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Very good sir! Point of order noted. Apologies for my tardiness. I probably ought to have said in a most likely VERY well built garage in the proud ancient county of Armagh but I was a bit lazy. In my defense 20 miles is in the commuter zone...

I'm actually surprised that a Chinese factory let something leave looking like that. I've ordered tons of Chinese PCB over the last decade, and never seen anything like that. Wave soldering pretty much eliminates bad solder joints, but maybe...

Yes mate, I only noticed it after replacing the module and was looking for a cracked track. As I said I can't complain too much as I chose to go with cheap Chinese components knowing the chances of failure were there.

In fairness most of the issues in this entire process were caused by me not knowing what I needed the software to do and it took a while to figure out the hardware requirements too. I still haven't tested it at a public charger so I guess that is...

Next time ask it to run some unit tests on the code - should minimise bugs :)

I don't know what you do for a living but if I was writing computer programs I'd be concerned. Or anything that can be done sitting in front of a computer for that matter. It was only a few months ago I tried to get ChatGPT to write something...

I'm liking your approach here. You've done all the heavy lifting of the actual build and are now thinking about everything and getting to grips with all the little day to day usability improvements. Manufacturers spend millions on this kind of...

You'll not be surprised to learn of another issue that only came up while testing with the battery nearly full. I set it to charge remotely while I was able to watch it and was pleased to see it working as described right up until the charge...

Oh Oh! I spoke too soon 😲 I've been doing lots of testing to confirm all is working correctly and discovered two separate issues so am working through them now. The first was when I tried to adjust the cut off voltage where the car stops...

Just a wee update on driving and charging. The car has been driving great since the 12V relay module was replaced. :D I've only driven around miles 60 since but it's been flawless. TBH I had always questioned the wisdom of using ultra cheap...

Today I got the hill descent working it wasn't anything complicated. It seems to work with either the original 1.8 cluster or with the 2.5 cluster that I have. I had unpinned the power feed from the plug that goes into the interior fuse box...

Yesterday I had the wheels aligned. The nearside rear was a pig as the suspension is all original on that side but the guy used Oxy to heat the nuts and they moved easily. All the rest had been loosened before so were not too bad but the job...

Maybe try Green Light next time. However you *must* have five off-road mods in addition to EV mod, things like snorkel, suspension lift, winch etc etc and you might have to prove that you have them, however they are a lot cheaper than Adrian Flux.

It's good to hear you got the insurance sorted. I tried Admiral Multicar for my EV conversion but no joy. We've had Admiral multicar for a long time but they couldn't figure out how to put 'EV Conversion' into their system. They did give me a...

Got our insurance sorted yesterday. Everyone says that Admiral multicar doesn't do modified car insurance, but, it seems that if you have insured all your cars and your home with them for seven or eight years, and it's renewal time, and I suppose...

The DSG gearbox ion the Octavia was very nice in many ways but (I guess) because it had clutches rather than a torque converter the engine could not build up revs before engaging the auto clutch. It was fine on the flat but pulled away really...

When my daughter bought her first car she wanted a Mazda 2/Demio. The 3rd gen version about 2010. They were all 1.3 autos and were terrible piles of pooh. She had been driving our 90's 1.3 manual Toyota Starlet and even she was devastated at...

that's what my Jaguar XJ is for.

Stay away from Motorways. ☺️

I had a Peugeot 607 2.2 HDI auto that was like that. It only had four gears and first was very high. Pulling out on busy roundabouts was a nightmare. I would have to stay back from the line and anticipate a gap, floor it, and run up to the...

My first Auto was a Skoda Octavia with a DSG gearbox and a 1.5 litre turbo diesel engine. It was hopelessly under powered until the turbo kicked in so pulling away from an uphill junction was downright scary. It wasn't possible to hold the brake...

It's not perfect, but I quite like it. i think that maybe the gearbox assumes that the engine has more torque than it does, so it does take a fair bit of accelerator depression before it "kicks down", but I actually quite like that. I can...

Is it possible the starter is still engaged?

I may have a resolution to my gearbox rattles. We shall see. Yesterday I went to visit an auto gearbox specialist for them to have a listen. They were adamant that the noise sounded like something outside of the gearbox, so inside the bell...

I went for a bit of a drive with a friend this morning and got it warm. Went back to the garage and got it level (previously it was a bit nose up) and warm (previously I think it was cold) and I had to add a whole litre of ATF before it started...

Brilliant mate, :D well done on such a huge project. You must be well chuffed to get it running but even more so that it runs so well. Believe me I understand the concern that doing the conversion might result in a car that drives but is not...

This is the one that just keeps on giving. 😊

We're driving again! 😀 During testing I was poking about at the wiring and suddenly one of the relays in the relay module triggered and after a few minutes more poking I figured it looks like the relay module is faulty. This is the offending...

Thanks mate, every little helps. :) I'm not too concerned as it will probably be something stupid I've done like a disconnected wire or some such. I spent months working on the startup procedure to get it reliable as it seems to be very fussy...

Sadly these are the latest additions to the "Shelf of Shame" :oops: RIP little fellas In reality they're not completely dead but injured enough I wouldn't trust them for anything much. The digital pins 10 and 11 are no longer working and...