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The Mrs was doing the school run, parked up, walked our infant to his classroom, and came back to this: The mum that hit it stuck around, she's managed to give herself a few go faster stripes on her car and pressed in 3 panels on her Hyundai. I have dashcam footage of the mum driving into...

Just for fun ... if the Outlander software was remapped to remove the top speed limiter, does anyone in the know have an estimate on the top speed that could be achieved? Assumptions: Fully charged battery Removal of max current limits on the electric motors Only needs to do one run, don't...

Every car I've driven has had a dashboard clock. A clock either part of the radio, a standalone analogue clock, or a standalone digital clock. My wife has pointed out to me that the Outlander only has a clock when the car has been started, otherwise, no clock. So she doesn't know what the time...

So which UK Celebs have Outlander PHEVs? Tony Blackburn does, he's a on Twitter and Periscope on a regular basis and drove around Poole whilst doing an impromptu Periscope show from his PHEV (Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonyblackburn ) The only other one I have is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall...

Quite a few of us have Dashcams in our PHEVs, so why not have a dedicated thread for incidents/crashes or driving 'happenings' of interest? Here's my first contribution, rather tame though a year ago on exactly the same road (it's only 1.5 miles long) my other car was written off by an elderly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiTqF0BaCA Travelling to Somerset on the A303 a tiny smidgen above an indicated 70mph via adaptive cruise control. I was undertaken by a Lamborghini driver, I applied my brakes and reduced speed to avoid collision as soon as the car started the manoeuvre. I...

My wife, due to the intense heat in the UK, is now stealing the Outlander from me due to it's extraordinary brilliant aircon. Yesterday she got 0 leaves :lol: It was 30 degrees C yesterday. She swears that she was driving it gently, looking at EV usage of her trip she's at 98%. The trip was 2...

Hi Folks I need to make my accessory ports permanently live. I have a dashcam that I want to leave running due to some unsavoury places I have to park up (aka school run). I'm not concerned about a flat 12v battery, I'll have one of those mini 12v jump-start thingies with me. I read somewhere...

Used the hands free today, I had to join a call whilst on a mission of mercy. I generally don't like to chat on the phone whilst driving, it is unsafe. The call was a conference call with 20 other participants. What isn't explained in the Outlander manual (is anything explained) was how to...

I know I gripe a lot about the stuff on the Outlander and have 'difficulties' with a lot of the 'gubbins'. I need to say, I love my Outlander. Took my family (1 wife, 3 boys) on a day out that would require a 170 mile round trip, mostly fast motorways. I am still not used to the width of the...

After chamois my car, I found some bare metal on the tailgate. I can only surmise it was like it when I got it, this is the first time I've cleaned the tailgate with it open. The car is a company car, I really can't be doing with leaving it with the dealer, a judgement, and being without it for...

Having read that the fuel gauge is rather pessimistic, has anyone got guidance as to how much fuel each division represents on the gauge? A few longer motorway journeys have used up some liquid dinosaur, though I'm loath to refuel just to carry around the extra weight. My other question is...

Why oh why is the boot unlocked and able to be opened when the vehicle is in 'D'? :roll: Surely it should be impossible to open the tailgate when the car either in 'D' or 'R', irrespective whether the vehicle is locked from inside? So that's the last time I'll be putting my man-bag (complete...

Had a lovely day out yesterday, 99% EV, charged up as usual on my driveway on returning. I normally unplug the electric lead overnight once charged, but as went to bed early forgot to do so. In last night's storm: 1 - The charging flap must have been doing the Timewarp (again) in the wind. 2...

Drove to Bognor Regis today, all was fine, followed the signs to get to the seafront. Driving home, I used the sat nav for the very first time. Sat nav doesn't have a bunch or roads, roads that must have been there for many many years given the number of patches, hence it said I was driving...

I have been taking the kids to school in the morning and one thing I have noticed that for the first few junctions when the temperature is a few degrees centigrade there doesn't seem to be much juice available from the battery. What seems to happens is a momentary delay on acceleration whilst...

A quick video of the Radar Adaptive Cruise Control on my 2016 GX4hs. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mk5P_RAcPmE Apologies for the discussion about fat pigeons. It is tricky not to want to stamp on the brake pedal!

Hi Folks Love the wealth of information available in this forum. I will be ordering a Outlander HX4h shortly as a company car, I work from home though our children go to school in a neighbouring village. Currently we have a Focus Saloon, owned since 2002 from new, fantastic car, love it to...