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Yes looked on there Steve. An Anembo engineering one would be perfect as it’s quite narrow at the front. Squeezing a yb into a Striker so space is tight .

Ditto. I have used the AA for Euro cover in the past on the (none Q plate) Mega S2000, and it was horrific. But I’d already renewed UK recovery with the AA and was kind of boxed in. The Euro bolt on was an addition to the normal AA fee, and the bolt on alone, for one trip to Le Mans, was double the price of the then A Plan’s complete insurance and recovery package for a year. I cancelled my AA membership shortly after returning. Never used them since.

I'm sure you've already looked but in case not, there are a few on eBay. Probably a bit pricey though?

Someone somewhere must know!

I had my westy with Howden who included European cover

I’m still looking for one of these 😁

A mate with a Westy says that the AA won’t cover his car for our euro tour to Spain because it’s Q reg and the insurance broker won’t offer it because of the car’s age. Any suggestions?

My mother got so many goodwill payments from EDF that it was incredible. It was in the multiple hundreds of pounds. If it wasn't for the fact that my mother is 84 and there was a deadline beyond which her heating would be disabled it would have been a really nice earner.

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I did think that steve but i was hoping somebody that helps run the 7s could give me the factual reason why its needed .

It's most likely a safety issue Ash. Quicker to reverse than to have to unbelt, get out, run to one end and push. Under certain circumstances I'd imagine a reverse box adds safety, at least in their rules, regs and minds for exiting that set of circumstances more speedily.

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I have a very simple question I have a mega bec that i fancy doing a couple of events with next year I will be looking to be entering road going class My car when it left the westfield factory didnt have a reverse gearbox fitted the car has never needed one to pass an mot so why does it need one fitted to compete ??

These AI/LLM programs don't really have any intelligence, they're really just convincing sounding bull**** generators. They're statistical models, there's no problem solving ability there. This is really well demonstrated by the recent amusement at chatgpt's inability to answer the question "how many letter Rs in strawberry". Not only would it incorrectly answer 2, it would steadfastly argue that it was right. Because they are trained by analysing large amounts of text and developing statistical models about what word follows another word, they are really just complex guessing engines. The problem (specifically in this case, but in general also) is that there's not a lot of learned argument around about how many Rs there are in strawberry because anyone over the age of about 5 would just count them, get a definitive answer and get on with their day. But that's a process that is just beyond LMMs; they just don't even have that simplistic level of problem solving ability. So all they can do is answer that, for that 'shape' of question, the answer is probably 2. But because they answer with such disturbingly good English people grant them authority that they just don't deserve. Thank you for attending my Ted talk 🫣

AI isn't any more immune to GIGO than people are. We've already seen how easy it is to create an AI with a particular...er...bias.

I've found AI to be wrong quite often, it is nowhere near perfect yet. I'm gonna start my own, it'll be called ChatS**T

Your ears must of bled everytime you went out lol.

Unless you are bringing a Jet car you will be fine at 105db lol.

Keep at them and when they fail to meet their own targets they love to give you money! I know it's not about the money but it made my bother in law feel a bit better when he was settling his father's estate. This happened more than once!

@westfield_bumble Point of order, the issue is nothing to do with the EV is it? It’s a metering fault. You’ve been double-charged for quite some time…..you should be grateful to the EV for making it obvious

Brace yourselves….summary at the bottom if you have better things to do…. Had a double-reading meter situation for quite a while after I switched to Octopus. It was OK before with the previous supplier. In their defence, they did fix it. Initially by making manual billing adjustments, then by replacing the meter. It was blamed on ‘software’. The new meter was another matter though… it wouldn’t send readings reliably, so their automated system didn’t generate bills. I had to keep nagging them. That went back & forth for a very long time and I got properly grumpy on their forum, which prompted their CTO to get involved. The eventual and reliable solution, and the one I’d suggested to them more than once was to fit an aerial to the meter. Of course, that’s far too simple, so they fitted yet another new meter with a different comms module. The fitter was obviously having a bad day because the excuses started before he even came in the house. I had already prepared a location for the aerial in the loft, within reach of the meter, having done my homework and knowing what to expect as far as cable length & mounting requirements, but even then, I had to go fit the aerial because the guy didn’t want to (fully boarded & illuminated loft, with proper access). The final insult, the guy screwed up the commissioning and left with the meter not communicating. It then took about 2 more months before I finally got to speak to an “engineer”. This guy did know his job though. He asked me to read him the MAC address on the meter….the installer hadn’t updated the system so it was still looking for the old meter. Correct MAC entered, everything burst into life. The guy actually exclaimed he was so impressed with the speed data was coming in “fastest I’ve ever seen” he said. Amazing what decent comms will do. Overall, it was over 2 years to get to a reliable, working setup. I wasn’t out of pocket for actual energy use and Octopus kept giving me ‘goodwill’ payments, although I’d have been much happier if they’d just sorted it sooner. The main issue I lost out on was periods where they wouldn’t put me on a dual rate tariff because of erratic readings(!). Probably the only reason I spotted the issues of double billing was because I have solar PV and a home battery, and both have their own metering which I tend to keep an eye on. TLDR, been there, got the T shirt. It took a very long time, but Octopus did actually sort it. Many other suppliers apparently do not. I replaced the daily with an EV this year as well. It’s fonking awesome and I am NOT going to apologise to anyone for buying it or liking it!!

The smiley is for the last paragraph

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2qp8wed0o And I'll pile on to EDF. Not price related but bereavement. Needed to change ALL bills/insurances and household "stuff" from my fathers name to mine. Just about every company, agency and whatnot understood and just did it. Not EDF. I complained about the lack of service and basic human understanding. Their "bereavement department" wrote to me saying they will be in touch to resolve. That was May 2023... I resolved it by moving from EDF to British Gas. Took 48 hours with no questions asked. EDF sent a "we're sorry to lose you, but why?" email. It was a two word reply...

My "customers" use AI searches to try to outsmart me and drive prices down. Thankfully there is quite a lot of rubbish written about those parts of my profession that it's easily defeated. The problem is when it comes up against someone (and there are plenty of them) who believe AI can't actually be wrong about anything. At the moment the film "Idiocracy" is looking more like a prophecy that is actually coming true...

Thanks. Too far to collect.