Mr BFK
Active Member
I'm guessing your battery overheated and explodedPicture this:
It’s about April 2014. I have owned my 2004 Nissan Maxima for about 3 years now. I’ll admit I didn’t take care of that car like I should have but it is what it is
A month before the fire the car wouldn’t start. Took it to my mechanic but he couldn’t figure out what the problem was. It finally starts but the speedometer doesn’t work so I don’t know how fast I’m going
So I take it to my other mechanic who’s a friend and I can’t remember what he fixed but it seemed fine after he worked on it and the speedometer is working
A few weeks later the car once again wouldn’t start. I jumped it and it worked. I ran a few errands and didn’t drive it again
I was living with my parents at the time and at around 2am I hear a banging on my door. My neighbor would tell me later that he heard an explosion and looked out his window and saw the hood of my car on fire. My dad answered the door and runs upstairs and tells my mom “Ro’s car is on fire!”
I hear this and jumped out of my bed and look out the window and see this when I go outside:
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The aftermath:
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Still have no idea how the fire started
the wiring from your battery was probably replaced with the wrong gauge on an older out of spec battery
shit was overheating every time u cranked it up and drove it
parked it, and the temp change probably made ur overheated corroded battery explode......and the other wiring parts were prob made out of that old material cars were using for cheap wiring harnesses pre-2006 timeframe
shit caught fire and then spread across ur engine then eventually the rest of the car
from the pics it looks like ur cabin firewall worked as intended tho
and thats driving real conservative.
