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This one's for you Lucy ;-)

Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 14:08

awill4x4

Here you go Lucy, someone's finally found a use for a Jeep even if it is only for toasting the marshmallows.
Quick wheres the marshmallows
Apparently it's the second Jeep to go up in flames at Stockton Beach recently.
Regards Andrew.
ps: "it's a Jeep thing"
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AnswerID: 219460   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 14:18

Exploder replied:

Transmission cooler Line rupture ??

Almost Look like the fire started inside the car but.
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FollowupID: 480066   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 19:27

Red One posted:

egg inside the gear box

seen it before
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AnswerID: 219463   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 14:37

Bilbo replied:

I'd agree with you Exploder. The wind is blowing from the back of the car to the front of the car and yet most of the smoke is coming from the inside rear of the car.

I'd say that fire started inside the passenger compartment of the car. Cigarette perhaps? When I was a smoker I had a few close calls.

It also looks like the same old story - a bit of panic set in - a lot of time passed before that fire got out of control. By closing all but one door and with a good fire extinguisher, a blanket, some sand or a few cans of Coke or beer shaken up it just may have been saved. But that's 20/20 hindsight from an experienced fire fighter.

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AnswerID: 219466   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 15:12

Member - Roachie (SA) replied:

I took Lucy for a beach drive in his Cheapney last year, but I failed miserably to get him to cook it.

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FollowupID: 480034   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 17:29

Bonz (Vic) posted:

you really underachieve Roacie, next time try getting it to go UPhill, cooked meat for sure hehaha

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FollowupID: 480057   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 19:00

Member - Roachie (SA) posted:

Sorry Bonz..........I am a failure!!!!!

There are no hills around here.

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FollowupID: 480098   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 21:41

Bonz (Vic) posted:

Its OK Roachie, I think you are looking at this too literally. A gentle incline, 1 in 50, should pull up the CHEEP! Even the driveway crossover is a challenge.

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FollowupID: 480102   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 21:50

Member - Roachie (SA) posted:

Yes, it's a wonderful bit of whizz-bangery from Uncle Sam. I think Lucy and the Cheapney is a match made in heavan!!!! hahahaha

Where is the dottery old bugga anyway? I bet he's fallen into the engine bay of the droopy and that 500kg bonnet has trapped him in there with only his ankles poking out over the top of the bullbar!!! Diedre won't have missed him in the house, cos he spends every waking moment either with the droopy or the cheapney (and I'll bet she LOVES it just that way too!!!!)...hahaha

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FollowupID: 480175   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:37

Bonz (Vic) posted:

H bobbed up a day or so ago, I think he is under deep cover.

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FollowupID: 480212   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:02

Member - 'Lucy' posted:



Absolute idiots and failures the pair of you.

Actually flogged the JEEP up to Matlock and back yesterday afternoon without a light comming bon or a dent in the plastic skirts anywhere.

This electrinic management is an absolute bitch - put it in AWD(part-time) and it immediately suffers what appears to be turbo lag.

It is the traction control module talking to the transmission control module - to even the stresses out. I hate it with a passion.

However, other than that it goes like a rocket and sticks to the dirt tracks like 'baby-poo' to a blanket.

Put it back in 2WD an it becomes a diesel masseratti. (sort of) LOL.
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AnswerID: 219498   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 18:00

troopyman replied:

In jack absaloms book it says burn your tyres if you are in a remote place and want to attract attention . Maybe he got confused and tried to burn them when stuck while still on the 4by .
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AnswerID: 219509   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 19:00

Kiwi Kia replied:

Interesting to note the running time on the screen. Did not take long to really get going. No one seemed to have an extinguisher or make any attempt to disconnect battery during the early stage of the fire. I have always installed fire extinguishers, quick disconnects on my batteries and carry a wrecking bar and winch gloves in a real handy position in my vehicles. Wrecking bar can help open doors, smash windows and remove a battery terminal real quick when you need to.
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AnswerID: 219512   Submitted: Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 19:05

Gerhardp1 replied:

Notice they gave the fire every chance to get going - all doors wide open, bonnet open, did I catch a glimpse of the owner with a bellows ?

Attempted insurance fraud ?
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FollowupID: 480209   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:55

Member - 'Lucy' posted:



You Sir!

Are the one and only astute person amongst this bunch of cootas
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FollowupID: 480211   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:02

Des Lexic posted:

I agree Gerhard, It's probably the only way you'd get something reasonable close to some money back on your hard earned. (Not that Lucy has to work hard for his anyway)
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FollowupID: 480219   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:15

Member - 'Lucy' posted:



Oi! speak for yourself.
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FollowupID: 480338   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 21:37

Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses posted:

Pray tell me Ms Lucy, if the Jeepney is such a good vehicle, why do you have a cough'Yota as a backup 4by? Notice that you couldn't trust it coming westward and had to come in that Lucy truck with a pregnant bonnet. I could hardly call it a power bulge could I?
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FollowupID: 480346   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 22:12

Member - 'Lucy' posted:

Moses

A power bulge in your circumstances is an over 57 thing on pro-gout.

On the other hand I, myself only, have 'power surges.

AND

May the 'Blackberry bird' of happiness come a c r a p, c r a p, c r a p p i n g all over you and your smarty pants Nissan cohorts. (LOL)

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FollowupID: 480385   Submitted: Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:30

Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses posted:

Ms Lucy, the little friends of yours round the veranda don't like me walking round here. They may be refugees from the city but ratshot doesn't make holes in veranda roofs like it does in sparras.
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AnswerID: 219581   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 06:29

Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) replied:


Yep, second one it is for Jeeps on Stockton Beach.
Not enough scenery to pick where that one went up, the first one's photo's have the Sygna wreck as its background.

Jeep thing it may be. I've a mate who mechanics for the local Jeep dealer. Something about them getting hot, overheating something important and the smoke escapes from the whole car.

As we know, everything in this world is based on smoke. Once the smoke escapes it's buggered.

To be fair, there is or was a burnt out Discovery a couple of hundred metres west of the Sygna too. I haven't been near the Sygna for a couple of months.

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FollowupID: 480214   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:07

Member - 'Lucy' posted:



Ah! there you go - its the 'Sygna Fire Gremlin' thats responsible, they just got too close to it.
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FollowupID: 480401   Submitted: Monday, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:53

Gerhardp1 posted:

Stockton must be our version of the Bermuda Triangle?

Any 4wd that ventures too close is burned.......

But only Discos and Jeeps....

And gloriously the owners all survive to claim, then post on the forum a few months later about how bad insurance companies are because they won't pay the fraudulent claim.
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AnswerID: 219646   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:04

Member - 'Lucy' replied:



Oooooooooooooooo! that is a nasty one
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AnswerID: 219754   Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 19:58

hoyks replied:

I would suspect a fire as a result of the transmission overheating as suggested already. It wouldn’t take long for the rising hot gases to burn through the rubber boot around the gear stick and then start to burn the cabin. The gases coming up through the transmission tunnel would also work like a chimney making it spread quicker into the cabin.

As for all the doors being open, do you think they might have been trying to salvage what they could knowing the fire was gaining hold and having no way to knock it down?
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