Graham Butcher

Nope, turned out that all they did and are willing to do, and did was to just plug in their proper VW group diagnostic kit and scan for any fault codes and do a thorough visual check for any oil leaks, and none were found. The DPF was not reporting that needed cleaning or replacing. When I picked the car up that they told me they found no error codes at on the engine, only codes were for the electric seat adjustments memory, the virtual pedal for the boot opening and a bad air quality sensor ☹️, all of which I already knew from using my VCDS. They told me that if my information was correct, then it was out of spec as there is technical bulletin for my engine to say that its normal for my engine to be using about .5 litre every 600 miles. For that they charged me £90. They claimed that to any more precise would mean costly stripping down the engine to examine the cylinders and rings, and valve guides and the turbo, or supply and fit a new engine would be around the £14,000 mark. Claiming it is not possible to do a rebore, or fit new cylinder liners to VW engines.?? So what ever happened to the old method of doing compression tests on each cylinder, and if any were low, squirting a drop of oil into the cylinder to see if the low reading was due to worn rings or not? Like yours, my car seems to run just fine, engine has rock steady temperature and never seems to shift from the 90 degree mark on the gauge and pulls like a steam train, never drops any speed on inclines and keeps up with traffic just fine and will if I want to overtake anything, do it with ease. So I'll just keep an eye on it for now

Sorry, my bad, I thought you was implying that drivers up your way were more law-abiding than ours 😉The best bit is that where those drivers were caught, there are a few stretches of A12 with average speed cameras and is also patrolled frequently by unmarked police cars, some drivers are no more than flipping Muppets.

@Ootohere Yeah, good luck spotting any bus or coach down here sporting the green flash on the number plates. I guess the reason you have so many in Scotland is that you have an abundance of electricity capacity in the cities thanks to all the generation of power going on with wind, hydro and solar, the first of which you have plenty of. This report is for the A12 road, very local to me where these photos were taken from, show the level of speeding going, and the car in the photo I think is a BMW but registration details blanked out, but it has good chance of being electric as we do have plenty of the higher class cars being electric. A12 speeding offenders who hit 140mph will be punished, police say | Braintree and Witham Times

Well, it did not take long for the investigation into the huge bus fire in Philly's bus dept. Arson for insurance claims and indeed arson full stop has been completely ruled out, the cause was wait for it... an electric bus that had its battery drained to a low SOC, and had all the isolation plugs etc removed and had been standing in the parking lot for simply ages, thus demonstrating just how volatile these batteries are, even when not being used or charging and all the safety measures had been in place with one notable exception, the physical clearance between the vehicles recommended by Thatcham for electric vehicles awaiting repair with known issues (the spaces shown are cars, so buses would require even larger spaces) This just goes to show the real hazards involved with batteries we currently have, most of which are Lithium-ion and like it or not they clearly do present a massively greater hazard to the environment then ICE vehicles as they do not have to meet these requirements because they are not anywhere near as dangerous. The following has been extracted from the 2023 report from Thatcham Research, link is here Impact-of-BEV-Adoption-on-the-Repair-and-Insurance-Sectors-report-Innovate-UK-and-Thatcham-Research-FINAL.pdf

Try coming down South and that will change I promise you, but it is not just speeding its the amount of power on tap and so many people are really not upto handling it positively and safely.

I also think that most of the today's cars are endowed with far too much power and would be far greener with less power on tap and also cut down the amount of series accidents and fatalities on the road.

Yes, agreed great videos, but sorry, I still think that if people drive their EV's like that just to try and get back to their home charger and cheaper running costs, then I think that they really a sandwich short of a picnic and deserve to come unstuck big time and sooner or later that is precisely what is going to happen to them. I mean hell, come on, this is reality and nobody can predict what is going to happen from 1 second to the next, fact. If that was the case then there would be no such thing as accidents, or police incidents, acts of nature, fires etc that cause traffic delays or diversions.

@Ootohere Wow, did they say that they actually have roundabouts in Colorado? The Yanks, over at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, are often confused at the roundabouts on our roads!

As I have said before, I think if I were only doing short trips in and around the city and I had the means of charging safely at home, then I probably would go for a BEV providing I was able to fit in it with my size 15 feet, 6ft 4" tall body that is well over weight and also my family (3 of whom are also 6ft 4" tall with large feet), but the reality is that is not what I do. None of the places I visit on long trips have any form of onsite/destination charging as they are miles away from major built-up areas etc.

Nope none of that happening down here in my neck of the woods, we're very backwards here and living in the prehistoric age of the diesel bus, not a hint of an electric bus for miles here 🤣

I think you will find internal combustion cars also, just like your claim about EV's, have a reserve buffer built into the tank so that when the gauge reads empty, there are a few more litres left to go before cavitation occurs and start to suck all the stuff that is bad for engines. Any sane driver will ensure that they never get that low and will elect for a quick splash and dash of a few litres if the only fuel available is more costly than their normal filling station.

I doubt that this was a case of arson, though, as it was not just electric buses. The electric buses had been there quite a while with major structural flaws, cracked frames due to the battery weight maybe, and had been taken out of service on safety grounds after only being used for 1 year. This was alleged to be a scrapyard and the manufacturer of the electric buses was bankrupt and gone out of business, so the buses would have been a valuable source of parts for others still in use. Besides, with the Trump tariffs biting, the aluminium alone would be worth its weight in gold, but is no now more as it would have been consumed in the fire. We will however, have to wait for the official fire investigation to determine if it was arson, and where the fire actually started to finally say if it was or not.

