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General Car Chat / Re: Jaguar
« on: 04 July 2025, 11:48:46 »
I do have a V6 SC as the personal toy and have driven pretty much every other type (including an proto SV V8 facelift that never made production).

I really rate them, very involved drive and pretty competent handling, for me the V8 was to much as er-indoors also drives it  >:D

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Royal Train
« on: 03 July 2025, 08:16:20 »
Here is the details of what actually makes up the royal train:

The Royal train coaches

HM The Queen's Saloon 2903 ex 11001 built as prototype HST First Open Rebuilt as 2903 for the Queens Silver jubilee in 1977

HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh's Saloon 2904 ex 12001 built as prototype HST Tourist Second Open Rebuilt as 2904 for the Queens Silver jubilee in 1977

Royal Household Sleeping Car 2915 MK 3A built to similar specification as sleeping cars 10647 -- 10729 in 1985

HRH The Prince Of Wales's Dining Car 2916 ex 40512 converted from HST TRUK in 1988

Royal Kitchen / Household Dining Car 2917 ex 40514 converted from HST TRUK in 1990

Royal Household Cars 2918 ex 40515 converted from HST TRUK in 1989

Royal Household Cars 2919 ex 40518 converted from HST TRUK in 1989

Royal Household Couchettes 2920 ex 14109 ex 17109 converted in 1989

Royal Household Couchettes 2921 ex 14107 ex 17107 converted in 1990

HRH The Prince of Wales's Sleeping Car 2922 built in 1987

Royal Saloon 2923 built 1987

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Royal Train
« on: 03 July 2025, 07:56:55 »
Even the queen rarely used the royal train as she often travelled on standard services with a full carriage being booked out.

The royal train is of little use for anything other than what it was adapted to as it can accommodate very people.

I suspect one or two coaches may end up at the National Railway Museum (probably the two state coaches) and the rest will be scrapped......unless Jeremy Hoskins (owns LSL and has a hell of a heritage fleet) fancies a loco hauled private train to go with his converted 121 (55022) bubble car gin palace chairman's train


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General Car Chat / Re: Jaguar
« on: 03 July 2025, 07:46:49 »
We haven't made a Jag car for eight months, the new ones are on the proto line at the moment

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 July 2025, 15:17:04 »
How does cruise control affect the  life of the pads?
It shouldn't unless it's advanced cruise that also slows the car... In which case slowing the car from the rear makes for smoother braking from a passenger comfort perspective as it limits the nose dive effect………….

Well you could be right Al. I just googled VAG ACC rear pad wear and it appears that under very light braking it applies rear bias for the reason that you stated, and uses normal bias for heavier braking……. and pre-sense for those suicidal moments.  ::)  ;D
Maybe it’s just a VAG thing.  :-\  or maybe it’s total horse shite.  ;D

That's bloody dangerous, as the vehicle has no idea what the road conditions are and could easily spin you if you were on an icy patch

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 July 2025, 12:11:37 »
Treated the Audi to a new set of front brake pads. Not fitted them yet but will do soon, as although they’re only around 60% worn they have started kicking out more dust, and I hate dirty alloys.  :)  Rears to follow shortly as using cruise a lot appears to wear front and rears at an equal rate.

Its far more likely to be the stability system using the rears for vectoring that is making the wear even, adaptive cruise still uses the same brake bias as using your foot to ensure stability when slowing

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General Car Chat / Re: Travel Costs (Train)
« on: 16 June 2025, 15:58:56 »
I'm find all this fascinating.  out of interest what sort of power out do these have. :y

Class 55 (Deltic) is 3300bhp (two engines rated at 1650bhp each)

The 680s on my little project are a mere 150bhp each (four fitted)

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General Car Chat / Re: Who owns a milk float on here?
« on: 16 June 2025, 14:56:45 »
Hence looking at i5 Touring, sat in one last week. I did very much like it. Would order with a tow bar, so I can haul a trailer, bike carrier on the back. (kids are loving cycling at the moment)

I would also shift the spend into money "I do not see" and free up some funds that do hit by bank account.

