Claymore said:Had my first Chademo rapid top up at Meadowhall shopping centre today. Couldn't get the type 1 slow charger to start - prob because the phone I had with me wouldn't connect to the car to let me cancel the charge timer. On returning home realise that 'lurgy' induced muppetry meant I forgot to check the phone to see if it had actually captured the car's wifi
For reasons unknown to me I couldn't cancel the charge timer via the MMCS either.
Any way, the very helpful Leaf owner using the fast charger finished (he used the time usefully to deliver an etiquette lecture about people leaving their cars hooked up for hours....as if someone on here would even dream about it!).
Returned to the car after 20 minutes and had to wait a couple of minutes for it to finish then dutifully moved the car to a non charging bay.
On returning again after shopping found a white MY16 Outlander PHEV occupying the bay, empty, not even plugged in or capable of being so as it was the wrong way round for the charge lead.
Blaming the 'lurgy' for then sitting around for five minutes thinking where I could get a bit of paper to write a self righteous note to stick on it and didn't think to take a picture on my phone so I could post it up :x
JimB
I see these and it doesn't help the 'cause' one bit. I suspect due to BIK reasons we have some of the kind of drivers among us who once drove certain cars and probably used to park in the disabled spaces but the charging spaces are even nearer!
