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True, they have Crocs....what’s a few Tigers going to do?

Yes, I have come to the conclusion it won’t be running on my small branch line, but I am thinking about a nice long display case with Loco, coaches, wagons and maybe some line side police action...armed of course.

I’ve never been a fan of black wheels (I’m a bit old school I guess) but that....what is it, like Old English White and all the black trim and wheels works really well, very smart. edit, of course it could just white and it’s the bloody awful colour balance on your phone/camera

Easy done, the problem is the original conversion company tend to buy the cheapest version of a chassis cab and then load it up with their conversion without thought to (OK the better, or more expensive companies will) the eventual loading on the chassis, It’s a bit short sighted because the cost difference in chassis cabs is minimal compared to the on the road cost of converted van, like a refrigerated conversion. Hey Ho it’s all a lost cost not quality nowadays anyway......

He is too thick to work out you stop to charge on your way, I cannot think of one single time in fifty years driving ICE I have been at somebodies house or at a destination and then thought “hang on, I’d better go out and find a petrol station to fill up and then return, I didn’t bother filling on the way here, and I don’t want to on the way back”........

If that’s true he is a bigger ........ than I thought he was. Silly Billy.....that’s what I meant of course.

They look like capstans, cannot imagine they need them for that purpose even if they hang around the docks all day, unless they are used for cable winching/guiding of some sort?

As PatB says, that looks like a refrigerated conversion which alone could bring it up to close GVW (seemed it did), really down to the conversion company, I bet the owner/driver thought it perfectly legal if it was all bought legitimately and cost a fortune, after all how many of us go to the weighbridge when our car is loaded with family, roof box and boot full of luggage going on holiday...we take it for granted the manufacturer knows what they are doing.

Oh feeling a bit prickly?

I wonder if this ought to be in the Covid thread as well?

Or very grateful.....it’s very lonely down there.....

Mine arrived today, fantastic model, amazing packaging.....although didn’t stop a ladder and coupling hook rattling around inside loose....no worries though, those bits are easy to reattach. I’m still not sure if I’ll ever run it though

I can hear him now “careful, careful....stand still woman, ouch....oh....right up the....oooo.....that’s it, I’m off to find a mole”

Our friends Tiguan plays up all the time when they visit down here on the narrow lanes, the anti collision cuts in at the slightest threat of an obstacle, unfortunately it sees every bloomin’ hedge/wall/vehicle in the lanes as an obstacle and slams the brakes on and makes the steering wheel “jiggle”. The car you had would not have had a vacuum servo to build up vacuum, modern ABS/Stabilty systems use a pump and distribution block controlled by an ECU......it certainly doesn’t need the engine running, it is powered by the 12v battery.

Are you referring to the Canon zoom monocular? I was interested in one of those but after reading the reviews the pictures are quite poor IQ seeing the results. If it’s not the Canon I’d be interested if there is another make out there?

Oh yes, I remember that now, the smell of it......whether or not it cleaned the track didn’t matter after a few sniffs

So very true, and up until far years ago I’d never touch an Apple product because they were my feeling also, but we were sucked in eventually by necessity (family use meant the only way to communicate easily was to use the same) and to be very honest.....we have two secondhand iPhones, a refurbished iPad Air and we actually bought an iPad Pro (which TBH has almost completely replaced our use of the desktop/laptops)....and they have been bulletproof and work together without issue, damn them.....

And now you’ll have somewhere to put you flask and sandwiches while watching the trains go by, hey if it’s good enough for Cosworth? Just fun Jim, you don’t stop do you......I love your updates, takes me back to a time when that’s what I’d be doing* *and allowed to spend the money

This.....I just think he looks shifty, like Mum said...first impressions, first impressions......after all the other one looks like a clown And before it turns nasty/political and Andy has nightmares.....it’s all carp.

Just replying to your assertion that Lithium batteries and thus my i3 traction battery would degrade by 5% a year, so far at almost five years old the degradation has been almost unmeasurable.

Just reading some of the tales from Tesla buyers who found faults on their cars at pick up and when refused to take the car until rectified they were told if they refused to take the car they would loose the order and the car and go back on the waiting list, and then even when accepting the car the issues about taking it back to a “service centre” sometimes many, many miles away only to get only one thing fixed at a time, it doesn’t sound good but still they love the cars.

What makes you think I have a Tesla? Tesla’s excuse was to protect the battery life, which may well be true but to do an update which degrades the range quite so much without at least first informing the customer is arrogance indeed.

Indeed, in fact ours still shows about the same as when new, in summer it’s about 130 miles after an overnight charge, sometimes a smidge more, it’s such a small amount it is very difficult to judge, last year we had (well I insisted as I was buying an extended warranty) a battery health check and it came back as 99%.....I was quite pleased with that, but as you say the i3 has very good BMS and heating/cooling system for the traction pack. So these terrible Lithium batteries are the devil’s own invention then?

Someone flushed in the station

So my 5 year old i3 will have reduced its original range by 25% this year?