🚨L1's♦️ shenanigans 🍷🚨 All Renault fleet, mostly moderns.

[forddeliveryboy]

55..

 

Yeah, i'd have been happy with 80 miles.

So you cruise at 55... mmm. So with 5 charges is that a range of perhaps 60 miles in cold weather, given Durham-Leeds return is about 200 miles?

 

I'm not sure I'm ready to leave the growl of five cylinders exploding vegoil in the outside lane just yet, especially when it's still only 1p or less for a kWh. It's no more efficient than Ferrybridge feeding the Grid, except I don't waste all the heat.

[loserone]

In a real car I'd have been cruising at 75-85, it was pretty painful driving at 55 in the wee small hours knowing the alarm would still be getting me up at 6.

[forddeliveryboy]

I once had a 50mph drive (knacked propshaft bearing) from Edinburgh to Cambridge in the early hours of a Spring morning, it wasn't easy.

[loserone]

Not strictly leaf related, but we're doing a bit of motorway mileage over the next couple of weeks. Not leafing that with a 14mo and a 6mo pregnant Mrs_l1..

 

Have been looking to replace the currently-fucked k11 we'd planned on using with an H6 subaru, but it's the wrong time of year to buy such a thing.

 

Looked at getting a cheap focus or something but everything worthwhile and local is vanishing in hours, and we only really need an ICE for a week.

 

Instead we're renting a "Focus or similar" from enterprise, £109 which takes the pressure off buying something quickly.

 

Not exactly autoshite, but people PCP for more.

[DVee8]

My FiL's Seat is still available.

Boot is massive for pram's plenty of room in the back for car seats.Delivery is available.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/30009-seat-toledo-stylance-20tdi-auto-06plate/

[loserone]

Thanks, AS was the first place I looked, but it's not a cheap temp car or an H6 awd estate, it's diesel, DSG, and the last Toledo we had made us all feel a bit sick from the ride.

[DVee8]

Thanks, AS was the first place I looked, but it's not a cheap temp car or an H6 awd estate, it's diesel, DSG, and the last Toledo we had made us all feel a bit sick from the ride.

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUBARU-LEGACY-LANCASTER-6-4WD-3-0-AUTO-BARN-FIND-ONLY-58000-MILES-/362196566428?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

[loserone]

Leaf ran out of battery.

 

 

Left my dad sat in it for 15 mins with the heating, a/c, everything on whilst I dealt with the chickens. Drove home, decided not to plug it in as it still had 75% battery.

 

Next morning the central locking didn't work and no lights on the dash. Totally flat.

 

I still have the Camry battery SL bought for the ls400 when it was his, so jump started it and left it running when collecting layers pellets. Left it on a trickle charge overnight and now showing 14v again.

[320touring]

Interesting - is there no mechanism /redundancy wiring to allow it to draw from the pack?

[loserone]

Argh, long post deleted by switching a.s version on my phone.

 

Yes, the dc-dc converter does that, but if the 12v battery drops below a certain voltage the big battery stops charging it. But the car doesn't tell you you're going to be fucked next time you stop. [Edit - because you need the 12v battery to make the connection to the big battery. ]

 

The solution* to this is to monitor it properly over odb2

 

[320touring]

Ahhh, that makes sense! Pretty poor no 'low voltage' warning.

 

Here's hoping the conditioning helps the 12v battery last so you don't suffer again!

[loserone]

Apparently most of them are fucked by 3 years old. Mine is 3.5 years old.

 

Going to try a blag a new battery on the warranty, which wasn't something i'd thought of trying ...

[320touring]

Apparently most of them are fucked by 3 years old. Mine is 3.5 years old.

 

Going to try a blag a new battery on the warranty, which wasn't something i'd thought of trying ...

Shy weans get no sweets!

[Guest Hooli]

That's bloody crazy it doesn't tell you.

[twosmoke300]

Normal cars don't tell you your battery is fucked either

[Guest Hooli]

Normal cars aren't 90% batteries so a lot of people would expect these to run the heater etc for hours without issue.

[loserone]

You can run the heater for hours, it runs off the big battery. You won't go very far though.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Normal cars don't tell you your battery is fucked either

 

Sure, but you can't bump start a Leaf (... I think ?!?)

[SiC]

Normal cars don't tell you your battery is fucked either

A lot of modern stuff with stop/start does, as it knows how worn the battery is as it counts energy going in and going out. So it knows the real state of charge, hence diagnostic tool to tell it that a new battery is connected.

[twosmoke300]

I said normal cars - start / stop just ain't normal

[Tayne]

Sure, but you can't bump start a Leaf (... I think ?!?)

 

 

You kind of can...

 

 

Turn the subtitles on if they don't come up automatically. 

[loserone]

Well, it was going to happen. Could have made it another 200 yards though, that'd have been nice.

 

 

Trip was worthwhile I think, have bought a 3.0 h6 legacy estate. Collection laterz.

[320touring]

Tremendous!

 

Hope the station had a JerryBattery available:)

[Timewaster]

So how easy is it to push a dead leaf?

[Lacquer Peel]

Sweep or rake, surely.

[loserone]

It went on the back of a Renault spec lift type thing, whose immobiliser promptly failed.

 

Luckily after a couple of minutes it started again, and a 45 min charge got the leaf up to 81% SoC.

[sierraman]

Then the temptation to have the heater on was too much and it was back to 40%.

 

Until they get a better grip of this you'll not convince people there is any use for this stuff other than as a milkfloat. Hybrid is the way forwards.

[loserone]

Because the other three and a half thousand miles I've done in it are completely irrelevant

 

(And we had the climate set to 18C until 10 miles away..)

[sierraman]

I suppose locally they're alright but I'd not want the concern about getting to my destination if I needed to do 350 miles in the winter for example.

[loserone]

Not a concern I intend to have after tomorrow.

 

Sure, if you have to only have one car, and you might have to do 350 miles, in the winter, you probably shouldn't get a pure EV unless you can afford a Model S.  But we've heard this moan before in this thread..

 

[edit - stop liking this post, I didn't buy it, see below!]