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Post by Humph on May 10, 2024 14:46:22 GMT
Fair points, well made… 😂
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Post by WDB on May 10, 2024 14:54:53 GMT
In other news, I managed to fall (actually it was more of a short flight than a fall) off my bike fairly spectacularly again this morning. Bad luck, Humph Hope you enjoy it WDB. On the not needing an estate thing though… Did I say that? Or was that Esp and his tip run? (There may be several of those in the CLS before it goes, so the next owner can enjoy a fresh crop of resident spiders.) I’d certainly struggle with a saloon car these days — although perhaps not as badly as Ginny Buckley seems to have done with the boot of her long-term i5 saloon. Boy2’s study plans mean we’re not done with university trips yet either, so our new car was always going to have to be a decent carrier of loads as well as people.
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Post by Humph on May 10, 2024 16:24:31 GMT
Way too late to speculate on how much milk it could carry of course… After all, that joke is long past its use by date. 😈😉
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Post by WDB on May 10, 2024 16:44:04 GMT
Yes. Not sure why you bother. Not much else to do nowadays, I suppose. 😈
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Post by Humph on May 10, 2024 16:48:33 GMT
All the time in the world dear boy, all the time in the world. 😎
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Post by WDB on May 10, 2024 16:53:26 GMT
That appeared on my screen at the same time as this:
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Post by dixinormus on May 12, 2024 8:07:16 GMT
Resident spiders? I thought I was the only sufferer. SWMBO transports tropical plants and in the subsequent days there are all kinds of bugs on the windscreen… on the inside!
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Post by WDB on May 12, 2024 10:00:44 GMT
On the way to the tip this morning, MrsB1 made me stop the car to remove what turned out to be a piddlingly small, if leggy, spider. Twice. I only found one beast, though, so there may be more to discover.
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Post by Alanović on May 13, 2024 7:51:50 GMT
Saw one in your colour this morning, Dubya. An iX, not a spider. Does have a very pleasing and unusual sheen. Lovely hint of brown.
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Post by WDB on May 13, 2024 8:33:00 GMT
I knew I could get your (qualified) approval somehow, Vić. Yes, it’s warmer than the austere ‘Oxide Grey’ suggests, and has the benefit of toning down the arse-print ‘grille’ a little. The plain Sport also does without the pseudo-vent black triangles in the front bumper in favour of those black L shapes. (There was a way to get these in blue, along with blue seat belts, which would have been fun, but I suspect it would not have survived contact with the Committee.)
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Post by bpg on May 13, 2024 10:22:12 GMT
Congratulations ! on the car. Always a tricky one, what do I want vs what will make it saleable to the next owner if it is not a forever car. Add in the fact it's a vehicle which will appeal to the next generation of owner and not what we know BMW buyers of old expect. I've been reading a bit about the ZEBs you mention WDB, may work in the south-east of England, a bit rich for my blood knowing what my energy use is, especially when we have a cold snap. It sounds like an update of the 80s Economy7 my wife had in her Edinburgh flat. Always ran out of heat when you wanted it most then had to pay a fortune to heat the place. Not sure how you will get it past WDB house committee that you will not get heat at the flick of a switch if blue seatbelts were a blocker. We use around 18,000 kWh energy per year for hot water and heating. We can use around 70kWh/day in a cold, below -10°C, spell. Assuming worst case scenario 70% boiler efficiency means we could drop to around 13,000kWH/year @ 42 cents/kWh = ~5,500€/year vs 1,500€/year I currently pay. You really have to want to save the planet badly to quadruple your annual bills.
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Post by WDB on May 13, 2024 10:52:42 GMT
Congratulations ! on the car. Always a tricky one, what do I want vs what will make it saleable to the next owner if it is not a forever car. Add in the fact it's a vehicle which will appeal to the next generation of owner and not what we know BMW buyers of old expect. Hmmm, do you think I’ve made choices a next owner might not like? Not that it’s really a concern to me, especially as I plan to keep this car at least five years and by then the world and ‘the market’ will look very different. My reason for paying the extra for a new car (and even at 20 percent off, it’s still a fair bit extra) is to get it just as I like it — at least within the parameters of affordability. ‘The market’ seems to expect dark rear glass, but I dislike it and this way I don’t have to have it. ‘The market’ won’t care about the towbar but it’s useful to me. I suppose the M Sport thing might be one, and in other BMW models it might matter, but in the iX the changes are purely cosmetic, and mostly for the worse. And I’m happy to take a punt that the textile interior will actually be more appealing to ‘the market’ in, say, five years than it is today. But I’ve chosen it because I like it and it suits the futuristic character of the car. If I wanted to play it safe, I’d have bought an iX3 by now!
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Post by bpg on May 13, 2024 11:04:50 GMT
Congratulations ! on the car. Always a tricky one, what do I want vs what will make it saleable to the next owner if it is not a forever car. Add in the fact it's a vehicle which will appeal to the next generation of owner and not what we know BMW buyers of old expect. Hmmm, do you think I’ve made choices a next owner might not like? Not that it’s really a concern to me, especially as I plan to keep this car at least five years and by then the world and ‘the market’ will look very different. My reason for paying the extra for a new car (and even at 20 percent off, it’s still a fair bit extra) is to get it just as I like it — at least within the parameters of affordability. ‘The market’ seems to expect dark rear glass, but I dislike it and this way I don’t have to have it. ‘The market’ won’t care about the towbar but it’s useful to me. I suppose the M Sport thing might be one, and in other BMW models it might matter, but in the iX the changes are purely cosmetic, and mostly for the worse. And I’m happy to take a punt that the textile interior will actually be more appealing to ‘the market’ in, say, five years than it is today. But I’ve chosen it because I like it and it suits the futuristic character of the car. If I wanted to play it safe, I’d have bought an iX3 by now! Not at all, you mentioned options packs you considered then excluded and you know how people filter by what is in the vehicle excluding those cars that do not have the options. Edit: A 'comfort pack' might be one of those easy sells though you mentioned things in there which sound more uncomfort pack. A 22kW charger would be a nice to have but that's just me, HUD I would not tick the box for, my wife has it in her car and I can say tried it once, never looked at it since. The panoramic roof I would only have if I could open it. they are supposed to protect the interior having experienced ours in Italy last summer, if it doesn't have a blind and I can't open it then I don't want it. I know you have your own views on glass roofs. I think you're probably right wrt material as most manufacturers are dumping animal bi-products like leather and even pleather in favour of recycled jeans and plastic bottles. With some manufacturers leather may still be considered a luxury that should be standard, not sure if that is the case for BMW. A towbar could actually work in your favour for towball mounted bike carriers and even those boot box type things that can be tilted to allow access to the boot. You'll see from the ball condition it has not been used to pull horseboxes.
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Post by Alanović on May 13, 2024 11:17:39 GMT
I hate leather.
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Post by EspadaIII on May 13, 2024 14:04:23 GMT
I don't hate leather but it has its uses and disadvantages. If I could get a car with cloth seats that you can easily remove and wash, I would get one... Oh I did, that's exactly what the Captur has and although we have only done it once, it was a doddle and made the car look so much better inside.
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