Graham Butcher

I'm not sure what you are telling me here, could you explain a bit more to avoid confusion?

@toot Yes, I agree, but sadly there are many who just cannot accept anything said against EV's regardless of the reasons. Have you seen the latest videos of the cars being unloaded from the Fremantle Highway at all? There are a few videos including official Dutch ones, and they have started to pull out some of the EVs, not sure if they are pure EV's or hybrids, but they damaged so certainly were involved in the fire and there is one in particular, a Mercedes-Benz that has dropped into a water tank and covered by a fireproof blanket as it is burning, weeks after the fire has effectively gone out on the ship. The videos also show more water tanks being prepared for yet more cars to occupy. Still no further to knowing what caused the fire in the first place, I expect if it is found to be ship related or ICE, we will be told in due course, but fully expect if it was an EV of some sort, that the report will be embargoed and quietly forgotten about.

The beauty about going backwards a few decades is that things were just so simple then and there simply loads of people out at weekends doing maintenance on their vehicles, something you rarely see now, hence why garages are normally booked up for weeks. The other advantage, at least here in the UK (you might be the same in France) and that after so many years I think you become VED free and also MOT free.

He also says that he loves the way the car drives, all that low down torque and sheer grunt that it gives, and all that waffle he says about not being as memorable as old ICE cars like those in the museum etc, well all of that will surely depend on what cars were around in your childhood, so a child of the 2030s is more likely to grow up with EV's, and so they will in a few years be the cars that they will have fond memories of when they reach his age, all of that is a given in my book. What I do find of interest and to a large extent agree with him is that of the range between charges does not really make EV's a direct like for like replacement and also the point that I feel he is trying to make is that currently you are unable to jump into your EV and just take off for a long trip and stick to the same route that you would with an ICE, you just know that when you are getting low on fuel and the warning bong and light etc have been activated, that you will come across a filling station a few miles. All without having to deviate away from the main road and direct route that you are on and also that when you get there, there will be more than 1 or 2 pumps for you to use, and you won't have to wait long if they are all in use. With an EV that is not the case today, that to me is really what he is saying and if they can find ways to address those issues what is going to be left for him??? I suppose, what I'm saying is that it up to the viewer to try and read between the lines a bit and decide for yourself what is the real truth.

Could be for dramatic effect, who knows, but it doesn't make the rest of his videos less interesting, the motor museum for instance was very interesting, his food videos and his American videos are entertaining as well as educational.

Even videos like his with the obvious clickbait can contain a lot of good content. Is the clickbait really any different to a trailer for a film or indeed almost any product you can think off, don't car manufacturers use similar but less obvious ploys to get us all to watch the advert, get a test drive etc, its just a means of attracting attention, it's that simple and as you rightly said, people need to decide for themselves, but I'll throw a caveat in here, if they don't watch then they shouldn't pass any comment about it either.

OK, but there is noway that the charger is having any effect on the start/stop system, the charger and the power socket is not even connected to the cars network system, it purely connected to the battery via a fuse, so you can completely wipe any thought that is having an effect from your mind. But you do need to unplug it when you leave the car, to stop it draining the battery.

Thank god for that, he is clearly struggling with accepting the fact that it is not s simple as he thought it was. Don't worry, I knew you were only joking. But you are right, he is a genius and modern cars are just complicated, and they have become so in order to meet stringent emission standards and increase their efficiency at the same time, but the complexity you put into a car, the more there is to go wrong, they became more expensive to repair and of course the electronics are designed to be throw away items and generally none repairable.

Right, you only have 3 error codes showing in scan log, I have highlighted those for you above. If you disable module 01 Engine, you will kill the car completely, it is the engine control which runs everything. It reports P030000 - Random/Multiple Cylinder Misfire Detected static but only shows this as happening once so may not be happening now so you should clear that error code and see if it comes back. It also shows error P030300 - Cyl.3 Misfire Detected static, again only happened the once, so clear the code and see if it comes back. The other module 4B Multifunction Module, reports U12EB00 - Data bus front light Additional installations detected static, but this happened now 34 times, clear that code and see if it comes back That U12EB00 error might well you problem, it might be kicking into life when it shouldn't, I can't be certain on that point however, hence why you should seek expert opinion about your problems. Never leave anything plugged into a power socket, not even the USB mobile phone charger that show. Those sockets are constantly powered and that charger will draw power from your battery as long as it is plugged in, and should anything go wrong with the convertor inside of it, it could possibly be terrible news for you and your car, I have seen known these to overheat and catch fire before.

No, not sponsored at all, merely trying to show @automassthat as he has had this ongoing problem now for at least 16 months and despite have now having not one new battery but two and keeps doggedly clinging onto the notion that is battery related even though he has posted a photo of the battery test which done under a load and still reading a voltage of 12.55V which is good and indeed the battery tester shows it as good on the display.

