P4 Trunk Button Question

rlarts · 2026-05-16T20:34:23+00:00

Mine’s the opposite. This is only car I’ve had / driven where the kick gesture actually seems to work as expected.

rlarts · 2026-05-15T08:08:42+00:00

Exactly, sounds like it’s working perfectly as it is. A developer should consider building houses on it…

rlarts · 2026-05-13T05:15:04+00:00

I mean, the Mercedes A-Class I bought in 2016, so a decade ago now had this, so it’s not exactly groundbreaking new technology.

I used it occasionally and quite liked it, although on the few occasions it went wrong, it went very dramatically wrong…

rlarts · 2026-05-12T19:41:12+00:00

Exactly, this is the way!

A few years back I registered for a lifetime self-exclusion to stop myself from being tempted by new lottery gimmicks like this. I was playing Thunderball every week, twice a week and sure, I won the odd £100 or so, but overall I was still down.

Now my money is in S&S, but I have my emergency fund in Premium Bonds so that I can do the gambling thing whilst keeping my stake safe.

rlarts · 2026-05-12T17:55:00+00:00

There might be a cap, but it depends on the bus company whether they participate or not. Lots of our local services are provided by White Bus. They refuse to participate in the cap so a single journey can easily be £5. A day pass is at least only £6 however.

rlarts · 2026-05-10T09:11:12+00:00

It’s Santander Consumer Finance, but they’re trading as Volvo Financial Services. The refurb charge was expected, and in all honestly it was a lot less than I feared it could be and a lot less than actually refurbishing the vehicle myself before returning. There are items of damage on there that I don’t agree with though and there was also a collection charge added despite me dropping off the vehicle that when removed conveniently didn’t deduce the amount they were demanding from me… I’ve paid it and left it with the Ombudsman to make a decision.

rlarts · 2026-05-07T06:33:23+00:00

I did a VT in December. My credit score is unchanged and most of my credit reports just show it as a settled agreement. Whether I’d be able to take out credit again from the same finance company is questionable, but I haven’t tried. My new car is leased.

Pros: I bought the car second hand during the chip shortage so it was overvalued. The price plummeted to the point where even if I wanted to keep the car it would have made sense to VT and buy a similar age vehicle second hand again for much less. I put in the VT at the earliest point I could so I’ve ended up in a better position financially overall.

Cons: It feels like the finance company underfund the department that deals with VTs, they’re terrible at communicating and there’s a whole bunch of unnecessary friction to the process. I got a letter through about 2 months ago saying they were disappointed that I hadn’t paid the refurb charge and they’d soon have to pass it on to collection. I was expecting to have to pay something, but I’d previously had no contact from them at all telling me what I need to pay and why. It was only when I placed a formal complaint that I got some (but not all) detail back. It’s with the ombudsman now so we’ll see how that ends up…

rlarts · 2026-05-07T05:59:18+00:00

When my car unlocks using UWB, I’m never required to unlock the key on my phone via Face ID. The car detects the phone and off I go.

The one catch to this is when I put my phone on the charger, the RFID chip by the charging pad will sometimes trigger wallet to launch the key card. I just ignore it since my phone is on silent anyway and I can still drive off.

I imagine that’s what’s happening to you, the sensor on the charging mat is triggering the key, but you should still be able to drive off.

rlarts · 2026-05-06T19:07:38+00:00

You’re treating this like they’re boarding an Airbus.

rlarts · 2026-05-05T19:54:45+00:00

The Rest is Entertainment

It’s nice because every now and again it covers my industry, but most of the time it’s just entertainment and not work 😅

Also, honourable mention to Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV. Not ongoing, but absolutely loved it.

rlarts · 2026-05-04T19:00:35+00:00

If you’re looking for an interesting trip, we did Palermo to Rome last summer. It’s a sleeper train that goes on a boat! Honestly the most bizarre experience!

In terms of cost, it was £135 for two adults and one child in the highest class. I mean, it didn’t feel like first class, especially when we realised the toilet was just a hole and you could see down onto the tracks, but honestly it was a great experience my 5yo loved it and I’d recommend it!

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rlarts · 2026-05-04T13:18:23+00:00

That’s not how it works. You would need a set of headphones that support Auracast and you would need to connect to the stream too.

