Burnt My GTP

[hammerline81]

no idea what the fire is from. it was -45 that morning when i fired the car up to let it warm up. while it was warming up i heard it misfire a whole bunch of times, then it died. i quickly ran out to the car to find a **** pile of smoke coming from under the hood. cracked the hood open and there was flames against the firewall, above the header. so it melted my spark plug wires as well as the alternator power wire and a bunch more **** back there... coolant lines that run into the tensioner. just a **** show... im pretty pissed off considering that i had nothing touching the headers or even anywhere close of touching them. BUT the night before i had my reverse lights short out, my park lamps short out, rear and fronts. so there was FOR SURE a wire issue. i thought since it was arctic cold this week that maybe some of the fuses weren't connected properly or something that just got effected from the cold, but i dont know? fact is that i have to bring it in to get insured and im almost certain that its a write off.. so i guess my black Comp G is going to be getting fixed up and safetied sooner than planned... i hope that i get more than $5,000 for the car, if not ill request them to replace my vehicle with one just like it of the same value.

PS.
The pictures i tried getting are crap and its very very hard to see what actually burnt. its not like it was a huge blaze of fire, but enough that i couldn't put it out with a pale full of water the first time.. very much a kick in the balls for putting money and cleaning the car up from the previous owner to have this crap fall onto my lap

[Explicit_Spade]

Sorry for the loss. Hopefully the insurance company hooks you up pretty well on it.

[hammerline81]

Sorry for the loss. Hopefully the insurance company hooks you up pretty well on it.

well i paid $4,700 for the car and put at least a $2,000 into it in the past 8 months of owning it. Changed the LIM, plastic elbows to aluminum, went to green coolant, throttle body spacer, new tires, headers, regular tune up stuff(all the filters, plugs and wires) and then this **** happens. my old man is trying to tell me my headers are the cause of this, but the insurance lady I'm dealing with is trying to tell me since i tried to use my command start, that may be the cause. but no one will really know. there was a short some where and i think that short started this fire.

[dsmuts]

well at least you have a doner vehicle for the wrecked one now.

[hammerline81]

Very ****ty pictures but here you guys go, i took the best i could of the damage.

http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/An...tml?sort=3&o=0

[Bills1997GTP]

Link is broke


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[Russosaur]

Didn't look that bad but could just be the pictures

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[theaceofspades]

I can't view them either

[Scottydoggs]

[2007GPGTSC]

Thats to bad sorry for the loss.. any ideas yet what started the fire?

[Scottydoggs]

looks like a v/c leak oil fueled fire, being its on the back of the engine. from the pics it looks fixable for sure.

[hammerline81]

looks like a v/c leak oil fueled fire, being its on the back of the engine. from the pics it looks fixable for sure.

how exactly did you post pictures like that on the thread? lol. i feel stupid for asking, but im sure ill be posting pictures of the progress of the Comp G while im working on her so id much rather do it that way you did it than to send people to photobucket.

[Scottydoggs]

how exactly did you post pictures like that on the thread? lol. i feel stupid for asking, but im sure ill be posting pictures of the progress of the Comp G while im working on her so id much rather do it that way you did it than to send people to photobucket.

http://www.grandprixforums.net/showthread.php?t=73960 simply put theres links to the right when you open your pic in pb. you click the direct link, it will say copied. then come here. in the reply window the 3 rd icon from the right is for pics, paste it in the url tab of the small window that will open up. uncheck the checked box to make the pic large.

[hammerline81]

we'll see what my insurance does with it. I'm taking my rims and tires off of this car and putting them on the Comp G as well as my stereo system that i bought and put in there. so i might hear from the insurance company to tell me if this car goes to the grave yard or not on the 16th. Either way, i pay $700 to them as my deductible, totaled or not totaled.

I did have to put powersteering fluid in this car because she was leaking, maybe some of that sprayed onto the header? I really dont know what is the exact cause, there's a handful of stuff that could be the source to this problem. people say the headers, the command start, fluid leak, i think a short in the wires some where, but im not sure? only time will tell i guess.

[ericspecullaas]

photobuck is your friend lol

[hammerline81]

haha! maybe for me it is but not for some people that couldn't pull the link.

[ericspecullaas]

did you also add the hyper text code for it to be a link? as in selecting it and making it a link lol

[hollilynn]

Or to be simpler, just enlarge the image in photobucket, right click, copy image, come back to forum, right click, and paste.
Sorry about your car man, that sucks.

[Scottydoggs]

i just saw the p/p was leaking some, yeah being it looks like the wires are more cooked on the pass side the hose could have blown and sprayed on the exhaust and bam. BBQ.

[hammerline81]

Thanks for the lesson about the picture posting, thank you! haha! Also, thanks for the sympathy people. BIG kick in the balls when something like this happens. I guess on a positive note... If they dont write it off, I'll get a bunch of new **** put on my car and they can fix the power steering leak. But on the other hand i just hope if its written off that they don't offer me $3,000 or something insulting like that cause then ill go from a reasonable Ginger to the typical Angry Soulless Ginger! My insurance company screwed me once so I'm nervous.