u/Kickitoff1902

As title suggests, I just commented on another thread and then figured this would be a nice little bit of weekend light hearted relief. Ive had a few in my time:

When I worked at pgl, we had some really tough groups in. My group of year 6s just kept playfighting constantly. I had a word with them before breakfast, and within 2 minutes, two of them started up in the queue for the canteen. I raised my voice and in my head said "I told you ONE MINUTE AGO"... What actually happened was my friend caught my eye, made a face at me as i was in process and I very loudly and abruptly said to the10 year olds "I TOLD YOU ONE FUCKING MINUTE AGO ABOUT THAT".

One that wasnt me, but is pretty amusing was some year 11 boys asking the deputy head on a cover lesson why their teacher was off. Deputy said she was ill, to which the boys replied "urgh shes always ill, even when shes here she spends half the lesson saying how ill she is" (probably true)... the teacher in question was very openly and vociferously vegetarian, and the next words out of the deputy's mouth were... "well, maybe she just doesnt get enough meat"... you can imagine how that went down.

And copy/pasted over from my comment on another thread - when we had a hot period a few years back, the kids were still coming in uniform, and my room was super hot. I meant to tell my year 9, period 5 class that if they got too hot, they could take their ties off and undo their top button... what i actually said was "if you get too hot, dont bother asking me, just take your tops off, its fine" 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️💀

So, what you got? We've all done it at some point...

So, 4 kids (2 of my own from previous relationship, 2 step kids).

We are moving to a bigger "forever" house next year, but doing the cars first as when we move, we are going to put in solar, battery, air con etc which will eat our spare capital for a few years.

I can afford to spend up to 30k on the car - will recoup 5-7k of that from my old diesel drinking tucson 2.0 premium se. Absolute critical wants - electric or plug in hybrid. Adaptive cruise control. Comfortable to drive. Reliable. New-ish. No older than 2025, less than 5k miles. Car needs to last 7 or 8 years.

Narrowed it down to basically an ex demonstrator model of either peugeot e5008 or chery tiggo 8. I love the screen and functionality of the tiggo, basically my dream car. Peugeot cabin is fine but doesnt excite me but having the full electric instead of phev would be good. Ive run the numbers through AI and chery is about 30 quid per month more expensive for fuel which is negligible, but what concerns me a bit is maintenance costs as phev obviously has a lot more than can go wrong. The chery has a 7 year warranty. 8 for battery on both. Chery also has reported 55 mile electric range so probably more like 45 out the gate. Which is fine for my needs but with battery degradation over time, 30 mile range would start to become more of a petrol car than phev.

Thanks for listening to my Ted talk, what would you do? Tiggo, e5008 or have I missed something entirely?

Was just looking for some advice here on my specific situ.

We're replacing both cars. Partner is swapping her rust bucket micra for a 2022 Renault Zoe as she basically only uses her car for school run and short local trips. In a few months im getting a pretty much brand new Chery Tiggo 8 PHEV (would love a full EV but need 7 seats and there aren't any full EV 7 seaters (or if they exist, theyre out of my price range) and the tiggo phev will give me enough range to do most day to day stuff on electric only.

Zoe is a 52kwh battery. Tiggo is 18kwh. Both typ2 connectors.

Pretty settled on the car choices.

Have read that the Zoe is fussy on home charging, and needs a strong earth connection. Looking for recs on charger that would be suitable for charging both long term.

Bonus points for any info regarding tariffs etc, although im more confident with figuring that out.

Sorry, i know these kind of posts are annoying, but please help.

Hi all,

I posted a while back about the 155 hybrid Jogger. Went for a test drive in a 140 Jogger and loved the car (was meant to be a test drive in 155 but garage screwed up) so will be ordering the 155 soon.

My only real question is about the air con. My choice was really a new Jogger or an older Kodiaq - I rented a kodiaq last summer for a week and its a lovely car but the air con was awful. In terms of lots of things, the Jogger has won me over, so im sold on getting one, but I wanted to know what the air con is like (these balmy 15⁰C days have got me thinking).

Im presuming the air con system is pretty similar in all models, I know the third row of the Jogger doesnt have a vent so that will be less comfortable, but as a collective, how do you rate new model Dacias air con systems?