Oversees 335d E90 Catches Fire whilst driving

[Philip Foglar]

Just came across this on another forum - thread link

Driving home last night, come off the motorway and the car loses power. I decide to pull over and find out what the possible cause is, as I pull over I see smoke from under the hood - assuming it might be an overheating issue, to my surprise I open the hood to find a fire near the engine. Before I could even try to cut it out, it spread very fast, eventually burning the entire front end of the car by the time the fire service arrived. I have no idea what could have caused! I also just found this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17514172 but that has nothing to do with the 3 series. Anyone ever experience or heard of such a case?!

 

[petrivanzyl]

Someone on this forum like fires
:fencelook:

 

[Kobus328i]

Someone on this forum like fires
:fencelook:

All of a sudden I hear The Doors playing the back ground "C'mon babby light my fire"

 

[maximus]

and there was light!....i mean fire!

 

[Philip Foglar]

Tom Jones, Fighting fire with fire... :rollsmile:

 

[moranor@axis]

well i guess its out now... this is all part of my cleverly constructed plot to rid the world of the diesel scourge...

keep an eye out over the next few weeks you should see the large scale roll out :rollsmile:

 

[petrivanzyl]

Someone on this forum like fires
:fencelook:

And it didn't take him long to find this..

 

[mo_s]

lol...wonder what he told his wife...'hi honey, ima be a lil late..my car jus burned down....' :roflol:

 

[Raybimmer]

At least there was no fuel to burn if it got on a hot surface .

 

[Twinz]

Hectic :argh:

 

[Wes]

You cant argue though, that 335d was HOT..:fencelook:

 

[Philip Foglar]

I wonder what caused the fire, maybe some sort of electrical fire...

 

[zaleonardz]

heard a couple of times, a leaf or two in the airbog, ciggie stompie...


and bam, your roasty toasty...

 

[XMAX]

I wonder if the guy who designed the 458 Italia was involved in the design of this car as well :fencelook:

 

[frikkieh]

Normally happens to old cars, but a new one :nonono:

 

[msm]

Normally happens to new Italian cars ...

Fixed :rollsmile:

 

[MikeR]

:thumbdo: Insurance scam