electric versus petrol

There are hire cars, or ryanair for those :-)

Neighbour sold his 2005 Astra 1.6 petrol estate last year with 210,000 on the clock. Yeomans, Portsmouth gave him £200 p/x against a new Quashqai. He had it from new, initially a company car, and other than wearable items nothing needed replacing. Original clutch and all suspension bits still ok at 210K miles. It's all down to how you drive.

Avoid fast-charging and the battery will last longer. It's the same with any rechargeable battery.

It's going to be tricky to prove that they aren't still using it unless they are caught with red derv in the tank, because the chemical test will presumably fail on every JCB that has ever been run on red diesel ?

My tyres, all but one, died from punctures. The one that wore out did so at

Hie cars are a bit difficult if you're over 80, as I am. Not sure RyanAir would get me to the Western Isles

My Enyaq tells me to only charge to 80% to improve battery life.

In message snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk>, at 18:23:38 on Sat, 16 Oct 2021, charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> remarked:

Hire cars are usually a no-no for short notice trips, unless perhaps you live near an airport and could hire one from there.

In message <skf105$16oi$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org>, at 18:09:23 on Sat, 16 Oct

Round here every other "agricultural vehicle" is a JCB, pulling a trailer full of crops. Assuming these Fastrac+trailer combos are classed as agricultural rather than off-road HGVs.

You mean ICE hire cars?

Well if you are going to do 144 miles[1] a week plodding around town in an EV to save the environment and then rent (at some cost) an ICE to go to Cornwall on holiday........

I only did 4894 miles in my car in the last 12 months. The thing is I only used it about for about 20 journeys.

In message <y5vVD57MIxahFAK$@perry.uk>, at 18:55:24 on Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Roland Perry snipped-for-privacy@perry.co.uk> remarked:

From the HMRC website, it doesn't look to me as if they will be included (and aren't mentioned specifically as one of the 'losers'):

for vehicles and machinery used in agriculture, horticulture, fish farming and forestry. This includes allowing vehicles used for agriculture to be used for cutting verges and hedges, snow clearance and gritting roads

Unless trucking produce 20 miles across the county *is* agriculture.

ISTR in the past that rules for tractors (maybe construction and use, driving and so on) exempted them on trips from fields to nearby associated farmyards. But that's not the operational scheme I see much of today (the distances are far greater).

These combos are supposed to be driven no faster than 64kph (40mph). But there's one operator I see with them hurtling along at 50mph on my speedo) which would be a limiter set at 80kph.

A combination of doing low mileage, buying a car which had sat at a dealers for a long time, and lockdown, means that my car has tyres dated 2015, with currently less than 7000 miles on them.

At this rate they will degrade before they wear out.

Chris

The 'local' farmer's yard is about 6 miles from the fields here. Definitely 'associated' but 'local'? - I suppose it's relative.

Can it be set to do that? It would be better if that's the default but can be overriden.

I, OTOH, do. This hapens as the combine goes round from field to field, locally (i.e., within 3-4 miles in any direction). The tractors towing large grain trucks follow the combine around the field, getting filled up on the go by the combine as it reaps. The tractors then drive over to the farm (about 3 miles from us) which has the storage bins.

I expect in other areas they drive greater distances to the storage/drying facility.

Not sure, There's a lot in the owner's manual to read & understand.

ditto harvesting grass or maize for silage.

Must be because of all those Tory farmers.