octavia 2.0 tdi DSG 2024, cca 3000km, brand new,  front right side melted including front mask, front right light(still working) and bumper from right side.

 

has anyone anything similar???

Welcome.

Is this from heat in the car, engine compartment?

 

Not the sun reflecting off a building / glass and an external cause?

The car was parked in my own garage all the time, and there is not specially strong sun in November, its really strange thing, the car have usually small rutes of driving, there was only two routes that has been 600 km, after them this wasnt hapened.

This hapend after but dont know when, i own this car 3 weeks with totaly 3000 km-s...

as you can see, there are no visible burns on the outside of the car, look at the lights, I guess the color of the plastic would change if it was burnt on the outside or something..

Sorry my bad. I thought your pictures should the centre top of the grill melted. 

My stupidity but that is what it looked like to me. 

 

 

no problem at all, no stupid questions, just stupid answers, mostly not a problem

 

I'm wondering if there is any pipe or cables behind this melted part that could do this??

hello; 

here is problem update, as You said earlier, the car was parked in front of glass building, for 2-3 hours, and this is damage from sun reflecting even it was November. This is sad, the quality of skoda has obviously dropped terribly, it is almost imposible.

Really not a Skoda issue, it would not matter if it was a Rolls Royce or a Mercedes really.

 

Reflections  or magnification from the sun can start fires.

Quite common but the story in the UK was big 11 years ago. 

 

 

 

 

How does building glazing magnify the sun?

 

I'm not doubting it as our cars don't usually melt even in the height of summer let alone November.

 

Reflection I can understand its the magnification I am struggling with.

 

Editted, I watched the video, I had not used the phrase "magnifying glass" as I did not think that any architect with half a brain cell would design a building with parabolic mirrored glazing.

 

They should install solar panels there!

 

Undeniably a result of Climate Change 😁

Edited 15 November, 20241 yr by J.R.

I partly agree with both of you, but is it possible that new cars are so little resistant to the sun, I mean the temperature outside was 10-12 degrees Celsius, imagine what it would be like if it were summer and the usual temperature of 40 degrees Celsius... ..

@J.R. Magnifying my word.     

Winter sun can be very intense in clearer air, and lower in the sky possible reflecting differently for other times of the year.

 

Nothing special going on,

Just like when kids with a bottom of a broken bottle we used to light fires as no magnifying glass available as we used in the Cub Scouts or mirrors. 

 

Try a search, Using a magnifying glass to start a fire.

 

You look at the Solar towers aiming the heat from the sun directed by mirrors to generate power / heat a liquid to turn turbines. 

 

This amazing modern technology will have been used thousands of years back to start fires. 

Even Crocodile Dundee must have learned it from maybe a book if not the Natives of Australia...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 15 November, 20241 yr by Ootohere

That was somewhat condescending especially as I had edited to say that I understood after watching the video you kindly linked to.

 

I do not need to do a Google search to understand lighting a fire using a magnifying glass, I was once a child and understood that the curved glass of a fragment of a milk bottle would act as one.

6 hours ago, J.R. said:

 

I did not think that any architect with half a brain cell would design a building with parabolic mirrored glazing.

 

 

Oh believe me they do...   and I've seen them make / suggest things that are even more daft

Probably spent their childhood playing video games rather than experiencing the natural world.