Deleted Across the Entire Internet — Did Something Happen Inside the CCP!? Dongchedi Keeps Going Head-to-Head, Determined to Topple Huawei!? Someone with Inside Knowledge Comes Forward to Blow the Whistle — This Time They Came Prepared! Qiqi Baba TALK『Refresh the Mind 794』20261010

After Dongchedi released a video showing the brake pedal of the Maextro V800 breaking during testing, it sparked massive controversy; the video was subsequently deleted and the account's blue-V verification was revoked. In response, Dongchedi released a new video to confront the issue head-on, showcasing the disassembly of three identical vehicles and a comparison of the wreckage, pointing out defects in the bracket structure and materials. This has triggered widespread discussion across all sectors regarding the safety and quality of Huawei cars, as well as a wave of order cancellations by car owners.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. The matter of Dongchedi testing the brake pedal of that new Huawei car is actually still fermenting; it hasn't ended. What they released yesterday was just an eruption. Now, regarding the aftermath, I think some of you might have guessed it, but perhaps you didn't expect there would be more content to follow. First of all, many friends are aware of this matter because I already talked about it yesterday, but you haven't seen what this car looks like in Huawei's own promotional materials. Because everyone will surely say, "You are just intentionally smearing Huawei, right? Looking for that kind of footage." So let's take a look at what Huawei filmed and released themselves.

This gesture when exiting the car has actually already been mocked once. We won't mention that here for now. And this action is actually very unresponsive and quite silly. Then, this starry sky roof is plagiarized, and as for this coffee-making function, how useless it is—I think anyone who has actually sat in this kind of business van or driven one should know in their heart, so we don't need to say much more. Alright, then this.

No one is smearing Huawei; it's what they released themselves. Everyone needs to know, this is a million-level car. There shouldn't be any million-level cars that use these things as selling points. Huawei is the first, and the only one; I think it can be considered as having pioneered a new track. And yesterday, I actually said that this video released by Dongchedi would definitely be gone. And whether this account can even be saved is another matter. Sure enough, today, the video is gone, and their account's blue-V has been revoked; you can't see it, it's gone.

Actually, before Dongchedi released this video, they were already very cautious, because so-called insiders said this:

It is said that Dongchedi was still very afraid of the other party's legal team. They hired a notary office—because I also know people in the car industry, and my buddy told me—Dongchedi hired this notary office, and they bought three Maextro vehicles from the 4S dealership, with people from the notary office accompanying them the whole way, filming the video.

Put them in Dongchedi's warehouse, and three brand-new ones are still sealed up now. Actually, he didn't buy just three, he bought six: three were snapped apart, and the other three are sealed away, all from the same batch. Don't think you can win! He hired a third-party engineering firm, and they all came out, but it was useless. To be blunt, there is nothing to whitewash here. As for the professional stuff, let me take a look at it. Dongchedi belongs to Douyin, right? Behind Dongchedi is Douyin.

And there is nothing more to say, you know? You don't even need to say much about this brand itself, right? Those who understand, understand.

Actually, for those commentary pieces about this incident, everyone can see that they couldn't escape the fate of being taken down either. It's not just the original video; people need to know that behind Dongchedi stands ByteDance. It's not just some helpless, random independent self-media creator; it's backed by a huge mountain. Even so, the video was still deleted across the entire internet. Under these circumstances, Dongchedi chose a head-on confrontation and released a brand new video. What was the content of this video? It was an analysis video of the materials and structure of these three snapped brake pedals from Huawei.

So now, we have already dismantled the Zunjie V800.

Ah, the fractured pedal and the pedal bracket have been taken down; this is one of the three. As for the other two, we haven't dismantled them yet, but their wrecks are laid out right here. These wrecks are highly similar: the fracture surfaces are identical, and the fracture locations are the same—one-to-one clones, breaking like triplets. Its arm is metal, functioning like a lever, and there is a fulcrum right here.

With just some force.

It pushed all of them open, snap, snap, snap.

After cracking, the underside of it is torn open, all of this.

Very thin, right in the hollowed-out areas.

Where the stress is greatest, the place where stress is strongest is precisely the thinnest spot. The edge strength is also very thin, and the overall reinforcing structure is thin too; it doesn't have any force retention at all. You just step on it, and it collapses.

The bracket is the fixed location for your entire brake pedal, just like the foundation of a building. All your brake pedal operations must be based on this bracket. Its bracket is made of PP material (polypropylene) plus GF40, which is glass fiber. PP is very common and widely used in the catering industry. The advantage of PP is that it is high-temperature resistant, stable, and does not absorb moisture, and the weight-reduction effect is very obvious. But the disadvantage is also very obvious: you need to make sufficient structural designs and leave enough redundancy to approach the performance of metal. However, the biggest problem with this car is not the material.

The two in my hands also adopt PP material on some models—the polypropylene brake bases used along with their pedals: one comes from Wenmou and the other from Zhimou. This one is from Wenmou; its material uses PP plus LGF40, um, using long glass fibers, which makes it somewhat stronger in rigidity. Whether in terms of material thickness or structure, it is obviously much sturdier than this one. The design of this reinforcing rib is very reasonable, and this value is actually even more interesting. Zhimou's material is exactly the same as the Zunjie V800.

Even the mold maker for Zhimou and the mold maker for Zunjie are the same person, and the part numbers only differ by one digit. However, in terms of side material thickness, this car is much thicker.

This part of it is solid throughout.

Outside, it connects with reinforcing metal. Being an MPV as well, and having stepped on the brakes six times, did anything happen? Absolutely nothing. Therefore, the same part made by the same supplier using the same material can have completely different performances. The result is that it broke; the pedal is too small, and the bracket is not sturdy. Judging from the fracture situation of the Zunjie brake pedal bracket, it very much looks like a brittle overload failure of the bracket material.

