Posted on 10/01/2021 6:13:03 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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Very good comment. I bought a 2010 BMW X5 diesel that the salesman said didn’t have the new DEF equipment on it (turns out it did - well hidden, no labels on the TWO fill ports). Loved the acceleration, mileage & driving it, despite going on a long hot summer trip and finding out when the AC refrigerant is low it will automatically heat the passenger to keep the driver cool without any sort of warning indication (thought the wife was just having hot flashes!). But the final straw was when it left us on the side of the road during another vacation (eventually determined due to a bad injector) around 100k miles. Managed to drive it back home, but local team BMW was clearly going to soak me for as much as they could to figure out the issue ($4k+), so I wound up diagnosing/fixing myself & sold it before anything else went wrong. Live & learn.
We had a 1982 Olds Cutlass with the “infamous” 350 Diesel “Conversion” engine. The engine block looked almost identical to a normal Chevy 350 but it actually did have many important changes. The actually did have a lot of problems with them when they came out in 1978 but by 1982 it was actually a very good engine. It had over 200,000 miles on it when we bought it. We put another 80,000 miles on it when the fuel pump went out. It was going to be $800 and the car needed a new set of tires and other replacement parts, so we sold it. At that time the body style was popular with South of the Border types so we got as much as we paid for it when we bought it.
The car got very good fuel economy, over 35mpg on the highway and darn good around town as well along with having grate torque. The only problem was that the guy before us was a salesman who was a chain smoker and the car never stopped smelling bad.
As opposed to other fires? A journalist can teach you something new every day...even if is completely stupid.
A lithium battery fire is tough to fight because the oxidizer and the fuel are mixed together inside the battery. You can't get the water to cool and separate the fuel from the air like with most fires. But all fires are chemical reactions.
A buddy of mine, who has a new or almost new Chevy Camaro, needed to get the battery replaced. $275 later, he was good to go! The battery is far different than we know as a standard battery. He had a been pole for the ground, and a recessed hole for the Plus. No way he could’ve done it himself.
I’ve always wanted an electric car that I had to park 50’ away from everything and then watch for hours while it charged.
Thanks, Chevy!
How soon before homeowner’s insurance has a no pay clause due to fire caused by an EV?
I’d be interested to know how many fires there have been.
These warnings remind me of all the side-effects on bottles of
medicine. Heck, if you believe much of it you’re buying into
the science that feeds rats 100,000 times as much as a human,
and if they break out into a freckle, it has to be mentioned.
It’s all litigation abatement. “Hey, you were warned. You
made a choice.”
Look, some medications do have some serious side effects
that need to be taken into consideration. And yes I’m
sure 5 out of 100,000 Bolts sold will have a fire.
Guess what. There may be close to that many gas cars that
break out into flames.
thats the story of my life... I park next to a tree that looks ready to fall down, and it does.. but not on my car.
Here’s my personal favorite: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/popculture/row-of-electric-busses-catch-fire-in-china/vi-BB1gRL6E
The REAL upsetting part, is that you can’t get close enough
with hot dogs and marshmallows.
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