Recent content by Edward-Lancs

I must be lucky re. plate change. Collection from Manchester, I was offered 31/08, 01/09 & 02/09. M3P, Blue, White.

It’s easy to get a refund for your deposit. Simply remind Tesla that they are required to refund the deposit under the UK Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000. Email address I used: [email protected]

3M VHB is the best I've found, when buying watch for fake stuff. The advantage to the 3M is that sticks very very well and it's easy to remove from the car / plates at a later date - the white foam tape / pads tend to disintegrate and are very difficult to remove if you need to change the plate.

Seems I'm wrong - looks like VW moved the radar sensor behind the VW badge on the 7.5.

98% sure the last of the 7's (7.5 model) went vision only. The front design changed - the obvious radar sensor was removed.

I don't see the removal of the radar as a negative. I had a Golf R (7.5) which was camera based only. I did many return trips from Lancashire to Heathrow with lane keep assist and active cruise - no phantom braking and no problems - far better than AP in my M3P.

GivEnergy Gen 2 Hybrid has 1kW more input / output from / to the battery (3.6kW versus 2.6kW for the Gen 1).

To keep cost down? Also I’m not sure if the export limit the DNO (local electricity distributor) sets for export to the grid limits the max. that can be drawn from the batteries even for self consumption. I think the standard export limit is 4kW, I managed to get 5kW.

Try this website for a rough idea on kit cost. Installers will get a discount but you can easily price up different kits: https://midsummerwholesale.co.uk/

Working out best setup / tariff - not all straightforward. If you go for a few cheap hours overnight your outgoing rate is 7.5p, at the moment outgoing Agile (which can be selected without incoming agile pricing) is around 30p kWh during the day - peaking at 58p this evening.

I’m thinking of adding an additional grid tie 3kW inverter - this will give up to 5.5kWh input / output to/from the battery - it’ll still work out a lot cheaper than most other systems. I’m going to leave it for 6 months and then work out in a spreadsheet how long the extra inverter would take...

Prices - obviously every install is different. For reference I’ve recently had: 20 x 330 Black Panels (with in roof trays) 1 x GivEnergy 5kWh Hybrid Inverter 2. GivEnergy 8.2kWh batteries Total installed price £12,917 My install was straightforward - new roof on a large south facing...

The 5kW GivEnergy Hybrid will only charge / discharge from the battery/batteries at approx 2.5kW, having more than one battery won’t help. The 8.2kWh batteries are actually quite a bit larger - they list as 8.2 so they can offer 100% depth of discharge.

I'm sure you wouldn't notice any difference with an extra 12kW output from the rear motor. My 2020 M3P has the older 3D1 rear motor ("just" 202kW) and it certainly isn't slow. On your earlier post you showed a graphic with the "Permissable variants and versions" of the battery / motor - this...

Thanks - I wasn't aware of the different versions of the 3D6 - I was going off the online manual which must be out of date as it lists the most powerful rear motor @ 220kWh: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_cn/GUID-E414862C-CFA1-4A0B-9548-BE21C32CAA58.html The Tesla chap who emailed...