Peugeot E3008: Bloody hell!…
So the wife and I set off this morning for my first longish trip for a couple of months. We were doing the 100 mile round trip to Belfast to do a bit of shopping. I charged up the car to 100% overnight and the guessometer was showing its normal 327 mile range. I reset the trip meter to zero.
When we set off it was 1 degree centigrade, but bright and sunny. My 50 mile outward journey consisted of 12 miles of B roads, 10 miles of dual carriageway and 28 miles of motorway on which I maxxed at 65mph, but averaged about 63mph. The heating was on both sides at 22.5 with a fan speed of 2. The radio was on at a moderate level. All speeds/settings exactly the same on the return trip, except that the heater didn’t work for some of the trip (just blowing cold air as is too often the frigging case since we’ve had the car!) and there was a snow flurry on the motorway for 15 minutes or so and the wipers were therefore on for that duration. Temperature was up to 4 degrees centigrade by then.
Then 20 miles or so from home, a red spanner appeared and stayed on the right hand side of the screen, accompanied by a “maintenance alert” warning and asking if we wanted to search for a nearby garage!
We get home and after travelling 98 actual miles the battery percentage had dropped to 43% and the guessometer had dropped from 327 miles to just 91 miles. (236 miles difference).
To really piss me off further, my son rang us up just after we got home to say that his wife was called into hospital for labour and could we rush over to look after their other child. They live 35 miles away! There’s no way that we could have risked that with the remaining charge in the car, so my wife had to borrow her brother’s car to get over there. We live in the countryside here in Northern Ireland and there is a slow charger (22 kwh I think) a few miles away and a fast charger in a petrol station about 25 miles away. Anyway, in the circumstances, my wife wasn’t going to stop off and try to connect up and charge a car for her very first attempt.
Not a good day!
