Im pretty sure I'm covered by insurance but will check tomorrow.
I'm not sure is it funny or not but the crack is basically in a shape of a smile
Longer than a 2 euro coin
I'd be against repairing it, they never turn out good at least from my past experience anyway
Think they only repiar stone chips, that's more of a crack
The replacement cost for my windscreen was €1.398 (Hyundai). It started out as a small chip like your own, but migrated across the windscreen after 2 weeks. I went through my insurers who paid it in full and I received a letter a month later telling me the cost, so I wasn't out of pocket. I dropped it off at the dealer at 9am and picked it up at 3pm.
Once a new windscreen goes in, the car must be calibrated by a dealer. If you don't go through the calibration process, then the safety systems likely won't function correctly and you run the risk of your insurer declining a later claim....so the dealer told me anyway for what it's worth....
My insurer allowed €600 if I wanted to do it myself...it was a no brainer to get them to do it at that price.
Thanks for the helpful response Did the 1.398 also include getting it calibrated with a deal?
Yes, all in price. Dropped if off at the dealer and the windscreen specialist did the fitting on the dealer premises. I think the windscreen guys paid the dealer and they then recouped the calibration cost from insurers.
Nearly every windscreen place can calibrate windscreens cameras. Less so mobile services. It is required. Worst case your car will stay in lane but a bit to the left or right or the camera for lane keeping will be less reliable. Nearly all new cars have these systems.
Are many second hand EV cars or even ICE cars for that matter selling over the last while?
I have EV cars favorited for over 60 days and not moving (from ~3k to 25k)……….Then ad is relisted again at the same price, if it didn't sell at in 2 months at a price, hardly going to sell at same price again.
If priced right, they are selling.
But your data pool is probably the worse 60 days of the year to sell privately. December and January.
yeah, true. Do things usually start picking up fast in February and March
Again, depends on what you are selling and how much it is.
There's no scientific formula for it.
Excellent video as always from Richard
Is there any way to find out if a public charger is out of action because of the storm power outages?
Depends on the provider. The ESB ones should show offline if out of action
A car with vehicle to load would be nice right about now! Having 38kwh of potential power sitting outside the house while we have no power feels a bit like "water water everywhere but not a drop to drink!"
I'm doing a trip tomorrow and I suspect I'll need a few extra percent to make it home due to the cold.
I'm in Kildare Village for an hour and if I charge there I should be ok. Are the Chargepoint chargers in the car park reliable (I've never used Chargepoint before) or should I walk the extra couple of minutes and use the E-cars charger at the nearby Tesco?
Ordered a V2L adapter for my MG4 yesterday. €45 on Amazon.
Power stayed on here all day, but handy to have in future just in case.
Just make sure you have proper isolation to make sure your not feeding back onto the grid if using V2L. Don't want anyone working on the grid getting blasted out of it.
Most people just connect a multi extension lead and plug in their essential equipment. Don't think anyone's going to the trouble of trying to hook one of those into their consumer unit.
If you are feeding into the circuits in your house from a generator or an EV you can feed back out onto the network unless there is appropriate isolation in the consumer system. It is becoming a big issue in storm scenarios for utility workers.
Maybe you didn't read my post correctly. People using V2L are not feeding into consumer units. They can only get 3kW off those things. There's no issue for utility workers.
No I read it fine thanks. I said people have to be very careful using a generator or EV to power circuits in their house that could potentially feed back onto the grid.
That’s common sense.
The only person that mentioned feeding anything to the grid was you, you seem to be having an argument with yourself🤣
Always wondered. Say if you were stupid and irresponsible. And back fed a generator back to the grid. Wouldn't it just trip out as it would be trying to power the whole townland?
It's a good question, but no, it would be exactly like an inverter and only feed back the rated power.
Despite the fact that it doesn't and couldn't happen with EVs. Not least because V2H is not allowed here.
And we weren't talking about generators. Which (as you probably know - Maybe not?) you can't connect up without informing the ESB.
Or maybe you were just being tiresome and pedantic.
Yes I did because it’s a potential hazard. Im not sure what you find so funny? There is a reason isolation switches should be fitted and it’s to stop voltage (and current) feeding back through closed RCDs and MCBs, through 60A/80A fuses in the ESB main cut out and back through the 25/16 cable up onto the ABC conductor through the black box FCU and up onto the LV terminals of a pole top transformer where it then gets transformed up to 10/20KV. So yeah……what’s so funny again?
It’s the voltage it would send back to the grid is the issue. If you don’t have isolation between the generator and the grid (ie if the fuse in the ESB cutout isn’t pulled) the 230v the generator is throwing out could potentially feed back onto the grid and the LV terminals of a pole ton transformer or ground mounted sub, which will get transformed up to MV (ie 10/20KV).
Actually, having given this some more thought, lets say you are in a housing estate and your neighbour a few doors up is on the same phase as you. It would probably be seen as a load and trip out.
It would still send voltage to the grid for a period of time until it trips, unless properly isolated.
I don't think so, your neighbours would see it as a feed and it would trip out. I think Graeme is correct.
