The Story of My IKON world's most unfortunate car.

[btirthankar]

Originally Posted by dockap

seems like ford cars are prone to catch fire know of 1 doctor in my city who had a ikon and it caught fire also

Ford does not have Plastic Bumpers (they are made of some paper mache material) atleast the escort was.

Also most of the Ikons my company hires from Orix has fire extinguishers fitted .

[gendarmee]

Originally Posted by btirthankar

I quite understand your plight. Here is one latest incident of a Cielo in Hyderabad getting burnt (pictures taken by me yesterday).

Once I had a fiat 73 model way back in 1998. which was old ructy and rickety. As I was merrily driving one day, smoke came out of the car.. I got out and ran for my life....people came and poured water on the bonnet. The battery cable had burnt along with the wiring harness. The ignition wiring of the car had got crimped with the rusted bodyshell. Then I actually used some wires to start the car with the same battery and drive back home.

Is that the same Gas vehicle that caught fire on the flyover?
Read it in the news paper..
I have a 56 model FIAT & had 59 model, never had any electrical problem, over the years it just boils down to maintain'ce, old car or new car.

Originally Posted by shatrughna

Whats was that. This is so unfortunate. Ford Icons- why are they prone to fire, accidents etc. I remember an instance where 4 people died in Mumbai as an Icon travelling at very high speed around 150 plus , broke into two pieces from centre.

More prone to accidents & fire? you can check that line again.
Any other car there in a near similar crash to compare this particular crash against?
Wasnt that a picture that had come in overdrive or some car mag a couple years back, had an underage kid who took friends for a spin and hit a pole side wards after loosing control? most new cars are designed to break up to bear the schock of a crash...

I dont think one can take up stray incidents of the ikon and blame the the model, I've seen the old honda city reduced to the body shell right in the middle of the road, apparently it was coz of the music player which had amplifiers which overloaded the battery...one should look at it in a more holistic way..
May be, the cars catching fire has more to do with the hooking up of electrical equipment in a flawed/improper manner or hooking up incompatible equipment. Offcourse there can be other reasons.
Most equipment requires a positive line, so some decorator/accessories guys just pull a line from the battery instead of hooking it up through the switch, so effectively there is no fuse on the line, unless installed, if this line is of poor quality wire, aged wire or gets physically damaged it can cause a short circuit, as any part of the metal body acts as a negative terminal, or water/dirty water too does the job.

[benbsb29]

The less said about the Ikon which split in two, the better. No car could have saved its occupants under a situation like that.

We are going way off-topic here. This is an ownership review thread, and lets keep it to that.

[btirthankar]

Originally Posted by gendarmee

Is that the same Gas vehicle that caught fire on the flyover?
Read it in the news paper..
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Yes that was the one. It was a eerie experience as I luckily happened to drive by and Moments later the traffic froze