by Karl Dyson | Dec 10, 2020 | battery
Long gone are the days that you could pop down to Millfield Autos (Hello Peterborough!), pick up a £35 battery for your 1985 Fiesta Mk2 1.1 Ghia and swap it out in the car park quicker than it would take to fill up at 62p/ litre (those were the days). In fact, not...
by Karl Dyson | Dec 7, 2020 | EV Electric Cars, Uncategorized
GRIDSERVE has announced that the UK’s first Electric Forecourt is open for business, representing a major breakthrough for massive expansion of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the UK. The site, near Braintree, Essex, represents the first of over 100...
by Karl Dyson | Nov 5, 2020 | Hypermiling 101
4 Significant Hypermiling Tips To Improve Your Fuel Economy Hypermiling is nothing but ‘a sheer obsession with the numbers’ to pose a limit to your machine (vehicle). This is an economical way of driving and exceeding the efficiency level, as stated by the...
by Karl Dyson | Oct 13, 2020 | Skoda
Judging by the green “patina” growing on this Skoda Octavia VRS, I’m not sure this poor car had ever seen the inside of a barn. However, this 2014 VRS saloon has certainly been left untouched and open to the elements with a whole lot of grime and an...
by Karl Dyson | Oct 6, 2020 | EGR-Valve
Our recent post regarding EGR issues plaguing the VW Transporter 180 BiTDi engines opened our eyes to a new product we have previously not known even existed, the Tafmet EGR Simulator. Our googling revealed that this inexpensive device is used widely amongst...