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[bub2006]

I had a poke around under the Audi's bonnet today and found to my dismay that the pump is all fly-by-wire with not a single good honest Bowden cable to be seen anywhere. Which makes me wonder whether the occasional unresponsive throttle might be down to a dodgy potentiometer or however the fuck these things work, rather than a fuelling issue. I certainly couldn't see any sign of air in the fuel lines, although an e-throttle issue wouldn't explain the chuggy idle.

 

It'd also blown a sidelight bulb - they are the old fashioned bayonet type and I didn't have any in stock, so trundled down to Roys of Wroxham to pick some up. They had a special offer on 20w mini halogen bulbs the same size, so I bought a pair of those, and feck me do they make a difference. The sidelights have gone from almost invisible to almost as bright as the headlights. I don't think they'll cause any electrical issues as 20w is less than 2 amps and therefore highly unlikely to melt anything.

 

I've decided to stay in for new year this year - I'm knackered and a bit headachey, but above all I just can't be arsed. Maybe I'm getting old.

What year is it? My 1.9tdi ahu lump was a N plate a4 and also drive by wire. I also had the occasional loss of response on throttle. I tried to trace it but never could. Usually did it when overtaking a line of trucks on the bypass with a sales rep trying to push me along!!

[omegod]

A couple of 'em might be mine if it turns out they're that badly melted the vin numbers can't be read...

 

On a sad note there are apparently a few dogs left in cars, for fucks sake why would you !!!!!   

[sierraman]

Happy new year folks. May 2018 be the year of the sub £1000 Mondeo mk4!

[sierraman]

Happy new year folks. May 2018 be the year of the sub £1000 Mondeo mk4!

[wuvvum]

What year is it? My 1.9tdi ahu lump was a N plate a4 and also drive by wire. I also had the occasional loss of response on throttle. I tried to trace it but never could. Usually did it when overtaking a line of trucks on the bypass with a sales rep trying to push me along!!

Mine's an M plate so one of the last 80s.  It's never done it at speed, it only ever does it when pulling away from rest.  Only really a major issue when trying to pull out onto a busy roundabout, but I'd still like to get it sorted.

[dean36014]

I had a truck do that trick and it was the pedal potentiometer so might be worth tying it. Exactly the same that it cut out after pulling away.

[stonedagain]

7 hours into Nye vodkathon, not dead yet....,

[Pete-M]

Appear to have agreed to buy a rare, 354 bhp, rwd, supercharged, automatic, partly hand built estate car.

 

Which has 193000 miles under its belt.

 

2018 has started in the approved way.

[dollywobbler]

Me and Mrs DW had a race. I lost.

[DVee8]

Apparently all 1600 cars in the car park are toast !! you can imagine the type of motors at a horse show !!

We had talked about going yesterday ,but decided against it due to family get together.

[twosmoke300]

The car park has a capacity of 1600 - not 1600 cars gone up

[dollywobbler]

It was pretty full though. I have two friends who had a friend or relative with a car there. They had to just go home by train.

[Angrydicky]

Hope no shite or doges were lost

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Glad no one was hurt.......how does the Insurance claim for that work then??

[SiC]

I imagine pretty simple. You just say your car was in the fire. They can always check when the wrecks are taken out and they note down all the VINs that have been toast.

 

I believe it was a 1600 car park with about 1400 cars in it. 1600 * £15000 (rough average) = £21m. Not too bad in the grand scheme of things. I wonder if they car that went up will be the liable one or if it would be the car that caught fire next to you would be?

[Asimo]

"If you note that in paragraph 95 on page 17 of your contract.........therefore you are not in this instance covered by this policy"

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I imagine pretty simple. You just say your car was in the fire. They can always check when the wrecks are taken out and they note down all the VINs that have been toast.

 

I believe it was a 1600 car park with about 1400 cars in it. 1600 * £15000 (rough average) = £21m. Not too bad in the grand scheme of things. I wonder if they car that went up will be the liable one or if it would be the car that caught fire next to you would be?

