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I said this was just one of those bad luck situations due to a faulty component.
And a modified Jeep with a engine it didn't come with. With the possibility the electrical was modified in the Jeep as the owner stated he had done 1000s of modifications to it. He was using the Jeep to charge the phone as it was running at the time. So there is a little more to the story of fires.
So it all comes down to who manufactured the battery and which countries got units with those batteries in them.
For which they created a software quick fix to change how the unit charges the battery until they can build ~2.5 million new batteries to replace all the ones sold so far to customers and those waiting to be sold sitting in warehouses.
A special thanks should go to the Burning Jeep Man for the video of his Jeep burning and a special thanks to the media for not noticing it had a ~$8000 Hemi conversion done to it and not expanding on the 1000's of upgrades he said he did just to blame the phone. Investigative media is dead and yellow journalism is alive and thriving.
And a special thanks also goes to Burning House Man who plugged his phone in his garage, yet the media didn't even notice it was packed with loads of stuff and didn't even question even after photographing the garage didn't even bother to question how he was able to find an outlet in the first place.
Two visual reports down and 68 more "reports" in the US to investigate. Lets see how those turn out. Will at least one of those be shown to blow up in a normal location the other 99.8% of us place our phones to be charged?
A special thanks should go to the Burning Jeep Man for the video of his Jeep burning and a special thanks to the media for not noticing it had a ~$8000 Hemi conversion done to it and not expanding on the 1000's of upgrades he said he did just to blame the phone. Investigative media is dead and yellow journalism is alive and thriving.
None of which is relevant. Anyone that knows anything about automotive electrical systems would know that these modifications wouldn't change the fact that it's still a 12 volt system and would work perfectly fine with a phone charger designed for automotive use.
None of which is relevant. Anyone that knows anything about automotive electrical systems would know that these modifications wouldn't change the fact that it's still a 12 volt system and would work perfectly fine with a phone charger designed for automotive use.
That is correct, but it's a simple task to determine where the fire originated.
And the cars interior should not have gone up in flames due to the Flammable Fabrics Act in place for cars. There was a accelerant of some type inside that Jeep.
The phone was already in recall status by the time the Jeep fire occurred. As far as I know, by that point there were 35-40+ cases reported. So, it was more than just one or two defective units.
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