fourth REPORT When you think of diesel power, thoughts of lengthy motorway stints and effortless overtakes come to mind. It’s what they are built to do, but our C3 has spent the past few weeks away loitering around town. A diesel engine in a compact car is quickly becoming a rare thing these days, but […]
Report Three Like most of the UK’s 33-million passenger cars, our XC90 is spending more time parked up than it normally would. Local journeys are unusually favourable for a plug-in hybrid, of course, but I’ve picked up enough information to figure out how it compares to the ‘mild hybrid’ B5 diesel it replaced a couple […]
Report Five We’re edging towards the final lap with the Rhino. Unbelievably, I got the keys last September, shortly before the government’s second, softer lockdown. Amid the third one, as I write this, I realise that ‘lap’ is a tricky word. With all but essential trips forbidden since the last report, I have hardly been […]
Report four In my last report, I mentioned that the Leon’s tyre pressure monitoring system was flashing up seemingly erroneous warnings, after the nearside rear Bridgestone was punctured and then subsequently repaired. That problem has now gone away, but just as that glitch disappeared, a new one cropped up: an error message on the dashboard […]
Report Six Despite being back from the menders’ and supposedly fixed, it comes as no surprise that the Skoda’s electrics are still playing up. Thankfully, issues are a lot less frequent than before, with just the occasional error message flashing up on the dashboard, but it’s still common enough to be irritating. It’s a shame, […]
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