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Loving the update overall.

It also doesn’t have laws requiring the blinker not be amber.

I bought the cheapest HomeKit enabled smart garage door opener on Amazon and it works a treat. Has been perfectly reliable over the three months I’ve had it, geofenced opening and closing works great plus I can open and close via the Apple Watch if I’m on foot and need access via that door for...

Interestingly I have the opposite problem. I find the lines a little conservative and if I rely solely on them end up a bit further from the curb than I would like.

Everything else aside you are absolutely not guaranteed a blow out every year. Good grief.

I kept things minimal but I bought the non-matte screen protector from Abstract Ocean as on one of the rare occasions I took my previous BMW to a commercial car was they managed to put a significant scratch in the nav screen. The screen protector is completely invisible when installed and...

Interesting. I’ll give them a nudge on Thursday if no update by then.

Has anyone had their refund processed? The 15 business day timeframe expired today for those who were quick off the mark and lodged the claim on November 1st. Mine went in on November 3rd, but so far crickets from NSW.gov…

The AWD setup is completely different from ICE cars owing to the fact there are two motors. In ICE AWD setups, with a few notable exceptions, only one set of wheels is driven until those wheels begin to lose traction at which point torque is progressively faded to the other pair of wheels until...

Yeah the door covers provide pretty complete coverage for any area likely to encounter paws and claws.

Yes, pedal feel is simulated.

The Alfa Guilia has a BBW system. The way it’s tuned in that car doesn’t offer great brake feel, particularly at low speeds but that’s something that should improve as these systems grow in maturity and manufacturer’s get better at tuning them.

The car is absolutely reading road signs. I live near the Rozelle Westconnex construction and there are new works areas shifting around almost daily. The car picks up the speed limit signs reliably. It also mistakenly picks up the 40 signs on the back of parked busses more often than it should...

I’m 6’4 and don’t have any issues, but then everyone’s body and posture are different. I also came from a BMW and immediately adjusted the seat tilt to match the thigh support I had from the seat extension in the M2 and haven’t had a problem so I would definitely start with that. The seats...

Of course we’d pay for it. The cost is trivial in the context of the larger purchase. Now if the colours I actually wanted were available - British racing green over tan 😛 - I would pay quite a lot more than $1k for that…

No it comes with the carpet floor mats

In case anyones interested, mine showed up on Tuesday. Pretty quick delivery. Quality is quite nice. The suede type material is much comfier and grippier than the cheap nylon ones available from Amazon and the like. Very easy to install and tear down. Dog seems to like it.

I went white over black. ‘21 LR AWD.

Unless you currently need or are about to need new tyres the cost of replacing your current ones with slightly wider ones would pay for at least 8 curbed wheel repairs. It is also still completely possible to curb a wheel even with wider tyres fitted.

This is a personal taste thing, there’s no real objective benefit to either interior. Follow your heart. White on white is a bit much for me but I’m not the one who’ll end up owning your car…

Respectfully I can’t agree. A gauge cluster or HUD isn’t in your direct line of sight and shouldn’t be distracting. But it requires you to adjust your vision a shorter distance when you glance at it. Over however many dozen glances in the course of a trip this ultimately means fewer seconds with...

It’s not optimal, let’s be honest. If the car had a factory HUD option it would be worth whatever they wanted to charge for it and then some. But you do adjust and it largely becomes a non-issue after a month or two.

The headlights have various lenses and mirrors to create the beam pattern from the point light sources. Some of these are articulated so the headlights can be aimed and switched between high and low beam patterns. So if I had to guess some element of this system has gotten itself out of...

I’m not convinced either of these figures are accurate. The roof seems heavily polarised so visible light transmission depends on light source and angle at least as far as I can tell.

With the window closed? With the window open every car I’ve ever owner may drop some washer fluid into the open window. The solution is to close the window or drive faster when wiping 😛

Those rim protectors look worse that curb rash. Better to practice your parking technique and repair the wheels as needed if/when you do curb one. Wheel repair is cheap and convenient anyway.

Fantastic thanks for the heads up. It sold out quickly in the US and I was keen to jump on this as soon as it became available here. Just ordered. Will post impressions once it arrives. Poor Buddy hasn’t been allowed in my 3 since it arrived in September as I’ve been waiting to find the ideal...

It’s just plastic. Treat as you would other exterior plastics.

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Interesting - I hadn’t seen the Chill mode dynos. Another reason to keep it in normal/sport 100% of the time 😛

Yes these are in line with the dynos I’ve seen. AB is about a 50hp boost from 450 to 500ish. Chill mode primarily affects throttle mapping and torque delivery.

No it is not