J.R.

You want to sue them for not honouring an expired warranty?

Whilst she is behaving exactly like people I have challenged stealing from me or using my facilities without permission I also think it is staged but she is doing a very good job of the acting. He never once said "you are stealing my electricity!" which is what any normal persons reaction would be just an oblique reference at the end regarding the cost.

Yeah thats me, lacking, I must be, some very nice bloke on the internet told me so, wasn't that kind of him!

Peace be with you Pete.

Different kettle of fish to the massive thermal changes subjected to and gas venting needed for an operational EV battery pack. Like I said we designed military equipment to be functional under IP66 and IP67 conditions but had to resort to specialised packing enclosures for the sustained immersion ratings. IP67 allows for limited water ingress if no harmfull effects, any water ingress into an EV battery pack will not only be harmfull but potentially very dangerous, they absolutely must have warnings about water depth when wading. Venting and sustained immersion are oxymorons, the underwater scuba divers camera casings are not vented, water sealing is no problem to the designers, deflection of the casing through the pressure differential interfering with the operation of switches etc is the major headache. Then there is the unacceptable cost of providing measures to safeguard idiot owner drivers from themselves.

Check for the occupancy sensor being in place and connected on the passenger seat especially if it looks more worn than the drivers seat.

How many miles? How many previous owners? Any that could be Taxi operators? Any other evidence of worn or suspiciously unworn parts like steering wheel, column stalks, drivers door armrest etc?

The coil springs do not become unseated with the suspension on maximum droop even after the end coil has fractured off.

QED

I dont even need to look at that video, which I suspect would be another clickbait anyway, to know that you cannot claim a battery pack has survived a momentary immersion by the fact that it drives out of a flood with water draining from the cabin. 12v electrics or even 48v electrics will function perfectly underwater, the damage is done by the water retained and galvanic corrosion which takes time. That Vauxhall will have 100% taken water into the battery pack, its vented for gawds sake and they are not going to extend the vents up into the cabin to asphyxiate the occupants with chemical fumes in a fault situation. I dont believe for a second that the Tesla suffered water ingress driving through puddles on the way to the restaurant where it failed, that just the story he wants taking up, it will have happened in the days before. The battery packs may even have drainage holes.

I guess you mean the Track Day Action sub forum, the forum as a whole is one of the few remaining really active forums on the net. Skoda have not made any suitable vehicles for track days for decades, its debatable even then if they were, anyone owning one now has a rare classic and is probably more interested in either keeping it on the road as a daily driver or renovating it where in most cases its desirable to remove all the visible supposed performance mods and put it back to factory standard spec.

I did mine the traditional way, be aware that there are also 2 bleed nipples on the master cylinder itself, something I had never come across before, I could not get a firm pedal back until I bled them. It may have been only one nipple but my memory tells me two, one for each diagonal circuit. Editted, just for the rear brakes you wont need to bleed the master cylinder or ABS block unless you lost all the fluid by not capping the lines.

Once a year (although its been close to 2 years now) I go through the rotating brush car wash to add more scratches to camouflage the others 😄 I'm too tight to pay for the drying function so I drive the short journey home and leather off then by which time all the trapped water will have been blown out, I stopped doing it at the carwash for that reason.

I think you have to hack a hole in the plastic casing of the deadlocking motor, then you can rotate the pinion (lots of revolutions) which will turn the gearing releasing the deadlock. There have been photos of the procedure on this forum and there will likely be some Youtube videos. The problem is likely a broken wire in the door loop but of course you need the door open to access it.

I really regret selling all my rolls of vehicle coloured coded wiring now (car boot sale) but at the time I was pleased that they went to someone like yourself that would make good use of them.

Great idea, I hope you manage to get the donor stock to get it off the ground. Big advantage is that you wont have to source the connectors and do all the fiddly work of repinning etc. For a while I was making wiring looms for a motorbike engined kit car, it consisted of stripping out the donor bike loom and repurposing it, adding some cabling and compatible connectors etc. I quite enjoyed it and it was OK on the initial batch of 20 which the further batches were intended to be but thereafter the demand was for one or two at a time sporadically which was too much of a hassle to me. I think what you are proposing will really take off, good one you Pete!

A test rig for your window motor controller repairs?

Have you downloaded the software from Rosstech and initialised the dongle to register it? If the software came on a CD then you have a clone but I suspect you already know that.

Nearly the same consumption as a 3kw electrical fire just to satisfy a clean car OCD................... Puddles must give you anxiety.

Or any vehicle manufactured in the last 30 years. Whilst the statement may be technically correct at the moment of coasting the fuel saving is made through the vehicle gaining speed and momentum with the engine braking removed and how much further the vehicle will coast without engine assistance along the flat or up the oncoming hill. Its a balancing act, to save fuel a hill has to be steep enough, the driver willing to perhaps exceed the speed limit and crucially the terrain beyond the hill, for example coasting down a very steep hill with a Stop junction at the bottom will not only use more fuel but needlessly work the brakes, coasting down the steeper motorway gradients definitely saves fuel.

Anything even with disposable batteries will start rapid galvanic corrosion if immersed in salt water, I have had dive lights fail at 40m and when opened up afterwards there was little but black sludge remaining inside, same with a cheap headtorch I foolishly tried to use when snorkelling in the dark. By comparison I had a Nokia telephone vibrate off my countertop into a bowl of washing up, it happened while I was out and somebody rang, I returned home hours later looked for the phone and saw it looking up at me, the display was still showing the missed call. After removing the battery and drying ot out it worked fine for another couple of years before finally failing probably due to the immersion. In the video he talks about submarine mode failing, there is no such thing as submarine mode and anyone who uses an EV to launch a boat is a fool, you can extend that to any vehicle other than perhaps a ratty 4x4 pick up truck. He also describes the battery box ventilation which disabuses the nonsense you posted earlier that the battery boxes should be sealed and suffer no water ingress when submerged, a shame he didn't expand on it and explain the partial vacuum generated by the rapid cooling which would suck the water in even faster.

Thanks for that, I must download VCDS to my new computer and have a play. I don't think I have seen "Applications" as a menu item, I have certainly never seen "VCDS Toolbox" also on my old computer whenever I saved any data I could never find it again, Mike The Thinker set up a file for all the saved scans but after a while they either went somewhere unfindable or dissapeared into the ether. Time for me to get is sorted before I need it. I have some dim recollection of seeing a data field called engine starts but dismissed it because the number had too many zeros, do you really think your car will have done 60K engine starts? Only you will know how many miles its done and your journey profile and if there were previous owners, I know my figure was implausible. Battery aging sounds very useful.

If only, over a minute of a click bait video for just 4 sentences saying nothing but the obvious and which is already known, a Times article it was not.

With open sides which are good for fire safety and open ramps between each floor for vehicles fire breaks are inconcievable, the Channel Tunnel was forced to achieve it on the train wagons after the first fire but it cost billions and seriously affected their operating viability as each wagon contains 2 or 3 less cars now but that is an aside. The stairwell fire exits and lift shafts of the car park will have full fire protection, the former also leads to the roof if egress by the lower level becomes impossible or dangerous. If I had the choice of where to be trapped in a fire it would be a multi-storey car park. Were there any casualties or injuries?

Because the building regulations of the time and probably today do not require it. Has it "seriously collapsed"? I have only seen a couple of photos, remember that a car park unlike a multi-storey apartment building has very few people in it at any time, nobody asleep or bedridden, very good evacuation routes etc, by the time any collapse might happen anyone remaining inside would have already been calcinated.