[Leica] The long story of the car flambé:

[Richard Man]

Douglas, a 2004 Toyota RAV4 stick. Great car otherwise. I don't think any
car would normally have a catastrophic failure like this. Like, even with
no oil, no coolant, no anything would cause a car to combust.

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 4:34 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> My sympathies, Richard. At least no one was hurt, bar things. What was
> the car make and year? Spontaneous combustion is unusual but maybe there
> is a weakness in that particular model.
> Douglas
>
> On 14/05/2022 02:30, Richard Man wrote:
> > The long story of the car flambé:
> > 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
> >
> >
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