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  • #16
    I used to work at a Lexus dealership. There was a Dodge dealer down the street as well. One of the Dodge Service Techs was test-driving an Intrepid (after servici9ng it) down the big road that all the dealerships were on, and he was sitting at the light right at the entrance to our lot and the car burst into flames.

    He was still in it, it was still running, so he pulled it into our lot. (!!!!)

    Our GM goes running out there to make sure the guy can get out of the car, and the lot guys go running out there with handfuls of keys to move the brand new cars that were on that part of the lot.

    I called 911, and then the Dodge dealership. I thought it was only fair to tell them that they were going to have a very unhappy customer on their hands once they tell the person that their car has offed itself in the Lexus parking lot.

    Then the hoses in the engine start popping and spewing fluid everywhere. Then the tires explode. The car is completely engulfed in flames, and the fire dept shows up.

    Nobody was hurt, thankfully.... but that was one f'ed up day.

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    • #17
      I can't tell you how many times a car with smoke billowing from under the hood would not only pull into whatever gas station I was working at, but they'd actually pull up to the pumps!


      I'm bringing disdain back...with a vengeance.

      Oh, and your tool box called...you got out again.

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      • #18
        Quoth mandaliz8704 View Post
        I used to work at a Lexus dealership. There was a Dodge dealer down the street as well. One of the Dodge Service Techs was test-driving an Intrepid (after servici9ng it) down the big road that all the dealerships were on, and he was sitting at the light right at the entrance to our lot and the car burst into flames.
        Yeah, that sounds like something a Dodge would do.
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        • #19
          Ok two fire car stories then.

          First was the time the BF and I were going to the airport in a leisure trip (to the airport, we love commercial planes, so we like to go there and watch them for a long while), when we get to a intersection with two overpasses, on one of the overpasses I see a brown malibu going to the left, when it sudenly burst into flames, and I mean, one second you have a normal car and the next second there are two meters long flames coming from the hood engulfing the windshield and ceiling of the car.... we never could figure out what happened since we couldn't reach them from where we where, we did call the authorities but last I saw of the car it was still driving on, like nothing was wrong....

          The second one is a rant about the OH SO LOVELY neighbors I once had in the building where I used to live with dad, well they had a taxi company they ran from the apartment in front of us. Anyhow it seems one of their taxis crashed and burned out, to the charred metal husk, so what do they do? they hire a towing truck to get the husk to the building's parking lot... they hired a NORMAL towing truck (not a flatbed), which hooked the burned down WHEEL-LESS car frame, and pulls it and then pushes it into place at the building at 3 AM, imagine please at 3 AM a 55 minute ordeal that involved pulling and then pushing scraping metal hulk over pavement on a building's uncovered parking lot.... the whole BLOCK was awake during that, it's a miracle they didn't get shot or the cops called on them.....
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          • #20
            Quoth Primer View Post
            I drove a blue Pinto back in the late '70s-early-'80s. I yielded for an ambulance at a very busy intersection and got rear-ended by a dump truck who was trying to beat the ambulance through the intersection. He bashed in my tailgate, but missed ALL my tail lights. A week later, I had it up on a lift for something else, and saw how close he came to my gas tank. I almost fainted right there. Had a vehicle with a regular height bumper hit me, I *would* have exploded!
            Scary. We had to study the Pinto case for one of my paralegal courses. The fact that the problem could have been fixed for under $10, but they didn't fix it because they wanted to keep the price of the car under a certain level and they figured the odds of payout costs for lawsuits being less than what it would cost to fix.
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            • #21
              I saw a pickup go up in flames one night...as I was driving to my grandmother's. I'm coming down the last mile-plus-long straightaway. There's a beat-up Nissan pickup in the distance. As I'm getting closer, smoke starts pouring out of the hood As I'm about to pass...the truck pulls over, driver jumps out...just as the flames start shooting out I assume the guy had a cellphone, since the fire trucks got there pretty quickly. In fact, I hadn't even reached the next town, when I got passed by 3 fire trucks coming the other way!
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              • #22
                Quoth protege View Post
                I saw a pickup go up in flames one night... There's a beat-up Nissan pickup in the distance. As I'm getting closer, smoke starts pouring out of the hood As I'm about to pass...the truck pulls over, driver jumps out...just as the flames start shooting out
                awww great. I just posted about the Pinto, and now I hear this about a Nissan pick up! I currently drive a Nissan Frontier p.u.!

                lesseee...anybody know where I can by an Audi?
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