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Post by dixinormus on Oct 4, 2018 6:45:12 GMT
I'm guessing that the price of a litre of petrol in Chile is a lot less than in the UK?! Nudging GBP1.25/litre here in NZ 😩
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 7:50:44 GMT
Way higher than Oz there mate. About 75p a litre if memory serves.
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Post by bromptonaut on Oct 9, 2018 22:23:00 GMT
High enough to notice the oxygen problem though for myself My daughter, aged about 8, threw a hissy fit at top of Mont Blanc cable car 'cos I said I wasn't paying prices for lunch there and she'd have to wait until we were back at ground level in Chamonix. Ended up gasping for breath. She still remembers...... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 5:38:14 GMT
When I was 14 we were on holiday in the Rockies and were driving at about 13,000 feet. I remember my father saying how underpowered the car felt compared to lower altitudes. I also remember a letter into Car & Driver a couple of years later with the editor's response that a turbo would have helped significantly.
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Post by WDB on Oct 10, 2018 11:41:55 GMT
An electric motor would have helped more. 🤓
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Post by dixinormus on Oct 11, 2018 8:35:15 GMT
Good luck finding a charging point up in the Rockies! And I assume that EV range plummets when accelerating uphill?!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 8:45:16 GMT
Sure does, but that regen braking gets a lot of it back on the way down. I can get from my house to the centre of my suburb gaining 1% of power on the way. It's mostly downhill.
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Post by WDB on Oct 11, 2018 9:06:44 GMT
Good luck finding a charging point up in the Rockies! Whereas there is a petrol station on every peak? I can see solar-fuelled, battery-storage DC charging stations being easy to install and support in mountainous areas. Certainly easier than trucking in petroleum fuels. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2018 17:57:02 GMT
The car has a full size spare under the boot floor. In it is a thing. I suppose the thing is a sub woofer .if so, isn't inside a metal wheel kind of a strange place to put it?  |
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 12, 2018 18:29:08 GMT
I think you've found Humph's spittoon... ;-)
(It's a pretty common oe and aftermarket space-saving arrangement)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2018 19:04:45 GMT
Oh, well I know little of such things.
Thanks.
Don't think it's aftermarket though, not that it matters.
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Post by Rob on Oct 12, 2018 19:18:37 GMT
On my old Mazda6 Sport the subwoofer was in the spare wheel space in the boot too. Never needed to use it as a spare. Passat and A3 that followed had extra/optional speakers under parcel shelf. Both saloons.
And that Mazda6 did have a spare wheel. It (sub-woofer) was inside the empty space.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 9:06:38 GMT
Same in my Mazda 6, which I'm starting to wish I still had.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 15:31:05 GMT
To keep her ladyship happy(ier) or for yourself?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 7:59:41 GMT
Bit of both really. It was a bit smaller than the Merc and probably less likely to barf up huge bills all over my shoes.
Just checked the Mazda's MOT status - passed earlier this month with one advisory: "Offside Rear Valve stem slightly damaged". What the hell is that? It's on 101k miles now. Good cars these, but thirsty of course. Someone got a bargain. |
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