The thing is you can do it. Not that you need to do it. You are legitimatley plugged in so why should a "pretty" new elecy car expect a place :) J

Tested again today on a different make of charger. It took a bit of faffing about to get the app installed but eventually it worked. I plugged the car in, opened the app, told it to start, got in the car and pushed the button and a few seconds...

That's not your problem. It might be a one-off, but yours is a legitimate registered leccy vehicle.

If I'm blocking a charging slot with my clapped out ancient Freelander when they want to plug in their shiny new Tesla/Polestar they will not be happy! :mad: I'll try to not do that. 🤣

They won't be too put out, as the Ali's FL1 uses a CHAdeMO connector, but pretty much everything else now uses CCS. CHAdeMO could be considered superior, as it was originally designed with bidirectional charging/discharging in mind, although with...

1) Probably 2) Probably a year or two 3) Sorry no idea. Removing the propshaft is less of an issue in a TD4 than the 1.8 because the K series is so light. I found my 1.8 was very understeery in 2WD.

Last weekend I went on vacation with my family to the Transcarpathian region. There and back it was 950 kilometers, which Freel covered with ease and with a fuel consumption of 7.5 liters per 100 kilometers. He could have done less, but he drove...

The lock mechanism only lowers the window so is pretty pointless. I've never even tried to use mine in all the years I've had Freelanders. Can you come up with a rubber bung or such to block the hole?

Or in that case, a parking space near the entrance quite likely.

This is a glorious sight. I wonder what the Tesla/Polestar (enter any other EV vehicle here) owners make of it when they drive in and are looking for a charger...

While I was charging a guy pulled up in a PHEV and plugged in. Why anyone would charge a PHEV on Supermarket leccy at 45p per kWh beats me as it's probably cheaper to use petrol. Maybe it was just to get a parking space like GG suggested above.

Ermm 5 plus the VCU I think. :eek:

I take constant breaks from it but I enjoy playing with this kind of stuff and get a real kick from overcoming problems. When I'm not working full time it gives me something to do that is NOT housework. ;)

I set the timer to charge on cheaper overnight leccy and when I checked this morning it had worked without burning down the house so a result! 😊 Now I know it works I need to think about reducing the number of Arduino's and tidying things up but...

Well done for getting it sorted. As a matter of interest, can you buy the sockets those chargers plug in to? Might stick 1 on the side of my Freelanders so I can plug a charger in and make it look like its charging. Quite often the charging...

Well done - that’s quite some feat

Thanks mate, I spent weeks procrastinating over this but in the end it was fairly simple to do. DeepSeek did all the heavy lifting for the programming and the Voltage Divider Circuit that senses if the cable was plugged in was also simple in the...

It works 😊 I called into a Tesco in Lisburn Co Antrim today, plugged it in, pressed the charge start button and it started charging straight away👏

So after a couple of weeks procrastinating I finally made time to try and figure out how to make the charger work at a commercial EVSE which the setup above failed to achieve. It works great at home but commercial chargers require a low...

To solve this and any further high pressure fuelling problems that come my way, I have purchased a 6,000 PSI gauge and an adaptor that will fit into the hp pressure sensor hole. This will allow rail monitoring. If low I can also fit the gauge to...

Have you metered out the injector loom? Might be as simple as a broken wire.

OK it's official. Don't think vehicle has had an inlet clean, egr clean, oil change or filter change or air filter since it left LR all shiny new !! Have a look at these. The oil filter just fell apart. Wonder why it was overfuelling a bit...

EV is plan Z. So a way to go !! Thanks for idea 🫢

Hi Andy I'm watching this one with interest but you already know what I think you should do. 😁

Good job I have a litre here already then 😎. It was on the shelf of the garage of where I am renting, peaked my interest and thought I'll buy the stuff for interest. Nice that you all look out for people though!!

You gotta love dealing with the public. 🤣

Had to call the police today to stop 1 of our campers/customers. We've had a customer complaining the brakes on the camper he's rented are really bad. So we tries to book him in to a garage to get them looked at. We managed to get him in to 1...

I have a similar unit on my tractor and have carefully pulled, no snatch, in excess of 3 tonnes. I wouldn’t do that regularly or trust it’s fatigue life but for usual use, I reckon it’s fine on a hippo. Edit: I just checked a number of...

When I retrieved the transmission bits off my K Series parts car, I removed the exhaust. Its no good to me so sat in the garage for years. Eventually had a clear out and listed it on the Kiwi version of eBay. Not the slightest of interest...

I really like that sort of stuff. Cool :cool: