I was on my way home from school today..and my car just started to bog down and it died..so I rolled into the YRTC parking lot and called my dad to come pick me up. Im on the phone and I look over and there is black smoke pouring out of my engine bay. I open my hood and there is a FIRE along my battery cables which had slid into something and arced across and set it ablaze. I grabbed a sweater and quickly beat the fire out. When I looked into my engine bay I noticed that the fire was only about 6 inches away from the fuel line..holy crap. The damage isn't bad..I just need a new battery tray with the hold down and new battery lines..still scary.

 

Hot diggity dayum! That's crazy dude. Thankfully you didn't go up in smoke.

 

lucky you had the sweater. I'm getting a fire extinguisher for my car asap

 

lol
wow that is crazy
good thing your okay
so how the hell did those cables catch on fire
right after you pulled over did you check anything at all or no?
u should post up sum pics

 

wow!!! same thing happen to my 300zx...neighbor put it out for me with their extinguisher while I was throwing SNOW on it

 

Holy crap, that is quite an experience. Glad to see you and the car escaped unscathed.

 

LMAO

fires in cars are not good

 

Damn dude thats crazy! Glad to hear you're ok!

 

You sure battery and alternator aren't on that list of needs? Both would have been under very high stress if it shut the car completely down the short was so bad.

 

Yeah the car started up and ran great today..i just had to make sure i kept it without making sharp turns. The battery was up against the PS pump/res. and since they were so close it arced across and set my plastic battery cables on fire..never EVER want to see my engine bay on fire again

 

thats crazy!

 

Ahhhhh that would not happen on an SC4.

 

I had my fair share of engine fires.. but mine were always fuel fires.. I owned a mazda rx7.. soooooo.. hahaha