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I don't know if it's BS or not, but the article is very much a "Computer says no!" explanation, rather than a sensible explanation as to why the indoor chargers in that building would pose a safety risk.

In his "Scotland Tonight" video, Alan Douglas's critique of EVs and wind turbines referenced their production of CO2 as a negative factor in their production and use. There may be a whole load of reasons why EVs in the UK may be the way forward for a nicer world to live in, and there may be reasons why UK EV use will not give us the bright future we seek. However I'm not convinced that obsessing about the UK's production of CO2 is useful, I think people saying "Ha! EVs produce CO2 too, they're not green!" is a bit of a red herring. The amount of CO2 the UK produces is trifling on a global scale. (https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions) Look at the data: Let's just say the UK manages to get to "Net Zero". Then what? Have we saved the world from the dreaded CO2? Will China realise the error of its ways and massively reduce CO2 output? I doubt it. Still, at least it looks like we're doing our bit for the environment. But at quite a cost.

This is interesting. I wonder why having indoor charging points is unsafe, presumably some sort of fire risk?

As I said, it's a bit of a rabbit hole and there are differing views on it. My silica bag was undamaged, but I'm a natural worrier, so I fished it out anyway and ended up learning more about VAG coolant than I thought there was to know. I don't want to derail the thread, but I did want to make sure you could discount the silica bag as a factor with your problem. Unfortunately I have nothing useful to help Moonman88 with his heating issue.

I'm assuming the silica bag is intact and undamaged? (i.e. not leaking) I read a few of the silica-bag threads on here and got quite concerned about the prospect of my silica bag failing and gumming up my heater matrix, so I whipped it out and later had my my G13 coolant replaced with G12evo. (The silica bag issue is a bit of a worrying rabbit hole if you start digging, so if your silica bag is okay, probably best to leave that issue for the time being while you sort out your heating problem.) Example thread:

Running with this ball, I wonder if lease companies will include charging credit as part of the leasing deal? Being able to rock up to any charger and just charge your car without incurring cost, knowing that it's covered by your lease would be quite appealing to some, I imagine. Not sure how it might work, maybe an agreed credit of n KW/h per month charging, I dunno. I don't know which chargers are or aren't compatible with which EVs. I didn't know there were so many charge networks until I looked into it a bit. I really am very uninformed on living with an EV, but I'm slowly learning. https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/revealed-uks-top-ranking-electric-vehicle-charging-networks/

To be honest Gizmo, I would almost certainly struggle to charge a perfectly legal EV, until I got my head around how it's done.

I am ashamed to admit this never occurred to me, and is an excellent idea. They already have pretty good numberplate reading cameras at filling stations, so I don't see why they couldn't be linked to ANPR. Brilliant!

I know little about EVs, but while listening to a report on charging issues in the UK, it occurred to me there are a lot of uninsured (and untaxed) vehicles on the road, not to mention stolen vehicles. If chargers are able to identify exactly what vehicle they are charging, I assume they could decline to charge uninsured or stolen vehicles (VED doesn't apply to EVs at the moment, AFAIK). Would that be possible?

This is just a hunch, but am I right in thinking there is some sort of interlock to prevent reverse accidentally being engaged when the car is in forward motion? Something that stops "Whoops! Put it in reverse by mistake there. Oh my! Is that bits of the gearbox I see on the road behind me?" mistakes. Assuming there is, could there be an issue with this interlock? Just a thought.

Any chance of a link to the product and a pic of it fitted?

Second link is wonky, Toot. https://news.stv.tv/north/a93-in-aberdeenshire-closed-and-emergency-services-at-scene-after-two-cars-plunge-into-river

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I don't mix it, I just buy it as "Rubbing Alcohol".

This is what I was just about to suggest. The rubbing alcohol (70% proof) seems to work better than the 100% pure for glass cleaning. I use it with an old tea-towel and it is great for de-greasing and cleaning glass. Needs buffing after cleaning to be perfectly clean as it can leave streaks.

