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when I read a suggestion to disconnect the car's battery overnight, reconnect and then see if the nav came back. It's been off overnight, I've just reconnected and the Nav system is back in full working order.
That’s to let everything completely discharge from all the circuits. A quicker solution would be to disconnect both battery terminals and hold the two leads together for 10 seconds. It’s called a 'hard reset' and it’s the common, universally accepted and well known cure for electrical glitches on Range Rovers!
 
Had to pop over to West London today for work as they were running a weekend course at one of the centres I carry out quality assurance on. On the way back I called in to Westfield Stratford to pick up some gluten free linguine from Waitrose for Mrs Mottie. All this gluten free stuff doesn’t taste so good and is 4 times the price of regular stuff. They didn’t have any of the particular make she wanted. :evil: While I was in the Gluten free section I picked up a different make for her to try as well as some bread and porridge that she likes. I scanned them out the self checkout and it wasn’t until I was in Marks’s that I saw the notification of what I’d spent in Waitrose come up on my phone and thought "that was cheap". I looked and I hadn’t been charge for the pasta. Sod 'em, three quid for 250 grams of pasta the cheeky sods so it was a result for me - a bit of accidental shoplifting if you like.

Got home, gave the small bedroom ceiling a final coat of paint and made dinner. Duck breasts with mustard mash and tenderstem broccoli with my special fruity jus. Only trouble was, because Mrs Mottie can’t have gluten, I used knorr stock cubes for the base instead of oxo cubes and feck me, was they salty! I think we're going to be glugging water all night.

I’ll have a relaxing bath later and settle down to watch the boxing. Come on Eubank!
 
Range Rovers don't go wrong. ;)

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Out for my regular bike ride today, riding through the village I used to live in, a car decided to overtake on a bend, as he drew level another car appeared on the other side as well as two pedestrians, both cars stopped and the drivers were shouting naughty words at each other, ho hum
 
That’s to let everything completely discharge from all the circuits. A quicker solution would be to disconnect both battery terminals and hold the two leads together for 10 seconds. It’s called a 'hard reset' and it’s the common, universally accepted and well known cure for electrical glitches on Range Rovers!

Never had such a glitch before, to need to fix it, and I had no idea the ICE system included a memory storage capacitor, but...

It was suggested, that the only way to discharge the capacitor, to reset the system, was by pulling the fuse, or disconnecting the battery and waiting for it to run down. It was charged by a diode, so shorting the leads would not discharge it. Power down, and wait, the only way. It failed rather strangely - it only affected the nav, TV, radio and etc. all worked normally, but the GPS, entire mapping system, just disappeared. Press the button to start to boot it up, and the screen showed grey, with a pale blue drifting over it.
 
Today, I did the second cut of the grass, with the little tractor mower. The grass, no doubt due to the dry weather, has grown very slowly this year. I checked the tractors battery, when I last got it out a few weeks ago, and it was almost totally flat, not enough in it, to crank it over, so I put it on charge, and was expecting to have to replace it, it seems to have recovered though - it started at the first pull today.

That's the second battery, I have had, which somehow miraculously resurrected itself this year. The other, one of the pair of batteries, in the stair lift. They were both new, but I managed to wreck one, leaving the lift, off charge. I replaced it with an almost dead battery, then put the first one on charge a few times. It eventually seemed to mostly recover.
 
Been looking at Chinese cars, just looking mind. BYD and Jaecoo. Some nice designs albeit copycat, tech looks good. At the prices, I can see why most major car firms are a little worried.
 
Been looking at Chinese cars, just looking mind. BYD and Jaecoo. Some nice designs albeit copycat, tech looks good. At the prices, I can see why most major car firms are a little worried.
I have never given one any serious thought, to be honest I havent even looked at one. I may take a second glance as I am ready tio swap one of my cars.
 
Been looking at Chinese cars, just looking mind. BYD and Jaecoo. Some nice designs albeit copycat, tech looks good. At the prices, I can see why most major car firms are a little worried.

EVs?
 
I have never given one any serious thought, to be honest I havent even looked at one. I may take a second glance as I am ready tio swap one of my cars.

Jaecoo J7 or J8 looks good. Might be worth holding off, the hybrids I looked at today had a battery range of about 40 miles, I think newer ones due out in the summer could have a battery range of 100 miles which is good for a hybrid.
 
Jaecoo J7 or J8 looks good. Might be worth holding off, the hybrids I looked at today had a battery range of about 40 miles, I think newer ones due out in the summer could have a battery range of 100 miles which is good for a hybrid.
The MOD reccommends that you dont charge your phone in a chinese car for fear of stealing sensitive information. Now I am not concerned over that as they would only get my personal stuff so worth a look.
 
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