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Same response from me as everyone else. Understand the need for a charge, but almost fell off my chair laughing when I saw their "flat fiver for a 20 min charge" quote. It's no big loss for me, as I've only ever used their chargers once anyway. That was at the local Ikea, and even then I was...

Alternatively you can use the AutomateIT app from the Google Play store to turn off WiFi in the car. I have it set so that whenever it connects to the car's Bluetooth it turns off WiFi, and vice versa. Works really well for me, as I was having similar problems previously. Also means that you...

Whilst I agree that talking on a hands free kit could be distracting, I think that it depends on the individual circumstances and there are many many people who are perfectly capable of doing so and still being able to drive effectively. Banning hands free kits completely is a blunt instrument...

Have to say that having read through all this stuff, my view remains that life's too short to get worked up about this or worry about it. I'm far more worried about some random idiot deciding to key the side of my car, or throw acid over it, than I am about some computer wizard going to all...

Maybe I’m just too relaxed about these things, but I can never get excited about these potential gaps that IT security experts go out of their way to find. If someone wants to sit outside my house and use their specialist IT knowledge to break into the car’s WiFi so that they can ‘flash the...

Bear in mind also that the Save button acts to keep the battery level within a narrow range around the level that you had when you pressed the button. This is different from the Range figure, which is purely a guesstimate based on recent driving, so its entirely possible that the battery level...

How does this actually operate in practice, I can never get this to work when I try it ? Have tried various combinations of key presses, holding down, etc. but all that ever happens is that the audio moves on to the next track / station ?

My last fill up covered just short of 1000 miles, and my petrol mpg for that period was 151 mpg. Factoring in the cost of electricity, and assuming that I had spent that on petrol instead, my adjusted mpg was c. 70mpg. The overall cost per mile worked out at around 6.5p. As a company car...

Agreed, and I'm not suggesting that it would be possible for the average man in the street to calculate in advance that he would be getting an average figure of 76.32 mpg after 6 months. However, my point is that with a basic 10 minutes research it should be readily obvious that a 200 mile per...

Surely in this day and age everyone knows that you don’t actually get in practice what the marketing blurb says you will get ? The only purpose of the official test figures is to allow you to compare different vehicles, so that one which has a claimed combined figure of 45mpg is less economical...

What exactly is it you are looking for ? Provided you know how much you spend on petrol between fill ups, and how much you have spent on electricity over that period, its pretty starightforward to work out the cost per mile ? For me, my last fill up cost about £27 and my electricity cost me...

Agree the manual contains loads of superfluous warnings, but that is just a by product of us living in a nanny state whereby every single little thing needs to be warned about, cautioned and explained in case someone decides to sue Mitsubishi because they didn't realise that following the Sat...

Does not changing down have any direct benefit ? Probably not, but then what is the direct benefit of changing down through several gears ? Little or nothing in my opinion, it just seems like an unnecessary and archaic way of driving. I’m sure there must be some additional wear on clutch and...

I assumed that the pre-heating would automatically cancel itself if it detected that there was insufficient power in the main battery ? In the app, if you select 20 minutes of pre-heating, I’m sure it warns you that you might not actually get 20 minutes if the battery capacity is not sufficient...

270 miles range for a full battery and fuel tank seems low. Assuming 20 miles of battery range, and c.10 gallon tank, that means you are only getting 25mpg ? What speed are you driving at or what kind of route is that over ? General concensus on here seems to be that motorway crusing should...

Sure, in some specific situations, and for some specific cars (especially older ones) it can still make sense, but for the vast majority of people driving modern cars its a technique that is no longer necessary.

Other than to provide greater control on snow / ice / slippery roads, the whole thing about changing down through the gears is pretty much old hat now. It might have been the way that many of us were taught 20+ years ago, including myself, but times change and nowadays its probably seen as more...

The MPG figures are hugely dependent on the type of journeys you make. If you drive mainly short journeys, and are therefore using the battery, you can easily achieve 100+ mpg, but if you are doing longer journeys, and therefore using petrol, this will fall significantly. In petrol mode, you...

Had a look last night to see how to turn off the beeps in MMCS whenever you press a button. You need to go to Settings - Navigation Settings - Navi Voice / Others - Beep Sound Volume, and set the volume level to 0.

I've had mine 6 weeks, done about 1500 miles and have been to the petrol station twice. First time was the day I got it when I filled it up, second was when I then went back about 3 weeks later. I still had more than half a tank at that point but just wanted to fill it up again to enable a...