Hi would that be a model that is commonly used to carry kids to school and back ???
Hmm should have a warning for that. Give the yummi mummies something else to worry about as they drive !

WTF were the designers thinking when they designed it ??? How much would a plastic shield cost to fit over it ?
Jaahn

peter67 wrote:

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Another cluster f^$k from dub dub (VW )

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 Remember the old beetles had the battery under the back seat and quite often the springs in the base of the seat would cause a short in the battery and because of a thermal runaway the car would catch fire. (There did I get that right) 

Or after years of the battery being overfilled because no one could actually see into the cells of the battery during servicing, the resulting acid spill would cause the battery box to rust out and the battery would fall out onto the road.

Years ago I came across a beetle on the Stuart Highway that had *stopped* I pulled up to help and when I looked underneath all that was left of the battery were the lead posts bolted inside the brass battery terminal clamps. The battery had completely worn away after miles of contact with the road.

We might all hope that today the schoolboy engineers could make better use of modern material and their collective brains and create a design where important electrical components arent installed directly under seats.