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| ![]() Thank god they had survived. Does anybody know what was the reaction of the dealer and VW after this incident. Are they ready to give her a refund or a new car. Looks like I need to be more careful even after I get my cars serviced from authorised service stations. |
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| ![]() After hearing this incident, am going to make it a point to check my car at regular intervals. Whenever I leave my car to the service station, I check the oil levels, performance of the car's equipment and after I receive it, I just ride it in the highway as the dealership is right on the highway and I check the oil and fluid levels as well. Time to get double safe as New Year approaches. ![]() Thanks, Achyuth |
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| ![]() Very unfortunate incident. Just when people had hope that Volkswagen had mended their ways after the exceptional service extended to the Jetta, here comes a reality check. Good to hear no one was injured in the process. But my question is, if the car has burnt down, how will they ascertain the cause of the fire? Is there some kind of black box in the car that will help the investigators help understand what the problem was? Last edited by ashwin.terminat : 29th December 2014 at 11:44. |
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a) The driver panicked. b) They're fibbing to get compensation from VW. c) The car's electrical systems (and thus, engine) shut down. Then, it's believable that the brakes stopped functioning (pedal becomes very firm) and even the steering became too hard. | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Sanyog Bajaj shares the following pictures of his BMW 320D catching fire: Quote:
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Note from Support - Post moved to the relevant thread. Please search before creating new threads. Last edited by n_aditya : 3rd February 2015 at 13:34. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Saw this Black Esteem starting to burn at crossing of Gurgaon-Faridabad road and Sunset Blvd. At first smoke started from the hood and gave enough time to owner to take out his valuables. The fire started to emerge after two minutes after I clicked this picture. The traffic policeman was clicking pictures of this car. I wonder if the could be saved if the nearby police post had a fire extinguisher. I also saw a lot of cabs present with mini extinguisher, but nobody cared to help. |
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BHPian | ![]() Just came across this video of KTM Duke catching fire in a petrol bunk. Have read many owners mentioning that the bike gets really hot. Could that be the reason for the fire, coupled with the location being the petrol bunk? |
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From what I read elsewhere, both the bike owner and the attendant were concentrating elsewhere, the fuel overflowed from the tank and spilled over the hot engine externals resulting in the fuel catching fire. Seems plausible to me. | |
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Here again looks like the fire started from the engine area and probably because a couple of drops of petrol fell on it causing the fire. | ||
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() This happened yesterday on the East West Corridor, between Purnia and Araria. A friend from Forbesgunj, Sharkhil Abid shared this pictures on Facebook. It is a multi-axle Merecdes (newspapers say Volvo) owned by ex-MP and a Hyderabad resident - Sh. Krishna Chandra Marg. No causalities. Bus only had 4 passengers and all got down safely, driver (as usual) ran away. |
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| ![]() Nano caught fire bang in the middle of an intersection at Gajanan Maharaj Math in Pune today. |
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| ![]() Look at the Nano's rear ( the C Pillar?) Doesn't it look like a Gas inlet? If it is , then this is a locally converted Nano to Gas. There seems to be the clue right there. Most likely the Gas tanks too are in the boot. This is so unfortunate ( or planned this way??? ) just when the AMT Nano is launching tomorrow. |
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