Mine has suspension -- whacking great leaf springs -- but no shocks, which I suspect is what Peter meant. It does make tackling "traffic calming" an interesting enterprise.
They *are* taxed, but at a rate of £0.00. You can drive them on a normal licence and my insurance is around £40 (TPO, but allows for 7 passengers and 3 drivers).
Douglas de Lacey
Oi!
All they have is a set of leaf springs (no dampers) which move about an inch when 3 ton is put on the back.
They go very slowly :-)
They do if you try anything over walking pace.
Not when you compare the cost.
They have a tax disc - but it is issued free, much to the confusion of many post office staff.
Car licence and fully comprehensive insurance is about GBP70 per year. The combination of a need for short and infrequent journeys, the type of load and the very low standing cost make it ideal.
I actually did some tests on the aga with an oven thermometer. Wih all hobs closed it was about 210C.
After an hours cooking on both hobs, it was 195C.
7% drop.Its an oil fired aga with thermosat controlled burner.
What this shows is that
- yes, flat out it cannot maintain oven temp with both lids up but
- since it takes 4 hours to heat up, even with no burner on, it probably takes 4 hrs to cool down..and an hours hob cookng with a modulating burner is not really going to affect cooking temps enough to be noticeable.
I THINK the oil flow rate on 'full' is about 3x what it is on 'low' which implies that its probably only about 1.5KW into the ovens, max. As I would assume that 'low' oil flow is less than what it does at 'idle'
I've measured the gas one and it's able to regulate even more tightly than the 7% that you got..
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