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It is, but it’s the distribution rather than the manufacture and cost which is the big stumbling block.

I was getting worried at 11 weeks, but we got a letter the same day asking us to attend for the second jab at the same local centre we used before. It was actually 11 weeks and 4 days between jobs, which I though pretty accurate.

That’s what I remember the tools under the tray top, so cool.

Well presumably even when parked on camp amongst other vehicles it might be prudent not to have reflective plates, too easy a target at night if one in a row of useful vehicles one shouts “here we are!” And besides it’s probably just a blanket regulation.

Very true though......on one occasion we were in Cologne and had to get to Frankfurt for the Motorshow the next day (press days actually) so the company laid on some drivers to chauffeur the suits of which there were several American colleagues, I had a Sierra 4X4 wagon at the time and decided to follow.......that was an experience! Cologne to Frankfurt on the Autobahn following some native drivers in the dark.......it was fun and a bit challenging at times keeping up with half a dozen Scorpio Cosworths, but we made it, the yanks upon exiting the cars looked like they had been in a haunted house for a week Completely different driving culture.

Reflective plates while chundering across a fire zone wouldn’t be particularly clever, even if it’s the CO’s Mini

No, but it’s still illegal.......although not on a bike. C&U.....nothing hazardous like sharp edges or hot surfaces etc etc.

A few cars did that early on in FI days, I remember having to keep leaning down into the passenger footwell and pressing a little “button” through the kick trim to get the vehicles to start again during a rigorous workouts on the test tracks......the 4” Chuck holes (shear edged potholes) were really bad for it.

Glad you didn’t claim it was owned by the Queen like the majority of classic car owners do Beautiful cars, I had a job once to photograph a footballer who had opened a pub in Brentwood, he picked me up at the office and on the way to his pub it stuttered and slowed, he then turned a valve (or something) on the dash to use the “reserve” tank and off we went again.......also I loved the pull out walnut tray on the dashboard between driver and passenger, I was dead impressed as a spotty 17 year old, not by the footballer, just the car.....’kin hate football

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Those headers are illegal also....poor little fingers might wonder why they are glowing red and try to find out! Its a sweet looking vehicle though, if I were plod I’d pull it......and ask for a go

Maybe he has a lifetime subscription to the Perth And Kinross Courier?

Yes, and it can be the result of a lot of silicone rubber used in vehicles after a fire, one part of my job was to photograph and detail post “thermal events” on vehicles and the H&S regime was intense, get HF on your skin and there’s no cure, it eats though to your bones and can migrate.....extremely nasty indeed. Otherwise it’s fine

You mustn’t let logic get in the way of a decent bout of paranoia though

Nothing at all...really.....you want a 3 ton plastic elephant playing an Oboe.....they probably have one

Nah you’ll be fine, just don’t try and respray an entire full size Range Rover with cellulose in the booth.....I made almost exactly the same but used a large plastic storage box as the booth. I tend to spray (well do really) exclusively acrylic paint.

Same mindset of people who “tint” the rear lamps and then wonder why they get pulled by plod, better than getting rammed on the motorway by a 38 tonner though......dumb arses.

It’s the curse of EV drivers lives, finding a PHEV plugged in and finished but locked onto the cable obviously having been there overnight or for many hours before, bloody annoying.

OK then, that doesn’t surprise me, even 30 years ago we were getting complaints about lamps (rear) fading after one year and found they were counterfeit from China and the coloured lenses just faded like a dry daisy in the sun. Some of the so called OE stuff boxed as a such we pursued back to the factories in India and China but back then it was even harder to prosecute.

When the i3 is finished on CCS it unlocks (I think they all do TBH).....but you would have to wait for it to charge to 100% which is not good etiquette as the last 10% (20% on some EVs) takes forever, which is why all rapid charge times state “to 80%”.

So do you mean the projector lamps were no good? Are they original or aftermarket stuff?

£20-30K should do it comfortably......less than buying an equivalent brand new EV for sure.

Do you mean the crappy little original 12 volt battery? Or do you really believe EV traction batteries only last as long as your mobile phone battery?

They can, take your 3 ton accumulation of steel to one of quite a few EV converter companies and for a princely sum you could be wafting around in silence, comfort and smuggness. Oh yes and it will be peanuts to run and be probably five times faster off the line

Sounds like a reply from a keen cyclist?