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Car has been in hibernation all winter with continuous intravenous courtesy of Ctek. I was going to tax it on 1st April, but as you cannot go anywhere & rightly so, looks like it will be postponed until ???????. Its possible that it will not even surpass last years under 200 miles :o. Just checked to see if its still there :lol: IMAG0400.jpg
 
Mines on the road all year round but hasn't moved for 2 weeks now and who knows when it will move again?
 
Mines still tucked up in the Carcoon and has been since end October.
No idea when I will be able to get back to take her out of hibernation.
 
My car is bathing in the sun.. ..used it recently to get some fresh fish from a fishing village 80km away.

We are not in lock-down, only avoiding large groups and contact. So only 5 persons allowed in the store,
keeping 1,5 m apart. Supermarkets are about 5000m² , they let about a hundred customers in : there
are only 100 trolleys available and you need one to be allowed in.

A distance of 1,5m is too little I know from the media, but that's the rule here. Roads are still quite bizzy,
although no traffic jams at all for about 3 weeks now. Also supermarkets are fully stocked. We produce
4x more greens then we eat as a nation, but the flower growers suffer severely. No flowers sold.
This results in complete fields to be turned over without harvesting the flowers.

There are many independent workers with no contract. Some local guys I know well, they are builders.
I think I will device some jobs for them. They can work alone and so would not break any rules.
At least they'd have an income.

We have a large plot, so as long as they stay 20m away from eacht other. And they come in turns.
One can make the foundations, the next builds up the walls and roof. That is for a carport I wanted to build,
but could not get any workers since they are lured with big bucks to large building sites.
We are 500.000 homes short and short of builders.

The Netherlands are lucky to have had a trade surplus for the last 3 years. So 15 billion EURO in cash to take
measures [ yearly budget 300 billion]. But we are one of the smallest countries on the planet, and the densest populated.
Have to see if it stays like this or if they go to full lock-down after all.
 
Remember to get a battery conditioner on your car if its not going to move any time soon. Don't just start it up & idle every so often as that's when most wear happens plus if the exhaust is not getting hot enough all you will get is condensation & in time rust. Also put an extra 10psi or so in your tyres if its to be just sitting there
 
Tony said:
Just completed the NC 500 in mine a week ago, enjoyed every mile.
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Nice....

I want to do that since I was 16yrs old. I then had a moped based on a German motorbike [ Zundapp ], 50cc only.
I wanted to go there by ferry and then camp. Until I started working out the cost of the trip. Too expensive..

Can you see far enough ahead, seated this low ? Before the crises started I planned to go to the south to visit a cousin
and some elderly friends. Decided to take the F-Pace since the hedges and trunk roads are less then convenient
sitting in an F-Type..
 
Mine has sat for 7.5 weeks before without issue.
It's never been on a charger and never will. The car is not contactable on InControl so has gone to full sleep mode.

NC500, very nice. We were hoping for another Swiss, Germany, the ring, etc trip this summer but that looks highly unlikely. Sad times but everyone needs to follow the advice of your governments and stay safe.
 
Also meant to say, if your car is not to be used any time soon, consider putting it on Sorn. Only full months are refunded so must be done before end of the month. Do not however cancel your insurance.
 
simpleR said:
We were hoping for another Swiss, Germany, the ring, etc trip this summer but that looks highly unlikely. Sad times but everyone needs to follow the advice of your governments and stay safe.
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I did an Alpine tour last june with my son. Lots of passes were still closed so we aim to do an 'encore' and wanted to do it end of june.
This might still be feasable I think. We did not make any reservations, but what I did was email all hotels and B&B's that we want to
go (back) to, telling them we hope they are ok and we intend to come soon. Many of them are now closed for two months and need
to stay closed for maybe a long time more. They need to see some business on the horizon.... We did get really kind responses and
a lot of real info on the local situation. :(

Seems like Italy is at least 5x worse then made public. They don't count in the Chinese that died there sofar. There are roughly 250.000
in Northern Italy, working in the posh leather industry now owned by Chinese firms.
 
I had to go do a critical shop in mine... We were genuinely low on provisions.
Contrary to popular belief, you can fit quite a lot of shopping in the boot on a vert! 😉
 
Tel said:
I had to go do a critical shop in mine... We were genuinely low on provisions.
Contrary to popular belief, you can fit quite a lot of shopping in the boot on a vert! 😉
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I’ll be using mine to food shop too when we need to, sadly we have enough food for at least 3 or 4 days.
 
You are so WRONG... .. F-Type's are notorious for restricted shopping.. ..the cabrio that is....

https://youtu.be/I6KFA7p7_aQ?t=264
 
Had no issues seeing anything ahead, the only thing that I would look out for is the pot holes, apart from that the trip will last long in the memory.

Great photos of the jag that one can look back on in years to come with the family.
 
Dan_Veluwe said:
Tony said:
Just completed the NC 500 in mine a week ago, enjoyed every mile.
Click to expand...

Nice....

I want to do that since I was 16yrs old. I then had a moped based on a German motorbike [ Zundapp ], 50cc only.
I wanted to go there by ferry and then camp. Until I started working out the cost of the trip. Too expensive..

Can you see far enough ahead, seated this low ? Before the crises started I planned to go to the south to visit a cousin
and some elderly friends. Decided to take the F-Pace since the hedges and trunk roads are less then convenient
sitting in an F-Type..
Click to expand...

Had no issues seeing anything ahead, the only thing that I would look out for is the pot holes, apart from that the trip will last long in the memory.

Great photos of the jag that one can look back on in years to come with the family
 
Mine is getting out a couple of times a week. I need to pop into the office to check servers at least once a week and then there is the essential supplies thing.
 
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