OK, update time, and I'm eating a big slice of humble pie, just as I said would if I was wrong and it now seems that I am.

 

The Range Rover was a 2014 sport model, 3Litre diesel reg DK14MPV, had a reg change in 2016 to 111BT and back again in 2020. Then had another change to E10EFL in Dec 2022.

 

I sure would not want to be in the owners shows right now, having purchased the car in 2020, getting a personalised registration plate on it late last year and today has nothing, it must have been their pride and joy.

On 12/10/2023 at 15:55, @Lee said:

 

Now you're really clutching at straws, Graham. 

 

On 13/10/2023 at 00:58, @Lee said:

I fear the only one who'll be eating humble pie is you, Graham. 

Whether or not you will take a slice yourself remains to be seen but,

 

People did try to tell you. Perhaps a lesson going forward?

Why should it? I never said it was or wasn't, just that it did not look like a diesel fire, it was everyone else who somehow managed to convince themselves that I did.

Is there new development or something? I'm not seeing anything new regarding this Luton airport fire.

A whole thread on EVs. And the subject is the anti EV Telegraph's equally anti EV gob****e Allison Pearson who, AFAIK, has absolutely no experience in motoring journalism or, IMO, reality.

 

More browser friendly unroll here 

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714641544970723838.html

 

 

8 minutes ago, @Lee said:

A whole thread on EVs. And the subject is the anti EV Telegraph's equally anti EV gob****e Allison Pearson who, AFAIK, has absolutely no experience in motoring journalism or, IMO, reality.

 

More browser friendly unroll here 

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714641544970723838.html

 

 

The quality of journalism these days is appalling, there are many inaccuracies in her article and the one about the ship fire on board the Fremantle Highway, the photos they used is for the Felicity Ace which sank last year!

2 hours ago, Graham Butcher said:

The quality of journalism these days is appalling

 

Oh I fully agree. And the worst offenders of ****e journalism in the UK are the Telegraph, The Express, The Daily Mail and The Sun and, to a lesser degree the Times.

All owned by non doms who pay either very little or zero tax in the UK. 

Nobody should be paying any attention to what they or their hacks have to say or opine on. They only spout whatever agenda the owners pay them to spout.

Waiting at Luton airport now. Friend just parked their diesel at car park 1. 
 

View of car park 2: 

 

Loads of non damaged cars. Hope they don’t scrape the whole lot. 

Edited 19 October, 20232 yr by wyx087

Maybe not scrapped but written off as uneconomic to repair and the can rise like a Phoenix from the ashes to live a long life.

Its all about the business.

 

Then the EV,s / Hybrids / Mild Hybrids need the specialists to be uplifting / storing and scrapping or repairing. 

ICE vehicles as well, fluid removal, disposal and recycling.

 

'Loads of money'   Profits to be made every which way.     Tough titty on anyone uninsured and maybe even the insured vehicle owners. 

If you are going to be prevented from accessing and using your vehicle for months then the insurers will pay out as they would if a stolen vehicle has not been recovered after X days/weeks.

 

They will be loving it, their favorite type of claim, no personal injury, no ambulance chasers, they will pay out far less than the actual value and then deduct the excess, the policyholders will then be shafted for increased premiums for years especially if they have protected NCB.

 

The insurers will then sell the undamaged vehicles for close to their market value, more than they will have paid out, they are not even having to pay storage or parking fees to the airport!

 

Nice work if you can get it!

Edited 19 October, 20232 yr by J.R.

2 hours ago, Rooted said:

Maybe not scrapped but written off as uneconomic to repair and the can rise like a Phoenix from the ashes to live a long life.

Its all about the business.

 

Then the EV,s / Hybrids / Mild Hybrids need the specialists to be uplifting / storing and scrapping or repairing. 

ICE vehicles as well, fluid removal, disposal and recycling.

 

'Loads of money'   Profits to be made every which way.     Tough titty on anyone uninsured and maybe even the insured vehicle owners. 

True, my car was written off, but within a couple of weeks of the "wreck" being sold by Copart, it has bee repaired and put on the road again as the car is now currently taxed, so it begs the question, are cars being written off too easily.

EDIT.

Sorry posted in wrong thread.

 

I do not take a car through here at '2',  but take 4x4,s if lifted at higher levels if not flowing fast and possible moving me sideways / down stream,  that is very easily done once a vehicle goes light. 

Edited 19 October, 20232 yr by Rooted

Neither would I, at 2ft it would be coming in to the car and then the carpets and all the insulation beneath the carpet is going to get soaked right through. 

Edited 19 October, 20232 yr by Graham Butcher

It is in a Skoda,

but then that happens even in the rain or pouring warm water on frozen glass as some do.

Fills the door unless opened in some cases.

Actually rain on the roof and the drains blocked floods a Skoda.  'Simply Clever'.    VW Group never got the hang of keeping H2O in engines and out of cabins.

 

Imaging their EV,s in a few years and the risk of the ingress of water or environmental damage from inside the car not outside.

Wow that's a harsh statement to make on a  Skoda forum 😂. After having 4 VW Passats and 5 Skoda Superbs I never had any issues other than the first VW that had water ingress to comfort module, located in recess under the passengers carpet that caused the module to corrode and fail. Not sure but it was more down to snow from their boots rather than getting in from under the car. 

Essex / Superb.  That will be other issues right there then.

Not Fabia, Fabia Mk2 / facelifts Mk3 / Face Lift / Mk4.

Yeti, Karoq, Kodiaq, what ever, when ever for who ever.    Waiting on this winters 'my cars full of condensation / glass freezes inside posts.'

Nope, not ever had any of those, we're not in Scotland where it is really cold 😂

@Graham Butcher  Scotland has nothing to do with it,

very few from Scotland post about their Sunroofs, their door seals etc because they are 'clever' enough to know why stuff happens.  They reply to those that might never have experienced such things, then get a Skoda.

14 minutes ago, Rooted said:

@Graham Butcher  Scotland has nothing to do with it,

very few from Scotland post about their Sunroofs, their door seals etc because they are 'clever' enough to know why stuff happens.  They reply to those that might never have experienced such things, then get a Skoda.

Haha, but Essex is much warmer lol. Honestly though, the last time I can remember that happening was was in the 60s when we never had things like heated mirrors, windscreens and rear windows and we had to blank part of the radiator off with sheets of cardboard, or you fitted a rad blind. That is when I fitted a second battery in my Hillman Minx and cars used to have steel bulkheads behind the rear seats. While other cars would be cranking for ages, to start, if pop in the key and start easy easy 👍

@Graham Butcherread more of the Briskoda sections, forums. 

I read them all and have done since about the time you joined.

1 hour ago, Graham Butcher said:

Nope, not ever had any of those, we're not in Scotland where it is really cold 😂

!? The first time I ever drove a car registered to me in snow, I was in Kent.

Man under arrest for Criminal Damage over the Luton Airport Car Park fire, i just heard on the radio.

9 minutes ago, Rooted said:

Man under arrest for Criminal Damage over the Luton Airport Car Park fire, i just heard on the radio.

What, so it have been arson?

I never said that, neither did the news.

 

Nobody said someone set their vehicle or others on fire.    No idea what Criminal Damage to what.                  There will be news articles. 

1 minute ago, Rooted said:

I never said that, neither did the news.

 

Nobody said someone set their vehicle or others on fire.    No idea what Criminal Damage to what.                  There will be news articles. 

Well the mind boggles, if the cars are gone and the car park as well, what was left to damage?