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Had my europa insured with them for many years via a broker up until my latest renewal (classic limited milage) . Had a major accident in 2010 and they paid out no problem. Astonishingly the renewal after it was fixed was cheaper than before! Unfortunately the scheme that it was insured under was withdrawn so had to get a different underwriter this time otherwise i would still be with them.

I've got them on my daily driver (not the esprit) and like them a lot, but they are definitely a road tyre not a track tyre. This is probably worth reading: https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2023-Tyre-Reviews-Performance-Tyre-Test.htm

Oops didn't look closely and missed the axle stand position. 100% agree don't put them there. Under the hub uprights is an alternative to the jacking points on the sills (which at a quick glance is where i thought they were)

Tend to agree, non of these systems are anything like reliable enough. On a recent Harrys Garage vid, the new rolls royce i think, he comments that he has to turn the system off because it thinks his private unrestricted drive is a 20 limit! My daily driver had traffic sign recognition which is often wrong, auto dipping headlights and I've been flashed for not dipping more than in all my previous cars put together. Self parking which thinks light metalic blue fords don't exist and tries to park in the occupied space, etc etc. I've turned almost all off, it would be funny if not so serious.

Lower the jack with the car the height it is. Put the jack on some STABLE packing, such as paving slabs or thick planks. Jack up again to the new height. Repeat as required. Or just buy a bigger jack.

I can't say I actually know but reading the instructions i don't think either would work in your situation. You say you have lost your touch key so you don't have a touch key? The way i read the instructions you need a working touch key to start the process and the instructions are for programming duplicate touch keys. And So unless you do have another working touch key these proceedures will probably not work.

It's only advisory if you leave your car with side or parking lights on. Otherwise it's compulsory. But it's ignored by almost everyone and I've never seen a single report of anybody being prosecuted. So it's another of those laws that are there in theory but not in practice.

Now on ebay at just shy of £40k! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296456826316

Decided to do a bit of googling and found this. for over 80 years multi storey car parks (MSCP) have been designed for vehicles with a maximum gross weight of 2,500kg, which equates to a uniformly distributed load of 2.5kN/m2. They add that the maximum gross weight has now increased to over 3,000kg, necessitating the design loading to be increased to 3.0kN/m2 in the IStructE's recently published Car Park Design guidance. The average gross weight of vehicles has also increased from 1,500kg to 2,000kg requiring the impact force on rigid vehicle restraint barriers to be increased from 150kN to 200kN.

I've been in quite a few multi-story car parks recently where the number of spaces per floor has been reduced by significantly widening the bays. I have assumed this is to prevent the new heavier vehicles overloading the floor slabs. Heavy vehicles have been around a long time but they have been a tiny proportion of the total, they are rapidly heading to be the majority.

Ultimately it's down to the man on the Clapham omnibus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_the_Clapham_omnibus What is reasonable.

If it's a joint policy, you are limited to the same SDP when driving so you are covered as YOU are not commuting

Personally I actually agree with you, but that is not necessarily the Law. I'm not a lawyer, but studied contract law and reading/commenting on contracts was part of my day job. Contract law is full of nuances and ultimately depends on what the Judge thinks. But in general terms Judges don't like vague terms, particularly when there is a big difference in the power of the parties, such as here, big corporation v ordinary individual where they will tend to side with the weaker party. The fact is here "commuting to work" is not clearly defined, it can and was read buy different parties as "commuting the whole journey to work", or "commuting the whole or part of the journey to work". The fact that other major insurers in their wording were far more specific made the outcome almost inevitable. BTW I always included commuting in my policy and quite a few times added business use. The extra premium for business use was always £0. Now retired so neither applies 🙂

Don't worry about the battery technology, there is not going to be enough electricity to charge them anyway, the AI data centers are going to hog it all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj5ll89dy2mo

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1980-lotus-esprit-s2-2-rec13429-1-sywell-0524?pn=1&el=22731&pp=100 Looking at all the lots in this auction most of the sold prices seem quite low.