Ta, and that small disjoint is enough to make it fail ? Design error perhaps ?
Think you might have to try quite hard to break it like that, otherwise someone at our place would have managed it by now. I guess it’s a fail safe mode, cos it’s possible to touch the 32amp circuitry once the lipstick is off?
That looks like a BP / Chargemaster charger. If so, a company I used to work for was heavily involved and there’s a small chance some of my code is helping to make your experience with it as awful as possible. The fact it’s physically broken is quite surprising as we had nothing to do with the mechanical design.
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The socket on the other side did still seem to be trying to work which may not be helpful.
I used to spend a lot of time on the phone to BP about why their charger was dormant, when I was forced to use them as there was nothing else.
Bakewell is the worst culprit. It makes you celebrate a Tesla charging station that bit more, for price and convenience.
Shame about the nazi-ism, I guess they made the trains run on time as well 
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Ours are glitchy. We have Peugeot and Mercedes vans, and occasionally the pods throw a wobbler if there are 2 different brands plugged in. Seems they revert to an earlier firmware now and then just for the hell of it.
To be fair at the beginning when it was the leaf, that tiny thing that couldn’t get up a hill and some Renaults no one bought the standards weren’t very standard. So I can believe that if you have a couple of different ones plugged into the same post it shits itself.
Here’s us working on the ‘utracharge’ in chargebastards basement, fuck it was freezing. I did the UI for that one and some led control board.
Dat coiled extension lead 
Oh that’s nothing. Try reverse engineering the comms protocol for a competitors high output product in another drafty garage with snow melt on the floor.
Also having to hoon the company leaf around the snowy back roads of pulloxhill to flatten the battery so you can run a test charge again.
The more I think about that job the more I wonder how I didn’t leave with fewer fingers or in a coffin.
Lovely Milkfloat, this:
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That car is cursed. Take the hint JB. Change it just as soon as you possibly can, and definitely before the warranty ends. It needs to become someone else’s problem.
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I know you are right I am going to look into it. The problem is that its a Cat S. The repairs were all properly carried out and it has been MOT’D 3 times since, last time by a main dealer, I bought the car thinking it would see me through my retirement.
The stupid thing is that the only other car that I have ever had real problems with, and I’ve owned 2 Alfas, was with a VW that I bought brand new in 2008. There were so many problems with that one that they couldn’t fix, they gave me another brand new one. * Possibly due to me knowing someone at VW board level.
I going to get a valuation and look at my options.
I appreciate it’s not straightforward but I hope that you can find a way out of your VW nightmare that isn’t too punishing on the wallet. Good luck!
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Can they do any advanced diagnostics on the ECU and wiring loom?
Could be that during the cat S damage something was pinched enough to cause intermittent or delayed problems rather than an immediate continual fault.
Guy at work had an electric Corsa and his mrs bumped it into the back of another car at traffic lights. It was written off as uneconomical to repair even though it was only bumper damage, it turns out much of the wiring runs through the front bumper though. He bought it back and repaired but had loads of errors with the braking system until he got the loom replaced.
Was the replacement VW trouble free?
No doubt its complicated and easier said than done, but I reckon you should aim to ditch that car asap.
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It’s why I would never buy an insurance job electric car (sorry).
The battery is a big part of most of these cars chassis and crumple zone. The Tesla’s are the worst for it, any of them get T boned even slightly and they are written off as the battery is so close to the sills.
We have an issue at work with electric cars involved in collisions, when the battery is compromised even slightly the fire brigade follow the vehicle all the way to the yard in case it suddenly mushroom clouds.
Still gives fire something to do 
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