(copied from my myspace blog)
ok so everyone keeps asking what exactly happened to my car...and understandably so...so here it goes....
around the end of april it was still vickie's car...there was a problem and it wouldnt come out of park...she took it to shumacker and francy's up on west chester pike b/c her brother in law recommended them...they did something along the lines of a bypass and fuse replacement and said it was fixed...so she gives me the car...two weeks later the same thing happens...so i get on the phone with the guys who fixed it and they tell me that something is shorting and blowing a fuse which stops the brake lights from coming on..and when that happens it trips a safety mechinism that won't let the car come out of gear...so they tell me how to trick it out of gear so i can get it back to them without a tow...they were just gonna look at it for free for me...then vickie and her brother in law got in on it and finally got the jerks to agree to fix it for free since they didnt do it right the 1st time...this time they put in a modified fuse that would reset itself if it blew...i get it back and it worked for about a week and a half before fucking up again...
(now here's the part ur all really interested in)
so thursday i went out to go on my run and sure enough i couldnt get it outta fucking gear...i was so fed up i just walked away from it...that was about 11:30 am...i didnt bother calling shumacker and francy's b/c i didnt want them working on my car again since they obviously couldnt fix it the 2 times they tried...i was gonna call around friday morning and see who i knew and trusted to work on it...but i didnt get to do that did i?...
after work (which i used my moms car it get to and nearly got an ear chewed off for) i came home and went about my usual night...then, laying there in bed around 1 am trying to fall asleep i heard noises outside...1st i heard people talking kinda loudly...couldnt make out what they were saying b/c the a/c was on...then i heard a knocking on my neighbor's door...none of this was out of the ordinary b/c my neighbors are noisy...then i heard a car horn...but not ur typical pull-up-and-honk...my car horn didnt work so i didnt think too much of it...about 30 seconds later alls i heard was BOOM...i'm thinking "what the fuck are the neighbors doing"...so i peek out my window and see some flashing lights on the neighbor's car and think "oh goody, the cops were called again"...at that point me and steph decide to go downstairs and be nosey b/c my neighbor's antics are of great amusement to us....we get downstairs and i open the front door and there's my car UP IN FLAMES!....i start spazzing...my car is on fire...my moms car is parked right next to it...as is the neighbors car...my car is on fire...omg omg omg...thankfully someone else had seen it (the people talking/knocking on doors i assume) and called 911...so the firetruck and cops were pulling up as i opened the door...needless to say they put it out pretty quickly...they axed open the trunk since my key didnt work in the trunk lock to make sure the fire hadnt spread into it...and then they towed it away...
here's an article one of the responders wrote for the little internet publication he helps with :
article link
the next morning i junked it...no point it keeping it since it couldnt run...my mom talked to one of her mechanic friends online and he said they modified fuse probably allowed the short to over heat and thus ignite...but thats just a probably...he didnt get to see it so couldnt say for sure...he also told us that fords/mercury's have a defect...the dumbass designers of the cars put the brake fluid sensor inside the brake fluid container...and brake fluid is highly flamable...so if they sensor decides to spark in anyway u get a nice fire...so who knows if that played into it at all since my car's probably was definitely something in the brakes/sensors/electrical area...
so thats basically the story...no one was in it., or near it (as far as i know) thankfully....and my mom's car has some cosmetic damage...a little melting on the bumper, side marker and parking light and the sideview mirror case...and nothing happened to my neighbor's car thankfully...and i have no car for the time being...i am taking donations to the Krissi Needs a New Car fund tho...make checks payable to ME!...just kidding...
whats the moral u ask?...Cars CAN blow up after sitting there COLD for 13 hours :-D
