Recent content by Tobes

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    Waze and Android auto

    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.
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    Waze and Android auto

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

    I have been listening to this first episode - so far - very interesting and enlightening. Worth a listen.
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    Keeping to 20 mph

    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.
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    Keeping to 20 mph

    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...
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    More scam

    A new series starting tomorrow on BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h2p3
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    Caravan Taps only work when both opened

    Is your pump audible? If so can you hear it start when you open the kitchen tap only? If you cant, but can when you open the bathroom tap then I agree with your diagnosis.
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    Do you?

    Yes. Condition of insurance.
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    Keeping to 20 mph

    My Volvo navs have all done that going back to 2006.
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    Lexus NX 450 hybrid +

    Nothing to do with saving the planet - all to do with the vagaries of manufacturers not being completely clear when homologating for towing, and then not doing homework. Towing capacities go up and down across model ranges independent of "greenness" Volvo V60 D6 2016 (PHEV) towing limit of...
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    PCV Facebook

    Because it's Facebook - anyone can comment. No requirement to be a member or even follower of PVC. I do comment occasionally. You can guess the kinds of posts ;-)
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    Pretending I'm driving an EV with the caravan

    Its true - a sleeping policeman is about as most people get in a Chelsea tractor :)
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    Pretending I'm driving an EV with the caravan

    I like this approach - test it to see how it works for you. But, there are a couple of significant differences between how you got on and how a full EV driver would get on. 1) Your plug. As a PHEV driver, and from your comment on the inability to charge at a certain location, I surmise you only...
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    Volvo EV Progress

    Original price was about £55k. While the children are considering it, its also still a significant outlay for them, and comes with a hefty insurance cost (they are 23 and 20 respectively, and this is a 400hp car). I am not sure either will decide its quite right, though I know they both...