A Weekend Kick off

[ronclark]

My wife's car catches of fire, I am guess a battery or some electrical started it

 

[Twister]

What kind of car was it? Was anyone hurt?

 

[JoshT]

That sucks! Bad way to start a weekend, hope it gets better.

 

[ronclark]

lucky no one got hurt, the car was a 2005 Grand Am

 

[straycat]

Good thing it was not parked in a garage or the whole house might have burned down, Bro!! One of my friends dad's Exploder caught fire a few years ago. It was parked in their garage and caught the house on fire. Another Ford recall...they lost the house and a couple of their dogs.

 

[ronclark]

Good thing it was not parked in a garage or the whole house might have burned down, Bro!! One of my friends dad's Exploder caught fire a few years ago. It was parked in their garage and caught the house on fire. Another Ford recall...they lost the house and a couple of their dogs.

Ouch that really sucks, i sure hope the insurance covered all of it. Its pretty crazy how fast fire spreads, all that damage was just a few minutes.
The fire department would not give a clue what the cause might be, i wish i knew what caused was. being centered around the battery makes one wounder.
I have always kept a fire extinguisher in my truck, I think ill keep them in all my rigs

 

[straycat]

I'm surprised a fire investigator was not there to examine the car. That is how they knew the Exploder was at fault. Ford has a bunch of lawsuits they are still going through over the recall of wiring in Ford vehicles (cruise control).
Did you install anything in her car recently that was electrical? Remove anything? Check for recalls on that car!!

 

[adsm08]

That sucks! Bad way to start a weekend

Not really. He burned up a Pontiac, we really should be giving him a medal.

 

[tmcalavy]

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Not really. He burned up a Pontiac, we really should be giving him a medal.

Ha! LOL! That's right...you can't trust them off brands.

Replace it with a Taurus/Sable or Montego/500 and don't look back. Make some brownie points by slobberin' all over the wife and saying..."Oh, honeypie, sure glad you weren't in that car. What would I ever do without you."

You young bucks take notice.

 

[adsm08]

Make some brownie points by slobberin' all over the wife and saying..."Oh, honeypie, sure glad you weren't in that car. What would I ever do without you."

As opposed to what I did today which was to yell at her after she almost ran me over with my truck.

 

[Frank The Tank]

Dude, my GF drove my truck up on the ramps today and when I yelled stop she floored it, right off the other side. I was like holy sheet!! So glad the tires are tall enough the body cleared the ramps.

The 2006 Grand Prixs have a recall. We keep getting letters in the mail for faulty heat shield on wiring near exhaust. Maybe we will actually take it to a dealer now....

 

[adsm08]

Dude, my GF drove my truck up on the ramps today and when I yelled stop she floored it, right off the other side. I was like holy sheet!! So glad the tires are tall enough the body cleared the ramps.

I have the front up on a stand to take the wheel off and fix the flat. I told her to start it and hold the brake so I could break the lugs off. I didn't tell her to take it out of gear or hold the clutch in since she knows how to drive stick and I thought that stuff would go without saying.

Nope, she hit the key clutch up, in gear. I just happen to have the safety bypassed at the moment.

 

[ronclark]

I'm surprised a fire investigator was not there to examine the car. That is how they knew the Exploder was at fault. Ford has a bunch of lawsuits they are still going through over the recall of wiring in Ford vehicles (cruise control).
Did you install anything in her car recently that was electrical? Remove anything? Check for recalls on that car!!

The last thing done to the car was when i replaced the blinker/hazard relay in the dash.

Not really. He burned up a Pontiac, we really should be giving him a medal.

Try and tell that to my wife, shes still not happy shes lost her car.

Ha! LOL! That's right...you can't trust them off brands.

Replace it with a Taurus/Sable or Montego/500 and don't look back. Make some brownie points by slobberin' all over the wife and saying..."Oh, honeypie, sure glad you weren't in that car. What would I ever do without you."

You young bucks take notice.

That's not working work she was the one driving the car.

As for another car, we need something bigger with 2 kids and maybe more in the future. My wife wants a suburban, i want something that gets way better MPG and has room for camping and 4wd for the snow, my little Ranger is just too small for all of us.

 

[JoshT]

Not really. He burned up a Pontiac, we really should be giving him a medal.

I wanted to say something along those lines, but I chose not to because...

Try and tell that to my wife, shes still not happy shes lost her car.

I have no way of knowing their vehicular situation, so this may cause big problems for them. Better a POS Pontiac that runs, than a burned out POS Pontiac that you can't use. Especially when it puts you down to one car for a family of four.

 

[adsm08]

I have no way of knowing their vehicular situation, so this may cause big problems for them. Better a POS Pontiac that runs, than a burned out POS Pontiac that you can't use. Especially when it puts you down to one car for a family of four.

I suppose, but that is kinda why I make a strict point of always having at least one more drivable vehicle than I have licensed drivers in the house.