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He could always just turn on two stage opening and leave the back doors locked unless he needs them.
Anyways, I've had optimates for years and they've been great.
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Anyways, I've had optimates for years and they've been great.
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I had been thinking of getting one for some time Pete, as the adverts and info sounded good. I thought, this firm have done their homework on the thing. Same old story, an otherwise good product spoiled by penny pinching on components, it would seem to be the norm nowadays.Funnily enough Fred, you have just reminded me that my first CTEK failed me one weekend for no good or known reason, the XF main battery was generally 'topped up' every 3-4 weeks on a Saturday or Sunday and one weekend I realised that it had only charged the battery for about an hour even though it had been connected for 10 hours or so when I checked the voltage history afterwards with the Bluetooth voltage checker bolted to the battery.. binned that CTEK as untrustworthy, and bought another..
Thinking further on this after the prompt from Fred, Chris.. I just plugged mine in anything from that night to 10 days later with no problems.. apart from that one time I had a problem...
A good electronic product is one I know nothing about, due to not having to repair them. I often watch Big Clive on you tube who takes things apart for fun, to see how crap they are. It is not difficult to design things to last and not necessarily more expensive.
May be other motives involved, I remember talking to a couple of friends who had businesses
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I had been thinking of getting one for some time Pete, as the adverts and info sounded good. I thought, this firm have done their homework on the thing. Same old story, an otherwise good product spoiled by penny pinching on components, it would seem to be the norm nowadays.Funnily enough Fred, you have just reminded me that my first CTEK failed me one weekend for no good or known reason, the XF main battery was generally 'topped up' every 3-4 weeks on a Saturday or Sunday and one weekend I realised that it had only charged the battery for about an hour even though it had been connected for 10 hours or so when I checked the voltage history afterwards with the Bluetooth voltage checker bolted to the battery.. binned that CTEK as untrustworthy, and bought another..
Thinking further on this after the prompt from Fred, Chris.. I just plugged mine in anything from that night to 10 days later with no problems.. apart from that one time I had a problem...
A good electronic product is one I know nothing about, due to not having to repair them. I often watch Big Clive on you tube who takes things apart for fun, to see how crap they are. It is not difficult to design things to last and not necessarily more expensive.
May be other motives involved, I remember talking to a couple of friends who had businesses, successful ones at that.
I was telling them that the systems I designed hardly ever failed and was quite proud of the fact. Both of them said, but who gains, not you. I said but at leased I sleep nights.
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I had been thinking of getting one for some time Pete, as the adverts and info sounded good. I thought, this firm have done their homework on the thing. Same old story, an otherwise good product spoiled by penny pinching on components, it would seem to be the norm nowadays.Funnily enough Fred, you have just reminded me that my first CTEK failed me one weekend for no good or known reason, the XF main battery was generally 'topped up' every 3-4 weeks on a Saturday or Sunday and one weekend I realised that it had only charged the battery for about an hour even though it had been connected for 10 hours or so when I checked the voltage history afterwards with the Bluetooth voltage checker bolted to the battery.. binned that CTEK as untrustworthy, and bought another..
Thinking further on this after the prompt from Fred, Chris.. I just plugged mine in anything from that night to 10 days later with no problems.. apart from that one time I had a problem...
A good electronic product is one I know nothing about, due to not having to repair them. I often watch Big Clive on you tube who takes things apart for fun, to see how crap they are. It is not difficult to design things to last and not necessarily more expensive.
May be other motives involved, I remember talking to a couple of friends who had businesses, successful ones at that.
I was telling them that the systems I designed hardly ever failed and was quite proud of the fact. Both of them said, but who gains, not you. I said but at leased I can sleep nights.
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Great weather for 550bhp & RWD.
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Yeah and summer tyres. Typical really, but it wasn't too bad. A bit slushy in places.
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Just had E&E on the phone. MOT passed no problems
Bad news, seems the window in the rear drivers side door also isn't working, never thought to check that, so now they suspect it's either a broken wire in one of the looms or a faulty module. They are going to strip the door down first and start checking.
Bad news, seems the window in the rear drivers side door also isn't working, never thought to check that, so now they suspect it's either a broken wire in one of the looms or a faulty module. They are going to strip the door down first and start checking.
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Not on the side of an X250 Sportbrake nearside rear light cluster they don't...
Plus, it's back to front. Jaguar "Leaper" leaps to the left.
Always bugged the sh1t out of me, and the fact that the Leapers on both rear lights faced the rear of the car!!..
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Just picked up Big Blue from E&E, clean bill of health. Now, the weird thing is that when they removed the door card and disconnected the door module to test the wiring harness, all appeared working, and when they reconnected everything it all worked. Today, to be sure, they disconnected and reconnected it again and it's still working. So it's fixed?! They didn't charge me any diagnosis time for it either which was rather nice.
What's even stranger is that in the week last week, I disconnected the battery for 10 mins just to see if it need a classic IT fix of turning it off and on again, but the fault remained.
What's even stranger is that in the week last week, I disconnected the battery for 10 mins just to see if it need a classic IT fix of turning it off and on again, but the fault remained.
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