forddeliveryboy Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forddeliveryboy Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Interesting - is there no mechanism /redundancy wiring to allow it to draw from the pack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 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 Sigmund Fraud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 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 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 That's bloody crazy it doesn't tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Normal cars don't tell you your battery is fucked either sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Normal cars aren't 90% batteries so a lot of people would expect these to run the heater etc for hours without issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 You can run the heater for hours, it runs off the big battery. You won't go very far though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Normal cars don't tell you your battery is fucked either Sure, but you can't bump start a Leaf (... I think ?!?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Normal cars don't tell you your battery is fucked eitherA 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 I said normal cars - start / stop just ain't normal Sigmund Fraud and drivewaymyway 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 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. dome, tonedepear, Lacquer Peel and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 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. Nyphur, rantingYoof, Lacquer Peel and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Tremendous! Hope the station had a JerryBattery available:) beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 So how easy is it to push a dead leaf? 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Sweep or rake, surely. privatewire, rantingYoof, loserone and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 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. 320touring and beko1987 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 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..) garethj, matt27, Kiltox and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 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!] mat_the_cat, dome, Dave_Q and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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