Attention to all Sagaris drivers
Discussion
Last weekend my Sagaris was parked outside under a tree.
As you know we are in the autumn now and leaves are falling from the trees.
Typical for the Sagaris are the open spaces in front of the frontscreen
where you can see the exhaust pipes and the rockercover.
After parked for a couple of hours I drove off for an hour . During this trip I smelled fumes . It smelled like burning wood or something. After a while it disapeared and came back again. I stopped the car to look underneath it. Nothing there . Than I looked through the bonnetopening in front of the frontscreen and I saw small flames !!!!!
A couple of leaves landed on my exhaust and caught fire after driving the car.
So please check before you drive off.
As you know we are in the autumn now and leaves are falling from the trees.
Typical for the Sagaris are the open spaces in front of the frontscreen
where you can see the exhaust pipes and the rockercover.
After parked for a couple of hours I drove off for an hour . During this trip I smelled fumes . It smelled like burning wood or something. After a while it disapeared and came back again. I stopped the car to look underneath it. Nothing there . Than I looked through the bonnetopening in front of the frontscreen and I saw small flames !!!!!
A couple of leaves landed on my exhaust and caught fire after driving the car.
So please check before you drive off.
phoenixz said:
OMG!!! i think i burst a blood vessel from laughing 
it's so true about today's generation though...
"Oh no! something bad has happened"
"Quick! take a picture"
True ! It is a bit strange first taking a picture and than extinguish the fire. But there were no direct flameable Sagaris parts in the neighbourhood of the burning leaves. So I thought this story is nothing without a picture and I took the picture first.it's so true about today's generation though...
"Oh no! something bad has happened"
"Quick! take a picture"
That could have been expensive.Remind me of what happened to us whilst in blackpool on a back home again event in 2003.We had only just taken delivery of our lovely new T350c in Midas gold.
We were parked along the sea front along with hundreds of other beasts. The time came for the usual blat along the prom. When we started to smell burning,and blamed it on an old moggy 1000 in front.He turned off and the smell got worse. Smoke started coming out from the bonnet at the back near the screen. I pulled over bloody sharpish,whipped open the bonnet where i found a wadge of bloody advertising flyers that had been stuffed into anything that might hold them. but it was windy and at least four differant flyers were laying around the exhaust manifold and were smouldering a lot,and were soon to burst into flames. We poured a bottle of water over the embers, and found they were all from people selling TVR bits.
Dave.
We were parked along the sea front along with hundreds of other beasts. The time came for the usual blat along the prom. When we started to smell burning,and blamed it on an old moggy 1000 in front.He turned off and the smell got worse. Smoke started coming out from the bonnet at the back near the screen. I pulled over bloody sharpish,whipped open the bonnet where i found a wadge of bloody advertising flyers that had been stuffed into anything that might hold them. but it was windy and at least four differant flyers were laying around the exhaust manifold and were smouldering a lot,and were soon to burst into flames. We poured a bottle of water over the embers, and found they were all from people selling TVR bits.
Dave.
Same thing happened to me three years ago. Went to see the start of the London to Brighton run, parked under a Plane tree watching the vets trundle by. Half hour later I pull into the garage on the Highway opposite Telfords Yard so only a three minute drive from Westminster. As I get out to fill up I see smoke, smell burning etc etc and then see flames!
I realised what it was and watched carefully as the leaf, only one, smoked away. I was poised ready with one of the garage fire extinguishers just in case. Since then I always take a look to make sure nothing is in there.
Scary stuff.
I realised what it was and watched carefully as the leaf, only one, smoked away. I was poised ready with one of the garage fire extinguishers just in case. Since then I always take a look to make sure nothing is in there.
Scary stuff.
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