A question for Island dwellers off the mainland?

[Nurse Julie]

It's a 'Twitten' on the Kent / East Sussex border. It's a mixture of betwix and between, and twicen and twitches.

[Orcade-Ian]

Wait til you get asked to meet someone 'the Morn's Morn' or 'next night'. Or you are a 'wee yap o'shite' and must be 'blootered' cos your breeks are 'ootside in'

A simple Yorkshireman, saving hard to become a Scotsman!

[Honda enthusiast]

Great 😃👍 isn't it , if we were all the same and spoke the same, how boring it would be....I must admit I love diversity in people, there's always one donkey but people are mostly appealing 😊

[Martin6]

Mersea Island, looks idyllic for the young who don't need access to a hospital on a regular basis, have they built a bridge to it or is it tidal dependent still?

Still a tidal causeway, Ted, 'the Strood'. 40 minutes to the hospital, when the tide's out!

The tide tends to be over one and a half hours a day, every other week. Not too bad if you remember to check the tide table. But, it means a salty 1/2 mile is involved on most rides. So I'm a regular bike washer and buy ACF50 in bulk!

[K2-K6]

Interesting that some of the EV and hybrid cars are now back on drum rear brakes, it seems for demand and corrosion consideration.

Low use with regeneration strategies, causing no cleaning at expected levels particularly rear brake provision. 

VW ID 3 notable amongst volume producers doing this. There's quite some forum / yt action around it in Scandinavian market.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

On my XC40 hybrid the rear discs are well rusted at 17k miles through lack of use.
 I've been told that it is due to the regenerative rear hubs that do most of the rear braking.

[SteveD CB500K0]

My Audi Q4 has rear drums.

You are right about the regenerative braking as you develop a driving style that rarely requires the use of the brake pedal.

The rather odd result for anyone following is that the brake lights come on whenever regenerative braking is in use (like an F1 car ). So if you ever wonder why the guy in front on a motorway keeps braking for no apparent reason, he’s probably on cruise control which juggles throttle/ brakes continuously.


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[Bryanj]

Most HGV trailers have reverted to drums as discs required more maintainance

[Orcade-Ian]

All this talk of degenerate braking 🙈 and complicated electronics on modern cars makes me think of looking for a nicely restored Moggy Minor - with points, condenser and an accessible fuel pump you can whack with a piece of wood when it stops ticking.  Plus collapsible front suspension, VED and MOT exempt!
Ian

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I'm showing my age, in 1971 I used to drive a Police Spec Moggie 1000, they had no extra performance, upgrades included a high output alternator (due to power sapping VHF radios) and servo assisted drum brakes.

Great reliable motors that were on the road 24/7, my Panda (445 area near Clowne) had over 130k miles on the clock, only time it failed to start was when I  accidentally left the VHF radio on whilst I dealt with a sudden death.  We had the PYE VHF two piece personal radios at that time but reception black spots made then useless in rural areas.
Having to get a bump start was very embarassing.

[SteveD CB500K0]

Hendon.
Daughter’s graduation.
2015



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[Green1]

Mersea a place where the strood has caught me out more than once. I'v been mad enough to cross it when I should have known better. The Aprilia has gained most of its corrosion crossing that bugger and even snapped a chain because I was to lazy to clean it.

Never understood the don't need your brakes due to regen argument. I only ever change the disks and pads once in a vans lifetime. At 140k on my Ranger and 135k on the Doblo. I don't expect to do it again until at least 260k.
Disks on the back are a stupid idea my DRW Transit is due another set of discs due to the lack of use and full of corrosion 

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Hendon.
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2015



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That photo takes me back Steve, our Unit Beat Car Moggies could all be opened & started with the same key due to wear in the lock cylinders. Even though I was 23 in 1971 having held a full car licence since I was 17 I was not allowed to drive a Panda until I had passed my Panda only test, you were not allowed to use the Blue light until you had passed your Standard Driving Course that was 3 weeks residential course at HQ. The Ventoras were fitted with rear L plates & a driver under instruction plate. It was a 3.3 Litre Vauxhall Ventora police spec, standard Victor Trim with Ventura mechanicals.  Best part of the course was the skid pan at HQ driving  an old battered Zodiac.

[taysidedragon]

My dad was Scenes of Crime, iirc they had unmarked Viva HA vans to get around in. Later on some bright spark in purchasing decided that it was a good idea to buy Mini vans for 6 foot plus officers. Not a popular decision.

We're well off the original thread, none of these cars would have survived for long on salt-swept islands!