Recent content by Tobes

I fit a 10kg and 5kg gas-lite (Flowgas) in the side locker on my Unicorn S3 Vigo. If the locker is the same size - you are good.

As I posted on another thread ;- When we either stop using gas, or we change the market model, or consumers change the way they consume electricity ( with a time of use tariff and time shifting). The first option is commercial. The second is legislative. The third is individual, but requires...

I have pointed at it before, and will do so again now. My average electricity cost for last month (4th Aug to 4th Sept) was just 7.31p per kWh + VAT (at 5%) so 7.67p all in. That is achieved by using solar and batteries to allow load shifting to a low cost night time tariff, which is accessed...

When we either stop using gas, or we change the market model, or the "working person" changes the way they consume electricity ( with a time of use tariff and time shifting). The first option is commercial. The second is legislative. The third is individual, but requires effort and potentially...

IMHO it's neither true nor scaremongering. Garages will garage. There are those that will charge you for a new set of pads, disks and tyres when one tyre repair will suffice and there are those who will do what's right for the customer. Now - having the right expertise to correctly diagnose...

If the thieves have broken into your house to steal your keys, they may well come back to ask for the key sequence to start the car... At the point of them having broken in - they can have it.

Yes - a simple (though not cheap) saving is to replace the lead acid leisure battery with a Lithium Ion one. Our old Lead acid was a 110ah Banner Energy bull, weighing 24.1kg. We replaced with a Kempower LiFePo4 100ah (which has more real world capacity) weighing 10.24kg. A huge saving. Gas...

Hi Lenny. Welcome! We have 2016 Unicorn Vigo. The origional sticker by the door says the MTPLM is 1500, but if you look in the gas locker, you will find a weight plate that actually says 1550. For £50 Bailey will send you a new sticker for the door to get you up to 1550kg MTPLM (which we did...

It depends on the lithium battery. I have a kepworth 100ah that is a drop in replacement for lead acid. The voltage is managed by the BMS built into the battery. It's fine with the built in charger. I did change the solar controller to on that had a lithium option, as it allows a higher voltage...

Thats part of your planning - you download your maps before you leave home, just like you would have historically bought a paper map of the area. The point being it can be done ay home and does not use data.

Which you can do on your home internet connection, avoiding your mobile data use.

I have been listening to this first episode - so far - very interesting and enlightening. Worth a listen.

May have been an age thing. There was no subscription on ours, but map updates were not free (until the V60 where they are). I would persuade our dealer to throw in an update at each service.

It was a setting on all of them. 2006 S60 T5, 2007 XC90, both had "rise out of the dash" screens with RTI-TMS. They let you turn on diversions for real time traffic including accidents, closed roads and traffic. 2008 V50, had a fold up out of the dash screen with the same system. 2016 V60 had...

A new series starting tomorrow on BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h2p3