My car caught on fire tonight....
11-05-08, 08:40 AM
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Jeff I'm really sorry to see this happen to you. I would go ahead and claim the insurance just take out the turbo and play dumb. Bring it to a friends shop who has a good relationship with your insurance company and it will work to your advantage. I've had many claims and as long as the shop and the adjuster are cool they will cover you with no problems and to your advantage. Put full glass coverage on your car its an extra $20-30 a year and there is no deductable. I've also replaced my main fuse box becuase the stock one burnt out the ground, I purchased a used one from a junk yard for 150 easy.
11-05-08, 11:16 AM
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I believe it was electrical, but caused by the turbo in some way or another. Theres so much heat next to the turbo that it melted off the insulation on the wires close to the battery. Then it started to short out and I guess it progressed from there.
I just looked it up online, and new subharness for that section costs $1000 and that's with my discount lol! Hopefully that is the only damaged harness because the other main harness is $4000!
I just looked it up online, and new subharness for that section costs $1000 and that's with my discount lol! Hopefully that is the only damaged harness because the other main harness is $4000!
11-05-08, 12:37 PM
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Jeff, sorry to read about this - glad you came out of it safely though!
11-05-08, 01:28 PM
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im sorry jeff for ur car im really sad when i saw the pic,first i didn't belive the title but when i saw the pics i was shocked glad to see u ok anything in earth can be fixed don't be sad you can rebuild ur car agian and agian don't stop at any point just keep going i hope i was in usa to help u.
11-05-08, 03:34 PM
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it does help, but with the turbo sitting so high up and so close to the battery, tragedy might still happen =\. stock twins is fine because it's sitting very close to the engine.
i noticed that a lot of turboed is/gs catches on fire more than supra/sc. Maybe the battery has to do with it; just a correlation that i'm seeing so far.
i noticed that a lot of turboed is/gs catches on fire more than supra/sc. Maybe the battery has to do with it; just a correlation that i'm seeing so far.
11-05-08, 06:03 PM
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You hit the nail on the head right there Jeff. Sorry to hear of this. I thought this was a sick, sick joke, but then I still couldn't believe it, waiting for the punch line as I was reading, and then it slowly sunk in that this wasn't a joke. Glad you are ok and the damage didn't burn down the entire car. With your wrenching skills, you're car should be back better than ever.