MINUETT du Mort
12-28-2006, 07:08 PM
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MINUETT du Mort
My TTR died a painfull death tonight from a car fire.
It started in the headlight switch, smoked immediately after I had started the car, and turned on the Xenons.
The left side of the top of the dash and vent immediately started smoking.
I turned off the car and the lights, and the smoking stopped.
I started the car, drove with the parking lights on, no smoke .
I thought I was OK, but got 4 blocks, and fire was coming out of the vent.
I quickly pulled it out, saved it, but could not get at the fire to put it out.
I had nothing.
I had to sit and watch it burn while my wife called 911.
Car is a total loss, everything inside is burned.
Drivers' side roll bar hoop melted.
Everything from the firewall forward is OK.
Fire burned the whole drivers side, back to the tail light.
I will get more clear pics tomorrow.
These are cell phone pics, I have some of the actual fire, but I was shaking so much, they are all blurred.
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/alleft.jpg">
Guy in the red shirt took lots of pics and he will send them to me.
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1939.jpg">
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1940.jpg">
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1941.jpg">
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1942.jpg">
It started in the headlight switch, smoked immediately after I had started the car, and turned on the Xenons.
The left side of the top of the dash and vent immediately started smoking.
I turned off the car and the lights, and the smoking stopped.
I started the car, drove with the parking lights on, no smoke .
I thought I was OK, but got 4 blocks, and fire was coming out of the vent.
I quickly pulled it out, saved it, but could not get at the fire to put it out.
I had nothing.
I had to sit and watch it burn while my wife called 911.
Car is a total loss, everything inside is burned.
Drivers' side roll bar hoop melted.
Everything from the firewall forward is OK.
Fire burned the whole drivers side, back to the tail light.
I will get more clear pics tomorrow.
These are cell phone pics, I have some of the actual fire, but I was shaking so much, they are all blurred.
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/alleft.jpg">
Guy in the red shirt took lots of pics and he will send them to me.
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1939.jpg">
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1940.jpg">
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1941.jpg">
<img src="http://www.loomknitting.com/auditt/images/TTDeath/12-28-06_1942.jpg">