Plus changes in taking kids in etc, increased miles.


What would be the down payment and subsequent monthly payments on that?

It's a nice enough car but a bit 'generic' perhaps.

Salary Sacrifice = No down payment.

Cost can vary dramatically, based on personal tax status. (20%/40%/60% tax payer)

I worked out the real world loss to me is £475/m.

That was 15k pa, i5 Touring, various packs, active suspension, tow bar, everything I would want.

That £475 includes the car, insurance, maintenance, tyres etc. Other cars with same deal:

£400 I could have a Tesla Model Y RWD

£275 for a Renult 5.

I would strike the Renault 5 off, have literally just got back from having a go in one, you wouldn't fit  ;D

The baguette holder is also another good reason to avoid !

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General Car Chat / Re: Travel Costs (Train)
« on: 16 June 2025, 07:38:44 »
I have a lifelong love for trains, since 1958, especially those pulled by a steam engine, or a Deltic diesel!

But the modern trains are also a great way to travel long distances, which I have done for work and pleasure over many years.  However, have had no need to use them in recent times  as I just do not need to travel far, and using the Omega is so easy for most journeys.  Only used steam preservation trains in the last 3 years.  I have now no idea on the costs of going by train, even to London, and can only remember that my season ticket for commuting from the Midlands to London, which I did for two years, in the early noughties, cost about £3,500 per annum.  Bet it is far more than that now! ::) ::) ::)


Was this iconic loco also a 2 stroke?

Well, I am not a diesel enthusiast as such, but these great engines had "opposed pistons", with no cylinder head, and with two huge engines were very powerful.  Their official top speed was 100 mph, but they regularly exceeded that.  I just know that they sounded great, with an unforgettable roar when pulling out of stations, or out on the line when accelerating.  They may not have been as impressive, for me, as the Gresley A4 pacific steam engines they replaced on the East Coast main line, but we love those that are preserved now! :-* :-* :D ;)

They are two stroke and until the class 68 arrived (about ten years ago), were the most powerful passenger diesel Loco in the UK

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General Car Chat / Re: Who owns a milk float on here?
« on: 13 June 2025, 09:02:51 »
A few months ago, our company EV scheme when from "worth considering" to taking the piss.

Not that it really matters, as an EV in these parts is going to be some way off.  Its quite telling that a lot of the houses that have had a charging point fitted no longer have TVs....

What changed? I've found prices can vary considerably. Our provider is LEX who appear one of the more pricey options.

VW ID Buzz in September was £400 cheaper gross deduct than it is today....

Depends on their stock, what they want to get shot of at the time. So I'm watching prices rise and fall

Second hand values is what is driving the price more than anything

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General Car Chat / Re: Travel Costs (Train)
« on: 12 June 2025, 11:49:16 »
I rarely use the train, its more expensive than car hire and fuel  :-\

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General Car Chat / Re: Who owns a milk float on here?
« on: 09 June 2025, 07:32:28 »
At 7kW the charge rate is the same from 0 to 100%, the losses are pretty constant across the full range.

Its when you hit it with 100kW that the charge rate drops off as it approach's the higher percent rates

Yep.....I know some modern EV are able to charge at about 300KW (Lotus are saying 400KW) in the early stages, but as you rightly say this drops once past around 60-70%

They are usually an 800V architecture (effectively two 400V packs in series), when charging they configure the pack to 400V with both packs in parallel, this then allows you to double the charge current. If you are then clever with the cooling and comfortable with lowering pack life, then you can get an even greater charge rate.

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They are only three bolts and not that hard to get at, have done a few to change the gaskets

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General Car Chat / Re: Who owns a milk float on here?
« on: 06 June 2025, 13:16:48 »
At 7kW the charge rate is the same from 0 to 100%, the losses are pretty constant across the full range.

Its when you hit it with 100kW that the charge rate drops off as it approach's the higher percent rates

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