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I hadn't driven my car for 4 days and it has been cold here and it was covered in ice. The battery temperature was 3C and charge 77% I plugged the car in and set the 1 hour preheat though I was actually leaving after 30 minutes. My dispenser was delivering 7.2 kW, after 30 minutes the battery...

Every now and again I look at the used car list on the GB web site and apply filters for options I very much want. If I choose all of them there are no cars at all that match my requirements. Just now I selected just the most important of my wishes and got 3 hits but none had an exterior...

It is a long time since I drove a Taycan other than my own so it was interesting to get a similar loan car. It has more external cosmetic options than mine but fewer internal and mechanical ones. It looks gorgeous in Gentian blue but has roof rails, glass roof, privacy glass and electric charge...

I have had a spillage onto a rear seat and whilst the leather is now clean a big patch of perforations are showing a different colour. I can broddle them with a toothpick whilst vacuuming at full power nearby but that will take many hours. Anybody found a product and technique to shift it...

I have long complained about the poor ergonomics and distraction of touch screen controlled functions, as have many others. Research has shown using a touch screen in a car is distracting and accident rates are going up since the minimum in 2010 so included in the safety score of cars in future...

It seems almost like trolling but I have been surprised that some members have talked about the power delivery of their IC engined sports cars in glowing terms, as if their characteristics, which are objectively inferior, were, to them, subjectively superior. The reason IC engines are very...

@W1NGE posted an intriguing click-baitish post today with a link which, when I followed it, took me to a Macan EV forum which I would need to join, it seems. I hate SUVs with a deep loathing, have no need of one and never will, as far as I can see, so I would ideally like to make sure such...

I just left my daughter’s house and when I shut the door and the car booted up the music I had been listening to started for a moment then some loud music I don’t recognise started and a window came up in the PCM asking something - I was surprised and not sure what was going on - but it said...

I excitedly ordered my car 3 days after a test drive showed it was a way better car than I had expected. Despite being huge and heavy the driving made it seem smaller (except, it turns out, on some of the twisty narrow roads around here where the width is a major bummer). It was July 2021 which...

Going out today at a known time in the first time in almost a year so I thought I'd try the charge timer. I set 10.00 am and 85%, plugged in and everything seemd to be going as expected but the charging finished at 9:00 am instead, leaving the cabin an hour to cool down before we leave :( Does...

There has been some discussion about how to warm up the battery for range/performance reasons. The timer function in the PCM includes both getting to the required charge and pre-heating the battery to a pre-set time just in time to use the car, which is excellent if you use the car at the same...

I know I am not a typical car person but whilst accepting the reality of the popularity of SUVs I am completely baffled by the total lack of a rational reason for it. The only objective comparison I have experience of was a colleague, also a racing car designer, who had a BMW company car. He is...

I didn’t bother to activate CarPlay when I got my car and am not sure whether I will use it but sitting bored waiting in my car today I decided to see what it was all about. I touched its icon, it told me I needed WiFi and blutooth active, which I have, or connected by USB. It didn’t find my...

Yesterday I heard water sloshing from bottom to top of the tailgate in my CT when I opened it for my dog to get out. I heard it again as it closed. There were signs of water running out through gaps in the trim while it opened and closed. and drips near the little red lights. There are 3 rubber...

I see quite a few posts recommending adaptive cruise or Innodrive. I didn’t like the way, and when, adaptive cruise took control of my Prius and had for decades used a normal cruise control and got used to disengaging it when necessary. I like to travel at a steady speed so I didn’t specify...

Just got this: It happened first yesterday evening on my way home from dropping off my daughter after driving a mile or two. I drove it again this morning to see if it had had a miraculous reset and again after a mile to so the alarm came up, and on the way home it came on almost straight...

I had requests for pictures of my Mamba car with Blackberry interior, which is no longer a possible choice. I haven’t had very accurate colour reproduction from the auto white balance on a phone, but this iPad picture isn’t too far off. The Neodyme accents really sets the Blackberry interior...

It was almost 18 months from order to pickup with 12V battery shortage leading to months in storage but I am glad I didn’t cancel. Things I like a lot:- Ride/handling compromise in “normal” is perfect. Coast when liftoff, I know from racing it is most efficient - we did it in Formula 1 and they...

Travelled yesterday in very wet conditions with the first 10 miles or so on part flooded country roads driving through water inches deep. The brakes performed exactly as I would expect, the regenerative braking was obviously unaffected but braking at low speed was typical "cleaning the water...

I haven’t connected CarPlay to my Taycan. It was something the sales assistant tried to do at handover but the first instruction from the PCM was to enable Siri on my phone, which I never have before and wasn’t sure how to do quickly so didn’t bother to link the car to CarPlay at all, hence my...