Recent content by discorduk

The annoyance is in your head not in the vehicle. :lol: The engine will only start when the battery is empty, or if you are accelerating hard enough that it demands more power than the battery can give. so if you want it to start less often charge the battery more, or drive less...

Just got the email too. I didn't have cause to use it that much, but it was nice to have, for the occasional ikea trip etc. but at that price!? well, its just another useless bit of plastic now...

There is a minimum time between taps of the gear selector which does not happen on the paddles, you can therefore get to B5 faster using the paddles than the gear selector. it's just yet another state, like eco, save, etc that it really should be remembering for you.

Put seatbelt on Push brake lever press start select drive curse because the stupid boot sequence hadn't finished select drive again waggle paddle until B5 is selected release handbrake drive

I would argue it is the opposite, that not indicating shows a level of arrogance, that you are infallable. Everyone can make a mistake, there can always be some driver / pedestrian / cyclist that you didn't see, that was hidden from view, or who only appeared after you looked in that direction...

One thing they never seem to mention in these discussions is the cost of the additional wear and tear on the batteries, they have a finite number of charge-discharge cycles in their life, so extra cycles to earn a little bit of cash is costing you in other ways. no free lunch.

I would have thought that it was reasonably obvious that the headline figure is complete nonsense, its just too fantastically high, and a quick examination of the figures in the brochure tell a lot of the story. Fuel Consumption (NEDC): lts/100km (mpg) Full Charge: 0 Minimum Charge: 5.8...

According to the original Reuters article it is the eK mini-wagon and the version of it they made for Nissan that are affected. Which seems to be a 657cc 3-cyclinder engined small hatchback sold primarily just in japan.

It's also that they are using a really ancient and very inefficient audio codec, MPEG Layer 2 audio. Newer standards like DAB+ and DRM (Radio Mondiale) use the much more efficient HE-AACv2 codecs, but apparently we cant have those radio standards in the UK because DABv1 isn't popular enough yet...

I have a 3 as well, yes the FM quality is abysmal. The RDS is slow to switch, the volume often gets quieter as the signal fades, the signal quality in general is poor so it has to retune way more frequently than previous vehicles I have had. TBH I have found the electronics in general to be...

Ho hum, just have to hope theres some other decent hybrids on the scheme by the time i have to renew next then, i have two years left, so it might happen :)

The battery size isn't a guarantee of how it's physically connected, for example the age old diesel-electric train systems, those have no battery at all, but there is no mechanical linkage between the engine and the motor, its only electric So it is possible for a similar system to be used in a...

I find a lot of the terms being thrown around by the car manufacturers to be deceptive, CVT and Hybrid seem to be used and abused to justify a huge range of different physical systems, and some where the motor is little more than an extra torque booster. So for me the big question is wether its...

The single small display of whats going on has a single button interface, one thats hidden behind the steering wheel where you cant see it from a driving position. The rest of the dashboard is physical analogue dials. The reversing sensors just beep, theres no display of distance, of which...

I love the way it drives, and i think the whole drivetrain is great. but could i please have a version with the dashboard and cabin electronics done by someone with a clue like citroen, where the dashboard actually feels like something from this century not last, and everything is integrated and...