NemesisUK

Lemmy

Just managing expectations. A look around the interweb will show it's exceptionally difficult to get compensation from operators unless the loss is clearly through negligence. Theft by a 3rd party is not the operator's fault (unless we are talking about a secure parking facility, gated, patrolled and enclosed) so possibly the best one can hope for is cooperation by supplying any video footage. Even this is thin help as the Police are not likely to act unless the images clearly identify the miscreants. Case in point, we just two days ago had a CAT theft (the second in as many months) from our car park at work (B&Q) the van was caught on CCTV but the reg plate was too dirty to read, Police just noted the case and supplied a reference number for the insurers. Apart from wiring the car to the mains supply I'm not sure one can stop these scum 😟

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Jim

Didn't some early models come from the factory with gold badges?

Which almost certainly will say park at your own risk, or something similar ...

It's always worth the talk but one would have to prove the car park operator (might not be the hospital) was negligent, which will be difficult unless the operator advertises the car park as 'secure'....

My money's on the flux capacitor as the saviour of future vehicular power.. An interesting, somewhat tongue in cheek write-up here, that does explore the realities of the possibilities of this form of energy generation, along with nuclear power for vehicles. https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/fluxcapacitor And then there is the thorium rector.. https://www.caradvice.com.au/132921/the-thorium-powered-car-eight-grams-one-million-miles/ China are looking to start-up thorium powered reactors https://www.livescience.com/china-creates-new-thorium-reactor.html The future is out there .....

Mounties

Glass

Fumarole

Brimstone

Freddie

Lock

Confluence

Board

Twist

I think you'll find those large bladders were filled with town gas. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/11/gas-bag-vehicles.html

Shift

Rot

Wisconsin

Micheal

Now, I don't drive like a racing driver, well not on every outing 😉 but to drive quickly i.e. to cover distance in as short a time as possible, one must maintain as high a speed as possible for as long as possible and that will mean late, hard braking. That's all I meant in my interpretation of Colin's comment .. Seriously though I like to think I drive quickly but smoothly, carry as much speed as possible through corners etc.. I modulate accelerator control by looking as far ahead as possible and bleed off speed to try and keep momentum. However one might describe my driving 'style' when I was covering high annual mileages I probably needed pads every 40k-50k miles in my C class and had the first front pad change at 90k miles in the Alhambra. Now, the CLS55 was slightly different with pads and discs every two sets of tyres....

Bile

Trawler