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The UK is one of the few countries in Europe that doesn’t incentivize move to EV vehicles and it’s still growing, stats show a different story to the Daily Mail headlines, with EV up 17.8% and PHEV up 39.3% in 2023. January 2024 was even higher with EV up 21.1% and PHEV up 31%. Used car sales for 2023 also up. The only thing holding up increased EV take up is high cost of vehicles and charging infrastructure, both options at people’s homes and on the move. As for China flooding market with ‘cheap’ EV’s, MG who is the largest Chinese EV seller in UK sells a car that retails in it’s home market for £17K for £34K in UK. It doesn’t cost an additional £17K to ship it, and extra duties, so there’s currently quite a bit of profiteering going on in UK market. Used car sales in 2023… Sales of hybrid electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars were also strong, up by 40.0% and 25.1% respectively and, collectively, electrified vehicles represented 5.6% of the market – up from 4.0% in 2022. Diesel and petrol, however, remained the most dominant fuel types, with a total of 6,827,466 units changing hands – 94.3% of the overall market.2 https://www.smmt.co.uk/2024/01/new-car-market-delivers-best-year-since-2019-as-fleets-fuel-growth/ https://www.smmt.co.uk/2024/02/uk-reaches-million-ev-milestone-as-new-car-market-grows/
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Might be worth trying the matte spray that folks like retropower use. Can you use the stick on reference dots too with your software? I see that P38’s still rust badly in the wheel well 😉😉😉😉😉…
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RRC body/shell refurbishment specialist recommendations
SteveG replied to Snagger's topic in Range Rover Forum
I haven’t used them yet, so can’t personally endorse, but I was recommended this company for flocking… https://www.flockspeed.co.uk/our-services It was a recommendation I’d value and I’ve seen the end results which are very good and price seemed good value. -
That’s looks to be a useful piece of kit Ben. Just looked it up and I see it does Canbus decoding too. That could be handy, along with verifying sensors. 👍
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In the UK, proof of ownership is typically a purchase receipt either from a trade business or personal individual. Then V5 is proof that the vehicle has been registered to be legally driven on UK roads. The V5 also clarifies the date of manufacture and taxation class for the vehicle, which in turn determines the amount of road taxation due each year. The two, owner and registered keeper, can be different, for example the owner could be a leasing/finance company and the register keeper the principal drive of the vehicle. V11 is just the annual road tax reminder and nothing to do with proof of ownership or proof or registration.
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Britpart Lynx software using different VCI?
SteveG replied to elbekko's topic in Tools and Fabrication
Sorry just seen this thread - do you want me to send you my Lynx hardware etc. for P38? It’s just sitting in the garage doing nothing. -
m57 engined 110
SteveG replied to forkrentfitter's topic in Modified Vehicle Builds & Special Projects
Sorry, I get the question now - my confusion was due to nothing else being removed. Either all or some range rover classic chassis don’t have the fillets on the front, just rear… -
m57 engined 110
SteveG replied to forkrentfitter's topic in Modified Vehicle Builds & Special Projects
Blackbird Industries Ltd P38 steering kit information pack.pdf Blackbird fitting instructions. Not sure I understand the concern on removing and infill of the small corner section of the spring mount, but maybe I misunderstand you. -
m57 engined 110
SteveG replied to forkrentfitter's topic in Modified Vehicle Builds & Special Projects
You have to drill a couple of holes in the chassis and weld in crush bars, then cut out a section of the spring mount to fit, plus source the end knuckle of the p38 steering column. -
Glad you are all recovering well Dave, and sorry to hear about your daughter. Hopefully she is making a good recovery too. cheers, Steve
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I haven’t bought off him, so not a personal recommendation, but this guy is constantly posting in range rover classic Facebook groups with RR’s and parts that he brings back from his place in Spain. A few months ago he had at least two rust free 2 door body shells already in UK… https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100024917016942
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Here you go, as suggested large radius arm washers, a length of threaded bar and some nuts (doesn’t have any lubricant in pics as I needed to take photos on phone first…
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Not meaning to be negative, but just to add a dose of reality - as far as I’m aware, no CSK’s have sold for £150,000 - I don’t recall even seeing one sell for over £100,000, so the price they are asking seems to be unrealistic. Graeme Hunt is always top end of the market in asking prices and even they balk at advertising very good condition CSK’s at over £100K. They currently have one for sale, asking for ~£97K. Obviously with companies like them and Kingsley you never get to publicly know what they actually sell for. I suspect if you auctioned a fully restored CSK today, you’d be looking at getting around the £80,000 mark rather than £100K+. It’s hard to tell as ones like the one linked above have failed to sell when they’ve come up on auction sites. So even this may be too high. As advised before by several people, to get maximum offer/bid it would pay to pull it out and at least wash it, confirm that every part is there (or list if anything is missing) describe or show condition of interior and fully describe and show condition of chassis. Again, not trying to be negative just offering a point of view.
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Pipe insulation?
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The financial crisis - a period of economic readjustment ?
SteveG replied to steve b's topic in International Forum
Not sure this has ever been the case in the history of tax collecting in the UK, so I looked up the current stats. You’ll see from this image here that the bottom 50% of tax payers contribute 9.4% of income tax and NIC receipts in the UK, so as you can the vast majority, 90.6%, of HMRC revenue that is from income tax and NIC receipts is from the top 50% of tax payers. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8513/