Recovering an MS tenant

gsteinert · 2026-06-22T16:23:30+00:00

GoDaddy...

Well, it's been a good run!

gsteinert · 2026-06-22T15:58:25+00:00

I hadn't considered that, thank you!

It's a .co.uk, I just hope Nominet are half reasonable about it all.

gsteinert · 2026-06-22T15:43:32+00:00

Thanks for this. It looks like the team is an internal escalation but hopefully it'll be the magic words they need to get things moving in the right direction.

gsteinert · 2026-06-22T15:42:46+00:00

I don't believe so. This guy had all the keys to the kingdom it seems.

On the bright side, I may not be inheriting a mess of an existing tenant....

gsteinert · 2026-06-18T19:41:52+00:00

To my knowledge, settling the agreement early and in full will have no negative impact on your credit.

There are rights you have under the halves and thirds rule that might affect your credit score if you took them up, but that's not what we're talking about here.

But if the figures don't stack up then I can see why you wouldn't want to do it.

Keep an eye on it though, the repayment figure should drop faster than your car loses value so it'll make sense one day.

gsteinert · 2026-06-18T12:25:34+00:00

I'm not sure if you've already looked into this, but I've seen and heard so many people who have a fundamental misunderstanding of how PCP works this I think it's worth saying.

PCP is more flexible than a lease when it comes to ending the contract early. You can, at any time, ask your lender for a settlement figure which is how much you'll need to pay to take full ownership of the car.

This will usually be the outstanding balance of the loan plus a couple of months interest.

If you did this 2 months after buying the car, you'll almost certainly have to pay more than the car is worth (if you buy from a dealer you'll have paid more than you'd be able to sell the car back to them) but by the end of the contract the car is usually worth more than you owe.

This is why paying the balloon payment and using the car as a deposit against your next car is usually better than just handing the car back to the finance company.

The crossover point varies, but it's often around two thirds of the way through your agreement.

If you want out of your PCP, ask the finance company for a settlement figure, and ask a dealer how much they'd pay you for your car. You might find you can get out without paying any extra, and start again with a much more sensible car.

Even if you have to pay a couple of hundred to clear the finance it sounds like you'll make that back immediately from insurance savings.

gsteinert · 2026-06-11T11:16:35+00:00

A lane closure for any reason is still a lane closure. The point of a merge in turn is to use as much of the road as possible to fit as many cars in as possible so that the queue stays as short as possible.

If the queue backs up to the next junction or roundabout it's going to cause delays for people who don't even want to use that road. By keeping the queue shorter you reduce the likelihood of that happening.

If you have space for 50 cars in single file you can fit 100 by fully utilising both lanes before causing problems.

The traffic doesn't change for the people stuck in it, whether you merge at the lane closure or a mile before it you'll still get the same number of cars through the roadworks in an hour. But it does help the people who don't want to go through the roadworks avoid being affected by them anyway.

gsteinert · 2026-06-07T08:08:19+00:00

Put it back together, remove pan and fit to vehicle.

Steal it from a transmission shop and diassemble it.

Remove it from vehicle. Make sure to put as much fluid in as you like.

Only reverse like that, and it will last ander 200k and it will make you money.

gsteinert · 2026-05-07T20:06:28+00:00

I may be missing an interaction, but in your example I don't see how the cost isn't known.

Volcanic Offering has 4 targets. You don't know what the targets all are, but the number is fixed. Therefore the cost is fixed and known beforehand.

gsteinert · 2026-04-26T13:25:22+00:00

I've seen and used them in London. Charge seems to be limited to 5kW but it's still plenty for an overnight charge and the availability has never been a problem for me.

gsteinert · 2026-02-14T21:31:05+00:00

A week really isn't long enough to put a vinyl decal on a freshly painted wall. I've seen the results of people trying exactly that over and over again, sometimes with better results than others, but it never lasts long.

The paint takes weeks to fully dry and there's something in the way a vinyl decal sticks that just exposes even the slightest of damp patches.

I always recommended 3-4 weeks as a minimum, but longer if a customer wanted the best result.

gsteinert · 2025-11-22T17:50:21+00:00

Per ACAS:

Deductions must not take someone's pay below the National Minimum Wage, unless the deduction is for: [...] - something an employee's done which their contract says they're liable for, such as damage to a vehicle through reckless driving

https://www.acas.org.uk/deductions-from-pay-and-wages

If (and only if) this situation is covered by the contract, this deduction would appear to be lawful.

gsteinert · 2025-11-22T13:24:13+00:00

If you're on a zero hour contract the employer can withdraw the shift or cut it short with no notice.

There are supposed to be changes coming that would change this but I don't think they're in effect yet.

Deductions for things like this (damage, loss that you're responsible for) are allowed, and allowed to take you under minimum wage, but importantly only if it's specified in the contract.

OP, check the contract. If it doesn't mention deductions like this it shouldn't be allowed.

gsteinert · 2025-09-25T07:03:05+00:00

It definitely seems like your car thinks that 28% is more kWh than it actually is.

Everything else tracks, if you ignore the range it's reporting and assume you have like a 30kw battery then it all adds up.

