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    ON TOPIC:-

    CAUTION THIS IS AN ADVERT:-

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ld99Eu56B7o

    but well worth watching

    CAUTION:- ADVERTS AND MORE ADVERTS:-


    https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZA68oGTr6B8VDlh3N_TcbA

    but really 1000% on topic and well worth watching them all

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    Well, 'planned obsolescence' is not something that car manufacturers invented,
    Still, they do a damn good job abusing it...
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    Stepped into this...
    Seems to me like a proper fu@#up...
    Audi Engineer Had Smoking Dieselgate Gun In His Safe, Pulls It In Court


    A document, locked up in the safe of an Audi engineer for years, could be explosive enough to blow away Audi CEO Rupert Stadler. It could destroy Audi’s fortunes in China, and with that a major source of Volkswagen’s cash. In a German court, the document was pulled out of the safe yesterday, to prove that Stadler ordered Audi engineers to cheat regulators in Hong Kong at a time when regulators in America were tracking down the dieselgate cheat of the century.
    The dangerous document was presented in a German labor court by Audi engineer Ulrich Wei?, one of the company’s leading diesel developers. Wei? was suspended in November 2015. He continued drawing a 450,000 Euro ($473,000) annual salary until exactly last week, when he was fired, along with three other Audi engineers. Wei? was handed the German version of a pink slip in court by Audi’s lawyers. Apparently, the firings were triggered by incendiary testimony made in the same court last week, where Wei?’s attorney told the story of how dieselgate’s defeat devices were invented at Audi.
    Yesterday, Audi found itself under new high-caliber fire. Wei? produced a document signed by Audi’s head of powertrain development Dr. Thomas Heiduk. It seemed to document that Audi board members Rupert Stadler (CEO), Ulrich Hackenberg (R&D), Werner Zimmermann (Quality Assurance), and Michael Neumayer (Product Management) “ordered a cheat,” wrote BILD-reporter Michael Manske, who covered the proceedings.
    The order from above ended a heated debate. When Audi’s big Q7 was to be newly homologized in Hong Kong, “it did not comply with the strict emission rules” of the city state, wrote BILD. An internal Audi presentation, introduced in court, showed that the Q7 far exceeded the allowed 60g of NOx per kilometer. In the July 2015 discussion, Wei? was asked to cheat, the testimony said. Wei? refused. After more discussion, the engineer demanded an order in writing. According to the testimony, his boss Heiduk went in conference with the board, and came back with a written order to break the law.
    Wei?’s attorney Hans-Georg Kauffeld said in court that his client locked-up the paper in his safe as insurance, and that he told his people to resist the order. Whether Hong Kong regulators were later fooled or not, nobody could say in court for sure.


    Audi accused Wei? in court of destroying evidence, and of not properly informing the board. Wei? denied the allegations. The proceedings will drag on until March 10, when the court wants to render a decision.
    If the matter can’t be contained in the Mannheim court, it could do more harm than just shorten the career of Stadler, who has been under fire for many months now. Audi is the leading premium brand in China, and it has been Volkswagen’s biggest money maker. In January, Audi’s sales in China slumped 35% year-on-year amid a heated dispute with Audi’s dealers. Last week, Audi’s China dealers demanded $4 billion to cover losses. I asked a leading Volkswagen executive with deep knowledge of the Chinse market how a scandal in Hong Kong would affect matters in China. “Theoretically, Hong Kong and China are separate,” the executive said. “But only theoretically.”
    There is another strange twist to the story: The matter is largely contained in Germany. Despite the intrigue, collusion, and court-room drama of a best-selling mystery novel, there is little echo in the German press. “The court room was packed with reporters,” told me Manske, “but so far, I pretty much have an exclusive in BILD. Did they not get the explosiveness?”
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    Stepped in dogshit...
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    Quote Originally Posted by rideon View Post
    Stepped .
    OFF TOPIC:-

    Can you cut and paste the articals please, such an INFERIOR website it crashes my iShit EVERY time click on it.

    ceo rupert hong kong crash, flick gone!

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    Been watching this for a while...
    PSA started this last summer...

    PSA publishes real-world fuel consumption data for 1,000 Peugeot, Citro?n and DS cars


    next...

    Volkswagen considering publishing real-world fuel economy figures



    With other words...we sold you bul$hit all these years, now we come clean,see, we are the nice guys...
    Wondering what will follow next ...
    Think there is a law about false advertising...
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    VW and Audi, fix or repair weekly, biggest pieces of shit on the planet. Don't know about PSA cars as not too many in US.
    Best Regards, Roth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roth18 View Post
    Don't know about PSA cars as not too many in US.
    MODERATOR, thats SSOOOOOO UNFAIR they dont have french junk in Emerica

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    ON TOPIC:-

    https://mobile.twitter.com/feyaz/sta...5051299841?p=v

    vivaro 5 seconds stab hole just above lock and in

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    I dont know if anyone upoaded this ,but its right on topic.!
    Pintos exploding and stuff... http://jalopnik.com/the-ten-biggest-...xec-1732720908

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    ON TOPIC:-

    bmw one series, or whatever, fusebox in trunk nice to access but your tesco
    four pint milk splits real easy, straight into fuse box

    lotus rumor states park in full lock the sun unglued the sealer

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    ON TOPIC:-

    Audi Q7 right next to the under hood humping port is A/C
    filler, so as Justy22 is clocking it, his sheep/camel etc snaggs his jump leads
    and ineffect red hot bullet on loose, with R1234YF which has butane, fire as well

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    Audi Q7 negative hump terminal, nice BIG hump port, but its connected by an
    M6 thread, but positive by M8 thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meat-Head View Post
    , with R1234YF which has butane, fire as well
    You forgot to mention the price tag that comes with that refrigerant....

    A/C on those cars cost an arm and a leg to fill
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