Dealers will install a tube to let gasoline flow away from hot surfaces to the ground below the vehicle.
Let’s just throw it on the ground, definitely a better solution than making sure it won’t leak
Let’s just throw it on the ground, definitely a
bettercheaper solution than making sure it won’t leakFixed it for you.
Patrick foretold!
“We take this thing here… and push it all the way over here.”
Internalize profits, externalize costs
"Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.
Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn’t believe.
Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one."
You know what doesn’t leak gas from fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces?
EVs. Just saying.
And yes, I know, you’ll show me videos of piece of shit Teslas catching fire, as if that makes such problems equal to something like this.
A gasoline fire can be put out with about a thousand gallons of water. A lithium battery in an electric car can take 3,000-5,000 gallons of water to put out. There have been cases of wrecked Teslas reigniting at scrap yards weeks after they were destroyed.
You’d think we’d have a better solution for extinguishing this by now. Solid state batteries can’t get here fast enough.
The same thing that makes lithium good for batteries also makes it good for burning for days at a time and reigniting randomly
That’s kinda true, in a sense that all batteries use a chemical reaction to generate electricity and a damaged battery can short and thus ignite arbitrarily. But there’s lithium-based batteries like LiFePo₄ that burn significantly less intensely if at all; and there’s lab-only chemistries that are non-flammable. So it’s not really because of the lithium specifically that they burn so well.
Battery fires are significantly worse than combustion engine fires, that’s not unique to Teslas. I like EVs but let’s not pretend they’re fireproof.
Teslas are a bad example anyway.
EVs are definitely the way to go here… just not a fucking tesla.
Unless salt water gets to them
This is why you don’t buy Ford. Never buy a GM product, either.
Ok. Alpha Romeo it is
A Chrysler? How is that better?
All Stellantis are grade B cars, like if you compare an Acer laptop with a Dell laptop.
It’s Fiat
Excuse me.? That’s some of the best Italian engineering right there.
Isn’t Italian engineering an oxymoron?
The Stelvio and Giulia are really nice and surprisingly reliable, for what they are.
Found the LFS user
“But remedy won’t fix leaks.”
That pretty much makes it not a fucking remedy!
Ford Pinto!
Now now, don’t leave out the Bobcat.
Can we just recall all gas SUV’s?
Do not buy American cars.
I honestly don’t know the reason, but they have made hot garbage for over 2 decades.
The interiors look like prison cells and the QA is nonexistent.
Does widdle baby American corporations need the bail out bottle?
Smells like no one changed the diaper after decades of the US auto industry sitting it’s pants.
