[Fluffy]

So my car had an alarm fault, it was going off randomly and the dealer needed to fix a couple of issues as well.

Because it was away for a week at least, eurocar sent a replacement, a B5 Volvo awd.

I fancied a trip to the seaside, so after a 160 mile round trip,  I went to put petrol in it filling back to brim.

The shock was the $43 in petrol, one trip.

In the whole of March, I used $30 of electricity for thee whole month an covered 1153 miles.

The xc60 was only getting between 21-25 mpg. It was a huge step backwards in technology as well. You had to plug in to get android auto. Everything is 5 years behind the rest of the competition.

It was a shock putting petrol in a car again. It was noisy, clunky compared to the ioniq. But surprisingly easier to maneuver when parking. It’s cameras are excellent.

But yes, only a year with an EV and it’s rough going back to fuelling, standing in diesel soaked  pumps, and your hands stink as well manhandling the nozzle.

 

 

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[Kjid5]

Car is back and the garage were extremely apologetic and arranged for it to be delivered back to me ( free of charge) which was a really helpful and kind thing to do all – all valeted and sparkly clean and hopefully no more 12v battery issue. It does seem to be a car industry problem these batteries including in ICE cars. But at least I know how to break into my car now should anything odd like that happen again !

[kezo]

Kjid5 wrote:

Car is back and the garage were extremely apologetic and arranged for it to be delivered back to me ( free of charge) which was a really helpful and kind thing to do all – all valeted and sparkly clean and hopefully no more 12v battery issue. It does seem to be a car industry problem these batteries including in ICE cars. But at least I know how to break into my car now should anything odd like that happen again !

It’s nice to be back in you own car 🙂

[Kjid5]

@kezo very much so 🙂 I love it and the freedom it gives me.

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