Recent content by levant

On the original TOYO Tyres: front tyres lasted 45 K. Replaced with Sailun Terramax CVR. Original TOYO rear ones last 86K... yes 86 K...replaced with Sailun Terramax again... fantastic to drive. The front ones has to be changed again at 75K. car now done 96500 miles. It's 4 years old. March 2015...

4 days ago I started having one long beep followed by two short high pitch beeps. when driving it keeps happening.. when turning off the front parking sensors, the beeps disappear... still getting it on starting the car... Yes I agree it might be the parking sensors

Car of March 2015... done 82000 miles so far... 1-No Thumps 2-no noticeable battery degradation. still doing 26 -28 miles on EV on average ( in the hot summer I was getting 30 miles) 3-Had only 3 services with Mitsubishi at 12500, 25000 and 37500 miles. Never since, as they are charging £299...

keeping my PHEV... been saving me £ 2800 on fuel when compared to my E class Merc. it's now 3 years old... had it 6 months old as ex demo. bought for £27000. Very happy so far. £.135 to charge every day... charging it near work with Charge master in ASDA. Very happy....

Hi....keeping my PHEV... there is no real advantage in going for a new one... Still going well. done 80 000 miles since bought in October 2015. !5 % battery life on the new one? this is only 4 miles extra. poor upgrade. cheap on service with the local guy.... very good on tyres. replaced fron...

Had my letter today for a recall re: Parking brake mechanism....water may penetrate the parking brake caliper shaft boots.... need to book it with the dealer...

glad to say that original Toyo rear tyres has done 80 thousand miles... still legal to drive... had the car for 3 years now... front ones were changed at 43 k miles with Sailun terramax CVR.... no issue at all will change the rear ones probably after another 2k miles with Sailun Tyres...

to me I fill with Petrol 35 litres every week and that takes me around 600 miles in total for combined journeys My journey is 95 miles a day. I charge the care twice. at home and at work so 50 miles electric and 45 miles petrol Happy with the fuel/ electricity economy I use preheating...

Yes it does smell like rubber burning on mine....

EV charging solutions did fit a ROLEC 32 amp charger for 195 pound all inclusive with its mini circuit breaker. what a chunky cable it was to run from the circuit breaker to outside the house. No extra costs happy with it and they fitted another box which calculate the usage of electricity to...

stopped on J14 M4 westbound Ecotricity chargers, one of them faulty, the other says charging...but no car it seems that the previous user did not stop the charging properly so no one was able to use it after him.

today I managed to silence the irritating beeps from changing the menu switches... great I can navigate the menu without the loud noise

I did have the Flash Lube system with the flash Lube lubricant runnig at one drop every 6 seconds. might have delayed Valve seat recession but did not prevent it. German and english cars will not sffer from this problem as the Japanese cars.this is my worry about the outlander conversion...

Interesting but how to solve the Valve Seat Recession problem? I had flash Lube system fitted....might have delayed things but did not prevent it.

I got to tell you this story today On Friday and on the way back from Cardiff to Monmouthshire, my wife wanted me to stop by J 33 on the M4 to find out where is the Ecotricity charging station... to my unhappiness I stopped there...ok we found it and decided to charge the car. There was another...