Car Thread II

[Albert]

Just posted the above to my colleague who has had no end of trouble with her IPace.

Oh gooseberry fool and I swear I’m not just saying this but I had an arse clenching moment leaving work where I swear the brakes didn’t engage I had to pump them several times

[jiggles]

Does she charge it at work? The brakes are a little different when the car is at 100%. It initially feels like they aren’t working but it’s just that the regen can’t work when there’s nowhere to put the charge, so you have to press harder than normal to slow down.

Always a little scary when you’re at 99% charge slowing down for the junction out of your street and suddenly half the braking force disappears because the car got back up to 100.

[False]

I mean that definitely doesn’t sound like a design flaw

[jiggles]

Im making it sound worse than it is really. The dash always shows you the cap on the regen if one applies, and it tapers down from about 93% and up. You don’t go from full regen to zero in an instant, unless something actually fails, and the only way it goes from something to nothing can be literally in the first couple of minutes of a journey after you charged it to the max (in which case, you should be aware that you’re topping out the charge, just as you’re aware the regen is going to be reduced anyway). The bit that catches me for a brief second is that I have to engage the friction brakes at all, when the overwhelming majority of my trips out of the same junction (and in almost all my driving) I don’t. But I have plenty of time to react because single-pedal driving has me slowing down earlier anyway.

Also, it’s probably worth pointing out re: the scare stories on the previous page that the only way you can get the car in a state where it literally can’t stop is if the regen fails, the power-assistance on the brake pedal fails, all 4 hydraulic lines between the pedals and the callipers fail, the motor mode selector fails and the emergency brake’s own electronic system fails, all at once. A dead or undervolted aux battery will kill the power assisted braking (and warn you on the dash with a message that the brake pedal feel is reduced, emergency LKA is disabled, etc), which would give you maybe the impression of having no brakes but you do still have the hydraulics (you just have to *really* push it down with some force, it’s 2.5t car). The hand brake I’d actually forgotten was even on the car until just now, lol. You never use it. Just put it in park and it engages itself automatically, but there’s a lever to pull beside the wheel I’m only just remembering about. Wouldn’t surprise me if that guy forgot about it too.

[Kezzer]

Not quite a "Quick to GRcade!" moment, more of a lackadaisical walk, but I got myself a new car yesterday.

[BOR]

Not quite a "Quick to GRcade!" moment, more of a lackadaisical walk, but I got myself a new car yesterday.

BMW M4 or Series 4 M Sport?

[Kezzer]

M4 competition

[Victor Mildew]

Thats nothing mate, our nissan qashqai lease is up and we're taking up the option to buy it

Bet you're all well jelly.

[BOR]

M4 competition

Very nice.

I love the colour.

[False]

Thats nothing mate, our nissan qashqai lease is up and we're taking up the option to buy it

Bet you're all well jelly.

We can’t all be living the dream ad

[Kezzer]

Going from the M440i to the M4 comp has been a fun comparison. I haven't ever really had the opportunity to feel how different cars drive or maybe I've just not cared to notice, but going back to back on these two... yeah I notice.

feels much more competent at higher speeds for a start. It feels more planted in the corners but I am not sure by how much. What is funny is I test drove an M3 and was assured by everyone that they are the same chassis so would feel the same to drive, but I think thats bollocks. I am sure the M3 felt sturdier?

Not that I am unhappy just interesting to notice.

[False]

i think they are the same chassis, but you can tell from a single look that the actual bodies are different

you would traditionally expect the coupe to be stiffer and feel sturdier without the doors and rear space though - perhaps it feels sturdier because its a more substantial cabin and you subconsciously feel like you are in a bigger stronger space

[Kezzer]

i think they are the same chassis, but you can tell from a single look that the actual bodies are different

you would traditionally expect the coupe to be stiffer and feel sturdier without the doors and rear space though - perhaps it feels sturdier because its a more substantial cabin and you subconsciously feel like you are in a bigger stronger space

I'd have thought that the B pillar on the M3 would give it more rigidity no? Perhaps its the difference between one having already being run in and the other not.

Happy to report that the bit of motorway driving I did today resulted in +30mpg rather than the 16.6 I had from scooting around back country lanes the other day.

[False]

you have a similar b pillar on the coupe, it just doesnt have a door behind it

its probably even shorter and a touch wider too

[Kezzer]

ah ofc! I was being a dumb dumb and thinking it was just the C pillar