Title: Time for a recall?
Post by: Nordic on August 24, 2010, 07:27:23 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11071047
Not good if you own one of these fire bombs. cancelled the order for mine now.
Not good if you own one of these fire bombs. cancelled the order for mine now.
Title: Re: Time for a recall?
Post by: 6 Euros - JD on August 24, 2010, 08:35:52 pm
Even a push bike would catch fire if it crashed in America!
Title: Re: Time for a recall?
Post by: nopanic - neil on August 24, 2010, 09:37:07 pm
Funny bit, was on the M56 the other day and saw the remains of a burnt out sports car.
With what was left all I can tell you was it was blue and nice alloys (the remaining 2), that was all left in front wheel arch.
Guess - Lotus or TVR (going for the Lotus at present)
With what was left all I can tell you was it was blue and nice alloys (the remaining 2), that was all left in front wheel arch.
Guess - Lotus or TVR (going for the Lotus at present)
Title: Re: Time for a recall?
Post by: mgmark on August 24, 2010, 11:03:37 pm
The crashes are, I imagine, down to the laws of physics overcoming the lack of the driver's recognition of them. The fires? Well, it probably just goes to show how far the attention of Italian manufacturers attention to fuel and electrical system integrity and reliability has progressed...or not....
The piccies do show the effects of fire upon carbon fibre and plastic quite well, rather like the days of yore with the early Reliant Scimitars, which caught fire because the fuel hose connection to the carb was not pinned and worked loose to spray fuel all over the nice hot engine and exhausts. I seem to recall that the result was much the same - a few metal bits left at the end...
MG Mark
The piccies do show the effects of fire upon carbon fibre and plastic quite well, rather like the days of yore with the early Reliant Scimitars, which caught fire because the fuel hose connection to the carb was not pinned and worked loose to spray fuel all over the nice hot engine and exhausts. I seem to recall that the result was much the same - a few metal bits left at the end...
MG Mark
Title: Re: Time for a recall?
Post by: Nordic on August 25, 2010, 09:10:08 am
Making a link between your everyday crash and a car bursting in flames does seem a trifle odd tbh, still make a good headline on a dull day in the newsroom.
Title: Re: Time for a recall?
Post by: Andy Zarse on August 25, 2010, 09:50:36 am
The piccies do show the effects of fire upon carbon fibre and plastic quite well, rather like the days of yore with the early Reliant Scimitars, which caught fire because the fuel hose connection to the carb was not pinned and worked loose to spray fuel all over the nice hot engine and exhausts. I seem to recall that the result was much the same - a few metal bits left at the end...
MG Mark
(http://www.scimitar.demon.nl/scimitar/rest/brand1.jpg)
Title: Re: Time for a recall?
Post by: lynxd67 on August 25, 2010, 12:06:31 pm
Things don't change much then. When my 348 had it's first service the dealer told me that the oil pipe at the camshaft hadn't heen secured and could have popped off anytime. One of my horror cars, that one.