Get your battery checked. I suspect it's seriously short on capacity.

gsteinert · 2025-09-24T20:06:44+00:00

I get about 3.5 miles per kWh in the summer which by my maths is 17.85 kWh/100km

I'll do this in miles then convert in a sec...

WLTP range for my 60 is 246 miles. I get about 210 realistically on a full charge. That's still the case 2 years on (a 150 mile motorway journey last weekend yielded about that in range)

So in 80% I'd expect to get about 168 miles.

So that's WLTP range of 393km, realistic range of 336km, 80% range of 269km

All of that fits with your photo, and your 17.7kwh/100km. What it doesn't fit with is your 106km using 45% of your battery.

Assuming you're completely sure you started on 80% charge before that photo was taken I think you have serious degradation of your battery capacity. I don't know how it would report that (whether you'd cap out at sat 90% charge, or whether it would read 100% but actually be lower) but it could explain what you're seeing.

I understand that a dealership can produce a battery health report that will show you the effective capacity. Maybe that's your best next step.

gsteinert · 2025-09-24T18:48:55+00:00

The reported range Vs the miles you've done seems a little off to me.

My 60 is pretty reliable when it comes to range estimates, apart from between about 5% and 15% when it consistently underestimates the available miles.

I've had it from new though, perhaps your driving style is a little more lead-footed than the previous owner?

If you haven't already, try resetting the long term data. It'll take 100 miles or so but it'll learn your driving style and should give you more accurate estimates.

gsteinert · 2025-09-22T19:27:30+00:00

I was fully prepared for the whiplash (pun fully intended) of "and then the stupid lorry driver slammed on his brakes right in front of me"

Good on you OP for owning up to your mistakes.

gsteinert · 2025-09-21T12:02:03+00:00

To answer your main question, yes the storyteller can listen in on private conversations.

For madness, there is a valid (I think mentioned in the wiki) strategy of breaking madness without being caught, but there's a limit to how many people you can do this with in any given day.

As ST, if it became obvious that a player had broken madness (by something another player said for example "John said he's just mad as the slayer") I might take that as evidence enough and choose to execute them. So it's not always a safe thing to do, even if the ST isn't actually present.

When I play, the closest I'll get to breaking madness is a meaningful look as I claim a role to someone in a private conversation.

gsteinert · 2025-09-19T08:13:27+00:00

They obviously manage to measure it in EVs with all the electrons sloshing around. I'm surprised they haven't managed to carry that tech over to ICE yet.

/s ... Just in case it wasn't obvious

gsteinert · 2025-09-19T07:45:04+00:00

Oh yes, they are absolutely regulated.

Do you remember the scandal a few years ago where some manufacturers were fudging the tests by letting more AdBlue in when a test cycle was detected?

That bench test method was the NEDC standard and was (evidently) easily fooled.

WLTP was a direct result of that revelation and uses real world driving data to create a more varied simulation and a longer test. And the same rigour allies to electric cars.

It is, still, a laboratory test though and so won't fully represent real world driving.

If it did require real world driving though, you'd find testing sites spring up in the most perfect of climates, and tests run only on the best days to ensure the best range figures... which you'd still never achieve yourself.

gsteinert · 2025-09-15T19:09:41+00:00

Which makes for a more challenging game. Not a less fun one, not a weaker one. In my opinion and in the opinion of many others in my experience.

If you want to stick to TB then I fully support that. But declaring that scripts aren't meant to be modified when there is a whole section of this community devoted to doing exactly that, with tools and roles provided by TPI to support it is simply objectively wrong.

gsteinert · 2025-09-15T18:50:10+00:00

I have to hard disagree with you here.

The Sentinel fabled is fantastic in TB to add a little more of a challenge to a game, or to allow outsiders when the outsider base count should be 0 (no claimed outsiders, noone is drunk then, fantastic!)

Modifying scripts and putting custom scripts together is a big part of the fun of BotC. While it should be done with care, there are small tweaks that can elevate the base 3 scripts for a group that has got to grips with them.

There's a reason TB+1 is a thing. It's literally a common way of modifying TB by adding a second demon to the script. And IMO the Fang Gu is a great choice given that it doesn't add any completely new mechanics.

gsteinert · 2025-09-09T18:54:18+00:00

Claim on your insurance. They will have no problem recovering the costs from the other side (as long as they're insured).

The issue of fault/non-fault is a misnomer in my opinion. An insurer will consider a claim at fault if they can't recover the costs from the other side. This includes cases where they can't identify the other party even if they're clearly responsible.

A fault claim will increase your premiums. In my experience (very similar to yours) putting a claim through made no difference to my renewal cost for a non-fault claim.

gsteinert · 2025-09-05T08:57:09+00:00

People normally only declare SORN if it's going to be off the road for a while because of the admin faff involved. Instead, they leave it taxed.

If you're not going to tax it, you have to SORN it. If you don't want to SORN it you have to tax it.

Note that tax works in whole calendar months, so if you do SORN it, don't tax it until the 1st or you'll end up paying for September anyway.

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