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12-17-2007, 06:05 PM
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Don't let your SL catch on fire ...
This is a neighbor's car - a decent 560. I haven't had a chance to find out what happened, and will post some more when I do.
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12-17-2007, 06:32 PM
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 That's what I feel like doing.What happened?...If that were mine I would shoot myself.
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12-17-2007, 06:44 PM
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He stick high voltage bulbs in those euros?
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12-17-2007, 06:59 PM
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being that is the area of the high pressure power steering hose, i would bet it developed a seroius leak and was ignited by the hot exhaust manifold on that side
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12-17-2007, 09:46 PM
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http://www.benzworld.org/forums/r-c107-sl-slc-class/1352733-fire-hazard.html I wonder if that could be cause? Whatever, it was a hot fire. Not electrical.
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12-17-2007, 09:51 PM
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probably not, the one you posted was a much older SL with the "EFI" type fuel injection which was discontinued from model year 1976 and newer.
it has different fuel system plumbing with a lot more rubber hoses exposed to ignition arc as opposed to the CIS systems on the car above Quote:
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12-18-2007, 02:41 AM
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Please post some sort of a warning concerning the graphic and disturbing nature of photographs such as these before we have to view them. Thanks
 Seriously, the melted aluminum hood area is just above the fuel cooler and the fittings to it. Crazy, but possible? A ruptured A/C hose rupturing the fuel cooler? I've had an A/C hose blow due to a defective high pressure switch in a GM car and I thought that there was a bomb under my hood. The car jumped. I'm sure I would have been injured or killed if it had happened while I was under the hood.
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12-18-2007, 09:21 AM
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holy crap, i feel bad for the guy, looks like a nice , er was a nice car
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12-21-2007, 10:57 AM
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Where was the hood pad? The hood pad is designed to fall onto the engine and snuff out the fire...must have been a real scorcher to do that!!!
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12-21-2007, 04:08 PM
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I'd say not letting your CAR catch on fire was pretty good advice no matter which car it is . . . .
I never heard that about the hood pad falling over the engine and snuffing out the fire. Is that really true?
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12-23-2007, 01:59 PM
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1967 250 S 1967 280SE 1968 250S 1971 280 SE 1973 220 1974 280 S 1975 450 SEL 1976 220 D 1979 300SD 1983 300 SD 1985 230 TE euro 1986 280SL 1986 500 SEL euro 1986 190E 2.3 1990 300 SE 2003 C230 K 2004 C230 K 1987 560SEL 1987 300SDL now in canada 2005 C230 1998 C43 AMG Sold to DON 1993 190E 2.6 300TD Former daily driver Totaled current: R320 CDI Ram 2500 Cummins
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12-23-2007, 04:02 PM
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12-23-2007, 04:17 PM
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That one is totalled!
Ouch! Tom W
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