CorsaKen1
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Sorry for the crap picture but it says: The german driver was showing off his £100.000 motor to friends when it burst into flames after he switched on his ignition. and he burst into tears as his pride and joy was engulfed by fire and destroyed. fireman chris fogarty said: the poor man was absolutly distraught. but there was nothing he could do. the unnamed owner drove his 575 maranello from germany to blackburn lancs after mates begged him to see it. now they know he really has got a set of hot wheels!
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Liam
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  Really nice car's the 575's
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Ben G
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saw that in the sun. quite funny actually. i bet he was doing something silly but didn't tell anyone because he would look like an idiot. i'm sure his insurance will pay out 
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Jamie Walby
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True, turning the ignition on is a crazy thing to do.
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CorsaKen1
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamie Walby
True, turning the ignition on is a crazy thing to do.
i meant he was probably doing donuts in it and doing burnouts like crazy before that to ''show off'' to his mates 
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Jamie Walby
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Would that lead to the car bursting into flames?
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamie Walby
Would that lead to the car bursting into flames?
if something got seriously hot and made its way to plastic of some sort. maybe! but a £100,000 ferrari shouldn't go up in flames just like that anyway. i'm sure it'd have to be a 1 in a billion chance that turning your ignition would cause the car to catch fire.
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Jamie Walby
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I know those odds are I would imagine an electrical fault though, maybe.
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Robin
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I bet Gap security wired an alarm in.
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Jamie Walby
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Ben G
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i bet after buying a £100,000 car then paying for the insurance, he was broke and had to get some bodge jobs done from a few cowboys down his local backstreet garage.
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by KROOZUK-BEN
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Originally posted by Jamie Walby
Would that lead to the car bursting into flames?
if something got seriously hot and made its way to plastic of some sort. maybe! but a £100,000 ferrari shouldn't go up in flames just like that anyway. i'm sure it'd have to be a 1 in a billion chance that turning your ignition would cause the car to catch fire.
Mate, it just takes 1 12v wire to have the slightest break in it's insulation for a spark to be created. Petrol is funnily enough flamable. Or, by the looks of things a wiring loom could have caught fire looking at the location of the main part of the fire.
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Jamie Walby
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I doubt many people that can afford £100k cars will be skint afterwards though..... Those kind of people dont know what it is to be of POOR.
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Jamie Walby
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
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Originally posted by KROOZUK-BEN
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Originally posted by Jamie Walby
Would that lead to the car bursting into flames?
if something got seriously hot and made its way to plastic of some sort. maybe! but a £100,000 ferrari shouldn't go up in flames just like that anyway. i'm sure it'd have to be a 1 in a billion chance that turning your ignition would cause the car to catch fire.
Mate, it just takes 1 12v wire to have the slightest break in it's insulation for a spark to be created. Petrol is funnily enough flamable. Or, by the looks of things a wiring loom could have caught fire looking at the location of the main part of the fire.
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Originally posted by Jamie Walby
I know those odds are I would imagine an electrical fault though, maybe.
Boo yeah
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ed
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Originally posted by Robin
I bet Gap security wired an alarm in.
Gap Security pretend to wire in alarms - they don't actually connect any of the wires though. You have to finish off the job fir them if you actually want the alarm wired in....
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shawboy
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i read that too, ha ha.
he only took it out cause his mates wanted to see it.
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baza31
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dont like alloys... needs speedlines 
imagine how gutted you would be.But he'll be insured so doesnt need to worry
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ed
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They probably are Speedlines.
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RichACS
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yeah, he might be insured in his own country!, but what happens if he ain't read the small print which sometimes states that the car won't be insured in another country?
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ed
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That never happens. You'd have to have a really really shit insurance policy to not get European cover.
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Corsa_Sri_93
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456GT not 575M
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Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sri_93
456GT not 575M
correct
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Scotty_B
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sri_93
456GT not 575M
I knew it.
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