Death of a Golf

[transio]

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=SRgtiFIRE

[mbeach]

I'm not even a VW fan, but halfway through that vid I had to stop watching it. That was horrible. To think, it all could've been saved by a working fire extinguisher.

Two weeks prior to fire:
"...Dude, I got a killer deal on this new downpipe -wanna help me put it in?"

[VehiGAZ]

Ouch. That's gonna be a tough sell to the insurance company, too, when they figure out how modded up it was.

[johnnyapollo]

I used to have this R5 Renault that did the same thing (no mods on mine though). I get this call from my girlfriend who was driving to work "Your car's on fire!" - by the time I got there 6' flames were coming from under the hood - total loss. Insurance covered mine though due to the faulty wiring.

-- John

[transio]

They had over 40k invested in that GTi. Painful.

[Joe_Black]

Mmmm, mm... toasty.