BAD ADD FOR SEAT

joeduggan

today i saw a 08 seat alhambra go up in smoke. i heard it was an electrical fault with the car. if this is right, its absolutely scandalous that in todays age, a car can burst into flams from an electrical fault. anyone else have any other stories about fairly new cars going up in smoke.?????

SV

Remember a 07jetta nearly going up in the car park I was working in at the time.. Only for about 5 fire extinguishers it would gave spread easily.

Was an electrical fire!

bladebrew

lamborghini gallardo`s seem to be fond of catching fire,i think clarkson pointed it out on top gear recently,he showed loads of pictures of gallardo`s with engine fires!

colm_mcm

A good few Tata Nanos have gone on fire because of a fault in the steering column.

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/23102009/36/tata-nano-fire-controversy-0.html


160000 307s and C4s were recalled because of an ESP problem where a water leak would pose a fire risk 5 307s caught fire in 2005 in Scandanavia, they linked it to salting of the roads. The 307 also had an issue with the starter motor not disengaging and overheating leading to fire.
I seem to remember a tunnel on the continent not allowing 307s through at the time.

Sofiztikated

Friend of mine was working on an 03 focus, the fuel pump was gone. Turned out when he took the fuel pump out of the fuel tank, it had melted the wires going into it, was almost bare copper. Can't imagine that being too safe.

mickdw

THere were a few minis that burned themselves out a few years ago

EPM

My dad had a corolla try do it at the dealers in front of everyone. Dodgy starter motor. Happens a lot more than people think

CJhaughey

Thats why you shouldn't leave kids in a car unattended.

VolvoMan

The Alhambra is hardly a modern car at this stage anyway, being launched in the mid 90's.

I saw a Bora go up in smoke in the car park of Halfords in Carrickmines a while ago. Apparently when the guy went in and asked the staff for an extinguisher they wouldn't give him one without paying for it.:rolleyes:

galwaytt

OP, get over the hysteria -

meanwhile, have a looky, HERE

See, SEAT in good company, now......:)

mickdw

VolvoMan wrote: »

I saw a Bora go up in smoke in the car park of Halfords in Carrickmines a while ago. Apparently when the guy went in and asked the staff for an extinguisher they wouldn't give him one without paying for it.:rolleyes:

Sounds about right for halfords staff. They really are brain dead. One half decent staff member and a crowd of zombies in each store.

Bonito

galwaytt wrote: »

OP, get over the hysteria -

meanwhile, have a looky, HERE

See, SEAT in good company, now......:)

aren't the merc ambulances basically a sprinter underneath? Because my dad has a 06 sprinter

R.O.R

I got a phone call once from a driver while he was stood at the side of the Stillorgan Dual Carriageway wathching his Laguna burn itself to death. Guy had stopped by the side of him to tell him flames were coming from under the car and it would be a good idea if he parked it up and got the funk out.

About 2 weeks later Renault announced a recall for the power steering pump. It might have leaked on to the exhaust and caught fire. Car was so badly burned that the assesor couldn't give a definate reason why it caught fire, but suspected a leaky power steering pump.

A couple of months ago, Volvo announced a recall on early 2007 S40/V50 1.6D's with a dodgy wiring harness that might cause a fire hazard. One of the cars we had affected by the recall had been burnt out about a month before that. We suspect it was vandalism though, unless the wiring could also cause all the panels to be scratched and all the lights smashed.

colm_mcm

Bonito wrote: »

aren't the merc ambulances basically a sprinter underneath? Because my dad has a 06 sprinter

I'm guessing that because it's an ambulance it has auxilary belts for running the power to the back end, there's a good chance the problem is a result of the ambulance conversion.

joeduggan

VolvoMan wrote: »

The Alhambra is hardly a modern car at this stage anyway, being launched in the mid 90's.

.:rolleyes:

yeah, but it was a 08 car.

EPM

joeduggan wrote: »

yeah, but it was a 08 car.

But one of the oldest (if not the oldest) design currently on sale in Western Europe

Sofiztikated

To be honest, newer cars have more electrics, which means more to go wrong.

New cars go wrong all the time!

Drummerboy08

Is the Alahambra not built buy VW as the Sharan and then rebadged?

VolvoMan

VolvoMan wrote: »

I saw a Bora go up in smoke in the car park of Halfords in Carrickmines a while ago. Apparently when the guy went in and asked the staff for an extinguisher they wouldn't give him one without paying for it.:rolleyes:

If my car was outside starting to burn and I didnt have an extinguisher(which I do) I wouldn't be asking for it I would be taking the thing and running to the car and returning after to pay.

VolvoMan

EPM wrote: »

But one of the oldest (if not the oldest) design currently on sale in Western Europe

Just behind the Land Rover Defender probably.

Francis Microscopic Leper wrote: »

If my car was outside starting to burn and I didnt have an extinguisher(which I do) I wouldn't be asking for it I would be taking the thing and running to the car and returning after to pay.

I know but doesn't it say a lot about their staff really? They would rather put people's lives at risk than give a guy a fire extinguisher in an emergency without payment.

Needless to say, the car was more or less finished within minutes.

Saab Ed

The electrical fault might not have been of Seats doing. Parking sensors might have been fitted , a phone kit or an alarm might also have been added afterwards. The workmanship might just be the problem. Lots of stuff from DVD players to thoses crappy chinesse plug in phone chargers are after thoughts , all of which are outside the remit of a Seat quality controller

road_high

Read somewhere before very wet weather is a fire risk for cars; as electric components are more likely to get wet and short causing fires, ironically enough...