Andrew Dwyer

A question for the electrical types on here: Have been granny charging my Seal for a few days now on and off. It starts without any issue. Unlock to open charging port then lock car, plug granny charger into wall and then into car, car starts to charge ramping up to 1.8 kw . To stop I unlock car to allow unplugging from car, remove from wall socket and lock car. All hunky dory until a couple of minutes later the associated breaker drops out, feels hot to the touch and won’t stay up for about 5 minutes. This happens every time, can charge for hours but shortly after stopping charging it drops out. Anything I should do differently or any reason for this ??

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Just ordered, for installation tomorrow, Solar Gard Black Phantom Metalized Ceramic,40% windscreen, 60% all round and Solar Gard Truevue 5 Roof Film (TV-5). Current price is 29k as the 23.5k promotion has finished, anyway got it for 25k.

It’s funny but when I bought my last car I thought about doing this as the cars were growing in length ( Jazz, MG ZS, Haval Jolion ) , bought this one and completely forgot about it. Thanks !!

I haven’t done mine yet, maybe today or tomorrow. But I agree with the 40 front, 60 all round and 80 roof. That Lamina Digital Ceramatrix looks a good price, saw an advert on fb today for this stuff and it was 21,500 , not sure if that included the roof either. I also fancied the Solar Gard Black Phantom which was on sale for 23,500 recently. But as my showroom didn’t do film option will have to see what a local place have to offer. Haven’t bought film before, always got the freebie option with the car.

Problem is the neighbours are a couple of A-holes who think they own the soi and leave a pick up outside at all angles. To be honest driving in is favourable for me as might have shopping in the boot. Driving in like this for around 6 years has always been easy as a front sensor would take preference and let me know exactly how much room in front. Imagine driving into an enclosed garage where the side walls are detected but not the wall in front.

The reason for my issue is there’s no sensor on front ( only on corners) and I have to approach at 90° ( or slight angle ). I can open forward facing camera but interference ( proximity ) at the side means the camera changes view and beeping intensifies from side but never reaches constant beeping as around 60 cm gap on each side. It should be okay when the other car goes but currently is a PIA. Am not sure if approaching a wall directly ahead, or parallel parking, the front (corner) sensors detect, I would hope so but suspect not !! ( they don’t detect a person or my dustbin !!

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Cheer up Owl , there is always light at the end of the tunnel . The Owls might have turned the corner and Mildred’s sketches are looking evermore impressive .

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Reversing is no problem as there are 4 sensors at the rear ( 2 on the corners and 2 in the middle). The front has only 2 sensors on the corners. Would be okay if I reversed into the car port but it isn’t really possible due to some unreasonable neighbours. So the problem I am having is kinda unique I suppose, but here goes. Currently I have another car in the car port leaving about 60 cm either side ( between car and house ). Pulling in the front corner sensors detect the other car or the house and beep slowly. The 360° camera opens on either the other car or the house and fluctuates between the two as I pull in. I change the view to front facing ( as I want to pull close to the wall in front ) but it reverts back to the corner view as is detecting house or other car , it doesn’t stay fixed front facing . The warning changes from slow to fast and doesn’t go to constant even when millimetres from the wall in front. This is the problem I face, between the fast warning alarm and the 360° camera changing from one corner to the other ( as I am pulling in on an angle ) it makes for a stressful time. Now, under normal circumstances I.e. when the other car has gone or parallel parking etc the front facing camera will be okay as no interference from the side. Whether the corner sensors will detect the wall in front or if I have to rely on the camera I am not sure. Does the car beep at the front when parallel parking ?? Unless the front corner sensors are not calibrated properly and not looking in a forward direction as well as sideways am not sure what my solution will be. ( did a test with my dustbin in the street, could drive up to touching it without camera opening or any warning sound, is this normal ? ) Seriously considering some tyre stops bolted to the garage floor to avoid this !!

Used to hear a Tookai calling nearby but it never came close, get some Jingjok khrap on the car occasionally. My problem is mostly cats , one was sitting on the roof this morning !! But they will solve the rat problem i suppose

Thanks, On my last 2 cars the beeping gets quicker until a constant note and then I still am a little way off the object in front. Seal doesn’t do that, combined with the increased hp and torque i tend to creep forward quickly. Just a question of me getting used to it i think. Will take a look at “ Predictive collision warning “. Just had a little look in the manual, PCW operates above 16 km/h and is more for in traffic emergency stop situations. My “ issue “ is more “ Parking Assist System “ which only operates up to 10 km/h, maybe i am coming in too fast ? According to the manual, the beeping does become continuous. Will have to double check this and take more care.