Another large fire, not on a ship or a multistorey car park, but a bus depot. Buses had been parked for weeks and somehow caught fire, cause is currently unknown. He make mention of how they were parked that made matters worse, and having been worked on a large bus fleet, that is exactly normal practise for parking every night, and buses that are not actually in use are also parked like that because of the sheer amount of real estate required to give them separation. One thing he is right about though, is that diesel vehicles do not just burst into flames once they have cooled down, within minutes of switching off they are pretty cool, and certainly not hot enough to burst into fire. Its another one that we will have to wait to learn the actual cause of the fire.

Thanks for the info, yes I did see the height adjustment thingy in the manual, but does not reset the process, but adjusts the height, especially handy on the estate car as the tailgate would be more likely to crash into the ceiling in multistorey car parks. I have done a scan, and it does show that the virtual pedal system is not working, but that has never worked in the 2 years I have owned the car, there were no other error messages relating to boot lid system.

Hmm, pushing them into the zero portion of their claimed fuel supply, regardless of them being BV or fossil fuelled is one step too far for me and I would expect most people, although those fossil fuelled ones do have an distinct advantage, it only requires a gallon or 5 litres of fuel poured into the tank to get going again, something that is easy to do without needing a mobile generator. Do I detect some doubt in your mind about the number car transporter ships catching fire, surely you cannot believe that they are not true fires but hoaxes??

Just lately I have noticed my power tailgate will sometimes only open about half a metre when either the boot switch or the internal release button is operated and likewise sometimes it closes fully but the boot open warning is still lite up in the instrument cluster? Why is this and is there a way of resetting it?

More info on this ship fire.

Barrie Crampton is reporting yet another major fire onboard a ship carrying EV's from China to Mexico, it is claimed that the ship is also carrying some ICE vehicles and he is being sensible in his report and is saying before anyone claims it was an EV that caused the fire, and is saying that we should be calm and await further information about it.

That sounds like a great result. The "phone" might be an emergency SOS system that will alert the authorities to your location if it detects that the car has been in a strong enough crash that you may require assistance. Has your car got a dedicated SOS button? Assuming that is what that 5A fuse is for, it will no doubt be controlled, possibly by the body control module, and the ECU's are typically still active and drawing reasonable power until about 10 minutes after the ignition was switched off, I suspect that @Breezy_Pete might be able to confirm this.

Good luck. When you think about it logically it just has to be the alternator, there is quite literally nothing else it could be. That wire only goes to the alternator and the parasitic current disappears when you disconnect the wire.

You may think he is a muppet, that is your opinion, and you are entitled to that, however, I don't share that view, I don't accept all the things presented to us as being gospel and factual, but then you already know that. Yes I know cars in the UK and all over the world are sometimes clocked, but not up, rather downwards, to increase the money that the unscrupulous dealers can get for low mileage examples, but that is not what MGuy is talking about, and he is not making up stories for clickbait either, go to YT and there in the video notes are all the links to the articles that he is talking about, he is not a McMaster, he is trying to give you the other side of the coin, that is so often ignored or buried because it does not fit in with the agenda. Lastly, nobody is suggesting that installations don't have to be to the required standards, of course they have to be, which is one of the points he is making. Relaxing the regulations also means that there will be less boxes being ticked etc and open up opportunities for dangerous installations done by DIYers and cowboys alike. 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - Charging bill: https://m-g.uy/7b6b8e 3:52 - Chinese EV Ponzi scheme: https://m-g.uy/7ca8ad China Observer video: • Huge Crisis! Bigger Bomb Than Evergrande A... 6:48 - Tesla sales fall by half: https://m-g.uy/be5499 8:31 - Volvo cuts 3000 jobs: https://m-g.uy/9d6d5d 10:39 - Maternity hospital solar panel fire: https://m-g.uy/25408b 11:57 - German battery fire: https://m-g.uy/20c3c0 14:00 - UK planning rules: https://m-g.uy/3ce561 16:58 - GM builds V8s again: https://m-g.uy/c76ff7 18:46 - Net Zero rationing: https://m-g.uy/71c0f4 21:49 - Outro

That is the point, they are, according to the reports and the links are all there in the notes attached to the video on YT, to fully support the claims in the video, supposed to be 0 or extremely low mile cars (nominal miles that are clocked up for testing, loading and unloading the cars).

It seems that China is also facing reluctance in accepting EVs with the government are also enforcing strict targets, forcing dealers to do the same as UK dealers, pre-register cars and then later selling as zero miles second hand cars, the government are now investigating this.

Generally they would do the same as anybody involved with electronics would do, check the diodes with a test meter in forward and backwards bias and if they read OK and don't show any signs of being bashed up etc, just leave them alone. Generally it is a case of fitting new bearings, skimming the slip rings, and fitting new brushes and sometimes new stators and or rotors.

I used to work at an auto electrical place and refurbished alternators, dynamos and starters of various sorts and sizes and have seen similar diode failures there. Every diode has a reverse voltage gradient, which is how diodes work. When the engine has been running, the battery voltage is higher than it is normally and the diode could, if it's going faulty, begin to conduct in the reverse direction, but it would have a far higher resistance than the forward resistance. When you break the battery power to the alternator, then the current cannot flow, and when you reconnect the power, the battery voltage is lower and so it cannot reach the level of breakdown point that had before. It is in effect almost like a zener diode, the magic word here is almost. One thing is for sure, if left unchecked, then the diode is going to deteriorate faster and the battery will drain even faster.