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General Car Chat / Re: Never been so embarrassed

« on: 22 June 2023, 15:38:01 »

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As for the bonnet opener, I recall some legislation (not my specific field but, I did ask the question when Defender was launched with a plastic protrusion from part of the door card moulding to cover the bonnet release) that it must be restricted access such that you cannot easilt pop the bonnet when moving, so they tend to be on A posts with door trim in the way so they can't be access with the door closed (you can thank many a rusting Jap car for that one!)

Nothing in front of my ML's bonnet release  It'd be quite a reach from the driver's seat, but accessible all the same

Its to old, legislation would have dropped around 2020 for new vehcicle types (as opposed to sales) 

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General Car Chat / Re: Never been so embarrassed

« on: 21 June 2023, 11:02:24 »

Because, generally, we want to walk away from them in a crash and like nice comforts, two things that never happened with a Crapi, they are also much bigger cars now with a lot more power and better stopping ability, it all adds weight.............just wait until there is 500kg+ of battery onboard 

As for the bonnet opener, I recall some legislation (not my specific field but, I did ask the question when Defender was launched with a plastic protrusion from part of the door card moulding to cover the bonnet release) that it must be restricted access such that you cannot easilt pop the bonnet when moving, so they tend to be on A posts with door trim in the way so they can't be access with the door closed (you can thank many a rusting Jap car for that one!)

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira B airbag light

« on: 20 June 2023, 07:50:04 »

You will be hard pushed to fix a flexi circuit board if it is the squib in the CIM (the Zaf B/AstraH have a CIM module which is basically a switch pack to CAN interface so handles all the stalks and wheel switches plus some other bits and has a pass through for the airbag)

184

General Car Chat / Re: Adblue

« on: 19 June 2023, 07:36:50 »

Her new car needs pig piss to save the planet. Seems a simple enough system and I have ordered 5lts and a filling hose from ECP. Any tips or do's/dont's. How often should I need to top it up and how much will it use?
Warnings may flash up in the car, but she'll just dismiss them and probably not mention them to me.

Most cars will not restart once the adblue is empty,so beware and don't ignore the countdown warnings

It should be all cars which confirm to the later emissions regs as the regs actually state that a start inhibit has to be applied

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General Car Chat / Re: Adblue

« on: 19 June 2023, 07:36:08 »

Derv cars didn't need pig piss back in the day, so why do they need it now?

A 2017 XJ 3.0D (300 BHP jobbie) I had as a loan car also had a piss tank.....in the boot if I remember correctly.

Because its needed to reduce the NOx in the exhuast in order to satisfy emissions.

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General Car Chat / Re: Can 'lane assist' be permanently disabled?

« on: 16 June 2023, 11:47:01 »

Interestingly the NCAP rating is based on it being fitted:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/opel%2Fvauxhall/astra/22038

Although it looks like GM may have been telling NCAP porkies:

The autonomous emergency braking system is an option which is expected to be widely sold, so it was included in the assessment.

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General Car Chat / Re: Ferrari 308

« on: 16 June 2023, 11:25:45 »

Some of the modern Ferraris are shockingly shi#te styling, Enzo would not be best pleased.

Those from the 80s were some of the best

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General Car Chat / Re: Can 'lane assist' be permanently disabled?

« on: 16 June 2023, 11:24:36 »

I expect Lord Optis car will have a Tuner (which has to include DAB as all tuner equipped cars sold in europe and the uk have to have a DAB tuner if a tuner is fitted...........and tuners might dissappear in the future...), wireless CarPlay/Android auto for phone projection, bluetooth, Nav (althoguh Google Maps/Waze will be better via CarPlay/Android Auto) and USB.

Internal hard drives are dying out, they were mainly flash based (although earlier ones were spinning discs), as they need to be big and it just adds to the wear rate.

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General Car Chat / Re: Astra K - again

« on: 16 June 2023, 08:35:50 »

Can you read live data?

190

General Car Chat / Re: Zafira B airbag light

« on: 15 June 2023, 13:52:18 »

It might be something related to the non-safety bits like maybe passenger seat occupancy sensor or similar. If its related to the airbags, tensioners, impact sensors etc then it does have to latch

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General Car Chat / Re: Astra K - again

« on: 15 June 2023, 12:20:15 »

Surprised it has a DC to DC converter as I doubt its a PHEV or MHEV

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira B airbag light

« on: 15 June 2023, 12:10:57 »

Its strange that the light is going off sometimes, for any safety system if a real fault code is logged that impacts any of the safety functions then it has to latch the light until cleared.

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General Car Chat / Re: Can 'lane assist' be permanently disabled?

« on: 14 June 2023, 15:10:12 »

Daughter just got back from the States, and the lane deviation on the Caddy she hired caused the driver's seat to vibrate! Could appeal to some I imagine, but it frightened her to death the first time.

Ah yes, seat shakers, something of a favourite with some manufacturers as it gets around using warning bongs (ASIL B) and info panel (ASIL B) to achieve automated driving assistance functions warnings and meeting the safety needs (Which is ASIL D, made up of two Bs to get redundancy) whilst allowing for the hearing impaired 

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General Car Chat / Re: Mexican car part 2

« on: 14 June 2023, 09:00:48 »

They are a great drivers car, no looker (but then BMW have really lost their way on this in the last 10+years) and I bloody hate the way car manufacturers are stacking displays like monitors on a work bench in the interior (But I guess even we will go that way potentially at some point).

Hopefully a good realiable fun car !

The straight six BMW was always the best they did 

Probably followed Tesla as some of thier cars and ideas became best sellers in the market.

I suspect it's just cheaper than having real dials and lights on the dash...

Its not, the big issue is the ADAS systems are resulting in the need for a stack of legal and driver assist views which means you either need a huge quantity of telltails or use an LCD (or OLED for the future models).

What I don't like is the lack of attempt to even make it look like its part of the IP 

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General Car Chat / Re: Can 'lane assist' be permanently disabled?

« on: 13 June 2023, 11:45:45 »

There are usually two levels,

Lane departure warning which should not activate if you are using indicators when changing lane or using a junction...........its a BMW so clearly the indicators are not an option.
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That’s not the problem on BMW’s Mark, the problem is that the software will see a shiny tarmac repair strip running inline with the road as a white line and physically move the car out of line. It’s downright dangerous, but on the earlier (2020) vehicles fitted with virtual cockpit you can turn it off each time you start up, but not disable it permanently I believe. When turned off, the little green car between the two lines on the display disappears.

They all do that, they are more than happy to guide you towards the central reservation if they see a long removed contraflow burn strip on the tarmac