The point being is that the tires turned back up in southern CA after being purchased in Mexico. Serial numbers confirmed their origin. Yes I took delivery of a 8800GVW dodge with lowered tire pressures. How do I know? The side walls had "tennis balls" growing on the side within a month. And the pre-delivery sheet had 32 psi written on it.
A lot of people are opportunistic. If they receive a new phone some may try and sell a "bad branded" phone on the open market. I'm quite sure it'll be a trade in at a authorized store. You can never underestimate the dishonestly some people will stoop to.
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I agree that in the case of the tires it was beyond Firestone's control regarding tire pressure, however the sidewalls were deemed weak so it was a two fold problem with improper inflation causing undue stress from over-flexing and thereby generating excess heat.
The same may hold true here in that the batteries may be slightly flawed, but then the charging process is so hard on them that it is the catalyst that causes catastrophic failure. I'm not saying the batteries aren't defective enough on there own to be recalled, just that if charged at slower, "standard" charging rates they may not fail at all.
We're pushing these batteries to their limits already, and they are volatile to begin with. No other battery chemistry is anywhere near as potentially dangerous. No other battery exists in such a controlled state of chaos, running in a narrow range between failure for too low a voltage and thermal runaway for too high. No other battery that I'm aware of develops internal shunts that result in it exploding and bursting into torch-temperature shooting flames.
If these batteries are charged slowly and carefully they perform tremendously well, but if you push them beyond the breaking point - something easily done if you try (just ask RC fans), they will fail catastrophically. So my argument is, are the batteries that are failing really all that defective, or is it just that the fast charging process incorporated into the Note 7 is somehow flawed such that it pushes marginally safe batteries beyond the breaking point?
We're pushing greater and greater power demands on these batteries with more and more powerful phones and larger displays. At the same time we're trying to go thinner and smaller in battery size to allow the phones to become nothing more than a screen and battery. So then when we reach critical mass we start trying to squeeze more performance out of the batteries, boost charging them in 15 minutes to near half their capacity, generating... Wait for it... Excess Heat, and really pushing the envelope on what's safe with an already delicate balance in electrochemical containment.
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