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My car just caught on fire :(
Not quite sure where to start. Kinda dazed still. Breathing in burning battery fumes probably isnt the best.
Around midnight my sis comes running into my room, I'm like wtf, she says "your effing car is on fire" and so I dont even think twice about it I just bail and run outside to see my gtr lighting up my driveway
Huge flames were coming out of a hole the size of a basketball and it was sizzling and making a weird crackling sound (probably the battery). I'm like "holy S&%T this is actually happening" and I run back in to grab a fire extinguisher, note for you guys: ALWAYS know where yours is at all times, as it took me longer than I would have liked to find it. Run back out and I start dosing the hole as best I could the whole time thinking "please dont let the gas lines catch fire" and telling my sis to start filling some buckets with water.
I empty the first extinguisher and the damn fire is still blazing even after seemingly going out. After I threw the first bucket of water at it and it still kept going I decided to call the fire department cause I sure as hell wasnt putting it out and didnt exactly want my car blowing up. They show up, and empty a couple extinguishers into it and manage to put it out. They said car fires tend to be very stubborn because of all the plastic/oil/gas etc.
Its amazing how much just melted away. The fire seems to have started in the fuse box as that is where the hole in the hood is, and then spread to the battery & random hoses. I have absolutely no idea why this happened and I'm glad that it wasnt worse. My sis told me after that she heard my car chirping/'howling' (alarm as it was melting) and thats what woke her up.
My poor car.
Around midnight my sis comes running into my room, I'm like wtf, she says "your effing car is on fire" and so I dont even think twice about it I just bail and run outside to see my gtr lighting up my driveway
Huge flames were coming out of a hole the size of a basketball and it was sizzling and making a weird crackling sound (probably the battery). I'm like "holy S&%T this is actually happening" and I run back in to grab a fire extinguisher, note for you guys: ALWAYS know where yours is at all times, as it took me longer than I would have liked to find it. Run back out and I start dosing the hole as best I could the whole time thinking "please dont let the gas lines catch fire" and telling my sis to start filling some buckets with water.
I empty the first extinguisher and the damn fire is still blazing even after seemingly going out. After I threw the first bucket of water at it and it still kept going I decided to call the fire department cause I sure as hell wasnt putting it out and didnt exactly want my car blowing up. They show up, and empty a couple extinguishers into it and manage to put it out. They said car fires tend to be very stubborn because of all the plastic/oil/gas etc.
Its amazing how much just melted away. The fire seems to have started in the fuse box as that is where the hole in the hood is, and then spread to the battery & random hoses. I have absolutely no idea why this happened and I'm glad that it wasnt worse. My sis told me after that she heard my car chirping/'howling' (alarm as it was melting) and thats what woke her up.
My poor car.
My first car fire happened on a beater ford escort though, so I guess I can't really relate to walking out to see a GTR on fire. However, it looks like a relatively straight forward repair, which makes me think that you now have any excuse to buy a kickin' rad carbon fiber hood. And since you can do that, you might as well buy.... Well, you get the idea 
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