Website v4

Website v4: new cars, your plate everywhere, real CarPlay

Website v4 is on the draft theme "READY: VEEHIVE Website v4" and was tested there. Nothing is published yet. Rollback target if ever needed: the current live theme (204846235995). Updated 13 Nov 2026 12:41.

Open Website v4 on your phone A make page A module listing with the new photos (live)

What changed

Buy dock (new): a slim black glass bar at the bottom left with the hexagon mark, Check your car, Shop and the cart count. It is on every page and scroll position, sits beside Live chat, steps aside while the real reg box is on screen and hides by the footer and while typing. Check your car opens a sheet with the reg box and your makes. Shop goes to the last make the visitor looked at, otherwise to all products. On product pages it becomes price + Add to cart whenever the real button is off screen. Not on Mercedes Week, the cart or account pages.
Less scrolling: every pinned scene now passes in under one screen of scrolling (hero 0.8 of a screen, the two scenes 0.65, the carousel 0.9). The homepage is 21% shorter on a phone.
Hero: the Mercedes-AMG GT is replaced by a real photo of the current Range Rover Sport (L461), rear view on phones and front view on desktop, V33 HVE plate. The reg box has not moved or changed.
Hero motion: a light sweep across the car, a gentle focus pull, dust at two depths, leans with your finger (and phone tilt on Android). Transform and opacity only, layers are only promoted while the scene is near the screen, pictures are decoded before they move.
Vehicle selector: real UK BMW 4 Series Convertible (F33), relit to dusk, V33 HVE plate.
Shop CarPlay: Audi S1 (8X) interior, right-hand drive. The screen shows your own photo of real CarPlay with the VEEHIVE tile (IMG_2271). The old 528 KB AMG dash video is gone.
G-Class scene: unchanged apart from the V33 HVE plate.
Carousel and make pages: V33 HVE on all 11 cars. Backlit raised VEEHIVE wall sign in 9 of the 11 tall pictures and 8 of the wide ones, made from the logo master file.
CarPlay module listings: 12 listings have two extra photos of the real module (live since this morning).

Recordings (iPhone 15 Pro size)

Homepage, Website v4

Homepage, live now

Module product page with the new photos

Checks

Lighthouse mobile (homepage)	Live 71 and 73. Website v4 draft 73 and 85. Largest paint 2.5 to 3.2 s on the draft against 3.3 to 4.5 s live. Two runs each, same PC, same minute.
Scroll smoothness	iPhone 15 Pro size, 30 second scroll of the whole homepage on the draft: 97.7% of frames on time, 7 frames over 33 ms, none over 50 ms (live: 8 and 1). Product page: no frame over 33 ms. With the processor slowed 4 times to stand in for a mid Android, the v4 files averaged 29 ms a frame against 87 ms for live. Measured in Chromium on this PC, not on a physical phone.
Buy dock	Shows after the reg box scrolls away, sheet opens and focuses the reg field, 11 makes listed, reg submit goes to the plate checker, cart count updates after Add to cart, product pages show price + Add to cart instead.
Reg box	Works from the hero and from the sheet (goes to the plate checker page with the reg).
Add to cart and checkout	BMW F30 module: 1 item added at £275, checkout page opened, test cart emptied.
Mercedes Week	Homepage still lands on Mercedes Week, text and prices identical to live (£450, £50 off, no £650), full-site button there, no dock on that page.
Plates	Every plate zoom-checked: V33 HVE, UK character shapes and spacing from the legal plate dimensions, white front and yellow rear, matched to each photo's light, blur and grain.
Cars	Range Rover Sport is the L461. BMW is a real F33 (2018 420i Convertible, UK registered). Audi is an S1 8X, right-hand drive.
CarPlay screen	Real photo only. Nothing on the screen was generated or redrawn.
Logo	Only the logo master files. The hero wall logo is the original, untouched. The dock mark is the master file cropped to the hexagons.
Console errors	None from the theme on the homepage, a make page, a product page or Mercedes Week.
Files	48 of 48 theme files match their checksums on Shopify.

0. Buy dock: always there

On a product page it becomes price + Add to cart

Desktop: the dock sits bottom left, Live chat stays bottom right.

1. Homepage hero: Range Rover Sport

Phone. The Mercedes-AMG GT is replaced by a real photo of the current Range Rover Sport (L461), relit for the garage. The reg box is exactly where it was.

Phone, a little way into the scroll: a soft light sweep crosses the car, the garage drops slightly out of focus, dust drifts at two depths.

Desktop.

Desktop, mid scroll.

Zoom check: rear plate yellow, front plate white, both read V33 HVE. The wall logo is your original artwork, untouched.

2. "Select make, model, year": BMW F33

Desktop. A real UK BMW 4 Series Convertible (F33), relit to dusk, with the V33 HVE plate.

Phone (the box covers most of the photo at this size, as it does now).

3. "Shop CarPlay": Audi S1 with your real CarPlay photo

Phone. Audi S1 (8X) interior, right-hand drive. The screen is your own photo of real CarPlay with the VEEHIVE tile.

Website v4: the scene opens close on the screen

Zoom: every screen pixel is from your photo IMG_2271

Desktop.

4. G-Class scene: plate added

Phone. Same scene, now with the V33 HVE plate.

Desktop.

5. Select your vehicle carousel: plates and wall signs

Phone.

Desktop.

Carousel cars with the plate and the backlit wall sign.

Zoom check on four signs: raised letters, halo on the wall, wall texture showing through the glow.

Zoom check on every carousel plate (both sizes of each picture).

6. CarPlay module photos (already on the store)

BMW 3 Series F30 listing, before and after.

Left out, and why

On the first screen of a phone the dock steps aside, because the real reg box sits exactly where the dock goes and must not be covered or moved. The buy actions on that first screen are the reg box and the header cart; the dock appears as soon as the reg box scrolls away.
Wall sign in the Land Rover (open moorland) and Skoda (open car park) pictures: no wall in either photo. Plate only. The wide Lexus picture also has no usable wall.
Module photos on 92 of 104 CarPlay module listings: left alone. Mercedes (34) because the supplier listings show no connector photo, JLR (19) and VW (3) because no matching supplier listing was found, 20 other BMW and 5 other Audi because the match was not certain, Porsche (11) because the image upscale failed twice.
Loom photos, a new in-the-box image and a new benefits card: the supplier only has two usable photos per kit, so your existing ones stay.
Plates on the Mercedes Week page: video page that ends on 19 Nov, not touched.
Higgsfield image-to-video for the hero: not used. The motion is built from still layers, which stays accurate and loads faster.
Not tested on a physical iPhone or Android phone.

Where the pictures came from

Range Rover Sport: two photos of the same car from Wikimedia Commons, by Damian B Oh, licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
BMW F33: "2018 BMW 420i" from Wikimedia Commons, by hugh llewelyn, licence CC BY-SA 2.0.
Audi S1 interior: "Audi S1 Sportback (ABA-8XCWZF) interior" from Wikimedia Commons, by Tokumeigakarinoaoshima, licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
These three licences allow business use but ask for a photo credit. A credit line is NOT on the site yet. Your call: add a small Image credits line, or swap in your own photos later.
How they were adapted: the cars were cut out or kept in place and relit with one Higgsfield edit each, then checked against the original photo. The S1 interior was also reframed by that edit, so it is an adapted version of the photo. Plates, wall signs and the CarPlay screen were placed in code, not generated.
CarPlay screen: your photo IMG_2271 from Shopify files. Module photos: your supplier's listing photos. Full list: website-v2/w4/SOURCES.md.

Spend: 28 Higgsfield credits = 1.40 GBP of the 10 GBP cap.