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MetalMonkey
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This is the same Ford with the Pinto fuel tanks...
"Good will" or just backed into a corner, one can't help but wonder!
"Good will" or just backed into a corner, one can't help but wonder!
frank horton
V twins are great but 4"s rule.........
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how do they turn this cr@p out.....
between the accountants and these know nothing nurds just let out of nursery school.....sorry uni.....
no wonder new vehicles are rubbish...
My daughter had a new Fiesta Eco boost.....begged her to sell it.....she got lucy...made it to 60,000miles....
this was before everyone found out about wet belt.....
She now loves her Corrola....
This advert is really worth looking at......still make me laugh....
between the accountants and these know nothing nurds just let out of nursery school.....sorry uni.....
no wonder new vehicles are rubbish...
My daughter had a new Fiesta Eco boost.....begged her to sell it.....she got lucy...made it to 60,000miles....
this was before everyone found out about wet belt.....
She now loves her Corrola....
This advert is really worth looking at......still make me laugh....
Don't think landrover could get away with this ad.
Kayos
Gone......
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Unless of course you look at say facts and figures? Even looking at percentages of vehicles sold, EV fires are still far far rater
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I’ve heard through the grapevine that Ford are doing away with wet belts from 2027, don’t know how true it is? A bit late for all of the previous victims though?
. Cost my brother in law 8k to get his POS transit fixed!
MetalMonkey
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I suspect 25+ year old used, abused and poorly maintained EVs are also far rarer, whereas the average age of ICE vehicles is increasing annually, and with it presumably, the chance of something going wrong.
Exactly. Numbers sold p.a. means nothing as a statistic. It's the total number of vehicles on the road, the age, the mileage (imagine the disparity between total EV mileage to-date and the total ICE mileage to-date - just among current road registered vehicles. Factor in wear & tear and age etc - and the reliability and indeed number of fires per (say) 10,000 miles (not ven considering the added dangers and difficulties of EV fires) - and the picture would look completely different.
Cherry-picking stats to support a POV is a very old and oft used tactics among the "political class".... really they aren't pulled up on it anywhere near often enough (it's misleading and tantamount to outright lying znd deception IMO).
Statistical "Tests" to demonstrate trends should be strictly regulated to offer genuine accuracy of outcomes.... rather like those applied to Business Financial Accounts (when genuine data figures are used of course, not fabrications).
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Who actually signed off wet belt . It gives fuel to the idea that modern engineers have no practical experience or common sense.
Company my sister works for have stopped using Tesla due to unreliability and costs. The final straw was one having a shutdown in the third lane of a not smart motorway for the second or third time .They have now moved over to polestar and are happy
Company my sister works for have stopped using Tesla due to unreliability and costs. The final straw was one having a shutdown in the third lane of a not smart motorway for the second or third time .They have now moved over to polestar and are happy
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My company have just leased 200 Polestars, they are being delivered currently, no real issues with the current Teslas though, very very little time lost on the Teslas compared to the employees in ICE vans, tyres and servicing is about the only time they are booked out for a day. Zero fires, zero stranded due to dead battery, whilst seemingly once a week a van is off the road due to misfuelling or very occasionally out of juice + one diesel fire this year. The only gripe is charge prices at motorway chargers, ten times the cost of home charging, fortunately almost none of the employees do over 300miles a day (~60k a year) so it’s not really needed.
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I'm surprised no aftermarket company hasn't developed a chain drive conversion
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I had 2 home made signs on my desk:
Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and my Data
Myths Perpetuated Here.
Oddly I had a reputation for rigorously researched positions with lots of supporting data.
On one memorable ocassion at a local Board presentation I said something along the lines of
Taking a SWAG I'd say the answer is of the order of X
One of the minority shareholder directors came up to me afterwards and in a very conspiritorial tone asked what is a SWAG.
Seriously Wild Arsed Guess
Dayco
who advertise them as "High robustness and proven reliability on test benches and vehicle fleets"
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A company has developed a chain kit to replace the wet belt in the Peugeot Puretech engine so I don't think it'll be long before a Ford kit comes along too.
They've been reliable in my experience.Dayco
who advertise them as "High robustness and proven reliability on test benches and vehicle fleets"
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There's a chain replacement available. Some info here https://fordtransit.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=46
