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The MK4 2.0 GTi I had for a bit as a loaner was RAF and a bit of an underpowered dog.

Well, SWMBO has. Year 2000. She loves the thing. It was the victim of a hit and run so a bit sorry round the front end. It was destined for the scrapper but as my lad had just passed his test I figured spend a few hundred & do it up for him to "learn" around our tight country lanes. Then Covid hit and he's not really used it. SWMBO uses it for the school run. More new parts now than Trigger's Broom. Parts are cheap though. I happen to quite like French cars though many don't. Tbh it's a nippy little runabout. Compact but roomy enough inside. Easy to wash with half a bucket! ? Debating getting a recon/exchange rear subframe for it. Could do with coming off the road for some bodywork tlc.

It doesn't rattle anymore I'll have you know. Nice and quite by some stroke of luck on my part.

I do nothing. The sensor picks up it's raining and the wipers start.

I just press a button and it clears as if by magic.

Leave it. Just mop it up after it's melted and leaked through inside. Or collect in one of the many buckets.

Put in dishwasher. Or simply soak one in in some washing powder in hot water. Report back.

With my 255mm Evolution Rage 3 you cannot trench/do an accurate through housing in timber. It's just too bouncy. Tolerance on the depth is probably +/-3mm. It's dire. I don't really even cut metal with it anymore due to the shower of hot shrapnel that makes, overalls and long sleeves a must, along with googles or ideally a full face shield like the Honeywell Bionic visor. My go-to is my Sheppach band saw.

Evolution Rage 3..... I've got one. Great for shed making but not for cabinet making!

Didn't understand a word of that but hugely impressed! Doesn't @oranjeboom run two in tandem?

Zero emissions to some extent equals zero revenue. The powers that be won't / can't have that. Pay per mile will I reckon be the thing with the EVs. There'll probably be a cost depending on how many PV panels you have on your roof like the old window tax too! ? Next the air that we breathe!

Doing 3 miles costs me about 75p here! ? Get 400 miles from £100 of E5 Shell Super V stuff. A petrol, 2.0S Mondeo probably isn't the best station car. I do 12 miles a day through country lanes and steep hills on the way back home. Tbh I am a tad heavy footed too.

It was Radio 4 and they're a lying bunch of woke f***ers with an agenda.

Exhaust valve? Is that what you youngsters are calling it now? ?

Cough...red...?

When your battery pack dies in the car you'll be retro fitting a wood gas or chip fat driven ICE! ?

I said a while back that with leccy cars they have you by the nuts even more so than with an ICE unless you can generate your own from pv etc.

I'm f***ed, Band F

Bloke on the radio saying was cheaper to drive his petrol car than charge his Tesla. Like X3 cheaper.

What swung you to go for the Sunamp ? From the best thing since sliced bread they seemed to turn into a bit of a Marmite solution from comments I've seen on here. Old ones maybe being "better" than new. I remember @Jeremy Harris was well into it and giving Sunamp lots of feedback. I think a lot is down to the installer knowing the quirks and how to get the best out of it. Good to hear it's working for you.

Erm...yeah, we do! ?

I love to see the rich folk scrapping! ?

See @pocster it works! You know nothing troglodike!

I have a hankering to dig up the part of my patio that gets the Sun. Lay down insulation, ufh pipes then black tarmac. Big heat collector.

On the US / Candian solar sites they are quite big on passive solar thermal projects. Many are off grid and fuel/electricity can be an issue. This article is quite good imo: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/chinese-passive-solar-greenhouses-at-fresh-pal-farms-in-canada/ Out there, given the average property size they can of course scale things up - as you can.