 

I meant in terms of who foots the bill - I take it the insurer of the car that started the whole thing is going to take a monster hit.....

 

Imagine sitting on confused.com and filling in the section on previous claims - "what was the total cost of this claim......£21,000,000"

[SiC]

I meant in terms of who foots the bill - I take it the insurer of the car that started the whole thing is going to take a monster hit.....

 

Imagine sitting on confused.com and filling in the section on previous claims - "what was the total cost of this claim......£21,000,000"

Ultimately I'll imagine it will be one for the lawyers to decide given its not a small amount to be settled. If it's newish, the car manufacturers lawyers may be involved too.

[dollywobbler]

I'm sure I saw somewhere that it was a Land Rover that started it all...

 

EDIT - Range Rover apparently.

[SiC]

Wack, you weren't in Liverpool last night were you?

[MikeR]

again how is a fire of this magnitude able to take place , ok a fire should be able to take out some cars , not the whole lot !!

 

are we looking at design issues and potential for other car parks to go the same way  and the FB equipped to handle another one

 

 

what will be next years insurance premiums be for car park operators of the vertically stacking kind ?

[Guest Hooli]

On a sad note there are apparently a few dogs left in cars, for fucks sake why would you !!!!!   

 

Poor dogs

 

This time of year with a window open & water dogs would be fine in cars so why wouldn't you? I had one dog that almost lived in my car & went to work everyday to sit in there as he was happy in the car & panicked when left in the house.

[SiC]

I guess there is only so much they can do. The priority of any building design is safety of life first. As long as people can get out in time then it ultimately it doesn't matter. Cars are replaceable and expendable, people are not.

 

Given how infrequent it happens, nothing should really happen. Just if you see a fire in a carpark, really do just GTFO asap.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Be another checkbox on your insurance from next year along the lines of "do you leave the car parked in a multistory carpark" lol....

 

Kinda scary given the amount of buildings with an underground multi story car park.....I imagine this fire was easier to fight because the car park could be accessed externally on all sides by fire appliances.....An underground job with one vehicle access and a few cramped pedestrian exits......

 

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[SiC]

I've been thinking that. Where I work and park my car is the garage under the building. Down in there is all the plant equipment, HVAC and everything else to run the building of over 2000 people. A fire down there would pretty much close down the whole place of 5 different companies.

[MikeR]

Kinda scary given the amount of buildings with an underground multi story car park.....I imagine this fire was easier to fight because the car park could be accessed externally on all sides by fire appliances.....An underground job with one vehicle access and a few cramped pedestrian exits......

 

 

 

 

If that had been the Liverpool One car park !!!   , that ticks all the above box's

[Guest Hooli]

Every underground/under offices car park I've seen has sprinklers etc. I've never seen those in the big open multi stories.

[HMC]

The other aspect is the damage to the building. Reports of the fire brigade being wary of the building collapsing. I'm unsure of how it all slots together but cars+ building damage stands to be quite a bit on top of the notional £21m

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'm sure I saw somewhere that it was a Land Rover that started it all...

 

EDIT - Range Rover apparently.

To anyone with experience of modern Solihul/ Halewood electricity, this comes as no surprise.

Mrs N's Freelanders latest party piece is to unlatch the tailgate if you use the windscreen demist button. Also when the fuel guage and computer decide there's no fuel it will go into limp mode until you switch off and on again , did it last night - went from empty and 0 miles to 3/4 tank and 260 miles after being parked for 10 minutes. That and the horn that sometimes will spend a week operated by the reversing lights and the doors that we haven't bothered to lock for 3 years mean that if it decided to self combust one day , it would come as no surprise at all.

[stuboy]

Been reading thay after seeing it here earlier, sounds a pretty shit situation, even if they would all be moderns

already paying 900 quid on dam 1.6 focus im 42 with full ncbs