Not quite that easy to do as you need to use a specialised clamp meter to measure DC current and there are only few on the market and tend to fairly expensive and also the various control units will continue to talk to each other I expect even when the car is not in use. You also should not use a normal digital multimeter on a car unless you actually know what you are doing. By that I don't mean that user is going to blow bits up etc, but that because digital meters have input resistances of 10M ohms and more. They are perfectly capable of giving misleading readings.

@lol-lol I can agree with you on the Citroens having driven a few of those and also the C5 which also used the same setup, it's like a magic carpet ride in those lovely beasts, the brakes did however take a bit of getting used to, you only to had to touch those rubber buttons, and you were feeling the massive stopping power they gave you. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that part of the dreaded "B" promise was that they could then reduce the VAT on gas and electric and that promise was never kept, and then people wonder I don't trust politicians

Please could you take photos of the camera itself now its installed to give an impression of how it looks externally and where you located the camera. I ask because I might do the same thing and on the horrible Qashqai I had a for a couple of months I was not impressed with the camera setup on it. It looked on the screen to be giving a really decent view of the area behind the car, but in reality it only showed approx the last 18" before you hit what ever was behind you, total crap in my view.

I really think you are chasing the wrong culprit here, it has been changed now twice and has been tested, you really do need to investigate what else is going on with the electrics on your car. It would be lovely if it was something as simple as the battery but given the above and even with the Halfords link, which you and I are not happy with their performance, on this occasion I think you rule out that they have continually made a mistake with regard to your battery. The common link here is that you still cling onto this thought and appear to be resisting seeking a thorough check of the car with some serious testing kits and skills by someone with the right tools. If you don't take that step, you're going to be having this problem happening time and time again, it has already been a real pain in the butt for you.

Because this problem has a habit of reoccurring and the reported apparent OBD11 intermittent misfiring issues and not being authorised warnings etc, I think there are other underlying issues and because there are so many control modules in the modern car that depended on the correct functioning and communication between them using the cars network, that I seriously recommend booking the car in for proper checking and diagnoses / repair. This video may help to understand the complexity and will also extra equipment that the experts have, which will leave the OBD11 behind in the dirt. You can also get bad scan tools and the ones in this video is way more powerful that a OBD11 can be. After market parts also are not equal to the OEM parts and can cause further problems Curing a misfire. Fake parts causing error codes 6 garages and 1 year later the problem is still there.

I think it might it have been an optional extra as mine doesn't have one either, instead it has the dreadful ParkPilot.

Oops, my bad I missed the last sentence, I was so focussed on the dashcam cutting out when I the car but not on the indoor power. 😭

Would not like to be standing in that wicker basket, I like to have something a little more substantial between me and nothing but a sheer drop 😀.

Well, I thought you were simply referring to the post that you clicked on the "quote" tab, in which I never actually mentioned a short circuit. That was in another post to the OP a day before so confusion resolved. I still dispute that would blow the cars fuse as the 5v supply is derived from an electronic power supply consisting in basic terms of a primary 12v side connected to the car's fuse and a secondary side 5V connected to in the case of the OP, a dash cam and in my case when my car did nearly catch fire, a mobile phone. As the fault was/would be seen on the 5v portion then the 5v part of the electronics would happily continue pumping out 5V at whatever current it could muster until the electronic components in the 5v section expired as the fault current that would be seen in the 5v section would not be seen to the same magnitude on the 12v side. So using the Ohms Law, lets for the sake of discussion say that the dash cam normally takes 130mA, so thats 0.13A @ 5V = .13 x 5 = 0.65 watts on the output side and assume the whole process is 100% efficient, which it won't be, that equates .65wats / 12v =0.054A being consumed from the 12v battery and assuming the fuse is rated at 5A it is therefore going to take a lot more for that fuse to blow. Now lets assume that the 5v side suddenly sees an overload of 50 times its normal current flow due to a short circuit close to the mini USB socket on the dashcam, that means that the cable is now carrying a current of 6.5A and using ohms law, Volts times current = watts. So that's 5v x 6.5A = 32.5Watts. So 32.5 watts at 12 v = 32.5 divided by 12 = 2.708A, still way within the 5A rating of the fuse, so the fuse would still not blow. Now if we factor in the losses because no conversion process is 100% efficient, so let's say that it is only 30% efficient, and we look at the those calculations again, we get the following:- The healthy circuit's 5v side remains the same so that's 5V, .13A and .65watts and the 12v side equates to 12v, .65/.7 =.928Watts and the current then becomes .928Watts / 12v = 0.077A Under the 30% efficiency but with 50 times factor of increased current on the 5v side, the 5v side is as before 5v x 6.5A = 32.5Watts, but the 12v side now has to have the losses added to it the 32.5W becomes 46.428watts and the current is 46.428/12=3.869Amps and still within the 5A rating of the fuse so still not going to blow. Now if we could put a fuse in the 5v circuit, inside the plug along with the 12v to 5v convertor and rate the fuse at 2A then yes that fuse would blow and protect the circuit from a fire risk. Some of those 12v power plugs do have a lower fuse in the centre spring-loaded contact which is on the 12v side, but the cheaper ones don't and by the OPs own admission, the dashcam is only a cheap one, so probably does not so is therefore completely at the mercy of the cars fuse, of which I am pretty sure is a 20A rated one to handle a air compressor being plugged to inflate the tyres will have a pretty big surge current when the motor starts up.

