Hybrid motorhomes

[martinmartin]

I have been driving my car with most of this kit for the past 5 years without a problem.

I remember when electric windows became the norm, similar comments were made.

Cars are more reliable than they have ever been with such technology, and a whole lot safer to.

Electric windows! I'm still struggling with why on earth did we need auto choke. Ludosisam is still alive and kicking.

 

[Fisherman]

Electric windows! I'm still struggling with why on earth did we need auto choke. Ludosisam is still alive and kicking.

You and I are diametrically opposed Martin.
I love all the new tech, and I fully embrace it.
I am a car salesmen’s dream.

 

[martinmartin]

To get emissions levels down to the levels regulations are demanding means
engines are working to very close parameters, these days just a bit outside those limits
and it's limp home mode. I read recently that there's barely any scope for meaningful
improvement, probably not without significant negative effects including cost.
Your car as well you know Trev. didn't need that kind of finesse, plenty of tolerance
and would still go. More than good mileage 314,000 for a petrol. Many engineers put the
mileage longevity of engines these days down to advances in oil technology as much as advances
in engineering.

Mind you that Skoda, wasn't like Triggers broom was it!

Barley any meaningful scope for improvement l agree with but that won't stop the eurocrats from insisting manufacturers strangle diesel engines with contraptions that will ultimately be more complex than the engines that they are attached to.

 

[trevskoda]

Trev I have been driving the same make of car for 20 years now.
Apart from a gas mass sensor that I replaced myself after 130,000 miles I have never had a mechanical issue. That car was sold with 160,000 miles with the original exhaust, and the wiper blades had only been replaced once from 25,000 when I bought that car. I still drive them my current model is 5 years old with 90,000 and original wiper blades and no mechanical issues.

When I think of what I drove before, cars that broke down, cost me thousands in repairs, they are better now than ever.

You still wont put me of skoda, at 130,000 its a mer pup.:banana:

 

[trevskoda]

Mot time trev for the motorhome l wrap 4 one pound coins in black gaffer tape then tape the stack to the floor under the heel of the accelerator and that gets it through the emission test, it's worked for the last 8 years, the tester put me on to it when he said you don't floor it do you which I actually don't.

Short stop bolt behind acc pedal in van which i swap for longer one so the tester cannot rev above 2500 rpm.

 

[Fisherman]

You still wont put me of skoda, at 130,000 its a mer pup.:banana:

I am not trying to put you off Skoda, somebody has to like them.

You will know who had the largest car plant in Europe before the war, and where the Germans manufactured most of their lighter tanks. Shame what happed after the war.

 

[mark61]

I am not trying to put you off Skoda, somebody has to like them.

You will know who had the largest car plant in Europe before the war, and where the Germans manufactured most of their lighter tanks. Shame what happed after the war.

Tatra?

 

[Fisherman]

Tatra?

Skoda produced all of the Czech armies tanks, then tanks for the German army.
Tatra made trucks for the Germans.

The Skoda car factory was Europe’s largest pre war.

 

[trevskoda]

I am not trying to put you off Skoda, somebody has to like them.

You will know who had the largest car plant in Europe before the war, and where the Germans manufactured most of their lighter tanks. Shame what happed after the war.

Drove them and sold them,i never had problems.