admiles

Try telling large swathes of the planets population that....

What are these "indicators" you speak of?? Signed A.BMW Driver

I'd take the Audi over a Tesla any day.......

Surely one of your best yet Lee. I so wanted to liberate it but alas funds not forthcoming currently.

I believe his employment ended around about the point he returned to the yard and switched the engine off.... Took a while for the insurance to sort the mess out. Not helped by the yacht being insured in Panama.

My personal favorite was the English driver who after being told to reverse out of an area of our site (there not being enough room to swing 180 degrees round) proceed ignore the instruction and swung the front corner of the 40' High Cube container into the side of a 3.2 million pound yacht knocking it off it's shipping cradle and into the side of our warehouse. The irony is if he'd reversed into the area when he arrived (as he was asked to do) rather then driving in, he would have been facing the right way to drive straight out once he was tipped! Good and bad drivers of all nationalities in my experience!

Not really. The load wouldn't be owned by the haulage company so the owners/shippers would just find a different haulier to use. The drive for ever lower prices demanded by the consumer has gotten us where we are now with the haulage industry. It's cutthroat like few other industries. I'd also point out that just because a truck is foreign registered doesn't mean they're a bad haulier. There are lots of good European hauliers too. Likewise I've seen some pretty horrific UK vehicle and drivers too over the years too.

Without the correct documentation you can't book the space on a vessel or get an export Customs clearance done. That tends to be reasonably effective. No point in loading a container of knock-off scrap if you can't get it out of the country. I know exactly how stolen cars are exported. Two very long crown court trials (as a witness I might add 😗) under my belt for just that....

Exports of scrap metal can only be done by authorized registered shippers so, in theory, they should be legitimate....

We did the same when visiting the family with a litter of kitten when choosing our latest arrival Merlin. He chose us, no doubt about it. Happily bounced up and plonked himself down. It's turned to be an excellent match. First contact:

Amazed you can leave those boxes of cat food pouches unguarded. In my house they have to remain behind lock and key (a merely closed kitchen cupboard isn't secure enough!) or they tend to gain mysterious rips and puncture wounds.....

Don't think I've had an LED "bulb" last more than 18 months or so yet...

TBH it's all largely irreverent now we've left. We can choose to mirror EU regs or not as the case may be. Being the UK I'm sure we'll still make a complete hash of things and end up shooting ourselves in the foot once again...

"Foreign rules" we as members of the EU (at the time) would have been party to devising and implementing....

TBH it was there when I moved in and works fine for the limited things I use it for. If it ain't broke......

Honestly, I've no idea what that is. I've spoken to a couple of electricians and three different charger installers. All have said any replacement cable need to be run underground.

It's a gloried extension lead that plugs into a three pin socket via an RCD at the back of the house. Runs down the garden fences. Very unsuitable for an EV charger, though apparently fine for the light and socket in the garage (I've asked a couple of electricians).

The problem we have is we have a house in between our house and our garage/drive. The routing for cabling would either have to go through the front wall of the house (that's where the main consumer unit is), down the front garden, along/under approx 100ft of public footpath (passing the house next door), across/under next door's drive, under the length of our drive and into our garage. The alternative is from the front of our house to the rear. Down the length of the garden, out through the rear fence and across/under approx 100ft of council owned "green habitat", their words, I'd call it rough land and in through the back wall of our garage. The simplest would be out of the back of the house and straight across next door's garden and into their garage which is attached to ours. Understandable they don't want us digging up their garden to make this happen. The council have also said we can't run any cabling under their path or through the "green habitat"/rough land/unmaintained mess. They also have no plans to install chargers in lampposts as they too are "unsuitable".

As you've described! I unsoldered the wires from the motor and covered the ends in heat shrink leaving them inside the bogie so I could refit the motor if required. I left them attached the to the PCB. Runs sweetly with only one motor though perhaps the gearing is a little high so it runs pretty fast.

Not enough amps and cabling not suitable apparently. Not uncommon according to the people that visited.

The only problem with returning one is that chances are the one you get as a replacement may well be even worse. Had this with my 122. Two replacements, each one worse than the one before. In the end I just took one of the motors out. Simple 10 min job.

13amp but three different charging unit installers have said this isn't suitable so no charging from home for us. Or work come to that so that will mean, for us, much faster charging times and longer range before an EV is viable.

Off road parking though doesn't necessarily mean you could site a charger at that point. My house for example has a garage and a drive (just long enough for one car). The problem is because of the layout of the roads my garage/drive is round the corner in the next road with a house in between it and my house. The garage does have an electricity supply but this isn't man enough for an EV charger. The cost to upgrade that supply? £12-£15000 making charging at home a total non-starter. The other car in my household is parked on the road. There aren't any lamp posts nearby either. The whole road of 60 houses has three! This is why better range and the ability to charge in say 5 mins max is vital for those who can't charge at home overnight.

I'd also add that Mr & Mrs Joe Public have gotten very used to being able to buy many products at a certain low price point that can only (currently) be achieved by manufacturing in the Far East, India, etc. What will happen longer term as standards of living and wages rise in these manufacturing areas remains to be seen but I suspect the populous may be in for a nasty shock. I will add I'm more than happy for Far Eastern manufacturing to continue as it paid my mortgage for many years and still pays for me to order the odd model from time to time.

It already exists in a certain form. It's called Anti-Dumping duty. It helps prevent cheaply made products from flooding home markets in the west. Largely introduced by the EU (for which they were round vilified by Brexit supporting factions for blocking free trade). Now the UK has left the EU nearly all Anti-Dumping duties in the UK have been abolished giving the "winning" side the "free trade" they wanted. Law of unintended consequences at work maybe?