The young BMW salesman is on the phone bright and early. " Just a wee courtesy call to make sure you're enjoying the car and know how to use all it's features ". This is a not so subtle way of reminding us to fill out the manufacturers survey scoring our pre-purchase 'experience'.
A chilly minus three this morning. Lesson #1 about the new car - if you use the heater to defrost the windscreen the battery drains very quickly. In fact it drains remarkably quickly. The promised 50 mile range seems to fall by half. Heated seats, ambient lighting and a system that projects the instruments onto the windscreen all seem to 'gobble' range.
The sacred turf of the Old Course blanketed in frost. The fancy 5 star hotel by the treacherous 17th hole busy but not full. We discover from a sudden influx of visitors that father and son golfing tours are an American thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBPLB9lrD8 Mothers and daughters and non-golfing sons are presumably happy to fend for themselves at Thanksgiving.
'Quiet Please' notices appearing on doors in town. Exam season proper starts a week today but some poor souls are already being tested. Lets hope they have the consolation of finishing early.
The shoe repair shops mechanical mascot has not yet been decked out for the festive season. I'd give it a week before a Santa hat appears.
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I have some bad news about the promised range. I got my Plug-in Hybrid last November. Range in advertising 45 miles. Enough to get m into Aberdeen and back comfortably, yes?
The first thing they tell you is don't fill the battery. Mine is now set at 80%.
The first thing they don't tell you is... winter. I was getting 17-20 miles until the weather warmed up. The highest I ever saw was 33.
I've been over it with them. It still bugs me, but I'm reconciled. Everything sucks electricity, so my constant standard is 25-27.
(I still love it, and now the tariff providers are getting their acts together, the cost is falling too.)
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