Graham Butcher

Yes, you are right, not noticed that before, apart from that, I don't think that there is anything remotely sporting about a Kodiaq 😀

I refer you to your original statement "15 minute cities idea is a good thing. Why don't you want local amenities within walking distances?" so I was just replying to what you said, end of. I would have said the opposite, as larger contact area would translate to less scrub when applying the power.

Now let me see, hmm, NO, not everyone is capable of it, especially as you approach the twilight years, as you will experience firsthand as you get into that period of your life, will you be happy with effectively being shut out of things purely because of your age or disability? Hell, it took years to get access ramps built in some places so wheelchair users can have access to the things that able-bodied people can access??? What will they think of next, lets scrap lifts and escalators and make people use stairs, and if they can't, well tough luck?? As I have repeatedly said, people come in all sizes and shapes and abilities, so smaller cars is not an option for some, granted for many people large and powerful cars are used as a status symbol, a way flaunting one's wealth and inflated importance, but in reality there is huge difference between a Skoda Kodiaq 5 seat 110KW TDI DSG 4x4 @1709kg and Range Rover PHEV weighing in at a staggering 2770kg, equally there is a huge difference in the costs, one is more affordable family car option, the other is real luxury car which can be as much as £194,745, which could buy you 5 Kodiaqs. What I think they have also managed to completely overlook is most SUV's and indeed larger BEV's also happen to come with wider and larger tyres, so arguably exert less weight per sq cm then a normal car, so therefore do less damage to the roads?

Yes, I know that the government have been looking at this, but there also many electric cars that weigh this much and more, are they going to be charged extra, even though that cuts right across the narrative, hmm I wonder if they will be given a free get of jail card? Incidently, you have the weight incorrect for my car, the operating weight for a 2019 Kodiaq, 4x4, DSG, 110kW TDI is 1709kg in 5 seat version and the 7 seat version is 1752kg. The fully laden weight should be used as it will vary accoring what you have in the boot, how many people are in the car and their weights etc. I just checked the weight of my old 2016 110kw TDI DSG L&K Superb and it was 1734kg, so is heavier than the Kodiaq. The only trouble with the SUV's being targeted like this is that it can be totally unfair and penalises those, like me, who taller than the average person and so are my offspring, so I need a car of that size in the same way as a family who are average or smaller can get away with a Ford Focus sized car. What is also unfair and badly thought-out process, is that the Kodiaq is smaller than the Superb which takes up more space on the road. I would still have a Superb if I was younger, but as we get older, we lose flexibility and I was having some problems getting in and out of the Superb as it is lower, so that becomes an issue. In short, what is really happening is nothing to do with the size, but is the thin end of wedge where the authorities want us all to forego our cars and travel less, live in our 15 minute cities and never venture out of it, the evidence is all there if people can be bothered to join the dots, which the BEV is is also part of it, reducing the range of travel and making longer trips more of a chore.

Well in that case, I have doubts that changing the module will solve your problem. What I'll do later is to sent you the actual VCDS report I have saved for my problem so you can compare it against yours to double check that yours is reading the same as mine or if the wording and fault code is different. No point in wasting an extra 50 euros for nothing.

I know about that special glow plug pressure sensor on nr.3 cylinder, I had that on my Superb, however, when I plugged the VCDS in I got a different error message. If I remember, it said something about the signal coming from that sensor not being plausible, but I remember I was getting the glow plug symbol lighting up briefly after switching the car on. On the Kodiaq, I never had that symbol until I replaced the module, are you seeing the symbol lighting up in the top of the instrument cluster? Have you got the virtual cockpit or the analogue instruments, if virtual then the lamp will be in the light cluster at the very top of the display, otherwise I think it appears beneath the dot matrix between the dials. So I would guess, that if you are getting a message about the module, then it will be the module, if it mentions the sensor, then it will the sensor (ouch) or the connection to it might be suspect.

You're as bad as the MacMaster with your clickbait 😄

Hmm, I had not known about some of these EV's risky cars and possible fires with some of these cars, some from so called prestige cars, many of these seem to have been suppressed and limited press coverage until being forced into recalls and very expensive fixes.

Yes, a cell can catch fire in something like LED torch for example, I have one that uses a single 18650 cell @ 3.7V all housed in a rugged aluminum case with zero chance of that affecting other cells nearby. Compare the rik and impact of 1 cell in a torch with that of say Tesla cars that also use 18650 cells, in the following vehicles and quantities: Tesla Roadster uses 6,851 cells to make up its power battery Tesla Model S uses 7,104 cells to make its power battery. Tesla Model X uses 7,256 cells to make its power battery. So there is world of difference of between 1 isolated cell entering thermal runaway and multiple, thousands of cells entering thermal runaway. Imagine 1 match head being struck and then 7,256 heads being struck together, I don't know about you, but I'd be prepared to snuff out a single match with my bare hand, but 7,256, er no way...

