From the fire inspection “the fire appears to have been caused by the blower switch, wires melted, switch contacts fused and found laying in the floor.”
So I went to get a drink last saturday night and found my car on fire!
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Radio has been F-ing up for about 3 weeks,
Dealer replaced the Antenna wire, and the radio still said the antenna was disconnected, and the outputs were “Shorted” they tested it with another radio and Thought that everything would work, but they had to put my radio back in while they ordered a replacement.
I guess I bumped the power and turned on the radio when I was getting out and it caught fire. Earlier in the evening I bumped the power and it had made crackling noises (noises not music) when turning it on. I had messed with it abit turning stuff up and down trying to make it work, as it sounded like it was trying.
I was really lucky, I was awake and saw it, or I could have lost a lot more.
The fuel Fuel mileage was way to high to qualify for the Clunker program… (EPA says 42 MPG for my car, I was averaging 46 in mixed driving lifetime average, and 55+ on the highway.)
The insurance adjuster said it was crazy that my car was still worth $14,000 at 6 years old.
I do not know, I am waiting on the report from VW…
(even though somehow I suspect it be said that it was my fault for some weird reason, that seems to be the typical)
The radio was screwing up, and was scheduled to be replaced when the new one came in, I suspect it started in or near there(at least it looks that way to me.)
I had been in at the dealer for 8 hours on Tuesday, where they spent over 5 hours rooting around in the wiring harness looking for the problem causing the radio to screwup. the radio has been messing up for a while and was finally reporting the outputs were shorted to the computer when the dealer scanned it then they could not make it work. they attached another radio and it appeared to work, so they ordered a new one and put mine back in.
I just happened to turn it on earlier that evening, and it was making noises like it was trying to play music again, and I fiddled with it for a while.
i say you gota law suit, cuz they put it back in knowingly it was effed up and could cause a fire, i say your good ( if that is what started it) and you got the patients to sue them
From the fire inspection “the fire appears to have been caused by the blower switch, wires melted, switch contacts fused and found laying in the floor.”
yes, I had a Jetta TDI, and hopefully someday soon I will have the above pictured 2010 Golf TDI.
My Jetta was pretty nicely modded, with decent fuel mileage still in it’s history. I had just finished the 100k mile services (a little early for good measure)
