As per my comment from a few days ago, Philips Ultinon 9000 LED bulbs are now fitted to dipped beam in my current 2012 Megane.
It’s a clean, crisp white light with a very sharp cut off. I’m entirely confident they’d pass alignment tests as part of an MOT. They’ll be added to main beam over the next couple of weeks.
I did an unofficial survey of traffic during a 210 motorway journey in the dark last night and the major offenders in terms of dazzle were older cars with out of alignment halogen lights, and Teslas seemed to be a recurrent minor irritant.

You need to be very careful with the airbag systems they are not a DIY repair item you could set them off which would be dangerous if your were in the car at the time.

Another good reason why I much prefer steel wheels over alloys! .

Same here. No crouching trying to clean them every five minutes in winter. A quick sponge over a plastic wheel trim and it's done. They are cheap enough to replace if they corrode to a dangerous extent. But the steels on my Avensis never got that bad and they were almost twenty years old. The don't crack if hitting a large unexpected pothole and I never lost much tyre pressure.

I think most people on here have a modicum of mechanical sympathy. I’d never drive a petrol or diesel car hard on a cold engine. With my current Kuga PHEV, I try to do the same. I can get from home to work on battery, but there are only a couple of places where it’s safe to overtake and you really want the extra punch of the petrol engine then, so that you’re minimising your time on the wrong side of the road.

I get the petrol engine to kick in a mile or so before I’m going to get it working hard, so that it’s at least a little bit warmed up first.

I’ve got mine (company car) for the lower benefit in kind taxation than a conventional petrol or diesel, but I do plug it in. We get reimbursed for business mileage at the HMRC rates, which vary be engine size, so the better the MPG I can get from it, the better for my pocket. I’ve average 119 mpg over 24,000 miles so far. To be fair, that doesn’t reflect the cost of home charging, but on an EV night rate, it’s still only around £1 for a full charge, which gives around 30 miles range on winter and up to around 45 miles in summer.

Sounds like air in the system. Some cars (VW Golf seems to get special mention) are difficult to fill

My 2001 1.4 16v Octavia(same oily bits as similar Golf) was a doddle to fill after a new radiator was fitted - After filling kept squeezing large hoses and topping up then run up to temperature (fans running) with the header tank cap removed. Checked level and replaced cap - job done - perfect thereafter. Header tank is high up with pipes feeding from many places.

A previous Fiat Punto was a nightmare to bleed as the "header tank" was at low level next to the radiator feeding the cooling system from the bottom. No wonder head gaskets used to fail shortly after a coolant refresh!! It had bleed valves near the heater matrix. Myself I chose to refresh the coolant live - filling and draining at the same time. Wasteful but no air introduced in the system....