True, but I was just highlighting a few well known and respected make that some people might know about.

Haha. and to think that there are some here who are in denial that these cables are being stolen and also that chargers that the MacMaster and others say are broken are staged for clickbait, jeez.... One thing though, you certanly don't hear of thieves stealing filling hoses from a filling station 😁. I must admit that I did have a chuckle when I read one of the other comments on the link you posted about siting them on McDonalds that are open 24/7 so will be plenty of people about, or have loads of CCTV cameras installed, which is precisely what they had at the Chelmsford site, cable still got nicked, even with their starring role in the movie.🤣🤣

Unless your DVM is one of the cheap ones, I'd go with its reading over the VCDS every day, especially if it is either a Fluke or one of the professional Bryman meters which have an accuracy of around 1 or 2 mV.

These cable thefts are not helping the EV movement at all. This video shows cables being stolen from chargers near my city of Chelmsford, and the operators claim that each time it costs them around £30,000 each charger, one such operator has had a third of his chargers targeted, about 100 have been affected so far. It also seems that loads of home chargers have also been targeted.

You are correct, they are solid state. I expected that the cap shown was likely to be the culprit, but no, it was well within is tolerance figures both for the ESR and cap value which came in a 460vF, just 10 away from its design value, so well within it operating values.

DHL have just delivered the module, fitted it and for the first time since I have owned this Kodiaq, I have now seen the glow plug warning light come on, indicating that the glow plugs are operating correctly, job sorted. Error codes have been deleted, taken her out on a quick trip for around 10 miles, no problems switched off, waited for a few minutes and switched on again, no errors, brilliant.

@Stonekeeper If everyone paid their proper share of taxation, instead just those that cannot afford to pay accountants to find loop holes etc, then things like the NHS, care for the elderly air ambulances etc would be able to be properly financed for the benefit of everyone and we would have far fewer charities as well as a result and then the country would be a far better place for it and everybody would be far happier I believe. And another bonus would be that our roads would be well sorted, no potholes or look like a patchwork quilt and far fewer accidents I think too.

I'm at £20k and I had mine removed.

@wyx087 yes I have seen others promoting the same, just look up a few other suppliers and see for yourself. When I said that the IHD was no more, I actually meant it, OVO would replace mine when it died on me, instead told to use the APP which is crap, like I said, it always ran almost a week behind so making it hard to use.

Or of course, as I have said before, they are exercising their freedom of speech to tell us all the truth, only time will tell us if that is correct or not, as I said before, I've similar with regard to the promotion of diesel and look at how that turned out in the fullness of time? Try looking a bit harder it is not Uswitch pushing it, many suppliers are also doing the same, maybe trying to gain market share, who actually knows? I have had my smart meter many years now and right from the off set, I had it set to send its readings every 30 minutes, the whole idea of that was thet they could provide me with savings at off peak times, which never happened. Then they did away with the inhouse digital meter with its display and removed it with a online app years ago, which was always days behind in its calculations and reporting of usage. Worse then useless it was and of course it (and I've mentioned this before on many platforms) it assumes that everyone has the internet, and I know that for a fact that many do not, some are just interested by technology and fear it, others just can't be bothered, or have learning issues etc and I also know that there are various religions out there who are against it as they cannot control what the internet brings into their world. I used to do quite a bit of design work for Gospelist consultant, and I'd have to do all the drawings, design and quotes for various Gospal halls, print them and drive miles to stand in front of him to present the plans etc, and this could be done many times before agreement was reached. So the internet is universally used or or liked and even today there are people who don't have it, or want it, the same as mobile phones and it is a serious issue for many.

I do however have to admit, that out of the current suppliers, Octopus does seem to be about the best according to users here, also from the Which magazine, who year on year rate them very highly.

I'm with OVO and I have a smart meter, and I can honestly say that I have never been approached by them with the offer of free electricity, even though I have the required meter. Think about it, why would they be willing to forego the extra profit that they can and are making from their customers who have better things to with their time then sit around exploring ways of extra freebies and why they try and put obstacles in peoples way, like you need to switch to this scheme or that scheme and commit to doing this or that and they keep moving the goalposts with standing charges, why? The standing charge should be constant right across the spectrum, it costs no more regardless of what scheme you sign up to. If they are being paid to use that green energy, then they could quite literally just give that away free to everyone using power between certain times, they, have the means of seeing who is using power between the periods applicable as smart meters report demand on a frequent basis. Instead, they chose not to do anything other than to attempt making excessive profits from their customers by keeping that fact to themselves for the benefit of themselves and their shareholders.