It is likely caused by insufficient robustness of the instantaneous peak braking load. Although all three vehicles used the same modified PP material, judging from the brake pedal bracket structure, the Zunjie V800's pedal bracket is the weakest among the three cars. First of all, the center distance from the Zunjie V800's brake pedal to the central axis of the bracket pivot is the furthest, with this distance being 130 millimeters. The further the leftward offset distance of the pedal is, the greater the challenge to the brake pedal bracket structure, and the higher the requirement for structural strength. Yet, the pivot area structure of the Zunjie V800 happens to be the weakest among the three cars, with only a single layer of flooring providing support at the pivot.

While brand W's model also has a certain degree of left offset, we can see that they have added two to three layers of vertical reinforcing plates on both the left and right sides near the bracket pivot. Brand Z has three layers of vertical reinforcing plates on both the left and right sides. Brand W has three layers of vertical reinforcing plates on the right and two layers on the left. Compared with the other two cars, the Zunjie V800 uses the weakest structure to bear the maximum force while having similar brake pedal bracket materials. To make matters worse, only Zunjie has weld lines in the highest-stress area, which is something that should be avoided at all costs in plastic parts processing technology. On the brake pedal bracket pivot stress area of brand Z and brand W's models, no weld lines can be seen.

Obviously, it was genuinely done.

Design and process optimization.

The matching between the structure, materials, and region selection of this part may really need a big question mark, and we need to think about why such a serious problem occurred.

The brake pedal is the last line of defense! I remember internationally it was Ford that suffered a fracture, which triggered a large-scale global recall. I didn't expect that six years later, a similar scene would happen again. Many people might say that without a brake pedal, you can still stop the car by using the N or D gear.

With a normal braking distance of 38 meters, without using the P gear, you brake 140 meters. If there is a cliff ahead, you will slide down. If there is a big truck in front, an electric bicycle or pedestrian suddenly darting out, whether NDA is good or AB is good, if it ultimately fails to help you, and you finally have to rely on the brakes to solve that moment, only to have your brake pedal snapped by your own stepping, then those moments of utter despair are probably nothing more than that.

Dongchedi has been doing real-world tests every year since 2019.

From 2019 to now, at least 300 cars are tested every year, and the measured data is uploaded to the app. At least in the 100 km/h to zero braking test, they have all been completed relatively smoothly. I didn't expect that after six braking tests, these three cars couldn't do it. The second press failed, the third press failed, the fourth press failed, the brake pedals all snapped, and the pedal at the sole of the foot was gone.

This guy.

A car worth a million yuan, selling for one million yuan.

There is a concept in automotive engineering called PPM, which is the failure rate per million vehicles. The failure rate right now.

Is almost one hundred percent.

We reproduced this scenario in a closed test track.

There are many security personnel to ensure our safety.

I was inside the car, and I was scared to death like this.

Second press.

I really dare not imagine what would happen to a driver in real life if they encountered this situation.

Ah! Something happened! Something happened! It snapped.

The most basic function of a car is to safely take humans from point A to point B. It fails to do even the most basic safety, it loses its most basic function, and this is a very, very major and serious problem. In any car company, it would trigger a large-scale recall and comprehensive improvements. We are the owners of the third car, and we also hope that the car company can take this seriously.

That is to help car owners solve the problem, resolve this issue as soon as possible, and eliminate this hidden danger. We also hope that everyone attaches importance to safety and arrives at their destination safely and soundly. At the same time, do not stop braking with full force just because the pedals of the three cars were snapped. Encountering any emergency on the road, step on the brakes when you should, step on them with full force, stand up and step on them, so as to ensure safety as much as possible, and do not give up eating for fear of choking.

From the moment this V800 was bought and hauled over, this time it was recorded throughout.

Moreover, we also filmed this pedal: what did the braking bracket look like before testing?

Ensuring that no footage was lost, filmed in one continuous take.

The impact of this matter.

In fact, it goes far beyond this! Later, you could say, since wealth and traffic fell from the sky, why not capitalize on it, right? So various car companies started testing their own brake pedals.

This is Toyota's automatic pedal, which has an entirely metal structure. Come on, you can try how much force I can step on it with, and see if it can scratch it in the slightest. This is what we usually use for.

Doing strongman things.

Yes.

Try it, how much oil can I step out?

First time.

Ah, you don't say.

Zero, and then it has to receive electricity.

Which press? Hey.

Still not enough!

Out of energy, I am too.

Wow! Stepped it off the charts.

Both companies.

First.

The brake pedal is still intact. What do you all think of the quality of this brake pedal? Welcome everyone to review.

Give some opinions in the comment section.

Well, right now, videos discussing this matter have all been completely cleaned up, leaving not a trace. Uh, I think right now we'll see whether Dongchedi has the ability to keep biting onto this matter relentlessly, or whether Huawei might subsequently force Dongchedi to stop through certain means, so that no one is allowed to mention this matter ever again.

But just because of this one video, it seems that Huawei's market value has already evaporated by billions, and some car owners have started to cancel their orders, preferring to lose their deposits rather than take the car. After all, if we look at it from another perspective, we can understand—this isn't about a car door or some paint peeling off or other superficial issues; this is the brake pedal snapping off. Even the most dim-witted person wouldn't blindly choose Huawei at this point; a brake pedal is a matter of life and death.

Alright, that is all for this episode. If you liked it, please give it a like. That's about it for this episode. The member-only livestream should be in the next couple of days, Beijing/Taiwan time. Friends can also keep an eye on my community page, where I should be posting an announcement. See you all in the next episode.