Richf

Genuine I'm think, not aware of any 3rd party manufacturers , the xtreme kits that come with a single mass flywheel are very good though

What made you go for the P Zeros over the Contis?

Tread depth , dunno how much you get but it looked like about 4mm depth on a new tyre , you can see on this pic http://www.continental-tyres.co.uk/car/tyres/car/summer-car-tyres/contiforcecontact

Splashed out for a set of Jaguar XFR-S wheels , they are forged and made in very low numbers so very rare , 1" wider all round so allowed for bigger tyres 295/30/20 on the rear and 265/35/20 on the front , unfortunately i couldn't stretch to MPSS so stuck with P-Zeros for the next 5000 miles

These have been refurbed in Shadow Chrome so the brake dust wont show up as much

Nissan love editions like this , no options and no variation thats keeps that factory turning most efficiently , try and sell them afterwards.

Smacks of flogging a dead horse to me

My nextdoor neighbour has just bought one , nice satin black wheels as well . They look very nice

Why not just get MPSS?

 

Seem to be suitable and a hell of a lot cheaper than Force Contacts. (Order from Blackcircles).

 

Because it works out an EXTRA £600 over these options new for a set of 4

You must be getting a cracking deal on them then because MPSS are only £255 per corner at those sizes...

yeah its a wheels and tyres deal £2100 or £2700 if i want MPSS

I have Dunlop sports maxx at the moment , thinking that even the P zeros will be a step up from them

Why not just get MPSS?

 

Seem to be suitable and a hell of a lot cheaper than Force Contacts. (Order from Blackcircles).

Because it works out an EXTRA £600 over these options new for a set of 4

you have to drill them out if i recall correctly

Might be worth phoning your local tyre place, on both occasions that I have bought MPSS in recent years there has been a promotion from Michelin giving cashback in form of a gift card for fuel , £25 per tyre usually

Need new tyres for the Jag , have been offered both these makes but not got much experience of either , sizes are 265/35/20 & 295/30/20 , looking for dry grip over everything

Any advice

Bullshit, no car goes through 4 and potentially its 5th owner that quickly unless its got something seriously wrong.

 

The only possible thing is that they're all paying well over the odds and then realising they've been stung, because they dont realise the example they've got...

My 370z had 6 owners in 4 years ! Nothing wrong with it at all , two owners only owned it for a matter of months , one wanted it for the summer and the other wanted it until his new car arrived .

I dont think its a generation away but watching videos like this i think its not going to be around the corner . The motor manufacturers might feel its worth investment but the local council around here aren't in a hurry to fill 2ft deep potholes i dont know where they will find the money to modify and maintain the roads in a position that self driving cars will be a viable proposition

They "may" however use the tech to automatically limit a cars speed to that of the road and prevent certain types of reckless driving ie pulling out when a car is coming etc. They may well automation to prevent the meat sack behind the wheel from doing anything stupid/polluting/reckless but actually having a car that ONLY a machine can drive , thats a long way off

Also saw that Uber are pulling a load of driverless cars in the US after the computer flipped one on its side (albeit in a collision with another car potentially at fault)

They suspended the program for three days, but the "driverless" car still had a driver and engineer in it

I cant help but think whilst we might have the technology for driverless cars we are a long way off with the infrastructure , watching videos of Tesla drivers they only really work well on freeways as they are wide roads with clear markings and everyone driving in the same direction

You can option 18" wheels on the Focus , its a fashion thing

Really useful how-to here , stop all that raspiness

The model X that is around here is sat on a driveway always plugged in day and night.

 

Well mine is plugged in every night even though I've yet to drop below 30% battery charge, and I've yet to charge it to above 80%. Battery degradation is really the only major cost/unknown with EVs, as the battery is the biggest cost of the car, a rough estimate says the battery pack our Model X has a manufacturing costs of close to £15-20K. At the moment the advice is to not charging to 100% or depleting down to below 10% too often as a way of preserving battery life, but that may change as real life data is showing these battery packs are simply not failing regardless of how they are been used.

 

Some guy over the pound has recently go hold of some of the cells Tesla use in their battery packs and a ran whole load of tests. It turns out after 500 cycles/depletions there is only roughly 5% degradation, this compares to 30% degradation in a 'normal' battery such as the one you find in your phone. This means at 100K miles (200 miles range per 1 discharge), Tesla's should still have 95% of their 'new' range, which real life data is supporting as there is now quite a few Model S in the states with 200K miles on the clock and still going strong.

 

What's really impressive is that if these numbers are real, even after 2000 cycles the cell is only showing about 10% degradation, that means the battery in our X will in theory last 500,000 miles at which point it will still have 90% of the range it has today!!! Given I drive 8000 miles a year, I'll probably be 6ft under the ground by the time the battery pack in our Model X needs replacing due to cell degradation.

 

How long are you expecting to keep the X, if thats not an impolite question ?

Low CoG definitively, and drag too as they don't need a radiator, but we're years away from them ever being low weight. Trouble is, with the weight of all those batteries is it worth spending extra on lightweight materials for the structure?

 

Therein lies the rub. If they could make an Elise sized car for Elise money I think they'd be on to a winner. Unfortunately, I have no idea of the numbers involved. It'd certainly be an interesting costing exercise.

Lotus makes Elise sized cars for Elise money and constantly run close to bankruptcy

Took a pic the other day when I was shunting cars around , the two blue ones are mine , the C1 is my 17yr old sons and the wife has a Prius but no-one wants a pic of that

Nice fresh oil can make the diff quicker to lock up , which is a good thing imo

Just because you cannot vote, doesn't mean you cannot influence those that can with your opinion.

You really think that as an Englishman you can influence a Scot who wants independence to vote otherwise ?? Good luck with that

I'm English I don't really care, my voice doesnt matter and neither does my opinion

Yes the limiter can be removed, the auto is massively over geared i seem to recall at max rpm in 7th is around 240mph so if you can find a long enough and steep enough hill who knows

I would think the stock car would do about 165-170 on the speedo on an autobahn given a long enough run up

Not really done a huge amount to the car but had a Spires rear exhaust put on last week, so it sounds like this now, thinking hard about new wheels and changing the Dunlop Sports Maxx tyres to Pirelli pzeros

Went to the drag strip for the season opening RWYB, very slick and had a lot of trouble getting the big Jag off the line but managed consistent 13.1-2's at around 113mph , will easily run 12's once the weather warms up a bit, but it was the same for everyone and even the 4wd stuff couldnt do any better

Stronger than the Infiniti version and that got a new gen so I think it might

Due to the US market where Infiniti are really strong