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This WAS a Jetta, my engine exploded while the car was just sitting in the parking lot
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Mattyboy
Tampa
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Holy shit...
Sunday, January 9, 2005 11:41 PM
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usfztagrl
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I've seen that happen to a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Honda Civic or Accord... Both not mine but...you're not alone!
[Edited by usfztagrl on 1/9/2005 1:43:53 PM. Reason for edit: i can't spell]
Sunday, January 9, 2005 11:43 PM
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AlyssaDG26
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Yea, I have heard it happen to a few VW's before. There's actually a website dedicated to VW owners whos car blew up.
Sunday, January 9, 2005 11:55 PM
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Mattyboy
Tampa
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lol, no wonder you're mad you can't skateboard! At least they don't have an engine
Sunday, January 9, 2005 11:57 PM
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AlyssaDG26
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Haha yea really! Now, if the skateboard explodes I'm in some serious trouble.
Monday, January 10, 2005 12:02 AM
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severmefree
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mmmm looks like someone's car was running a little lean?? I think everyone should invest in a Air:Fuel gauge so they can actually know rather or not their car is about to blow up ;D. Also, i dunno if it was turboed or not but if u let a turbo car sit for a while they tend to get really really hot due the failure of air passing through the Intercooler to cool the charge air down... another words, keep a turboed car moving, that is, if it has an intercooler. Especially a side mount.
Electrical problem also. I love VWs and <sarcasm> their indvidual COIL PACKS </sarcasm>
[Edited by severmefree on 1/9/2005 3:25:49 PM. Reason for edit: added more.]
Monday, January 10, 2005 1:15 AM
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AlyssaDG26
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yup, it was electrical problems! btw, this was the SECOND car that i had totaled in ONE YEAR! does that get me bonus points?
Monday, January 10, 2005 2:18 AM
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mellomel
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Wow... that's pretty... scary...
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:15 PM
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SaNToRoGT
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Maybe the Nazi infused turbo killed it....
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:33 PM
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AlyssaDG26
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Yea, my insurance isn't exactly happy with me. No, it didn't even have turbo, just a regular 2.0 engine.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:03 AM
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severmefree
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i went to the dealer the other day to replace another coil pack in mine and i mentioned this to them and they said that sometimes the fires can start from the CAT if one or more of the coil packs is bad. it basically causes the car to start misfiring and the unburnt fuel catches fire in the CAT.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 1:14 PM
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thuhjunglist
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no matter how much i look at it, it still seems like a head on collision w/ fire damage.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 10:35 AM
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AlyssaDG26
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That's because the front half melted away, its all on the pavement.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 10:56 AM
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Brugger
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that's pretty gnarly.... whoah.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 8:43 PM
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USFstud
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what the, how the hell did that happen. You would thinkt that a car company would be able to prevent that from happening.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:41 PM
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AlyssaDG26
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You would think, from what I understand though, VW is trying to turn around. They are moving all of their factories from Mexico back to Germany, or at least that's what I was told.
Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:55 AM
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bondsgame101
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They have had this same problem with the jettas since they have introduced them midway through the 99 car year even to this day, I believe. What year was your car, just out of curiosity?
Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:55 AM
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Timbo238
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looks like a pretty good fire..................no injuries, i hope?
Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:02 AM
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AlyssaDG26
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yea, mine was a 2000. nope, no injuries, I wasn't even near the car, now the TREE that it was parked under . . . different story!
Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:05 AM
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bondsgame101
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Did anyone get it on video? Now that would have been priceless. I hope that this would classify the car as a lemon or some sort of replacement by VW.
Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:11 AM
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bondsgame101
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[Edited by bondsgame101 on 2/23/2005 5:12:39 PM. Reason for edit: double post by accident]
Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:11 AM
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AlyssaDG26
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no, unfortunately there was no video. it didn't classify as a lemon because it was 3 years after the initial purchase of it and VW honestly didn't care at all. my insurance covered it fully though, and is now suing VW.
Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:47 AM
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bondsgame101
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nice
Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:36 AM
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TheRobbStory
St. Petersburg
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I just dropped a new 2.0 in my GTI. I had a supercharger on my last motor for about 35k miles. Totally fucked the head. Block was overheated about a million times because I couldn't afford to fix it. I ended up paying for it in the end.
What was the actual cause of the explosion? I'm enough of a VW enthusiast that probably would have heard about this if it were a common problem. That 2.0 crossflow motor design really hasn't changed at all since it was designed in 1978. It's a fairly bulletproff motor.
Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:50 AM
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AlyssaDG26
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Well, from what I understand (and I know NOTHING about cars) was that there was a problem with some sort of harness? like an engine harness? well whatever the case, the harness didn't quite fit the new jetta model so it was stretched to make it fit so that they wouldn't have to waste all of the old harnesses. eventually, the cables wore down because they were stretched and then they would snap. I don't know if the snap actually started the fire or what . . . like I said I don't know much about cars, this is what the mechanic told me dad, who told me. there is a website that talks about it, I will look for it and post it if I can find it.
Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:47 AM
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