Far more than the authorities are willing to admit and make public, because it suits them to be economical with the truth.

DHL should be delivering my module this evening between 18:46 and 19:46, so I hope to cure the problem by plugging it and clearing the fault code, fingers crossed.

And now, lets try and get back to the true topic of this thread, the truth about electric cars, by posting something that is more directly related. Here is something that few saw coming.

Indeed, that is so typical of a person who is so fully prepared to listen to and accept the narrative of others who believe that they experts in certain fields, even with politicians pushing agenda's when they are clearly not experts but are yielding to some who think they are when in fact they are not, but merely following a line of self-interest. I have just watched a video on YouTube channel called WW2 Secrets and it in my view demonstrates just how dangerous such blind faith in so called experts can be and how with the construction of the hurried construction of the Liberty ships actually cost the lives of loads of seamen and loads of wartime supplies of all types being lost to the see, extending the length of the war. One person, a lowly female welder was trying express her findings and theories about how these ships were breaking about in service with the total loss of ships, cargo and sailors, her name was Bessie Hamill and her observations were dismissed out of hand, when in fact she held the key to the solution and what she exposed is still being used today, it is some 40 minutes long but well worth a watch. I think it shows perfectly the folly the of pushing forwards with totally untested and still emerging fledgling technology. Here are the notes that go with the video, that are not visible when watching a video embedded into this forum, and to see them requires watchng the video on YouTube and be bothered to read the notes about the video. This is one of the reasons why I always like to look and examine things when someone tells me X is the truth, when it might not the absolute truth. I say, that time will tell eventually tell us if it was truth or folly and we should never shoot the messenger, because they are not willing to follow the orchestrated narrative, like the rats and the children who blindly followed the Pied Piper of Hamlin on June 26, 1284. How One Welder's "Ridiculous" Trick Made Victory Ships Assemble in 5 Days Instead Of 40 WW2 Secrets 13.2K subscribers Oct 14, 2025 #ww2 #worldwar2 #ww2history How did WWII cargo ships go from catastrophic failures—splitting in half at dock—to being built in just 5 days? This is the untold story of Bessie Hamill, a night-shift welder whose "ridiculous" observation about welding sequences solved the Liberty ship crisis and revolutionized modern engineering forever. In 1943, Liberty ships were breaking apart spontaneously in calm water. Over 1,500 vessels reported serious cracks, 19 broke completely in half, and 3 vanished at sea. The U.S. was losing the logistics war despite building ships faster than ever. Then a welder noticed something the engineers had missed. Discover how one woman's persistence led to the Victory ship program, how Kaiser's Richmond Shipyards achieved the impossible 5-day construction timeline, and why every welded structure today—from skyscrapers to pipelines—owes its existence to lessons learned on WWII shipyards. This documentary reveals the science of brittle fracture, the physics of residual stress, the human cost of engineering failures, and the legacy of a welder who changed manufacturing forever but died in obscurity. #ww2 #worldwar2 #ww2history #worldwar2history SOURCES Frederic C. Lane - "Ships for Victory: A History of Shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II" (Johns Hopkins Press, 1951) - Comprehensive official history of the Maritime Commission's wartime shipbuilding program L.H. Van Vlack - "Materials Science for Engineers" - Details on steel metallurgy, brittle fracture mechanics, and transition temperature effects National Park Service Maritime Heritage Program - "Richmond Shipyard No. 3: Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park" - Primary documentation of shipyard operations and worker contributions American Welding Society Historical Archives - Development of structural welding codes D1.0 and D1.1 (1947-present), welding sequence standards John Gamon Soucy - "The SS Schenectady: Broken Ship, Broken Welds" (Naval Engineers Journal, 1990) - Detailed metallurgical analysis of the Schenectady failure Constance B. Schulz - "Building the 'Bridge to Victory': The Willow Run Bomber Plant and the Ford Motor Company in World War II" - Assembly line manufacturing methods applied to war production T.L. Anderson - "Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications" - Technical explanation of stress concentration, crack propagation, and brittle fracture U.S. Maritime Commission Historical Reports - Statistical data on ship construction times, failure rates, and production numbers (1941-1945) Oral History Collections, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley - "Rosie the Riveter World War II Oral History Project" - First-person accounts from Richmond Shipyard workers Mark H. Wyman - "DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951" - Context on wartime logistics and shipping needs Parker, M.E. - "Victory Ship Manual" (1944, Maritime Commission) - Original technical specifications and construction procedures for Victory ships