My dad's Audi proves too hot to handle!!!!

[RC45]

Well - looks like the Audis just get hotter as they get older... 180,000km and his car is still on fire.. :P

He smeeled acrid odour from the center dash and pulled over to try see what was the matter - smoke starting entering the cabin, so he grabbed his cell phone and brief case and got out - within minutes the old understeerer was an inferno.

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[ZfrkS62]

:shock:

damn man, glad he got out with his skin! Sucks for old Audi though :? Wonder what started it.

[Mattk]

Woah! And he just ahppened to be carrying a camera! Lucky escape.

[JoeHahn]

What model was it? Was that an old Audi 100/200 model? What are the odds of that. Understeer was cleared of all wrong-doing, right? ;)

[RC45]

Woah! And he just ahppened to be carrying a camera! Lucky escape.

Last time I checked almost every cell phone this side of alpha centari has some kind of camera built in.. -- and it is not so far fethced to have a camera with you.. I can think of at least 10 JW members that have a digi cam with them mor eoften than not :P ;)

[5vz-fe]

I am gonna go on a limb here, is that totalled ?? :mrgreen:

Any idea what will be his replacement?

[bmagni]

damn, this proves audis arent well built :P

[Sir_GT]

Hmmm... seems like our audi-phile brembo has mysteriously overlooked this thread... lol

[cooperluke]

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Who is that strange looking guy trying to hide behind the car???? :D

Brembo, maybe???? :lol: :lol:

[Ghostbat]

Hmmm... seems like our audi-phile brembo has mysteriously overlooked this thread... lol

Even if Brembo is wrong most of the times this is something that can happen to all cars. My dad helped a woman whose brand spanking new japanese car (don't know what brand) went up in flames a couple of years ago.

BTW "brand" in swedish means fire :roll: :)

[ARMAN]

:shock:

this reminds me to buy extinguisher for the car :oops:

[TT]

Dang, the Audi got owned badly! Luckily nobody got hurt, but quite scary! Do you know how many min/hours from when he left the car to the last fire pic? ( http://img127.imageshack.us/my.php?image=146jg.jpg )

[LotusGT1]

Wow, that is bizarre. Any word on what exactly set it on fire?

Good he's ok, now he can look out for something that oversteers.. :twisted:

[TNT]

well the good news is he can not sue Audi and get a brand new car :P I am glad to hear he is okay. What cars are on his shopping list?

[RC45]

Maybe this incident will get him off VW for good ;)

His car ownership since 1985 reads like a VW/Audi sales brochure.

Passat GLi Wagon and sedan, VW Jetti GLi, VW Golf GTi, Audi 100's, Audi 200's, Audi 500's, VW Citi Golf etc - and he always had at least 3 cars - his hers and theirs :P

The one plus is that they all lasted into the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

The Golf and Jetta actually out lasted all the other cars and became the 3rd and 4th cars for my younger borther and sister too gorw up with.

I am guessing he will shock everyone and buy something outrageous - like an Audi as a replacement ') :P

[dutchmasterflex]

God damn! What a horrible sight.. to see your own car go burn up into flames like that..


Glad no one was hurt, except for the audi that is..

Soo many VW's, and this the first one to catch fire? :lol:

My Dad was scarred for life by his VW Rabbit back in the day and has sworn against VW ever since..

[5vz-fe]

Damn, what a loyal VW group customer...............

You should lure him into buying RS4 to replace 3 cars at once :D

[DeMoN]

what the hell? So now who is to be held responsible? Does that count as a LEMON? Lol.

[RC45]

After chatting with him he reminded me that his VW/Audi infatuaiton stated closer to 1975 than 1985.. he reminded me of the Super Beetle and the Jeans Bug as well as the 1978 Golf I, the Audi 80 and the 90 Estate from 1980... hehe

Then he reminded me of exactly why he was/is such a VeeDub loyalists - my step-grandad was the chairmen of the VW/Audi board of executives for many years.. :)

[TransAm]

My uncle had a Jeans Bug, I remember sitting on the roof as a child.

I hope your dad is ok RC, not too shocked by the experience. No doubt he's had a few hair raising moments during his working life :wink:

[sameerrao]

I just read this article. To think we were just talking about his Audi infatuation about 3 weeks back ... Jeez.

Sad to see the old stager go. Must have been a short circuit or something that caused it. The car was about 20 years old right? Wasnt it the first car boasting a Cd of <0.30.

[RC45]

No this was the 9 year old 1997 Audi 500SEL. The 20+ year old Audi 200 (with the 0.29 Cd) ran out of steam at about 240,000kms.. ;)