Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, car flamb? is too nice a description for this! What a story ! Fortunately you could get out unharmed. Sorry for the Leica loss ... JM Jean-Michel Mertz 68750 - Bergheim ________________________________ De : LUG <lug-bounces+j2m46=hotmail.fr at leica-users.org> de la part de Richard Man <richard at richardman.photo> Envoy? : samedi 14 mai 2022 03:30 ? : Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Objet : [Leica] The long story of the car flamb?: The long story of the car flamb?: About 4 weeks ago, my wife Karisu had a minor accident, not even a fender bender, but apparently the previous owner HAD a major accident, the frame was bent, blah blah blah, but finally we picked it up last night, and in fact went to see Dr. Strange. Body shop didn't say anything about having it checked, just said "byeeeee!" (I had some bad vibe about the body shop but with the car in their hands already, not much we could do...) I took today off, planning to decompress by going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and some odd stuff happened, AC wasn't working, but then it did, accompanying by "VSC Trac" and engine check lights, so I said, hmm, we should probably have the car checked out on Monday, then a couple seconds later "let me pull out to the next exit," then a couple seconds after that, "nope. we are pulling over NOW" Stopped the car, smokes coming out, and we were like, GET OUT, now. now now Flames shooting up. It was quite an excitement, more than I ever want to see, let alone to our car. I left my iPhone and my Leica in there. Daughter wanted to go back to get her bag, and I was like, "nope, we need to move to the OTHER direction" Well, then you saw the video and photos. We just went to the tow place, and I picked out my Leica brand burnt toast. So in fact, Leica is not indestructible, despite its reputation. BUT everyone is alive. It could have happened in many worse ways, I'm sure the insurance will want to talk to the body shop. I suspect maybe a sensor or two or three malfunctioned, but who knows. There's definitely NO evidence left https:/richardman.photo/nPICS/280824095_10217124534264203_6088291997705888193_n.jpg https://richardman.photo/nPICS/280968545_10217124531664138_2221344561762196172_n.jpg -- "Some People Drive, We Are Driven" https://richardman.photo _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information