My 720s has gone boom

[justin220]

Great service. Hopefully that's all your issues sorted.

[tuscaneer]

Taffy66 said:

That's very good service from McLaren..This thread has ended up in my perception of McLaren after sales service going up a few notches.

got to agree with that fella

[LotusJas]

Kudos to McLaren for their excellent customer service here.

And glad it was such a minor issue, albeit scary at the time, although I'd say easily avoidable by better QC and clips!

[Juno]

Good news and enjoy the driving day, that should be very beneficial to get to grips with the car

[ChrisW.]

Just had the same thing happen on my Fiat Ducato Horsebox that I took for a drive ... thank goodness there wasn't a horse or two on board.

4000 miles only. Irritating !

[Bunty Killa]

Looks like another one happened over the weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL5RCU3EBv8

[LotusJas]

Bunty Killa said:

Looks like another one happened over the weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL5RCU3EBv8

I was waiting for this to appear on PH

The car was mistreated (no cool down lap) and the owner spilled petrol on hot brakes, starting the inferno.



Witness comment, pasted verbatim:

"Hello, im chilean, i was there, one of the causes that is most probable to be is that the owner did 12 out of 15 laps allowed and without doing the correct procedure to cool down the car it was way to hot, then they put some gas on the car and some gas fell down into the calipers and then it caught fire.
It had mods, dont know which ones, the insurance wont do anything because he was on track"

[Bunty Killa]

I didn't know full story just saw video, thanks for info

LotusJas said:

I was waiting for this to appear on PH

The car was mistreated (no cool down lap) and the owner spilled petrol on hot brakes, starting the inferno.



Witness comment, pasted verbatim:

"Hello, im chilean, i was there, one of the causes that is most probable to be is that the owner did 12 out of 15 laps allowed and without doing the correct procedure to cool down the car it was way to hot, then they put some gas on the car and some gas fell down into the calipers and then it caught fire.
It had mods, dont know which ones, the insurance wont do anything because he was on track"

[12pack]

Wait, it can’t be burning, it’s not an electric gar, is it?

[luigisayshello]

ian-0vc7e said:

So had the car for 7 days. Driving back from work today I notice smoke out the back, stop immediately and there are now plumes of smoke pouring out. I’m thinking the cars gonna burn to the ground so used the fire extinguisher and called McLaren assist. They call fire brigade and 3 hours later I’m back home and the cars on a tow truck. Seems like the coolant hose came off and luckily not smoke but steam.

I have to say Mclaren have been awesome as I’ve had 5 personal calls to reassure me and setup collection and repair. But it was super embarrassing and scary too. People seemed to either relish the fact a supercar was on the side of the road on fire or some nice people really helped.

Hoping they can fix this soon.
But also a little disappointed with such a big issue so soon into ownership. Not sure if I have the confidence to drive the car far again incase something similar happens. No problems when I had my huracan for three years. And this after 7 days!

Why are the hose clips so weak! Should they upgrade them?

There is a uk company that supplies actual good clips to swap the ste (sttier than a panda) mclaren puts in their cars for not that much (either money or work).

[davek_964]

luigisayshello said:

There is a uk company that supplies actual good clips to swap the ste (sttier than a panda) mclaren puts in their cars for not that much (either money or work).

My understanding is that some of them are not very easy to get to - and to replace all of them would be significant effort / labour.