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89 messages, Last post on Aug 05, 2009 at 3:25 PM
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Google Images has 2,510,000 images of car fires. Did not see one Prius fire in the group I looked at. "prius car fire" does not turn up any images of burning Prius cars. I do feel sorry for the people who have Prius fires, but it's such a rare event.
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Replying to: larsb (Jul 23, 2007 5:59 am) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 22, 2007 3:58 pm) I told him to call a lawyer instead of a newspaper. From the description here and on the Yahoo forum, it sounds like Toyota is not stepping up and taking care of these spontaneous combustion cases. Whatever the problem is, I hope it does not extend to 2006 Prius models like mine!
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Replying to: jbarnhart (Jul 23, 2007 8:33 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 23, 2007 8:41 am) I don't think the Gen 1 had the same warranty on the battery. Five years comes to mind... |
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Replying to: jbarnhart (Jul 23, 2007 8:33 am) Is his insurance going to cover the fire??? From what I understand from our insurance company, they are covering our loss and then their lawyers will fight Toyota to reimburse them. Since our insurance won't cover the loss of the items in the car, my husband is thinking of taking Toyota to small claims court to cover those items. I thought it was a good idea.
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Replying to: suzikn (Jul 27, 2007 3:28 pm) I would be interested in how the insurance companies make out with Toyota.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 29, 2007 5:35 am) First, larsb should be absolutely ashamed of his attitude about someone's car catching on fire. He apparently sees it as a political issue to be glossed over lest the Prius get unwanted bad press. Truly a fanboy gone wild. Next, I'm quite glad to hear that it seems to be only the early version of the Prius that's been burning as I have several friends with the new version parked in their garage. The Prius, based on my very limited admittedly experience, does not appear to be aging well. Another good friend bought one of the early ones and put about 130,000 miles on it before it "broke down" (and I dont know the details) while the couple were on a long vacation trip. They had it towed to nearest Toyota dealer where the estimate to repair was appx $10,000. That's what I call high maintenance! So they did the sensible? thing and wlaked out to the lot and picked out a new Prius, paid for it and continued their vacation. Last and to hopefully demonstrate that I'm not here (just?) to bash the Prius, there most certainly is another vehicle that is prone to burn. Bunch of them in fact. Surpirised no one in here mentioned the Ford "cruise control switch fires" that caused some number of fires, at least one that burned a house down and I think the folks inside were killed.  This poorly designed switch is in a couple dozen Ford models and years back to 1993. Apparently the thing could short out and burn just sitting in the garage. Ford finally stepped up and issued a RECALL. I was affected with my 1995 Econoline work van. I had the recall done about 2 years ago. They replaced the wiring harness and maybe the switch, not sure exactly what. But to top it all off, Ford has just now issued a recall of the recall. Why? Because the new wiring harnesses they installed are fused ON THE GROUND SIDE OF THE SWITCH!!?? Unbelieveably poor Ford has gotten rid of so many people over the past few years that there's no one left who knows that fusing a ground wire is useless.
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