Another pic of the aftermath...

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux) 07/21/2014 at 15:32 • Filed to: None

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still waiting to hear if Subaru is sending out an investigator for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . 07 Legacy. Another pic of the aftermath I got sent today

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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 15:35

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My dad had a PT Cruiser do this. It was a work car and a PT Cruiser so he didn't really care too much.

505Turbeaux > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/21/2014 at 15:38

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yeah, not much lost there :)

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 15:39

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Yeah, he ended up getting a new one to finish out the lease of the car. I think he said it had some steering issue that caused the fire.

Hooker > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 15:41

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My brother's 1994 Camry self immolated back in 2002. It only had just over 100,000 miles on the Odo. As my family rounded the corner, you could hear the locks cycling and other electronic bits. Interesting thing about it? When the salvage guy came to pick it up, it cranked up (albeit briefly). The dash was melted, all interior cloth gone. But damn did it ever crank.

505Turbeaux > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/21/2014 at 15:48

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that would be bizarre, unless a line went and dumped steering fluid all over the manifold

505Turbeaux > Hooker 07/21/2014 at 15:48

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crazy! This one aint cranking again I think, but who knows

zeontestpilot > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/21/2014 at 15:52

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Um, so you have any other information about the steering issue? Now I'm worried about me cruiser..... -_-

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > zeontestpilot 07/21/2014 at 15:55

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Not really because it was like 10 years ago and I was like 6. But I think the power steering line went and put fluid all over the engine and it caught on fire in a parking lot.

zeontestpilot > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/21/2014 at 15:56

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Ah crap....well, mine's an '08 so hopefully it was fixed.

Hooker > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 15:56

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Yeah, I would have to agree. The good news? Insurance settlement and car shopping!

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > zeontestpilot 07/21/2014 at 15:58

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Probably because his was like a 2003-4 and it happened in like 2005. I'm gonna ask him so when I get an answer I'll let you know.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 16:07

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I am sorry to see this. The aluminum intake manifold still being there suggests that it is a 2.5i. A turbo car has a plastic manifold, that would be long gone like that.

I owned a 2005 Legacy 2.5GT turbo 5-speed, and it was a great car, despite some suspension wear issues

No Subaru deserves to go out like that. But any car with a fuel leak can flambé like this.

Wishin & workin for an E39 M5 > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/21/2014 at 16:10

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I wouldn't buy one, but remember it is not the PT Cruiser's fault for being born a PT Cruiser. It wanted to be a proper MOPAR car, in fact, all cars that are born, openly wish they were born a racecar. They suffer early life in the hands of some leasee, or rental agency, or feather-footed grandma driving from the retirement community to grocery stores. And they languish on the janky used car lots in searing summer heat, praying for the moment that an enthusiast buys it. Dreaming of the moment when their new owner takes it to a garage and fixes all the things wrong with it, loving every gift of performance parts added, until it becomes something entirely new. It becomes a teenagers race car, when we were teens we didn't care what it was, what we were able to buy (so long as we were middle class or below), no did we care how it drove; we cared simply that it did, and every minute/hour/day spent behind the wheel was our dreamworld glimpse of being a race car driver and we drove them all as fast and hard as we could. Shit cars like a PT Cruiser are a symbol of the American dream, all cars are not born on equal ground, but in the hands of an enthusiast/Jalop/Oppo, even the worst econ-shit-box can become something truly wonderful in at least one soul, one pair of eyes, one heart.

Listen to this while reading the next part.

Remember this one rule about owning and operating your own car:

No excuses, play like a champion every time.

For confidence is key in this world, and it won't matter if you are in a 95 bhp Miata or a Koenigsegg One:1, because the car resting below your feet and in your hands is an extension of your very soul. The fighting spirit that says, "We will wrench in the garages, upon the driveways, at the autocrosses, during track days. No matter the cost to our wallets, nor to our knuckles we wrench on, in chase of the dream to become something more than what we were born as. Working, saving, spending, going into debt, losing girlfriends and wives, losing old friends and gaining new ones, sweating, swearing, bleeding all for that one moment to do something truly great; to hit that apex perfectly, to blow the doors off an over-confident bro (Hoosiers, bro. Track day, bro), to get that jaw-dropping reverse entry drift, or to run sub 10's.

\end rant

PS: I never owned a PT Cruiser, my first car was a 97 Ford F-150 single cab with a V6 and now I own an insanely unreliable paint fading Land Rover and a Nissan 4x4 with almost a quarter million miles. But I firmly believe that any car can be a racecar in the right hands and I care more about the biggest POS boring car than I do my cell phone.

zeontestpilot > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/21/2014 at 16:10

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Thank you so much. I'm having some steering issues myself, so I was like "oh no!".

Camry-Into-Canyon > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 16:41

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Is that a GT?

505Turbeaux > Camry-Into-Canyon 07/21/2014 at 16:42

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nah just 2.5i

Camry-Into-Canyon > 505Turbeaux 07/21/2014 at 16:47

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It's still bad, but not nearly as bad as it could have been.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Wishin & workin for an E39 M5 07/21/2014 at 17:04

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*wipes tear* That was beautiful.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Hooker 07/21/2014 at 17:12

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Does it sound like random clicking?

Hooker > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 07/21/2014 at 18:30

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It was randomly cycling through all of it's electronics. Open/closed and so forth. The clicking started right at the onset of the fire. Meaning, there hadn't been enough fire damage to cause the electrical issues.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > zeontestpilot 07/22/2014 at 01:30

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Alright sorry it's so late but I got an answer. He said the power steering line was rubbing on the transmission and when it finally broke it put fluid all over the hot exhaust which caused it to burn.

zeontestpilot > Wishin & workin for an E39 M5 07/22/2014 at 09:11

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Thank you. You made me feel better, and more proud, of my PT Cruiser.

zeontestpilot > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 07/22/2014 at 09:24

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Thank you, I'll look into it.