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14 hours ago, frb said:
Sadly I don´t know the circumstances of the picture as my uncle has already passed away and cannot be asked any more.
Have you thought of contacting a meduim? 😅
The DVLA show it passed its last MOT on the 1 June 2015 with a Mileage of 47,697 miles.
Good luck with your search.
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2 hours ago, grayp77 said:
Are Elan +2's really in the £20000-£28000 price bracket now?! (the exact car was for sale at £10k not so long ago)
Plenty on carandclssic.com, expecially this beauty which has been on there for months so you'd probably get it for a few grand less 😃
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2 hours ago, JimmytheTurbo said:
Honestly I just assumed bulbs were bulbs!
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Today's Times report:
One in ten electric cars are being sold for a discount of 20 per cent — and carmakers are so desperate that they are about to start offering free chargers worth £1,000 too.
A Honda that cost £37,052 a year ago is selling for £29,656, a reduction of 20 per cent, according to the marketplace Auto Trader.
Manufacturers are under pressure because rules that came into force in January mean they will be fined if 22 per cent of their car sales this year are not electric. The penalty is £15,000 per vehicle, although they can soften the impact by buying credits from rivals such as Tesla or if they exceed the quota in future years.
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On 24/04/2024 at 13:43, stevefh said:
cannot find a listing of a suitable basic rear damper
Where have you tried?
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Today's Times reports:
From July 6 most new cars on sale in Britain will cajole drivers who are travelling faster than the speed limit to slow down.
Rather like the warning emitted if you forget to put on your seatbelt, there will be a beep, the steering wheel will vibrate or — if all else fails — the accelerator will automatically push back if you do not slow down.
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, an independent research organisation, said the new intelligent speed assistance (ISA) system will represent “the beginning of the end of that world when people choose their cars on the basis of its top speed and the time it takes to accelerate from 0 to 60mph”.
Increasingly, he said, “the car is going to decide what you can and can’t do”.
New cars will be equipped with the ISA system, which is intended to reduce collisions by 30 per cent and deaths by 20 per cent, according to the European Transport Safety Council. There were 1,711 reported deaths in collisions on British roads in 2022.
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Today's Times reports:
The vast global overproduction of electric cars at a time of stalling consumer demand is likely to result in millions of zero-emission vehicles being left unsold over the next two years and hasten price wars, according to private industry research.
This is likely to benefit consumers but could send parts of the industry into crisis, experts say. Regulators and legislators, meanwhile, are likely to come under renewed pressure to rein back their ambitions to reduce carbon emissions, which has fuelled the electric car production boom.
Proprietary industry data seen by The Times shows that this time last year the global automotive industry expected to make more than 15 million battery electric cars in 2024. However, slowing consumer demand has led to that projection being cut by two million to a little over 13 million. Yet that remains about 50 per cent ahead of forecast consumer demand, which is predicting global electric car sales of about 9.3 million for 2024.
Oversupply of battery electric cars is set to worsen over the next couple years, according to analysis of the data.
Slowing demand in China, where electric car sales are projected to fall 10 per cent, has already prompted carmakers to slash prices, with Tesla and its main rival BYD cutting prices for their most popular models by 20 per cent. New AutoMotive, a transport research group, has previously forecast 10 per cent discounts this year in the UK on some electric models.
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15 hours ago, JimmytheTurbo said:
Does anyone know if the early capping rail and later type are interchangeable?
Checking if the part numbers are the same would be a starting point.
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3 hours ago, eeyoreish said:
On bolted on parts it's arguably less of a fiddle to just change the whole joint, then you know it's definitely good 🤔
And do both sides while you're at it, if one has gone the other won't be far behind.
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14 minutes ago, slewthy said:
So does this mean there is no real need to split the floor?
Never heard of anyone else doing it.
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25 minutes ago, Barrykearley said:
Model and year would be a good start
It's in his signature, maybe he's just added it.
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2 hours ago, slewthy said:
it may now be too tight, so not fully releasing the plate.
Being too tight would do the opposite, more likely to make it slip.
Well that was an honour
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