What did you do to your van today?

Had a problem with some fancy tyre valve caps that welded themselves on. Used the dremel to remove them but one went a bit wrong so got a new valve fitted - not too bad a price for a high pressure valve replacement at £8. Gave them a tenner for work well done :)

After leaving Tyre depot, I put £100.01 of diesel in the van today! What better time than when prices are hiked 🙄 But local Jet garage wasn't too bad a price at 143.9/Litre, which was 8p/litre less than Sainsburys just up the road.
Started with £20, as was running on fumes and when guy behind counter told me they were cheaper than sainsburys even without a 6p/litre off voucher I went back and added another £80 :D
 
Had a problem with some fancy tyre valve caps that welded themselves on. Used the dremel to remove them but one went a bit wrong so got a new valve fitted - not too bad a price for a high pressure valve replacement at £8. Gave them a tenner for work well done :)

After leaving Tyre depot, I put £100.01 of diesel in the van today! What better time than when prices are hiked 🙄 But local Jet garage wasn't too bad a price at 143.9/Litre, which was 8p/litre less than Sainsburys just up the road.
Started with £20, as was running on fumes and when guy behind counter told me they were cheaper than sainsburys even without a 6p/litre off voucher I went back and added another £80 :D
Sainsburys are either hypocrites or have lost the plot, running a 'Cheap groceries to help your budget' TV ad, but then hiking the difference between Diesel and Unleaded to 16p per litre. Daylight robbery, at 72.74p per gallon extra ... 🤮

Steve
 
Sainsburys are either hypocrites or have lost the plot, running a 'Cheap groceries to help your budget' TV ad, but then hiking the difference between Diesel and Unleaded to 16p per litre. Daylight robbery, at 72.74p per gallon extra ... 🤮

Steve
Sainsburys have increased the price differential *again*, this time to 18p per litre! Absolute robbers, but they pal;e into insignificance against the local Shell [Asda owned] station which has a 26p per litre price differential ... New Shell CEO will take home in excess of £11 million in salary and incentives - just from blatant profiteering. Corporate scum screwing their customers blind

Steve
 
Sainsburys have increased the price differential *again*, this time to 18p per litre! Absolute robbers, but they pal;e into insignificance against the local Shell [Asda owned] station which has a 26p per litre price differential ... New Shell CEO will take home in excess of £11 million in salary and incentives - just from blatant profiteering. Corporate scum screwing their customers blind

Steve
They must have been getting some tips from the motorway service stations mob!
 
Checked that the new Polarmax Lithium was getting enough solar from the [now] 2 solar panels to reach Float voltage and that top down balancing was ok [took just over 4 days from installation to reach 'Float', just from solar in iffy Scottish early Spring sunshine. Also charged the 2 ebike batteries on their monthly maintenance cycle [so limited leccy needed, but the 'live' Solar input was adequate to achieve this without using the Lithium battery so Float remained undisturbed]

More tests today, weather permitting, to try to emulate how we will use the M/Home offgrid, to try to anticipate, rather than react to events after the fact, as we did in our December 2025 trip to the [lack of] glorious Spanish Winter Sun ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
Had a problem with some fancy tyre valve caps that welded themselves on. Used the dremel to remove them but one went a bit wrong so got a new valve fitted - not too bad a price for a high pressure valve replacement at £8. Gave them a tenner for work well done :)

After leaving Tyre depot, I put £100.01 of diesel in the van today! What better time than when prices are hiked 🙄 But local Jet garage wasn't too bad a price at 143.9/Litre, which was 8p/litre less than Sainsburys just up the road.
Started with £20, as was running on fumes and when guy behind counter told me they were cheaper than sainsburys even without a 6p/litre off voucher I went back and added another £80 :D
Prices are crazy! In 4 days one of my local garages put its prices up 14p litre for diesel ie £161.7p, other were 6p-8p which was bad enough
 
Prices are crazy! In 4 days one of my local garages put its prices up 14p litre for diesel ie £161.7p, other were 6p-8p which was bad enough
The Sainsburys was up to 161.9 on Friday.
Filled the (petrol) car up there using the 6p/litre off voucher which made the Petrol price less than the cheapest price for that fuel in ages. ( Don't know why there is such a big gap between the two fuels?).
 
The Sainsburys was up to 161.9 on Friday.
Filled the (petrol) car up there using the 6p/litre off voucher which made the Petrol price less than the cheapest price for that fuel in ages. ( Don't know why there is such a big gap between the two fuels?).
Naked profiteering, pure and simple. Asda & Sainsburys Kirkcaldy 16p per litre price differential, Shell [Asda Convenience Store] forecourt [used by NHS Ambulances, so hope they have a discount!] 26p per litre more expensive for diesel than for Unleaded.

Lest EV Drivers become too smug - Nissan have removed software support for functions such as remote charging control and demisting for Nissan Leaf models as young as 4 years+, paving the way for reinstatement under a monthly software rental model on top of the leccy bill, to avoid the EV becoming a very expensive garden ornament ...

Steve
 
My AS Symbol has a Brigade reversing camera system which is pretty useless. Ripped it out this morning as I've bought one of these...

https://ebay.us/m/WdQjij

Being wireless I don't have to route the cable so hopefully will be a simple install to a much improved rear view

K ;)
Completed installation of new camera and despite doubters, the picture quality is good and the range is sufficient. Its 1000% better than the Brigade camera that was there before and for the money it has been worth the effort.
K 😉
 
Tested the new Polarmax Leisure Battery by slow cooking Jacket Spuds (4 hours+), warming a pot of soup, boiling the kettle on the Induction Hob, and finished off by charging the screwdriver battery + Spare. Started with 14.19v, plugged in the Portable 100W Solar Panel to take advantage of the shifting sun and cloud/rain showers every 15 minutes or so, took the Polarmax down to 13.07v, and now back at 13.36v; so more than happy that we have enough solar & Lithium to function off grid, having charged the bike batteries yesterday afternoon

Steve
 
Tested the new Polarmax Leisure Battery by slow cooking Jacket Spuds (4 hours+), warming a pot of soup, boiling the kettle on the Induction Hob, and finished off by charging the screwdriver battery + Spare. Started with 14.19v, plugged in the Portable 100W Solar Panel to take advantage of the shifting sun and cloud/rain showers every 15 minutes or so, took the Polarmax down to 13.07v, and now back at 13.36v; so more than happy that we have enough solar & Lithium to function off grid, having charged the bike batteries yesterday afternoon

Steve
I know you have the power to cook them, but for the jackets potatoes, have a look at the McCain Frozen spuds. More expensive than raw tatties but such a time saver at around 10 min from frozen to ready to eat and taste good as well 🥔😋
 
I know you have the power to cook them, but for the jackets potatoes, have a look at the McCain Frozen spuds. More expensive than raw tatties but such a time saver at around 10 min from frozen to ready to eat and taste good as well 🥔😋
I wanted to use the standard Aldi potatoes to see what the real-life conditions would be like, with the benefit that we are only 15 feet away from a mains supply if we had any problems, rather than being in Spain and in a panic! We have more or less tried out the various combinations of cooking, charging bike & tool batteries, water boiling etc and then see how quickly [or otherwise] the battery replenishment took on a day when we go from bright sun to grey cloud and thence to hissing rain at 10-15 minute intervals. So, in that respect, today worked very well indeed, even if it was a wee bit messy - but that is a decent representation of life in the M/Home when we are juggling kit around to get space! I've sent you a DM re the Inverter - think it's ok, but just want to check!

Steve
 
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