Week 1 down, 260 odd miles covered. First bath and triple layer polish/wax.. a quick 5 hour job, then it rained 2 hours later
Its a big thing to clean, but nicely shaped. Getting over the roof is difficult, i had a small step to help lol.
I took some other pics but none really came out well. These are the best of a bad bunch...
We have been using it all week for city driving and wading through puddles, all good so far. Its barely been out of eco mode and on a busy 15 or so mile city journey its been averaging 33mpg. IRR shows up dust and dirt pretty quickly but it looks amazing in the sunshine! It does feel a little large for side streets, trying to guess how close the curbs are gets a bit scary with 22's :shock:
But, its quiet and comfy and feels a million dollars. Yea there is some harder plastics in the cabin compared with Dads S Type, but you dont touch many of them. The leather feels good and the seats are just right. Dads not very tech savvy but he's coping surprisingly well with it all. The mood lighting is a different colour every time i get in :lol: The auto stop-start gets annoying so thats the first thing that gets switched off.
Today, i took it out for my first little cruise.
Its a very nice thing to drive. Very calm and relaxed in eco mode, with a very smoothed out gear change. In normal mode, the gearbox tends to what a gear too high so you get a slight delay, then a jerk as it drops another gear before accelerating slightly faster than you want. Thats easily cured with dynamic mode. Now its just always in the perfect gear, all the time. I clicked the paddles a few times but it felt a bit pointless, its too many gears to click through. Id perhaps click to select 4th gear coming onto an island when the cars holding onto 6th, but thats about it really. Auto works perfectly well the rest of the time.
The adaptive suspension is great, you can feel it has more control over the up-down/side-side movements. With dynamic off it can sometimes feels a bit bouncy. The ride comfort feels just as good with it on or off.
I know its just a 2.0d but it actually feels quick. I found i was only using a part of the throttle and it was buzzing along very nicely. My daily driver is a 414bhp V8 and i didnt think the FP felt slow at all. For such a big thing with a small engine, it can still turn a good pace from 'sorry officer' upwards. Compared with the mitsi outlander which seems to stop at 70mph :roll:
Its early days still, we are sussing it out slowly as we go. There are 2 things that have me stumped at the mo,,
No idea why, CDs are ripping to the hard drive in a random track order. Cds with no track info go into an unkown artist album, again in a very mixed up track and artist order. I also dont no how to delete albums. On a side note, the 380w stereo sounds high quaility and lovely and clear.
Occasionally we get double "beep--beep", same sound and tone as the parking sensors. 8 out of 10 times its when we are close to speed camera (sometimes on the opposite side of the road). Im pretty sure the car doesnt have speed camera recognition so this could just be a coincidence.
The dealer is kindly looking into the above for us so tomorrows job for me is to switch on the auto parking sensors :idea: better safe than sorry, aye!
Cheers
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