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Left it at Heathrow Airport, while I've flown off to Prague for some important meetings beer drinking with my CZ colleagues. Interested to see how much battery charge will be lost from Sunday-Thursday and not being plugged in. I've disabled pre-conditioning for the morning, as that won't be needed.

So far after 24hrs it's on exactly the same percentage.

Seem to have set off another bout of amnesia...

It must be wonderful to have so much money that you "can't recall receiving $75,000" but can remember asking the questions in Parliament that it paid for

Also, resigning from the Labour Party is little more than virtue signalling. He should be stripped of his title and privilege.

The current baunch of Labour MPs are no better .. when asked about the pictures of Mandy in his pants, his reply was to not be hasty as the events happened over 20 years ago as if that makes it alright

Cracked the screen.  Apparently it was a stone on the M40, and she said it made a massive bang

I'll see if crack grows, if not, will likely leave until better weather.  The crack seems to be on the inside of the screen rather than outside, unusually. 

Funny how the second anyone gets rid of an Omega, there's very little to actually do to a car

Whilst new fangled cars on company lease plans are great in principle, I do wonder where the catch is

I mean zero deposit and low payments on a £70k+ car has to have an almighty gotcha attached to it? Retail leases are circa £2k down and £1,700 a month and you still don't own it.

If your employer are picking up the bill then there's a massive implied benefit, likewise for charging at work.

I hope the car serves you well, and getting shiny things is always fun, I hope you've done your homework.

I don't charge at work, only at home, for £0.07p for each kWH. I'm on a standard Octopus home charge policy, that always gives that price no matter the time of day. (for the car) - It just dynamically wacks charge in when demand is low. I just ask it to ensure it's at 80% each morning at 07:00.

I can assure you I've researched this to death for the past year, as for me it has a bigger impact on my pension and I needed to calculate the impact there.

There are wider implications for me around the 60% tax trap and trying to ensure that I never pay that tax threshold. Be it via pension contributions, EV car, childcare vouchers, denplan, etc.

I'm confident in the cost and also wish I jumped on the scheme earlier than invest in the 435i 3 years ago. Given what I know now and how much it will cost. It is rather ironic that the more you earn the cheaper the car is, because the more tax you save.

For me now, it's a simple no brainer for £450/m loss in my take home, with zero down and a brand new 600bhp car that's pennies to charge. Even with the pay by mile scheme, if/when that comes in it's still going to be cost effective for an EV for me.

I suit EV ownership as my daily milage is 60-80 miles max. But I do that at least 3 to 4 times a week. Plus maybe 20 miles at the weekend.

If I was asked to travel to 300+ on a weekly basis, on a single trip eg go to Manchester, go to Newport, go to Ipswich each week I would not be so keen. The cost charging away from home greatly reduces the benefit.

Bland and boring like all modern Volvos, but as an appliance, they do the job without fuss.

(Not withstanding the soot chuckers have their fair share of issues).

I found the ride a little firm on the S60 (I think) that I nabbed from that joshwyatt geezer for a test drive...  ...though that was ex-plod so might have been beefed up to carry weight.

Sure it wasn’t the old unmarked Milton Keynes TVP S80, OU12 EUJ which Josh acquired?  I have fond memories of a couple of great pursuits in that old tank when I first joined traffic - it was retired a year or so later   

Didn't recall it being that big, but it's possible I guess....

The P2 S80 isn't particularly big

I thought the S80 was the largest of the saloons, but could be wrong, as never really paid any attention.

To clean the shocks, you just need an old rag. In many cases, you might not even need to wet it. Most of the crud will just fall off...  ...and you're now trying to making it look good like bodywork

Don't clean the air bladders at the bottom.


As for shock age, well, my XJ is on original shocks all round, is 16 years old, and over 170k...   (and no, it doesn't drive like one of tunnie's old cars )

The Proper Car is almost 20 years old and the same... Ok it has an overnight leak from a valve block, but  not putting the air bladders at the bottom of the strut probably helps their longevity somewhat

Bland and boring like all modern Volvos, but as an appliance, they do the job without fuss.

(Not withstanding the soot chuckers have their fair share of issues).

I found the ride a little firm on the S60 (I think) that I nabbed from that joshwyatt geezer for a test drive...  ...though that was ex-plod so might have been beefed up to carry weight.

Sure it wasn’t the old unmarked Milton Keynes TVP S80, OU12 EUJ which Josh acquired?  I have fond memories of a couple of great pursuits in that old tank when I first joined traffic - it was retired a year or so later   

Didn't recall it being that big, but it's possible I guess....

The P2 S80 isn't particularly big

Tunnie...

Was your BMW built in Mexico and shipped from there to Blighty?

My M240i was and it took 13 months to arrive, probably because the Mexican workers were fast asleep under a sombrero and blanket for 10 hours each day. 

No mine is a proper BMW   

It was built in BMW Group Plant Munich in Germany 

They then shipped it on a train/boat to the UK. Then rather amusingly it was trucked up to BMW in Glasgow (as that's who LEX do the deals with) was checked over and then trucked down to me again in Surrey.   

I can be of no use

My W212 was dealer serviced. My involvement was limited to brakes and tyres.

Fill level of DPF = 180% ? That doesn't sound right, although I know nothing about diags on that car.

I beleive ash / soot differences, and full is about 400% but could be wrong