pictures of my afternoon (and car)

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Posted by j_spot on Apr-27-2006 04:54:

pictures of my afternoon (and car)

http://antipathyguild.com/members/t...sh/P1000166.JPG

http://antipathyguild.com/members/t...sh/P1000167.JPG

http://antipathyguild.com/members/t...sh/P1000168.JPG

http://antipathyguild.com/members/t...sh/P1000169.JPG

http://antipathyguild.com/members/t...sh/P1000170.JPG

http://antipathyguild.com/members/t...sh/P1000171.JPG

yea, my car didnt have a good day (nor did I)

pics are a bit big, i need to resize, but until then....

Posted by starsearcher on Apr-27-2006 04:56:

wow wtf...how did that happen?

Posted by j_spot on Apr-27-2006 04:58:

my answer is electrical fire started in the dash. Official answer is unknown at this time.

Posted by DOMG on Apr-27-2006 05:25:

Poor jay! His car is dead but at least he is ok!

I saw him on the news today! Ill buy you drinks friday bro!

Posted by SparcZ on Apr-27-2006 05:49:

holy crap! were you in the car when that happened?

Posted by j_spot on Apr-27-2006 06:03:

quote:
Originally posted by SparcZ
holy crap! were you in the car when that happened?

yea, i was driving when it happened.

Posted by SparcZ on Apr-27-2006 06:21:

wow you must have got outta dodge pretty quickly...did you slam on the brakes in the middle of the road or what?

i have thought about that happening since my car will cut out and then restart when i am driving on occassion...better get it checked out

Posted by j_spot on Apr-27-2006 06:26:

naww, it jsut started out w/ smoke, I thought my car was over heating so i pulled over into a parking lot, popped the hood, went around, and while I was out of the car, smoke turned to fire in the dash.

Posted by on Apr-27-2006 06:31:

What's the full story..

Posted by apri_peel on Apr-27-2006 06:55:

oh shit!

messed up wiring?

fact that its a VW makes it even sadder

glad you're alright tho. you were lucky!

Posted by kypez on Apr-27-2006 07:07:

ahh.. I thought your msn name was a joke.. sorry to see a VW go down.

Posted by j_spot on Apr-27-2006 07:21:

quote:
Originally posted by J:\Digital
What's the full story..

ive told it a million times, whats one more.

stop @ Giant 45 to sell a record to a guy who works there. Get back in my car headed east on 12th ave. right in front of the husky house I notice smoke coming from my tape deck. Initially I thought i had melted a tape, so I eject it, but nope, its intact. Next instinct says im overheating. So I look for a place to pull over and pop the hood. I see a spot around the corner in the parking lot of what used to be colonel belcher hospital (SE corner of 5th street and 12th ave). I pull in, park and pop the hood, expecting steam to come out...but theres nothing, no smoke, no steam nothing. So I go back to my car, and theres tonnes of smoke now. Seconds after I get back to my car there are flames coming from out of the dash. At this point I moved to the other side of the parking lot. No fire extinguisher, 911 was already called, nothing much more I could do at that point.

so full story is, i was driving, and what I believe to be an electrical fire started in my dash, sending the whole dash, followed by the interior up in flames. really, it all happened in what I guess to be under a minute, i mean after I popped my hood to check there, I was on teh phone w/ 911, and before I had the full adress given, there was flame all over the inside.

Factory (tape) deck, no extra speakers, no cigarettes, nothing like that. It just went up for no reason

Posted by apri_peel on Apr-27-2006 13:15:

sue VW for a faulty factory tape player

really sorry to hear about this tho, j
its like a scene from a funny movie, except im sure its not all that funny to you right now

Posted by SparcZ on Apr-27-2006 14:33:

shit i just found out why my car cuts out! there is a recall on the ignition! Check this out!

http://www.automallusa.net/1999/hon...ic/recalls.html

Posted by on Apr-27-2006 15:07:

quote:
Originally posted by j_spot
ive told it a million times, whats one more.

stop @ Giant 45 to sell a record to a guy who works there. Get back in my car headed east on 12th ave. right in front of the husky house I notice smoke coming from my tape deck. Initially I thought i had melted a tape, so I eject it, but nope, its intact. Next instinct says im overheating. So I look for a place to pull over and pop the hood. I see a spot around the corner in the parking lot of what used to be colonel belcher hospital (SE corner of 5th street and 12th ave). I pull in, park and pop the hood, expecting steam to come out...but theres nothing, no smoke, no steam nothing. So I go back to my car, and theres tonnes of smoke now. Seconds after I get back to my car there are flames coming from out of the dash. At this point I moved to the other side of the parking lot. No fire extinguisher, 911 was already called, nothing much more I could do at that point.

so full story is, i was driving, and what I believe to be an electrical fire started in my dash, sending the whole dash, followed by the interior up in flames. really, it all happened in what I guess to be under a minute, i mean after I popped my hood to check there, I was on teh phone w/ 911, and before I had the full adress given, there was flame all over the inside.

Factory (tape) deck, no extra speakers, no cigarettes, nothing like that. It just went up for no reason

Fuck dude... That's intense.. Sorry to hear, but atleast you are well.. Good Luck with insurance!!

Posted by lateforwork on Apr-27-2006 16:51:

OMG dude, I am so sorry... at least you are okay to write about it though. sorry.

Posted by christofa on Apr-27-2006 18:26:

crazy... I guess its the VW that got unpimped this time...

Posted by ChadVanDyk on Apr-27-2006 19:31:

That sucks mate. But on a good note, you could say it was your car's tribute to the Flames playoff run. Only a true Flames fan drives a car that spontaneously combusts a few blocks from the Saddledome.

Posted by SparcZ on Apr-27-2006 19:52:

his car pulled a canuck on him and just went down in flames for no apparent reason

Posted by arek on Apr-27-2006 20:01:

this sounds way too suspicious.

no doubt a few leaf fans sabotaged that ride.

Posted by deejay2002 on Apr-27-2006 23:21:

same thing happened to my friends vw.

it;s common i guess

Posted by on Apr-28-2006 00:54:

quote:
Originally posted by ChadVanDyk
That sucks mate. But on a good note, you could say it was your car's tribute to the Flames playoff run. Only a true Flames fan drives a car that spontaneously combusts a few blocks from the Saddledome.

EDIT: On a more serious note... What do the owners of the car on either side of yours have to say? Looks like their's are torched too..

Posted by j_spot on Apr-28-2006 01:11:

quote:
Originally posted by J:\Digital

EDIT: On a more serious note... What do the owners of the car on either side of yours have to say? Looks like their's are torched too..

the car downwind is toast, upwind is damaged, but I think it will be ok.

as to what they said I dunno, the cops took care of that.

Posted by David Househead on May-01-2006 00:18:

always sad to see a dub go down

that makes 2 white mk3 golfs destroyed in Calgary this week

BANG!

Posted by SparcZ on May-01-2006 01:06:

i guess those people that owned the other cars were happy that you parked next to them! lmfao!

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