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I can’t help you regarding stats. But I will say is this, speaking personally I’ve never seen as many cars by the side of the road in flames since the uptake of EVs kicked off. Especially now as some are starting to age a little. Which brings about another debate. Anyone want to mention how non existent the used EV market is going to be. It would be a braver mofo then me to buy a 3 or 4 year old EV… My hat? Oh my coat too……..

Yeah but what’s to say the rangie wasn’t an innocent bystander as it were? I’m sure there were dozens of vehicles absolutely destroyed that could have looked like the “culprit”

If you try that with petrol you’ll go boom because the Vapor will ignite well before the liquid does

Where did you find out it was a diesel rangie Fridge? I must admit I find that really hard to believe a diesel vehicle burned with such ferocity to cause that amount of damage. I could have even found it easier to believe if it was a petrol motor. As you know chuck a burning match into a bucket of diesel and the match will go out. I just found it really suspicious the way the initial reports of the incident were so eager to mention it was a diesel vehicle. When have you ever heard of a car fire being reported on like that. It’s usually just ‘a car fire’ or ‘a truck fire’ etc etc. It just felt to me like the powers that be were on a damage limitation exercise because their big push for everyone to go EV looked in jeopardy with more and more EV’s going on fire and in some cases taking a house or garage with them.

Some interesting views there. Expect no less from this forum! Regarding insurance however from what I understand it’s not just the potential fire risk, but rather the immediate cost of repair if an EV is involved in a decent shunt. The problem of course is that brokers are taking that out on everyone, not just EV owners.

Been mulling the whole electric vehicles going on fire thing. There’s nothing LION battery cells hate more than shock. No not electrical, mechanical shock loading. Which in turn got me thinking: how are the battery packs mounted? There isn’t much worse for mechanical shocks than rough UK roads. Also do all vehicle manufacturers mount the battery packs the same way? How are the packs isolated from shock ie potholes etc. Please don’t tell me they rely on the vehicles suspension? Also, why do we not get vehicle specific information about what type went on fire? For example are they all Teslas or does it affect all manufacturers? Are some more prone than others?

Ah bugger. Ok I’ll check the connections you mentioned tomorrow Peter

Had a very quick look at it today. Are the coil packs earthed through the mounting bracket? If so I may have found the problem. The bottoms of the coil packs are quite badly corroded. Is this common on these colis?

Guys I’m needing a little help. In my absence while away at work, my dad god bless him (lol) decided to have a fettle and find out why the v8 was cutting out every 5 or so seconds. Initially we thought it was due to over fuelling as it was stinking with fuel and there was as much petrol in the sump as there was oil. But as bad as this was/is, he found that rather than over fuelling it was cutting out due to the FPR switching off after 5 seconds. Now in the process of “fettling” it appears that my old man has undone some of my devils knitting as we’re not getting a spark at all now. He assures me he’s put everything back the way he found it but I suspect that if this was true it would at least run for 5 seconds again! I had a very quick look at it today. Checked the coils. They’re getting juice going in but still no spark. I looked at the crank sensor and the gap is fine. Would it be possible to blow this sensor by forcing 12v to it? Any ideas welcome because I’m scratching my head. Especially as I haven’t seen exactly what he’s done.

**** I wish you weren’t so far away. You could probably sort my probs in a day

Thanks guys. Is the disc available from Niges site? Yeh mate we’ve been at it too long. Unfortunately life has thrown a lot of curve balls and I never get to spend long at it.

Nah it’s not had any tuning whatsoever. Think that’s the problem. It’s not been hooked up to tuner at all as yet. The cts is brand new.

After talking to Nige recently he advised we needed upgraded spark plugs, a lead to allow ecu to talk to laptop, and latest disc with 4.6 map on it. The engine running so rich there was more petrol in sump than oil Nige was supposed to send me a request to my PayPal for the above stuff but I haven’t heard from him since What are the best plugs to use? Also what is the best lead to use? Is there one available to connect to more modern laptops or is it still the old connector style?

He said he’s been ill since before Xmas but seems to be on the mend

Search called off. I’ve got a hold of him.

Been trying since last week

As title Is he on holiday or having another stay at his local NHS “hotel”? Been trying to get hold of him.

It’s actually an old beater of a carpet on top of a nice wooden floor just to give our big dog some traction 😆

As can be seen from the pic it’s not an original chimney. It’s an external flue system.

They’ve been back already. They checked the draw (of course it was a little calmer at the time) and said everything was fine. I just wondered if my idea had any merit. Safe faffing around and arguing the toss..

Got a nice woodburner fitted in the livingroom recently. Absolutely love it. BUT Our gable end is extremely exposed to wind. In normal weather conditions there is more than enough draw in the flue. However the extreme winds we’ve experienced here past couple days has highlighted an issue. Not only is the fire a lot more difficult to get going, but when you do eventually get it going and up to temp there is a bit of a smell. Obviously the force of the winds is allowing the gases/smoke to back up. We already have an “anti wind” cap atop the flue and usually it’s fine but it obviously isn’t enough to deal with storms. The very top of the flue/cap currently sits above the roof ridge (probably per code/instructions) however I had an idea. What if I had the flue shortened enough to allow me to fit a semi-circular guard round the anti-wind cap and secured into the wall. Could fab it myself and have powder coated. Thoughts?

Thx mate

Just a little forum for couriers in my local area. Since badly injuring my lower back I had change jobs from railway signalling installer to being a courier. A friend raised the idea of starting a little forum for couriers to share info etc. Id have no idea where to start with it. It’s ok if no one can help - I’ll just tell them to Google it. Just thought I’d ask here first to see if there was any pointers.

So I’m looking to start a little forum for my work. What’s the easiest way to go about this? Any info appreciated I know there’s a few IT types on here

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