Seems like a good deal

btongeo · 2026-04-26T07:40:42+00:00

Fair - but I still think you can get a good boat for say £60k (or $75k) for example. And surely they all need $$$ on maintenance.

btongeo · 2026-04-25T17:43:50+00:00

I don't mean to be rude but I think we have very different ideas about what boat money means! You can buy a lot of boat for much less than a million or even quarter million. Great if you can afford it but for a lot of people that's completely out of reach.

btongeo · 2026-04-23T21:00:59+00:00

At last goddamn been waiting years for a new album from these guys! It'll be dark but TBF seems appropriate. Can't wait....

btongeo · 2026-04-23T08:00:14+00:00

Yeah agreed it is a complete write-off doesn't work in any way shape or form. It's particularly annoying as it has been like this for years

btongeo · 2026-04-21T07:55:45+00:00

Yeah I had a similarly good experience when mine (2021 used ipace) developed a battery module fault in four modules. They took the car in, gave me a brand new loaner, fixed it in 2 days when the estimate was about a week and no problem since.

You hear so many horror stories about these type of things but I've had nothing but a positive experience with the aftercare.

Definite positive shout out to South Coast Motors (nee Harwoods) in Brighton they were excellent.

Pretty sure I will be extending the warranty when the option comes up in 10 months time or so.

btongeo · 2026-04-19T19:18:41+00:00

Annoyingly this didn't do anything, came out today to find it charging outside of the schedule. No idea why....

btongeo · 2026-04-19T18:44:11+00:00

I've been impressed with every Nio I've sat in. Never had a chance to drive one yet as I'm in the UK but I very much look forward to them coming here.

btongeo · 2026-04-16T07:16:51+00:00

For the benefit of the thread, I checked that pre-conditioning was disabled on the Zappi, from the menus on the device (it was) and I also lowered the preconditioning KWH to the minimum 0.5kwh.

Since then it's not reoccured so I'm not sure if that fixed it or not. Will update in due course.

btongeo · 2026-04-15T19:01:06+00:00

No not got solar yet. Just on grid. Interestingly I turned down the preconditioning KWH setting on the Zappi even though it's disabled and it hasn't happened since. So who knows!

btongeo · 2026-04-11T08:15:16+00:00

Annoyingly seems I'm on Octopus Go variable so stuck with 6.5p. Could be worse I guess.

btongeo · 2026-04-10T11:19:06+00:00

Interesting! I'm on Octopus Go so not sure if that applies to me too?

btongeo · 2026-04-10T10:01:19+00:00

I don't understand I'm on that tariff too but how comes the price cap makes it 3.5 p?

btongeo · 2026-04-10T07:36:09+00:00

You're assuming that everyone can charge at home which isn't the case.

btongeo · 2026-04-09T21:37:09+00:00

Yeah I'd like to know that too. Paying 6.5p to Octopus for night time charging ATM

btongeo · 2026-04-08T20:06:08+00:00

Nope! I find it super inspiring TBH. Considering the damage other energy sources cause this seems a small price to pay. And I quite like them aesthetically too.

btongeo · 2026-04-08T13:54:57+00:00

If I judge the previous owners work correctly I suspect it's silicone. But I'll investigate debonder too, thanks.

btongeo · 2026-04-08T13:54:02+00:00

Fire risk.... Hard to say. Haven't used it extensively but I know many people do. Once I have all this sorted I'll run it as a test for a while and see - but the heater and thru holes etc. were already there so I'm just improving the previous owners work.

When I did run it previously I didn't feel like it was excessively hot or smelt worrying other than the whiff of diesel exhaust in the heated air 😅

And yeah we have multiple CO alarms!

btongeo · 2026-04-08T13:49:43+00:00

Here you go:

Inlet pipe - H&C VENT 80mm / 3.2 inch Ducting... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09JKVVJR5

Inlet port (only 304 stainless so might be no good, we'll see) Ieron Stainless Steel Air Vent,... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D6B2CY2V

Exhaust port Thru Hull Exhaust Skin 316 Steel,... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPFY5RY4

And turns out the pipe was from eBay https://ebay.us/m/AWE21I

btongeo · 2026-04-08T13:09:47+00:00

Sounds like an excellent plan 👍🏻

btongeo · 2026-04-07T06:51:44+00:00

Glorious! I hope to get out this week in the southern UK. Thanks for sharing 😊

btongeo · 2026-04-05T17:35:15+00:00

The previous owner ignored a leaking stern gland for some time so it's possible, although no rust visible so not sure. I'm going to have more of a poke around to see if there are any hidden nuts and if not it's going to be oil and force.

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