I had a short discussion with someone about electric tractors the other day. He was raving about the low down torque being perfect for the job. I asked him what they would do about refuelling. He went a bit quiet.
I'd have to do some clever sums but I suspect you'd need a sodding great battery to power a tractor for a full day's work.
And run it on the distilled tears of Scouse virgins!
There's a lot more thought required before EVs are useful for any use case outside short urban commutes. I'm sure they make sense in London or Birmingham where you'll be moving at 4mph and there is significant electrical capacity at both ends of the journey and the air is so foul it is actually illegal. Having said that, the better solution is a bicycle. If you want clean and green you need to consider the manufacturing costs in ecological terms and 10Kg of bike beats 800Kg of EV even if it's made of unobtanium.
If you're travelling a long distance, or away from population centres things just don't stack up. It's even worse if you happen to work at a rural visitor attraction and your visitors nearly all arrive by car. It won't be long before we have to dig up the car park and install 500 charging points. Who is going to pay for that? How on earth will we get that sort of capacity?
I personally wouldn't touch a Disco3 with a barge pole after my boss had one from new that needed new diffs, new engine, new aircon pipes within 5 years. I know that's a sample of one, but holy crap it cost him twice over. It was a 2.5 diesel and completely underpowered.
Nice car but bleurgh!
Even petrol prices are coming down to make an 18mpg 4.6 V8 a more justifiable proposition!
teeheeee....
Just got to hate it when car salesmen try to sound like estate agents.
He'd probably just drop a piano on it or something "whacky"
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Welcome! :)
Rooting is the Android version of Jailbreaking an iThing.
Once you've done that you have the option to install a different version of Android, specifically one without the cr@p the tablet manufacturers or mobile phone operators put on there to "Add Value" (to their own share price).
If you have a popular device, you'll have more options.
Or, you could look at a different device entirely. I got one of these (in 7") for the lad at Christmas. I only paid about £40 from John Lewis for it. It has an SD slot and Android 6.0 - although it won't be getting updated to 7 if that matters to you.
So far it has coped very well.
This is the classic problem with third party bloatware :(
The best option is to get a Nexus/Pixel phone which is "pure" Android with no bloatware.
Or just get a phone with loads of storage and/or an SD card. You can move most apps that you've downloaded to the memory card and keep all photos/movies on there too which makes things easier. Moving apps to SD is a matter of going down the apps list and moving them individually - a bit of a chore.
Or get el cheapo to tide you over until you can get the real one rebuilt?
Or concrete. I bet that's a seive underneath :(
Sorry, I was just whinging about the level of misinformation out there. The Tunnel especially pisses me off as you're quite entitled to take camper vans with bottled LPG up to 47kg/91.8litres. They also ban dogs on the Eurostar for no good reason beyond the lack of a risk assessment.
Asshats.
It's poor man's fuel, a false economy responsible for destroying cylinder heads and headgaskets in 50 miles. It's installed in tanks called "bombs" and isn't allowed on ferries or in tunnels because one spark can lead to a megaton detonation. Don't worry, it'll be phased out soon as everyone knows the price is about to rise. ;)
That only works if you're reducing the risk of failure by running two :)
I hear what you're saying about Dunlop compressors but my plan was to buy a cheap one to last until I could rebuild yours.
I'm hoping that I won't need n+2 redundancy to keep this thing on the road!!
It's on the way! don't worry about the postage especially if you're sending one back. It's just going plain parcel force.
I haven't put a note in the box but it should be obvious :)
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't run a P38 on petrol (or anything but LPG). Maybe I've been unlucky with second hand LPG conversions but I'm sure there are plenty of bad conversions out there clinging on long after their installers went bust.
All true, but it's a £2800 vehicle with a reliable LPG system and not something that's going to have you tinkering every weekend for a few months. I guess it depends on how much you like playing with that sort of thing. The quality of the original install is a factor - if the pipe runs are wrong or the tank is held on by bondo... it'll still cost to correct.
The Westminster, I grant you, would be a bargain. As long as the HG didn't go because an out of tune LPG system had it running lean for years :D
I've come to the opinion that it's less hassle to buy a petrol car and convert it yourself (OK, have it converted by an expert). A modern conversion tuned for the current state of the engine beats 10 year old kit with a tank that should really be replaced. Also LPG vehicles invariably have higher mileage and the petrol only ones have been owned/maintained by someone with deep pockets.
So, yeah, add whatever Simon quotes you for LPG and enjoy smooth running :)