Luton airport parking fire

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I'd still have my ICE classics etc for personal use would never move away from that which is now at disease level and uncurable petrolhead.

I'm doing the same... the EV simply replaces our daily driver (petrol Tucson)...nothing else needs to be changed.

Figaro is a 1992...quite a wait till it's exempt ....I may look at an older mercedes...I really like the 230 coupe from the 1980s.

 

[premmington]

I seriously considered going down ev repair route after employment.

Didn't take long to realise it's not viable.

I don't think I have lost any money dealing with EV/PHEV vehicles - it is just I have not gained too much either. Been expensive to gear myself up...

My only competition 45miles away - has shut the doors - but he was a new start - and did not have any established ICE customers. Plus from what I can make out from a few phone chats and one personal meeting - this chap was a nice bloke and capable (ex main dealer tech) - also he was well funded from what I can make out.

I am standing back from EV/PHEV repairs from this point - because I would rather sit about drinking tea at my age - than working hard for very little money.

 

[addjunkie]

I am standing back from EV/PHEV repairs from this point - because I would rather sit about drinking tea at my age - than working hard for very little money.

That is a comment from a business man ready to take up full time gardening and dog walking!

 

[ms08]

My daughter is a director of Belron, the company that owns Autoglass, the fire was on September 29th at their Manchester workshop on Oakhill Trading Estate, Devonshire Road, Worsley, and did indeed spread to their storage unit next door. The vehicle was a BMW, whether it was EV my daughter didn't say, however arson was the cause of the fire. The car and its owners were well known to the police; it was in overnight. The premises were broken into sometime around 9pm and the vehicle set alight. Three other customer's cars were damaged as were two Autoglass vans. There was a substantial loss of stock. It was briefly covered in the Bolton News.

Possible 'urban myth' then being passed around by fitters.....arson seems a bit extreme for a leaky windscreen....

 

[DAPPH]

The fire/sprinkler designers have got to seriously up the ante and a bit sharpish,cant have a burning car bringing an airport to a standstill. These airports have enormous attenuation tanks/ reservoirs to hold back all of the runway water run off in case of a massive spill, if that was pumped in there the fire would have been out in seconds or the very least controlled,totally unreasonable to expect firefighters to risk life and limb dealing with fires like this. I know its all insured losses but we ultimately pick up the tab for it

Bob

Be amusing if it was an arson & terrorist event .

 

[premmington]

That is a comment from a business man ready to take up full time gardening and dog walking!

Everybody I know is buying expensive holiday homes/motorhomes - all I want in greenhouse in the garden for retirement mate...

 

[ukracer]

Everybody I know is buying expensive holiday homes/motorhomes - all I want in greenhouse in the garden for retirement mate...

Sadly they don't seem to be buying our 5th wheel and Towvehicle

 

[minimutly]

Sadly they don't seem to be buying our 5th wheel and Towvehicle

Pictures?

 

[Kerelise]

Loosely connected to EVs /lithium batteries: I replaced the battery in an old iPod this week; the old battery was well glued in, and when I used a watchmakers' screwdriver to prise it out, and in doing so, managed to puncture the battery. Whatever it was inside smells really pleasant. Is that same true of a car battery ?

 

[Morrisman]

Some news article I read

There is one on a FB group but I don't know how to link it to here.
Edit: managed to get a screenshot
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I just saw this on Instagram, Farcebook, no idea how to link to it so took some screen grabs.

 

[steveo3002]

^ diesel car did it

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Whatever it was inside smells really pleasant. Is that same true of a car battery ?

Funnily enough I was looking at an article yesterday....I think a company called byd reckon their "blade" batteries are a lot safer. They do a nail test on them apparently ...

I bought my EV on a 2 year PCP deal....I figured the hand it back option might come in very handy!

 

[bricol]

Some news article I read


I just saw this on Instagram, Farcebook, no idea how to link to it so took some screen grabs.


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20 yrs ago near me . . ie before EV . .

I know the cause . .

 

[dobbslc]

Did one of the BMW drivers use an indicator?
Maybe the switch was full of combustible dust or fluff from lack of use...

 

[ukracer]

Pictures?

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[redlig]

Did one of the BMW drivers use an indicator?
Maybe the switch was full of combustible dust or fluff from lack of use...

More likely the driver self combusted from the effort involved in both making the decision AND actually using the indicator.

 

[dobbslc]

Did one of the BMW drivers use an indicator?
Maybe the switch was full of combustible dust or fluff from lack of use...

I notice that @slim_boy_fat is now liking this kind of post now he's driving a superior brand of car.

 

[Ubique]

One of those? pretty Standard...

 

[Chippie]

Some news article I read


I just saw this on Instagram, Farcebook, no idea how to link to it so took some screen grabs.


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I guess that fire was started by a diesel car?

 

[brightspark]

I guess that fire was started by a diesel car?

and quickly spread to some ev- s which made it far worse than a couple of diesel or petrol fires than can be put out fairly quick