to about £2.80 per minute, others probably similar).

Tractor man has amazing reflexes if he’s responded to the sound of the ejector seat…

It’s a good picture, no one else cares about your nitpicking.

I had this, saw a physio. He gave me some stretches to do with a giant green elastic band and told me to keep running. Worked.

I liked it. Not a Clarkson fan but I’ll miss the dynamic that the three of them have.

He makes this work perfectly.

Sentinel is full a lot of the time these days, but if you can get space I also recommend. Much cheaper than the staff car park and no walk in the rain.

People who call a bottle a Bidon.

And hills “bergs”.

How does a LHD drill bit help? Is it the idea that the increasing friction from the bit will help undo the seized bolt as the middle is cut out?

Surely different fault paths is the reason the Good Lord invented RCDs?

You can’t use those Greenbrook connectors, they’re designed for twin and earth cable, not flex (on one side, anyway). Can’t see why the Masterplug one wouldn’t work but it looks a bit crap. Consider this:

https://connectec.uk/electrical/power-cables-adapters/leads-plugs-and-adaptors/c13-rewireable-iec-female-connector-plug-black

If you have a close look at the back of the TV you might find that the cable enters under a little flap held in place by a screw, and is in fact a normal fgure-of-eight detachable plug behind that.