Thread: my brother's car on fire (pictures)

so heres what i had to put up with last night

my brother's 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP.
















more pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceco...ith/124080988/


he was having problems with a transmission line; there was a leak and the tranny was slipping and then he fixed it and it was running fine. But it must've blown again, thats what started the fire. Fortunately he's fine and he was already preparing to get a new car anyway. He's looking into getting an acura tl (sweet)

gonna miss the car tho; supercharged = fun!

Damn, good to hear everybody is ok.

good thing he got out man.

fire = firemen, YAY!

when u said the car was on fire i was thinking that it looks hottt not knowing it was actually on fire wow............goood to know everyone is ok thou.

wow fire!!!!
Good thing he's OK.
Where did he get the car repaired? Law suit?

Sdizzle... I dunno girl... lol

dayum that sucks...yea that supercharger is damn fun, glad every1 is oki doki

Wow...
Good thing noone was hurt, especially your bro.

So whats happening? Insurance paying for it? Details.

good thing everyone is ok

so the tranny was leaking flammable fluids? how did it spark, just wondering.

who are u no car? have u introduced urself yet? tsk tsk tsk lol

im from the b15sentra forums and i got a email saying my account will be deleted if i dont make a post so i stopped by to make a post and this one caught my attention lol. im from long island and i got a 1.8s. btw id like to kno about that car fire cuz my car almost went on fire once from a bad fuse, how long did it take for the car to get to the point you couldnt put the fire out? what happend.

hi guys, thanks he's ok.

well, started about a week ago when he noticed he was leaking fluid and the tranny was slippy. So we open up the hood and right away see that a clamp for the line was offand tranny fluid was spewing out everywhere.

I wasn't there when him and his friend fixed the line but they put in my tranny fluid, drove it around and there was no leak and tranny went back to normal.

5 days later this happened.

So, what happened was the line came off again, spewed out tranny fluid all over the engine bay. Some of the previous stuff was still in over the engine bay as well.

All that fluid all over the place, and yea ur gonna get a fire; spark can come from anywhere, sparkplug engine im sure.

Now, he only started to really smoke while he was pulling up into park. The reason he wasn't on fire driving home on the highway was because he was going fast enuff that the air rushing in was probabl snuffing out the flame. However when he slowed down, nothing was preventing the flame from growing.

It started off small and we thought we could use a bucket of water to contain it. While he was doing the buckets i rushed and got the fire extinguisher. I sprayed as much as i could into the engine bay but there wa s no way to open up the hood. At that point u can see there was nothing left to do

so here are pics from today. Geico wanted it off the street and into a some body shop or someplace where they can access it. Fortunately im freinds with my guys at midas and they said it was cool to have it towed there.

My brother made an appointment for the guy to come so we'll have to see what happens.

He's got fire and theft, and this is obviously a total loss so hopefully he'll be getting the totaly value which is around 4- 5 grand











On a lighter note, i was dispointed that they towed it so early -
I had called dibs on smashing the rest of the windows (ive never done that b4 so i figured its good practic...hey he needs a new car rite?). And then we were gonna use the rest for paintball target practice. heh

speaking of paintball, here are a few pics from last weekend where i played

damn that awesome...if i could afford to play paintball i would do it every weekend. I would be in great shape then hahahaha

Hey spacecowboy right now you have 69 post, if I were you I'd hurry up and post cause you don't wanna be there now. Do you? hahahaha lol...

PS paintball looks fun.

hah whats wrong with 69? Thats the best number

hey spacecowboy where did you go painballing

high velocity paintball

its out in eastern long island around coram (exit 63 or so off lie)

isn't that cousing painball or are both of them over ther