Just buy or fit deadlocks. Along top of sliding door fit carpet gripper so if they try and grab the top they will be in a lot of pain. You have got to make it hard for them, I'm afraid.
If I cut my hand on carpet gripper, I’d smash the windscreen in anger haha
The blood you left behind on the carpet gripper is ideal for the police as they can get a DNA match and prove who tried breaking into it ?????
Never gave it a thought but up here they would say, no one hurt then we are off. If you try and bargain with the police, they would say. Do you know how much that would cost! Collecting DNA, paying to get it analysed, charging someone and giving them free bed and board, free legal aid and then put them in prison at a cost of a grand a week. No chance, we're skint because of do gooders like you, Bye Bye and don't call us back or we will charge you with wasting police time. ???
It’s true what you say. My first car was a mark 3 cortina and I could unlock the door with a screwdriver.
By the time you have paid your van off electric vehicles will most likely have been scrapped, I see them as totally pointless they will just be stacking up depleted batteries and more nuclear waste, it's those at the top trying to look like they are doing something good
I think the same. Even in inner city emission zones electric vehicles aren't the total answer.
You can't really get depleted batteries because they are using Lithium ion now. My lithium ion battery failed to charge after 10yrs of use. So I went on utube to see how to fix it. All I did was charge it from another battery and it charged it above the threshold that the charger has so now its back to charging fine again. Its for my festool drill so it may last forever that's why battery cars will be so good for the customer in the future, less moving parts but a nightmare for car showrooms. My customer works for Audi and says they will lose a fortune on servicing because what do you service apart from 4 tyres. It will also be a nightmare for the chancellor because there's only 5% duty on electricity. Folk with solar panels will charge them for free.
Are you sure, Since lithium-ion chemistry does not have a "memory", you do not harm the battery pack with a partial discharge. If the voltage of a lithium-ion cell drops below a certain level, it's ruined. Lithium-ion batteries age. They only last two to three years, even if they are sitting on a shelf unused.
All my lithium ion batteries are at least 6yrs old because I switched from 15v to 18v so i sold the 15v to my mate. His are still going after a thousand charges. That's why you can sell old mobile phones. They strip out the rare earths and lithium to use again. When the voltage drops below the charging threshold then you need to jump start the battery with another battery and then it charges again, I have done it. Tesla have lithium ion in their home wall battery system. Nothing seems to beat lithium ion but with that comes theft. Very soon, thieves, will give up stealing catalytic converters and move on to electric cars just for their battery cells because the car is worth 0 but the battery is worth thousands. Chile is where most of the lithium is mined and they can hold the manufactures to ransom so they are beginning to recycle it. I studied it years ago as I was wanting to buy shares in mining companies.
Battery theft is already happening, a mobile mri unit local to us had it's batteries stolen rendering the unit useless and leaving the nhs with a bill of £1,000's to replace them, not sure what type of batteries they were but in the media it was said the batteries were useless to anyone as they were specifically for the unit.
It used to be the case that when you bought an electric car you only rented the batteries but what happen's when some steals the batteries? I guess that's why they changed it because the car company was losing too many batteries so now the car owner own's them. One point is the fact that a second hand electric car will always be worth money if the lithium price keeps going up. Our hospital MRI scanner takes £10k worth of helium to run it. Its in a storage container which you can hit a button to dump it to atmosphere in the event of a fire. It means a small fire can cost £10k every time because they need to recharge it again.
