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- Tue May 14, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Differing rates of fuel evaporation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 164
Re: Differing rates of fuel evaporation
Having got my licence in 1974, I vaguely recall this whole issue was largely SEP (Somebody Else’s Problem). You just wound down the window and instructed the enthusiastic pump attendant to “fill it up please” ( or more usually, living on my student grant “a pound’s worth please”). It could be assume...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Differing rates of fuel evaporation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 164
Re: Differing rates of fuel evaporation
I tend to believe that fully filling the tank will do no harm, but it’s important to fully insert the nozzle and stop the very first time the nozzle cuts out. It might be possible to dribble in a bit more fuel but that is probably not what the car designer intended, so I can well believe it’d cause ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Fuel saving tips
- Replies: 11
- Views: 255
Re: Fuel saving tips
He said that the regen braking was so good that he had more range in the car when he got back than when he set off. There's a quarry in Switzerland that uses electric hail trucks. They're loaded at the top of a hill, emptied at the bottom. End the day with more charge. https://www.greencarreports.c...
- Fri May 10, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Fuel saving tips
- Replies: 11
- Views: 255
Re: Fuel saving tips
Reads like it was written by someone who wanted to provide helpful advice but didn't wanted to be bothered with details. In my somewhat jaundiced view, that suggests they fit in well with most of the population. https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/iam-roadsmarts-media-centre/news/fuel-saving-tips-to-comb...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Fuel saving tips
- Replies: 11
- Views: 255
Re: Fuel saving tips
I didn’t actually know that electricity was measured in gallons? More seriously, strikes me that the biggest difference between theoretical and real-world range ICE vs EV is you’ll rarely want to exhaust any vehicle’s range. You’ll keep maybe 50 miles slack, in case when you get where you’re going t...
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13642
Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
I completely agree that a two second minimum signal, where required, is about right before changing lanes on a motorway. But there’s scope for misinterpretation as I see almost every time - a driver signals and then, after a second or two, assumes the god given right to change lanes… regardless of o...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Oncoming car, wrong side of road
- Replies: 5
- Views: 931
Re: Oncoming car, wrong side of road
I thought we were about to have another offsiding debate. :D :twisted: Your jest made me think of a more serious link with off-siding, that I don’t remember seeing in previous discussions… …in the circumstance where a visitor to UK has lapsed into ‘subconsciously’ driving on the right, and he/she s...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Oncoming car, wrong side of road
- Replies: 5
- Views: 931
Oncoming car, wrong side of road
Driving West along Beachy Head Rd this morning (I’m on holiday) I encountered an oncoming car heading towards me, on ‘my’ side of the road. It took a split second to convince myself it wasn’t just avoiding some hazard, and actually was driving on wrong side, which it was. I dealt with this by stoppi...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13642
Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
I know that junction and that overtake was little short of barking mad, whether not indicating ... To be clear there were two overtakes… one passing me on the double whites, then a second when he passed two further cars as they pulled off at the lights. Absolutely barking mad, I agree. Can’t think ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13642
Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
This thread reminds me of a curious incident last week, heading south into Streatley on A329. As soon as I slowed for the 30 limit I could sense that the driver behind, in a beat up Golf IIRC, was disinclined to obey the limit. Sure enough, as soon as I passed the traffic calming chicane, still doin...