Toyota are going to struggle to sell this I think. Expensive and a poor spec for an AWD !

okay point me in the direction where to find this, can only find on or off.

Regarding my obscure question about the GPS and nearby charging stations. Was driving south on the highway and opened the nearby charger option, it showed me charger in front and behind. Have since realised that if I don’t have a destination set it doesn’t really know which way I want to go and shows chargers nearby in any direction including behind me, makes perfect sense. Set a destination, open the charger option and it lets you choose “ along the route “ or “ nearby “, excellent stuff.

Interesting !! I will have to look at that as I park the car close to the house and nearly hit it just now.

Couple of things I forgot to mention: Yesterday morning it was 29°c and very pleasant in the car, then the sun came out and it warmed up to 33°c and it became uncomfortable especially going home as the sun was all on my side . Similar today as it hit 34°c , how Banders is living with no film I don’t know, must have some camel in his ancestry …… sorry . Also, the front sensor that brings the camera on is a lot less sensitive than my previous cars, find myself getting way too close before the beeping shows any signs of urgency.

I have the Premium so range should be higher than AWD but not by much. Here’s my graph: but as I was in heavy traffic my speed was well down. Consumption figures: Not sure where 38 hours driving time comes from !!, must have been a lot of time turned on sat doing nothing, reset those to zero .

I noticed that on Mistral’s post and realised I haven’t found that either .

So many well thought out actions. Car is locked and granny charging in the car port, the small screen has turned off, approach the car with the key in hand and the screen pops back to life, no need to unlock. Only 19 hours left !, what’s that saying “ a watched pot never boils “ 😃

I didn’t check the range other than mentally checking could make it back but then decided to make sure DC charging would work okay (plus not wanting to leave the car tied up granny charging all weekend), turns out would have arrived with 17%. The guessometer ( dynamic ) gives me a range of 662 km !! While yours is 380 km !! But isn’t the range finder based on the last 50 km ?? which we spent in rush hour traffic while you might have been gunning it !! It will become clearer over time I guess. PTT would be the pump of choice but had an issue trying to register BKK Bank debit card on the app, stopped at a pump to see if could make it work with QR code, after a couple of minutes in the blazing sun 🥵 i remembered the booking policy and abandoned it. PEA Volta at the Bangchak pump was so easy to use …… plus was shaded !!

Despite the Buddhist sacrilege I had a good day. Tested the car at various speeds and modes, opting for High and Eco finally till i have a couple of k under my belt. Stopped at a Bangchak pump to test the PEA Volta app and charging process ( apologies to the old hands but it was the first time for me and they say you never forget your first time ). Pumped some 35 kw’s on a 50 kw charger ( obviously not the fastest but just a test to guarantee it works for me ), a seamless operation using the app and QR code topped up from her ladyship’s account, the simplest way for me. After this decided to use the GPS and charger search button. Again a great experience with a list of locations ( with number of chargers and speed also ) and their distance at my fingertips. A quick perusal of the list, choose a charger, click on it and the GPS starts to direct you …. perfect !! But, then I noticed the list of chargers were a mixed bunch of chargers in front of you and chargers behind you !! So as some km’s count down others count up !!, a strange situation indeed. Thinking that as we approached the top of the list the charger would read 0 km then disappear but I was dismayed to see that the km reading then started to rise as we left it behind. Soon the list became a mixture of approaching and departing chargers. Anyone using the Seal GPS and if so what is the solution to this confusion ?? It’s an excellent tool but spoilt by this anomaly, I had a look in GPS settings but couldn’t see anything especially while driving on a busy highway !!

So, had a little trip today ( 476 km to be exact ) mainly highway but a bit of small road and town driving in a sleepy little backwater near Nakhon Sawan. The main reason so Mrs D’s favourite monk could desecrate the car with talcum powder and gold leaf, following with a showering of dubious consistency water to car and myself. For the sake of the “ Happy Wife, Happy Life “ adage I gritted my teeth into a forced half smile.

To answer my own question: Swipe right on the main screen and click on the “ BYD Assistant “ which has a few options, one of which is to disable summoning the Assistant by saying “ Hi BYD “ and relying solely on the steering wheel button . NOTE: I since decided that saying “ Hi BYD “ is easier than looking down for the microphone button.