What Slave1 got next

Gumbo

slave1 wrote: »

Breakfast horsing into belly, then off to collect her, obviously got an overnight ferry home

Amateur.

Eat breakfast on the way

Good luck.

slave1

Gumbo wrote: »

Amateur.

Eat breakfast on the way

Good luck.

LOL, car spotless and ready for sale, ain't going getting crumbs everywhere!!!

Gumbo

slave1 wrote: »

LOL, car spotless and ready for sale, ain't going getting crumbs everywhere!!!

I’ll come with my cordless Dyson. I’ll be hoovering as you eat

unkel

Exciting times! Pictures as soon as you get it

slave1

slave1 has landed....manky dusty so that will be tackled very soon

Orebro

Gorgeous - well wear!

ELM327

I see a bird has already shat on it!

Looks great!

unkel

Gorgeous car, well wear man. Take it from me, you will not be disappointed!

jhegarty

Very nice. The original owner really spec'd it out well.

Did we badger the price of the op yet ?

Kramer

jhegarty wrote: »

Did we badger the price of the op yet ?

He, understandably, won't say until it's VRT'd .

Great looking car - well wear .

unkel

Kramer wrote: »

He, understandably, won't say until it's VRT'd .

UK purchase price has zero bearing on the OMSP in Ireland. Unless it is a very rare / exotic car like a classic Ferrari. So also zero bearing on the amount of VRT due.

But I can understand the OP prefers to be cautious. And when you are appealing whatever amount of VRT you paid, you might as well fight them with all you got. Worked for me

slave1

So, fluting around with the frunk this morning, it's a bit dodgy opening it via the remote, does not seem to fully unlatch (sounds like two latches) so that's a knack I need to master.
Found the blue plug for the UMC which I did not know existed, if it's a 32amp version then I could hook up to a golf cart charger and gain ~7.4kw/hr charge (with clubs permission of course), probably ~130kms range gain when otherwise be just sitting the the parking lot

unkel

If it's sitting there for 4 hours, sure why not. I plug mine into the 23kW* charging points if I am going to be somewhere for a couple of hours. In fact, most of my charging has been for free since I got the car (and do very little driving these days)

* they are 22kW officially, but I guess that is based on 230V. Whenever I plug in, I typically see the car report the connection is 240V or so, and the car reports taking 23kW (240 * 3 phase * 32A)

slave1

unkel wrote: »

If it's sitting there for 4 hours, sure why not. I plug mine into the 23kW* charging points if I am going to be somewhere for a couple of hours. In fact, most of my charging has been for free since I got the car (and do very little driving these days)

* they are 22kW officially, but I guess that is based on 230V. Whenever I plug in, I typically see the car report the connection is 240V or so, and the car reports taking 23kW (240 * 3 phase * 32A)

I hooked up to a 22 charger yesterday evening and it ramped right up after a few minutes to 108kms gain per hr, didn't really pay any attention to any stats, went off on walk and came back to 161km extra range

unkel

slave1 wrote: »

I hooked up to a 22 charger yesterday evening and it ramped right up after a few minutes to 108kms gain per hr, didn't really pay any attention to any stats, went off on walk and came back to 161km extra range

Please don't switch to this Tesla crap of kms gain per hour

It's almost as bad as their car prices that have deducted future fuel cost savings

Proper units please, kW for charging speed, kWh for energy units. Not this Tesla nonsense

slave1

Well I'm only interested in the bottom line and for me that's range

unkel

Range depends on a lot of circumstances. Whereas kWh is an absolute measure!

Black_Knight

slave1 wrote: »

Well I'm only interested in the bottom line and for me that's range

Unfollows thread

unkel

#1 feature of the car for me is the enormous torque, instantly available

unkel

slave1 wrote: »

ebay UK and Ireland, lad from London selling one at the minute

That just sold for the equivalent of over €300 incl shipping. Not my idea of a cheap adapter. If anyone sees one for <€100 let me know. Otherwise I won't bother

slave1

unkel wrote: »

That just sold for the equivalent of over €300 incl shipping. Not my idea of a cheap adapter. If anyone sees one for <€100 let me know. Otherwise I won't bother

Yeah, that was way too much for what it is

slave1

And from today's charge on the way home, 23kW 239v from the word go and no tapering off by the time I stopped charging at 85%

unkel

AC doesn't taper until very late (don't think I've tried going past a similar percentage myself). Good to see you also got 23kW (because of a fairly high grid voltage)

Where was this?

unkel

So. How does it drive? You've had it two days. Give us an update, man!

slave1

Slow charger in Athlone, being honest I haven’t driven it too much apart from pickup from Eirtrans, working so little time. I really want to clean it more than drive it at the minute.
Of what I have driven, AP is smooth, overtaking on motorway works perfect, acceleration instant of course and I like the funky American “gear” stalk. Sound via Spotify and Tunein is excellent but will try out some flac files over the weekend. Need to purchase many storage accessories but they have to be tasteful. Glad I went for 19s and Air Suspension, smooth as butter.
But tomorrow if the weather plays ball it will be degrease, detar, deiron, degrease, wash and wax.

unkel

You go clean your car tomorrow. I'll go drive mine. Whatever floats our boats :pac:

I don't even really know what detar or deiron means. Do you want to come over and wash mine?

Gumbo

unkel wrote: »

You go clean your car tomorrow. I'll go drive mine. Whatever floats our boats :pac:

I don't even really know what detar or deiron means. Do you want to come over and wash mine?

Next time Your going away, I’ll decontaminate your paint and polish it. I live close to the airport so I’d have you there in 10 mins. Then I’ll mind your baby for the week while you get free “airport” parking

AndyBoBandy

Gumbo wrote: »

Next time Your going away, I’ll decontaminate your paint and polish it. I live close to the airport so I’d have you there in 10 mins. Then I’ll mind your baby for the week while you get free “airport” parking

That’s a good idea (not the cleaning/polishing, feck that I’m cleaning no ones car (unless of course they go for the optional €20 quick clean option)).

For €50 per week, I’ll mind anyone’s Tesla, drop & collect you to/from the airport (15 minutes away), and you’ll get your car back with 80%-100% battery (Whatever you require). And as a fellow Tesla owner, you know your car’s not going to get horsed around while your away (unless of course it’s got ludicrous mode).

AndyBoBandy

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

That’s a good idea (not the cleaning/polishing, feck that I’m cleaning no ones car (unless of course they go for the optional €20 quick clean option)).

For €50 per week, I’ll mind anyone’s Tesla, drop & collect you to/from the airport (15 minutes away), and you’ll get your car back with 80%-100% battery (Whatever you require). And as a fellow Tesla owner, you know your car’s not going to get horsed around while your away (unless of course it’s got ludicrous mode).

I even just thought I’d a catchy name for this venture....

TeslaPark - For Owners, By Owners

unkel

Gumbo wrote: »

Next time Your going away, I’ll decontaminate your paint and polish it. I live close to the airport so I’d have you there in 10 mins. Then I’ll mind your baby for the week while you get free “airport” parking

Deal. As long as you promise you drive it at least as hard as you drive your own cars