VT on Fire

[nugatory]

A couple of quick crappy pictures of a VT or Later I saw on fire on Rode Rd, Northside of Brisbane. Sorry for the quality, but it was a spare of the moment thing. Flames went from front tyre to front tyre and popped them both, and I could smell the burning rubber 1km away as I was approaching it. It does happen!

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...photo-0055.jpg

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...photo-0056.jpg

VT

[azzfox]

100x75 images LOL

poor VT tho.. no car should have to go through that

[nugatory]

haha yeah I'm sorry about that, I just updated them with the crappy 640x480 ones which are only slightly better

[Harvs82]

A couple of quick crappy pictures of a VT or Later I saw on fire on Rode Rd, Northside of Brisbane. Sorry for the quality, but it was a spare of the moment thing. Flames went from front tyre to front tyre and popped them both, and I could smell the burning rubber 1km away as I was approaching it. It does happen!

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...photo-0055.jpg

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...photo-0056.jpg

VT

Dare I say it.... but the cause of that could well have been that wire that burns out on the back of the alternator....

[nugatory]

Dare I say it.... but the cause of that could well have been that wire that burns out on the back of the alternator....

I read about that on the VS's page, but is that a common VT fault too? I suppose it would be being ecotec and all. I'll be checking mine tomorrow now too!

I suspect either that, or it could've been a fuel leak because the flames were literally pouring upward into the engine bay.

Was a damn fine car too but the paints a bit singed on it now.