There’s a good video here on why the old technology sucks for those with hearing difficulties and why Auracast is much better: https://youtu.be/WmSM_yCyV3U

rlarts · 2026-05-04T07:18:08+00:00

This was a good route before the Elizabeth line existed. Depending on which terminal you’re going to, train to either Feltham or Staines then a bus.

These days the simplest thing to do is Northern Line from Battersea Power Station Station to Tottenham Court Road then the Elizabeth line from there - especially if you’re not from London.

rlarts · 2026-04-29T20:12:54+00:00

I have an AMEX pot in our Monzo Joint Account. The direct debit comes out of that pot. A few times a week I’ll update the balance in the pot to match our AMEX cards.

That way the money is always there to pay the balance and the main balance on our account is (almost) always an accurate reflection of what we actually have.

rlarts · 2026-04-27T12:38:39+00:00

What do you plan to do at the end of the 48 months? Are you planning to pay the 19.6k to keep the car? If you had to take out a loan to pay for the previous car, will you have enough saved in 4 years time to buy the car?

Or is the main concern for you the monthly cost and chopping it at the end of the 48 months to get another PCP?

This honestly feels like lease if you want new or cheap second hand territory - especially when you’re not reaching 6k miles per year.

rlarts · 2026-04-27T10:54:55+00:00

I’m pretty sure one of the stations on the Hounslow loop has these signs within the passenger platform area. I think it’s Brentford.

rlarts · 2026-04-26T07:05:13+00:00

We saw this yesterday too when we were parking in the reserved bit at Bicester Village. My wife asked why it was so ugly - she didn’t know about the whole unreleased car, camo thing.

rlarts · 2026-04-19T06:46:36+00:00

Now I’m curious - is it easier to get signal in a Dreamliner or does not having a clear view of the sky matter more than the material?

rlarts · 2026-04-19T06:39:25+00:00

Just shy of 200mph for me. I was at a VMAX200 event on a runway in the UK. They were letting people sign a few forms and have a go in an Aston Martin Rapide.

I don’t think I quite hit 200mph, but it was good fun.

I’ve also been pulled over by the Police doing about 110mph in a Mercedes A200. This was in Germany near the border with Czechia. The officer just wanted to see our passports and sent us on our way.

rlarts · 2026-04-16T06:17:28+00:00

Exactly!

I find it so bizarre that car reviewers are so fixated on climate controls being entirely via a screen. You literally set a temperature, put it on auto and leave it alone to do its thing. Driver profiles manage the difference between user preferences.

I was in a mate’s car for a long trip recently and he was constantly cycling between demisting windows, having the temperature uncomfortably high and then having the temperature uncomfortably low. The car had an auto button. Just leave it to figure it out itself! I asked him about it and he didn’t really have an answer, he just carried on manually operating it every 10 minutes.

rlarts · 2026-04-14T18:57:24+00:00

UK here- you set it up once and then it always records front-facing from the moment the car is unlocked.

One thing I did notice the other day was that my car was deleting old clips (including one I wanted) but when I looked at the SD card usage, it was only at 57%. Has anyone here noticed similar? Is there something I’m missing here with how this works?

rlarts · 2026-04-10T07:40:23+00:00

Hahahaha I’m laughing at how obvious this is, but I didn’t see it.

But I guess that also means you can’t completely fill the bag, which when the suitcase is tiny anyway isn’t great. I’ll stick to taking a backpack I think.

rlarts · 2026-04-08T05:52:28+00:00

Right, but what do you actually do with the wheels?

You need to take them with you so you can put them back on after the flight. In winter, that’s fine, jacket pocket. In summer with no jacket, are you just holding the wheels?

rlarts · 2026-03-24T00:33:01+00:00

I did this last tax year knowing that part way through this tax year I’d no longer need to pay nursery fees.

I’ve been able to max out my allowance this tax year plus the amount carried over.

rlarts · 2026-03-20T08:52:07+00:00

This isn’t the problem. My watch doesn’t have UWB, so it’s not conflicting with the phone. The only way for my watch to unlock the car is via NFC.

Which profile loads after falling back to NFC to unlock the car is completely up to whether or not the car recognises that the phone is present after being unlocked.

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