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[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, dome said:

The spanner is simply to remind the driver what they themselves are.

FTFY.

SNAP, @Noel Tidybeard has beaten me to it!

[djoptix]

Home!!!

As is traditional for me, I drove like a nun all the way home to see how high I could get the MPGs (reset just after the filling station round the corner from @wuvvum's house). This will almost certainly be the most economical journey I ever make in this car and the final total is...

 

Very happy with the car.  Overall I feel it's going to be just right for combined family and work needs so thank you again @wuvvum. My kids are very excited about going in the "secret seats" in the boot.

Impressions - well, it's the newest car I've ever owned, so it feels like a new car. However, I do like the fact that it doesn't have loads of silly fripperies (manual AC not climate control for example). Being a Renault it may, of course, explode tomorrow. Despite being A New Car, it still has a couple of things that mark it out as an honest An Car. The doors feel tinny when you shut them and the engine just intrudes into the cabin with a note of thrashiness. The clutch is bizarrely high and very springy.

But - it drives really nicely, the gearbox is surprisingly snickety-snick, it's very economical, it's big, it's easy to drive, it's a great colour, it has tons of cubby holes AND a cup holder, it has three proper seats in the back for children, it's got plenty of room in the boot for tools, it's only £130 a year to tax and it's a Renault. And when I've got a remote, it will have a sat nav! So far, I bloody love it. 🥰

--edit-- and it didn't overheat!

[djoptix]

Somewhere, I do have a Renault code reader. Hopefully that will shed a bit of light on the injector fault-that-probably-isn't.

The spanner light just needs resetting - I was going to do it when I stopped on the way back but I ended up not stopping, I just drove straight through.

[AnnoyingPentium]

That spanner light is the same one as the service reminder on our Duster.

[inconsistant]

Nice car.

How many shits?

[wuvvum]

59.3mpg is bloody good going for a car that size.  I think I need to get better at driving economically...

Was the broken Lexus still there?

[AnnoyingPentium]

34 minutes ago, inconsistant said:

Nice car.

How many shits?

Asking the real questions.

[djoptix]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Was the broken Lexus still there?

It was! Looking very sorry for itself.

 

1 hour ago, inconsistant said:

How many shits?

None until I got home. Weird.

[Jim Bell]

7 hours ago, djoptix said:

 

None until I got home. Weird.

 

Unacceptable. 

Start again. 

[grogee]

9 hours ago, djoptix said:

Somewhere, I do have a Renault code reader. Hopefully that will shed a bit of light on the injector fault-that-probably-isn't.

The spanner light just needs resetting - I was going to do it when I stopped on the way back but I ended up not stopping, I just drove straight through.

'Injector fault' on our Espace turned out to be EGR needs a clean out. Their messages are nonsense. 

60mpg is incredible for a seven seater. For reference, the Saab doesn't do 60mpg. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 minutes ago, grogee said:

the Saab doesn't do 60mpg. 

It gets special privileges, being a SAAB and that.

[djoptix]

Reset the service light this morning and it's cleared its injector fault for now. Weird. Also, the driver's door speaker spontaneously started working somewhere around Cambridge! Most odd, we'll see if it stays...

[Arfur Foxache]

On 2/3/2022 at 1:16 PM, UltraWomble said:

Greater Manc's Clean Air zone is fricking HUGE and also covers a few motorways, which I find concerning. I just hope that they dont include the motorways in this camera'd zone when it goes live.

I believe the motorways and service areas are exempt for traffic passing through. Once you come off the slip road though..........