Friday the 13th - not a good day (car fire)

[RESSE]

Not the best Friday I have had.

"Gutted" as the Land Rover was running perfectly.

Taken away on car transporter this afternoon - a sad day, but not my worst.

Before




After:

[DrTre]

Downer. What the hell happened?!

[RESSE]

DrTre said:

Downer. What the hell happened?!

Not sure but either an electric 'short' or a problem with the heater blower slider control (had a few issues with this over the last few weeks) or rain getting into the (23 year old) wiring).

[Pints]

It looked in really good nick for a 23 YO car.

[durbster]

Wow, you definitely picked the wrong car to try suicide bombing.

Seriously, that's horrible to see. I love Defenders.

[RESSE]

Pints said:

It looked in really good nick for a 23 YO car.

Damn right - I had spent a few £000s replacing worn out parts and getting it just as I wanted.

Previous Sunday the Landy spent 7 hours offroading and didn't miss a beat.

Insurers confirm my worse (but almost resigned) feelings that it is a write off.



Such a great shame.............................

[ajb85]

That's a great shame, sorry for your loss. It looked mint pre-fire, not many 23 year old Defenders I've seen looked as nice as that!

[Eighteeteewhy]

That sucks.

[Rubin215]

Slightly off-topic, but I'm sure I read somewhere that if you set fire to a brand new range rover sport before it had turned a wheel out of the showroom, it would do less damage to the environment than letting someone use it for its predicted lifetime.

Sorry to hear about the Landy though.

[rumple]

fk, that's a shame, looked an awesome landy, gutted for you.

[issey23]

What bad luck

If its a Cat C/D and you've spent so much on it, buy it back from the insurance company ?

[Garlick]

RESSE said:

Damn right - I had spent a few £000s replacing worn out parts and getting it just as I wanted.

Previous Sunday the Landy spent 7 hours offroading and didn't miss a beat.

Insurers confirm my worse (but almost resigned) feelings that it is a write off.



Such a great shame.............................

Looks like it was a cracker. Sorry to hear your news

[AlpineWhite]

Oh that sucks. Gutted for you.

[DrTre]

That's a real shame. Hope you can get it back to something approaching what it was?

[RESSE]

Insurers have been great - communicative and helpful.

Fortunately I have a folder of invoices from when I bought the Landy (March 2012) and this will help with the valuation.

Not a straightforward valuation (in my mind)?

I appreciate it is a 1989/G plate Land Rover.

[P I Staker]

Melted interiors always disgust me in a really weird way. Sorry to see that OP.

[RESSE]

Thanks for the replies chaps, I am 'ok' and I take the view it is not that bad - world is still turning etc.

Lads in Afghanistan have much more to deal with:

[ajb85]

Defenders are a very hard vehicle to value. Old ones like your's still command mega bucks, as I'm sure you found out when you bought it. Hope your insurers play fair.

[andy43]

RESSE said:

The dealer mistakenly ticked both the Arctic heater AND the rapid boost demister option on the Defender order form, with disasterous consequences...

[andy43]

Sorry, couldn't resist Such a shame - looks a lovely thing in ace condition for a 23 year old. Proper engine too Hopefully it'll be possible to buy it back and fix it.