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Just to make things more complicated……… ‘as a percentage of the retail price.’ Lot’s of car makers end user sale price bears no relation to the list price.
I lived in Ammanford up till 5 years ago, in Llanelli now.
I checked the speed camera map and the vast majority of speed camera vans are at or in the approach to schools. For me that’s a good thing.
I tend to put the car in cruise control, even in 20mph limits, and keep my foot near the brake in case the car strays over the set speed while going downhill.
I’ve twice had the mobile service turn up with the wrong tyres. Once, they fitted one that was the wrong load. It should have been XL for the SUV, but was normal. Luckily I spotted it the next day. Tyre should have been checked when it was delivered to them, and when it was checked out, but neither done. I was stood next to the fitter when I got him to return, so overheard his conversation with the branch manager, and the manager was going to put the tyre back on the shelf, despite me doing about 20 miles on it. Absolutely shocking.
I really hate that when visiting dealerships, any brand really, what few disabled spaces available are taken up by cars that are for sale by the dealership.
This, this, and this again!
Hi Chris Fair comments. Regarding the extra cost of automatic cars on the scheme. A simple solution would be if the main driver is the disabled person then an automatic gearbox should be offered as a free upgrade/option and be the same AP as the manual version/spec if it is available on the scheme at a lower price.
I told them mine wasn’t weatherproof, and the interior was getting wet. They then got the car collected and arranged for me to hire a suitable replacement.
My local rugby stadium in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, that opened in November 2008 has had four Tesla chargers from opening. It’d be brilliant if I could use them while watching a game.
If anything like their home hi-fi range, the Bowers & Wilkins system would make everything else sound like a transistor radio.
Focal are a French company who make high end audio. I’ve listened to some of their speakers and indeed are excellent, but not experienced the in-car system in a Peugeot.
Although the article is from 2017, my friend’s problems both happened last year before lockdown started.
Anyway, don’t want to derail the topic, just making the point that it’s not just hybrids that suffer battery problems.
I agree how to prevent it happening, but there doesn’t have to be a fault. This from a Mercedes dealership in the same article:
“There was no surprise at the dealership,” he writes. “This happens,” he was informed, due to “electronic activity that happens passively and constantly.” He was further advised to keep the car on a “trickle” charger that plugs into a wall outlet—hard to do at airports—or disconnect the negative battery terminal.
I so, so wish I could have a Mark Levinson system as are available with Lexus. I have had two Lexi in the past, and as well as being brilliant cars, the sound system is by far the best in-car system I’ve ever heard.
The system in my current XC40 isn’t bad, but is just above average as far as I’m concerned.
By the way, my friend’s cars were BMW and Mercedes.
Here’s a quote from an article four years ago in 2017.
‘…While their owners are flying off to visit friends and family, tens of thousands of automobiles will be left waiting in airport parking lots. Some of these travellers will return to discover their cars’ batteries are dead. Welcome home. Here’s a set of jumper cables.
Why? Modern cars consume electricity even when they are seemingly dormant: GPS systems, proximity sensors, antitheft systems, data links and automatic vehicle-condition “polling” all draw on the battery.’
Another thing is people wondering why their stop-start system isn’t working in their cars. Once again this is down to the car not being driven enough to top up the battery for it to keep restarting the car, so the system will deactivate until the battery has enough charge.
I’ve had two friends with virtually new German brand non hybrid cars that have had battery problems. Both drove long distances on the motorway to an airport. One was away for 7 days, the other 10. Both had flat batteries on return. RAC person said it is getting more common and attends Heathrow everyday with the same scenario. Supposedly some modern car alarm systems have a high power usage so can cause drain over a relatively short space in time. As both of them are regular fliers, I advised them to change to the highest spec heavy duty battery they could buy. Neither have had any problems since.
The problem with hybrids is that if you do only very short journeys all the time, the small starter battery can run down, much the same as a normal car battery, but because it is so small it gets depleted (and knackered far easier).
Volvo XC40 Inscription Pro, which I got in November 2020 for £1900 (after haggling). Car looks great.
I have never had so many faults, bad fitting and finish in 20 years, which include used cars as well as new. I had two plastic covers for electrics under the dash fall off not once, but twice, the same ones. Lot’s of people on different forums know about the seat base cushioning problems, which has also affected me and I have to have my wheelchair cushion to sit on. The trim in the boot has come away on both sides by the boot lid and leaving a one inch gap. It’s had to go back to the dealer five times for updates to, supposedly, cure software issues.
Dashboard Warnings requiring car going back to dealer:
Headlight failure.
Parking Brake failure.
Brake failure.
Collision warning while stationary in traffic, 6 ft from car in front.
Collision avoidance system applying brakes when only car on that stretch of motorway.
Front parking sensors warning of being close to object, while being at a standstill in traffic with plenty of room in front.
Four of these things have occurred again since supposedly being sorted.
I’ve had Japanese cars for the last 30 years until this and never encountered anything like this before now. To be honest I’m fed up with it, as nice as it looks. All this within seven months. I don’t know if Motability will let me get rid of the thing, but I’m very close to asking them.
The more customers Motability have the greater the bargaining power they have, so the way i see it opening up the cars available is a win, win for all on the scheme.
Motability are already the largest leasing company in the UK. The numbers on the scheme would have to increase by a hell of a lot to give them anymore purchasing power.
I’m praying it’s a bad batch of the seat pads. It’d make sense as mine was built (all three of them, but that’s another very long story) over the lockdown and I know that there was an issue with the Pro seats around the July/August time.
How do you know this?
I’ve had to start using my wheelchair cushion on the driver’s seat as it’s so uncomfortable, and even causes me pain sometimes.
Over the 3 year lease, my Toyota Rav4 Hybrid returned an average of 45mpg. At the same time, it could do 0-62 in 8.4 secs, and fit my wheelchair in the boot standing up. It was a great car.
Still getting used to my XC40, and knew the mpg is very poor, so will see how things go.
I read on a differing car forum that they were told that Volvo were building in tranches of certain grades/engine combos at a time before then swapping to a different one.
BionicRusty, I don’t know why you are having such a problem. Did you order the Diesel? As if you did, it’s the only difference from mine.