Oh no, if you look at that website and in particular if you subscribe to it, you will see the data from each station for each of the items monitored be they PM's and CO2 etc, all tabulated for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and for a rolling full 12 months and then for 4 years. It is not gimmicky website, it is full-blown scientific fact gathering website for statistical data and analysis by the scientific organisations. You can test part of this yourself, select a station that you want to see the readings for EG, I have selected the one near me and the results can be seen here AirNet Sensor Data Quality Validation Service (aqicn.org) and it will allow you to look PM10 and PM2.5 for the 14 days and also some of the data gained by that station over the last 4 years and that data is also downloadable as a CSV file. As I said before, it is a serious scientific website, not some clown sitting in his bedroom pranking the internet nerds. I'm not trying to stir up things or etc, just making it clear that I'm not at all convinced by all these claims of air quality being responsible for up to 4,000 Londoners or anyone else across the UK loosing their life, and providing the link to a live international website that people can look at the evidence in a bit more detail, if they so wish, or they can just pretend it's a hoax or whatever, its no skin off my nose, it's up to each person to formulate their own opinions. I'm not going to attempt anyone to change their minds, but if there are other people who are interested in checking is they are being lied to, then those people might find this website useful as a fact-checker.

True it is not a desert for chargers, but it does add on an extra 30 to 40 minutes onto the day when you have already had a very long day with around 6 hours driving on top of a full 6 to 8 hours in these meetings. Plus of course the time taken to actually locate a charger that is not being used and also one that is actually working. I was doing that journey in a VW Passat diesel (manual) and at that time (Euro 3 engines) I could and often did twice a week and a full tank used to allow me the whole trip once, then some shorter ones around Essex in the week and then all the back to Birmingham again on the same tankful. I would then fill up round the corner from the factory before hitting the M6 again to come home.

Yeah well, I have yet to be convinced about the air quality aspect, especially when the air quality website shows the air quality is fine and does not pose any health risk, it did many years ago and there were indeed 4,000 people who lost their lives due to the air quality, that was back in 1952 and yet the London mayor is actually claiming that is case of today. This article relates to 1952 Great Smog of London | 1952, Cause, Deaths, & Facts | Britannica. This is the link to the air quality website, which I think is funded by the World Health Organisation and is worldwide. Air Pollution in World: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map (aqicn.org) By interacting with the map can clearly see areas of concern including countries and by careful use of the map you can zoom right in to street level in detail and cross referencing the locations with Google Earth maps at street level you can very often see the monitoring stations and in particular where the air intake is located in very close proximity to known sources of bad air quality and have very little to do with road transport or indeed transport of any kind. For instance you have to ask if the air in London is so bad, why did TFL pay hundreds of thousands of £ to University College London to produce a custom report to back up their claims when it were true, all they would have to is to direct people to the air quality website which they could do for free?

Where does the OP say that piece of information, all any of us can do is to work with the information that either the OP posts freely or in reply to various questions we ask and their reply. Also, they posted a photo of the battery tester showing it as being good.

No it does not mean the alternator is faulty, battery is being charged on car a with healthy electrical system but it will always charge at higher rate just after starting the car to replace the energy you just took from it to start the car with. Once it has replaced that power it will drop to just a few milliamps in order to keep the battery fully charged and as you switch on more things like lights, radio, wipers etc then the battery get a higher amount charge rate to compensate for increased demand from the battery.

Yeah, I was not trying to say 680 miles non-stop, but saying that if doing long trips, like Chelmsford to Birmingham and back like I used to do on a regular basis for business meetings, then that kind of driving could result in 680 or so miles to the tankful, as opposed to short trips in town/city with stop/start nature of town driving and the slow uneconomical speeds. I have seen my trip computer showing a range of 870 miles a couple of times since I acquired the car, but conditions have to be just right for that to happen.