No worries, but it rather begs the question, how does the Budack engine manage to have indirect injection and a GPF?

Ah ha! Thanks @langers2k, that code I have. So the "rule" about indirect injection engines not having GPFs does not hold.

I don't have a VRS, I have the Gen3B "Budack" engine. TBH, I haven't checked for a while. Last time I thought much about my GPF was here. I've had a search online, and there really seems to be a dearth of information on how to determine if your car does or doesn't have a GPF. AFAIK, the cut-off point for vehicles needing to have a GPF was Sept 2019, but while people claim to know what's going on with GPFs, when you read their stories, they mostly boil down to "VAG are fitting GPFs to petrol vehicles." And that's about the extent of the information conveyed, as I see it.

I wanted to post a rebuttal to this, @Bogwoppit, as I have a 2019 car with direct and indirect injection, and I have been told I have a GPF fitted. I believe I have evidence for direct & indirect injection (pic related), however when it comes down to it, beyond being told by people on Briskoda that my car has a GPF, I have no evidence that I DO have a GPF. Does anyone know what the VIN codes are for GPF / No GPF? Is it a firm rule that direct & indirect injection cars don't have GPFs?

I did not knew Tesla doors could be opened remotely like that. I can't imagine why anyone would do something that daft, TBH If he tries that trick with the wrong car someone might 😄hop into his Tesla while its door is open.

This is why I tend to recommend going to a trusted independent in preference to a main dealer. A little effort thinking outside the box can turn what seems like a prohibitively expensive repair into something much more manageable. Of course, it does need to be a GOOD independent garage.

I know nowt about this issue, but given the age of your vehicle, I'd be inclined to give it a gearbox service (see chart at 40K miles) as a starting point, and while it's in for the service, get the fault codes checked out. Some DSGs (DQ381 for example) say they don't need a service until 80K, but I won't be leaving it that long on my car. I'd also be inclined to go to a VAG independent rather than a main dealer, but that's a personal preference.

There's a lot to unpack here. In those statements, you declare that "expert consensus" may or may not reflect reality, and is simply the currently agreed narrative on any given issue by the people who are accepted to be the experts on that issue. What you don't say, but is also true, is that "expert consensus" may also deliberately not reflect reality, because reality does not serve the greater good. Experts are happy to agree upon a narrative that, while not an accurate representation of reality, is more useful to society and in their opinion causes less harm than reality. My son works for the West Midlands police, and when completing their security checks, one of the questions he had to respond to was "gender". My son's gender is "Man", however this was not an option. My son was obliged to describe his gender as "Male". "Male" is not a gender, yet we went along with the falsehood simply because "the experts" had made it impossible to align his response with reality. My son's sex is male, his gender is man. Gender is not the same as sex, as the NHS now seem to understand, and are now offering prostate cancer screening to women, and cervical cancer screening to men. My point is, just because experts publicly agree on something, that doesn't make it so, and sometimes the experts know it isn't so, but they say it anyway. I'm not sure how much that would work out a month for people with more than one car. I also think that given the problems we already have with limited parking kerbside in the UK, I can foresee greater problems when people arrive home with next to no charge in their car and find some random car using "their" charger outside their home. Such problems will require some adjustment and a whole lot of infrastructure, but are not insurmountable. The cost is always going to be a barrier for some, though. At the moment, EVs are large a luxury enjoyed by affluent middle-class people. These people often have their cars on a lease scheme, and they are well-maintained. I have to wonder how long it will be before a significant number of EVs have aged and become less roadworthy. "Old banger" is probably not an appropriate term for an EV, but I expect there will be a few EV death-traps on the road as the vehicles pass out of the hands of the affluent and into the hands of those on a tight budget.

I don't know how you wrote those two sentences without catching yourself and thinking, "Ooh! Hang on a minute...". At least we can agree on a shared concern for people who can't have their own home charger for their EV. 🤝

The disagreement isn't political, the silencing of dissent is most certainly political. The science was settled as to what defines a man and a woman until very recently. Now the "science" has been changed, and any dissent from the new "science" is silenced.