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I don't think there's any point in a total ICE ban. The numbers on the road will drop to the point where the emissions are a drop in the bucket and it would heavily penalise the poorest who tend to drive the oldest, cheapest cars. Politically it will be better to let it just happen over time and...

Given that EV is the future, then in that context yes it absolutely is. ICE isn’t going away, there will be enough out there for decades to come and for those who truly love (and can afford) them they will still have that choice. People still ride horses and drive steam tractors.

It’s a hopeful sign for the future though.

The refuel time is certainly an advantage, but storage and transport is an issue. If you transport hydrogen in existing gas lines it still has to be compressed at the delivery end to be any use for cars and then there are the high pressure tanks needed on the car itself. These are lifed...

Making hydrogen is energy intensive. The maths are pretty simple, you can use power to make hydrogen, compress it, transport it, store it before it is transferred to a car and then use it to power a fuel cell to provide electricity to batteries (or, if you’re crazy and don’t mind NOx emissions...

No argument from me.

You might be right, you might not. No-one has made a genuinely driver focused EV yet. In development terms these are very, very early days. Obviously things like heel and toe are dead and gone, but then they only exist to get around the deficiencies of the drivetrain anyway and are a seriously...

It goes on, but the aftermarket always finds a way. Wasn't so long ago that the coding of car modules/ECUs to the car as an anti-theft protection (allegedly) was supposed to be doom for any DIY, but now coding modules is just normal. When the volume is sufficient, those protections will be...

Zoe has had some fairly serious issues with the battery management system, mostly handled under warranty thankfully. A lot of the battery degradation on early EVs like the Leaf was because they were air cooled and also quite early battery chemistries. A lot of learning and improvement has...

Again, disagree. The technology so far has been proven to be very long lasting and as they become more and more common the aftermarket will catch up. It's not like you can't buy a 3rd party battery or charger for a laptop. I know the battery management units on a car are a totally different...

Disagree - maybe it's because I'm comfortable with electronics, but I am far less worried about being able to fix an EV motor than an engine. They are very simple things. Likewise, identifying and swapping out dead battery cells, no worries. It's just a different skill set. OK there is the...

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel :D

I do think it's a real shame that we have to lose genuinely good, tuneful ICE engines alongside all the drek. Is anyone really going to miss boggo four pot engines though? Doubt it.

Well, the German car industry is lobbying hard along those lines for sure. But none of it matters, the existing next phase of EU emissions rules are so strict that manufacturers are halting development of ICE as they are becoming uneconomic and the writing is on the wall anyway. They would need...

I'd love to meet the person who's searching eBay for "Street Machine"

I chatted to the seller a bit, seems like a nice guy and all the answers were pretty much what I wanted to hear. Shame it hasn't got the original seatbelts as harnesses are not my thing on the road, for them to be any use at all they are so restrictive. Not hard to put back in though. Anyway I...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204034580412 Very nice. It’s on FB too, seller wants £14k and change which seems a bit toppy but it’s got all the spec. Think it’s pretty well known as being a good build? Certainly has the right names attached to it, Rensport, EFI, engine dynamics. Surprised it...

I don’t know what you mean. Sturdy little things. The panel with the fuel filler in it would certainly never flex when you put the nozzle from the pump in the filler. Very reassuring 😂

I commuted from Winchester to Newbury in one for over a year. Many a sales rep was startled by a tiny little red car overtaking them verrrrrry sloooowly. The uphill bits of the A34 were a challenge though 🤪

How I wish that had the Trofeo turbo conversion on it. Also, needs a set of Turinis (obligatory comment)

He he he he. "Cummins", that's rude. That is all.

Ah, that is a battery tester, so it should give an indication of whether the battery needs to be replaced or not. It’s saying good/recharge so doesn’t look like it needs a battery. It’s either just been sitting for a while or isn’t charging - but I’d hope they’d be able to tell you if the...

They could easily just be due to low battery voltage. Just a code read is fairly useless for issues like that, they should reset them and see if they come back. Misfires or other more serious codes are different. Not sure how good the inspection was if they didn’t even stick a proper battery...

I did wonder about that…...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363855386608 Oddly, the listing fails to mention : Offside Front Suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively damaged significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) Going back through the MoT history is...... well...... it's something :ROFLMAO:

Wait, people on here own Clios?

What's the car used for? Honestly, if it's a road car I really wouldn't bother going wider. If you're genuinely getting close to the limits of grip on a 182 on the road then I'd start with the basics, are all the bushes in good order, how old are the shocks, when's the last time the car had an...

Ah, OK, fair enough. What tool are you using to run the SQL? Is it MS Access/SQL Developer/Something else? At the moment all I can really suggest is doing a text search through the SQL and looking for anywhere that Column1 is being set, probably look something like "@Column1 = <something>"

Is it part of a stored procedure? It would be horrendous from a readability perspective, but if they're defining @Column1 somewhere then that could do it. When you say SQL, do you mean MSSQL or one of the other types?

Jesus, that sucks. I guess the only positive is at least it was "only" the car and wasn't the house. :(