I suppose it's time to update this as it's been a couple of months. Work decided that they wanted me back so I've been driving this to the office once a week and it now has a whopping 1901 miles on the clock. I'll come back to my commute later
So what has happened in that time? Well, not a lot really. I finished the shelves for the garage and found they if we empty it completely the car does fit.
If you drive forward you can't close the door due to the way it pivots, it hits the spoiler and would hit the boot lid even if that wasn't there. If summon could go a little closer it would be fine but this is as close as it will get to the wall.
If you remove a shelf and reverse in you can fit. Long car is long. Had a quote to install power in the garage, frankly it's too much to be worth it.
I went on a bit of a family holiday where I used up some more of my free supercharger miles, sadly mising out on free Ionity charging though on the route.
Don't knock static caravans, this was a very nice one and this was the view in the other direction (the view we had from the front balcony of the caravan)
When I got back I gave it a proper wash with a new Meguiar's mitt and an Auto Glym foam gun, replacing the Karcher one. It's much better, the foam never went on thickly enough before but it's perfect now. First coat is left to soak and then rinsed, followed by a second coat for washing with the mitt. I only need one bucket for rinsing the mitt as the foam sticks around long enough.
I got a soft brush for the wheel faces and have since bought an EZ Detail brushes for the wheel barrels. I still don't have a filter for rinse water and the water in this area is hard so I chased as much water away as I could with my cordless Makita blower (ceramic coating helped a lot here) and then mopped up the rest with drying towels. It shone up very well indeed.
I got my new winter wheels tyres delivered, the wheels are 18" Brock B32s in matt black.
The tyres are in fact all seasons because we generally don't have much snow or ice in this country and have mostly wet weather with temps just above freezing. These Goodyear 4Seasons Gen3s should be much better than the Pilot Sports for wet handling/braking in the cold, plus they will be a bit more comfortable and have built in rim protectors.
I was hoping to have these fitted in the next couple of weeks but we're going back into lockdown so unless I can have it done early in the week it'll have to wait until December.
Anyway now I've driven to and from work a good few times I've been able to test Autopilot on my commute. It works very well for the first part on wide roads, a good thing because that's the most boring part and where traffic usually get slowed down. There's a short section of dual carriageway that is detected as a single road by the car so that needs some work and as I get into the city it incorrectly has some areas as 20mph speed limits, I've reported it a couple of times so hopefully they will update it at some point.
As you can see by this photo the mutli-storey car park I use near the office is rammed, this was taken the first time I went in but the most I've seen on this floor is three cars. I park here because I can see the car from my office window.