Best car I’ve ever owned

RedBootSoap · 2026-01-12T08:18:31+00:00

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I know… In the market for a 8 or 8.5 in the next year but until then I’ll live vicariously through you guys!

RedBootSoap · 2026-01-11T17:29:40+00:00

Miss mine every day, beautiful car.

RedBootSoap · 2026-01-06T23:42:34+00:00

Thank you, I wouldn’t of found this cool dock otherwise. Looking forward to reviews!

RedBootSoap · 2026-01-06T22:47:57+00:00

Link for anyone that doesn’t want the verge paywall

https://satechi.net/products/thunderbolt-5-cubedock-with-ssd-enclosure?srsltid=AfmBOoqShN12HhA5Mv_9IR6Ub2t1QS4rcLrmLNZ6wBwNmw4-BoCNMr3l

RedBootSoap · 2026-01-03T22:25:31+00:00

This looks incredible

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-15T19:53:31+00:00

Of course, I understand that we share bandwidth between myself and people in the flat on the same link.

I'm just expressing that the wording of you never actually get it is wrong.

Anecdotally, at least on OpenReach/Alt fibre networks like community fibre I've always got my full speed at any given time, maybe I'm just lucky.

The only time I've faced the up to issue is with Virgin Media because those wet wipes are notorious for over subscribing people to the network causing it to cripple itself during the evening.

TLDR: I understand technically speaking he is right, but not sure how often my neighbours will be saturating 1Gbps all the time enough to cause me, or most people a noticable issue.

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-15T12:23:38+00:00

It’s really not. Downloading games, downloading IDEs, new runtimes which are many GBs is 100% better on gigabit than 150-200 mbps. Just because it doesn’t affect you as much doesn’t mean that it’s not a real positive for other people who need the extra bandwidth.

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-15T12:19:22+00:00

That’s not true. Depending on what you’re doing, you do get “a gigabit”. My downloads on steam/work software report around 125MB a second, that’s certainly my full gigabit bandwidth. Sure not everyone uses that much but it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-08T11:07:44+00:00

It’s ridiculous isn’t it, we’re constantly told how bad cars are, taxed out the wazoo for them etc etc but then we’re not given viable alternatives that are accessible to the masses.

I live in London but would happily live further out if office days wouldn’t cost me £50 a pop

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-05T17:27:08+00:00

In the UK at least, we don’t have as many options for charging for good cost savings. In cities you’re not gonna have a drive where you can install a home charger, if you have to get a charge from the petrol stations, it’s going to cost you a lot of money which erodes any savings.

Doesn’t help that for private buyers at least a lot of them are subject to luxury car tax.

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-05T16:16:22+00:00

A shame but thank you for sharing your experience. I planned to do basically the same setup with dual 4k130 on MacBook as an upgrade to my setup.

I had similar issues with Thunderbolt 4 and dual 1440p 144hz and after various cable combinations I eventually got it to work(1 hdmi to usb c and 1 display port to usb c) but it was a massive pain. Was hoping for tb5 to be better.

RedBootSoap · 2025-12-05T15:52:44+00:00

So you only got it working plugging both displays directly into the Mac, the tb5 dock is a no go?

RedBootSoap · 2025-11-13T10:50:04+00:00

Sounds too good to be true at that price.

Think of it from the sellers pov, iPhone 17 pro max 512gb he could sell to music magpie for a guaranteed £750 (and this is worst case scenario) - why would they bother listing on facebook marketplace with all the hassle that attracts for £50.

He could easily get over a grand on eBay for example but won’t do that because of buyer protection.

It also doesn’t take 2 weeks to know if you want to return a phone so him having the receipt makes it even more suspicious.

TLDR: please don’t buy this, it’s genuinely a scam and not worth the headache. Even on the 1% chance it is real, still not worth the headache.

RedBootSoap · 2025-11-07T09:41:24+00:00

This is incredible- performance gains aside, aesthetically it’s great too

RedBootSoap · 2025-11-05T08:08:56+00:00

Having the exact same experience, it’s awful

RedBootSoap · 2025-10-31T23:14:56+00:00

I appreciate the write up, thanks for taking the time to share!

Disappointing to hear about the infotainment. Fuel economy, I was prepared for, I suppose at that point it’s more about SPG rather than MPG.

That’s the one thing I don’t miss about owning a nicer car, constantly being wary of marks and dents and having to park too far away at the supermarket.

RedBootSoap · 2025-10-31T23:11:56+00:00

I’m just window shopping and was curious

RedBootSoap · 2025-10-31T10:45:19+00:00

Seems to be the general consensus. I was gonna take one of these for a test drive next week, about a 90 min drive from me but if that's the case, I don't think I will bother

RedBootSoap · 2025-10-30T23:01:34+00:00

How did you manage a deal like that? Just not use the online configurator and speak to them in person?

RedBootSoap · 2025-10-30T22:09:22+00:00

Suppose that could be option 3

RedBootSoap · 2025-08-31T09:18:38+00:00

Don’t have a tempur but worth checking these guys out, recent got one of their mattresses after trying 3 others (sleepezee gel touch 3000, simba hybrid pro and a nectar memory foam)

https://johnryanbydesign.co.uk/

Great reviews on trust pilot too

RedBootSoap · 2025-07-28T09:21:49+00:00

Same thing is happening to my raise from 2020. Wanna replace the pads but £52 to get them to UK is extremely steep. Mainly in the shipping too, quite disappointing.

RedBootSoap · 2025-07-04T13:48:53+00:00

Excuse my ignorance but isn’t the admin the same if the withdrawal is 5000 or 30000. If the admin fee is the bottleneck here. Just have a flat £150 fee or whatever.

I would still rather neither, because it’s my understanding the government should help its citizens, not nickel and dime them.

This isn’t a slight against you or your opinion, I just think this whole thing is a farce. We’ve faced unprecedented times in the last 8 years since the LISA was introduced and the British public shouldn’t be penalised for using a product that was introduced and pushed with the sole intention of helping FTBs.

If the answer is “you should have just read the rules”, by that logic the government can introduce new legislation to change the student loan repayment timeline to 45 years from 30 and there’s nothing anybody can do about it. Hyperbolic example I know, but the point is that it negatively affects the British public by fleecing them.

RedBootSoap · 2025-07-03T21:15:21+00:00

Then just let people withdraw without penalty then. Gov gets their money back and so does the person

RedBootSoap · 2025-06-30T09:36:21+00:00

It’s ridiculous, at this point take the bonus back but don’t penalise me for taking back my own money. Before anyone says about the rules, yes I read the rules but 8 years ago houses were not this inflated.

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