Not exactly so .. the OBD plug in the cabin attaches to a Laptop and software in the VW workshop and with their expensive software it will identify all the faults and when changes are made values will be reset
..The Wolfsburg database is about all.of the bits and pieces in the car and they maintain the bill of materials database ..Every official component will have a bar code or identification number and when the verified dealer inserts them ..they update the database ..
True for ICEs for many years Dan, not true for EVs. Certain faults need the Mothership to diagnose and reset. Its the high voltage aspect that brings the extra level of security.
BTW, as we all know the expensive S/W was just to nobble the cheaper non dealer repair shops, a flagrant anti competitive move. The diagnostics and repairs of an EV are, sadly, way beyond those great little operators now.
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Thankfully there are new little grey workshops popping up that can do what main stealers cannot in regard to EV’s. They can replace faulty cells in a battery pack rather than just selling a whole new pack at a ridiculous price. Other issues can also be sorted, so the old ICE is king grey shops will gradually like dinosaurs dissapear.
Yikes, how alarming, hope mine keeps behaving itself. 
I had a problem with the keys of the Peugeot when it wouldn’t respond. I found out that if you stand by the boot with the keys and open the boot, they always work.
Have you tried AI and also the Speak EV forum? I think the nearest garages are Flers, Argentan and Ifs.
Putting the transponder key in a metal box to block its transmission rather than hiding under the stairs.
The real problem is not how best to fix the recalcitrant vehicle but the fact that it would not operate correctly in the first place.
These cars have just become far too complicated for their own good. Whatever happened to unlocking the car by putting the key in the door lock. Was it really that onerous of a task ?
Then of course one used to be able to put the key into a switch on the dashboard to turn the car on, which I seem to remember we all managed to do quite nicely.
Forgive me if I’m not so keen on rushing out to buy such an expensive and fundamentally capriciously unreliable vehicle.
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It’s a victory for the marketing dept. 
And all the people in the cars behind you waiting to get off were … ??
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Hunting for them at the other end of the ship?
All cars!
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We have an ICE and an EV, both bought approx 5 years ago as “new” secondhand cars. Since then the ICE has been in and out of the garage endlessly for a range of problems, and the EV has needed nothing apart from its controle technique. (@EmilyA). Which is probably why we forgot to tick the box for breakdown when we changed insurers 
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Apart from SUVs which are notorious for killing pedestrians, modern cars are so much safer for the occupants. So yes, electronic are a pain but if someone drives into me speeding the wrong way down a motorway I have much more chance of survival in my sturdy ID3 than the DAF that was my first car.
I had a DAF 66 Marathon way back when. Volvo, who had a well cultivated reputation for safety, bought them and miraculously they became the safest small car overnight 
Sorry to burst the bubble, but in a head-on collision at a combined impact speed of say 140mph there is little, if any, chance of survival even if you are driving a modern vehicle with airbags and are wearing your seat belt. A fact that I am sure the Cleveland Police would confirm if asked.
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Mine was bright yellow. Interesting that due to the drive system it would go backwards just as fast as forwards. Great fun at times.
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Yep, rubber bands I think Toyota still use the system but with steel bands (not Caribbean ones). I think the Prius works like that.
Yep! The rather silly spec of a 30mph crash test seems daft but with lots of in town speed limits coming down I suppose its the high speed head ons where the risk lays.
Don’t say that to the families of the three women in Dublin who are hoping for recovery.
Indeed so.
I’ll declare an interest here. My brother and his wife died when they were hit by another vehicle being driven the wrong way down the M3. The two passengers in the back of the car did survive, but with life changing injuries.
The suicidal driver of the other vehicle got his wish.
If that is their wish fine, why take others with you unless too young to take account of the circumstances.
Quite. A bridge support pillar at 100mph should do the trick.