# Bad thing to see in the night **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298 "2009-08-04T17:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/1 "2009-08-04T17:17:15Z")
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! pics- [ImageShack Gallery](http://img228.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0017sa.jpg) now My Jetta is toast- [http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9826/img0017sa.jpg](http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9826/img0017sa.jpg) 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. ---
**Author:** ![jamesbonded](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/jamesbonded/32/2090_2.png) [@jamesbonded](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/jamesbonded)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/2 "2009-08-04T17:24:55Z")
Sorry the hear that. ---
**Author:** ![castlerock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/castlerock/32/1503_2.png) [@castlerock](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/castlerock)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/3 "2009-08-04T17:26:05Z")
damn, sorry to see that ---
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/4 "2009-08-04T19:12:35Z")
Good thing they renewed the “Cash for Clunkers” program. I’d saw you got a clunker on your hands. ---
**Author:** ![mikotorocks714](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mikotorocks714/32/1509_2.png) [@mikotorocks714](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/mikotorocks714)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/5 "2009-08-04T19:17:27Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7yl3UMO-TkE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Sorry to hear that Wolfy! > [@Mtnjim](#): > > Good thing they renewed the “Cash for Clunkers” program. I’d saw you got a clunker on your hands. ---
**Author:** ![peregrine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/peregrine/32/499_2.png) [@peregrine](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/peregrine)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/6 "2009-08-04T19:21:46Z")
Man I hope you got insurance!!😮 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/7 "2009-08-04T19:26:43Z")
thanks for your thoughts guys, I was really lucky, I was awake and saw it, or I could have lost a lot more. > [@Mtnjim](#): > > Good thing they renewed the “Cash for Clunkers” program. I’d saw you got a clunker on your hands. 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. ---
**Author:** ![pherophreak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/pherophreak/32/1531_2.png) [@pherophreak](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/pherophreak)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/8 "2009-08-04T20:56:57Z")
> [@Wolfy](#): > > So I went to get a drink last saturday night and found my car on fire! > pics- > [ImageShack Gallery](http://img228.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0017sa.jpg) > > now My Jetta is toast- > > [ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs](http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9826/img0017sa.jpg) > > 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. Always sad to see a standard go down. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Vaccine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/vaccine/32/2381_2.png) [@Vaccine](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Vaccine)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/9 "2009-08-05T05:54:38Z")
> [@Wolfy](#): > > The insurance adjuster said it was crazy that my car was still worth $14,000 at 6 years old. So does that mean that you are going to buy all the PS in the next run and hand the packs out like candy? 🙂 Glad you saw it and it wasn’t worse. There are a lot of deals out there. Still. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dutchess](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/the_dutchess/32/1279_2.png) [@The\_Dutchess](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/The_Dutchess)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/10 "2009-08-14T03:52:53Z")
Wow. . . What luck that you got up when you did. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/11 "2009-08-14T13:23:46Z")
> [@The\_Dutchess](#): > > Wow. . . > > What luck that you got up when you did. yes, it was quite a startling thing to see. The fire department said a few more minutes and the car probably would have been fully involved (totally toast) The VW fire investigator spent 3 hours and over 900 pictures on the car, the dash is totally different looking now, he picked it all apart. ---
**Author:** ![idle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/idle/32/344_2.png) [@idle](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/idle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/12 "2009-08-14T14:12:14Z")
![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/pheromonetalk/original/2X/b/bb1ab6f3a4e10adbc5c17f14dc7a9684dd951034.gif) … my last car was Jetta too 🙂 and i thought that cutting my tires was a bad thing… How could this happen? someone on purpose did this? or its just an accident? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/13 "2009-08-14T16:00:03Z")
> [@idle](#): > > How could this happen? > someone on purpose did this? or its just an accident? 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. ---
**Author:** ![bedojo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/bedojo/32/1027_2.png) [@bedojo](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/bedojo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/14 "2009-08-14T17:39:26Z")
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 😛 sucks that happend to your car, ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/15 "2009-08-18T18:51:22Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/16 "2009-09-17T04:07:47Z")
Thanks to a good settlement, I have a new VW on order, although it will likely be Christmas before I see it - > **[Log in](https://www.vwvortex.com/media/)** Basically what I got except a 2 door model, same color too. ---
**Author:** ![Wrlprchnx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wrlprchnx/32/1360_2.png) [@Wrlprchnx](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wrlprchnx)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/17 "2009-09-17T14:42:59Z")
Jetta’s are nice - was it a TDI (I love the TDI) Only problem with a VW is that they are fucking stupid to do work on because of all the special tools you need. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/wolfy/32/965_2.png) [@Wolfy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Wolfy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/bad-thing-to-see-in-the-night/31298/18 "2009-09-17T21:03:35Z")
> [@Wrlprchnx](#): > > Jetta’s are nice - was it a TDI (I love the TDI) > > Only problem with a VW is that they are fucking stupid to do work on because of all the special tools you need. 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)