|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
|||||||
| The Bar For non Automotive Related Chat |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
21-02-2007, 10:40 AM
|
#1 | ||
|
Back in a Ford
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Australia
Posts: 2,620
|
G'day Everyone,
Received these photos via E-mail this morning. Workmate in the NT was driving in a station through some long grass late last year... Didn't think to check for grass around the exhaust/gearbox. :togo: Oh What a Feeling Indeed!!!         Fire extinguishers have now been fitted to all their vehicles. Cheers Darran
__________________
Back in a Ford! 2020 Ford Ranger XLT Hi Rider! |
||
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 10:43 AM
|
#2 | ||
|
ED4LYFE
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: North Coast NSW
Posts: 301
|
Atleast he tried to put it out
__________________
giggity |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 10:45 AM
|
#3 | ||
|
It'll Buff Out.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Newcastle NSW
Posts: 1,298
|
What happened to the wheels?
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 10:48 AM
|
#4 | ||
|
Way over here
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth W.A
Posts: 484
|
I feel sorry for the insurance assessor that has to go all the way out there t oassess it
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 10:49 AM
|
#5 | ||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,652
|
I think there is something in the handbook that tells you not to park them over long grass. Proves Prados were not meant to got off road.
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 10:58 AM
|
#6 | ||
|
Way over here
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth W.A
Posts: 484
|
Atleast it was off-road when it caught fire, unlike these FORDS.
http://www.rvappraisals.com/ford-fires.htm |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 11:23 AM
|
#7 | |||
|
Back in a Ford
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Australia
Posts: 2,620
|
Quote:
Came out of the paddock onto the road, and smelt something burning. By the time he pulled up, it was too late. Thats what he told me anyway!  : The rims melted as far as I can see. I doubt the locals pinched them, as they were missing in the photos while the vehicle was still flaming. Cheers Darran
__________________
Back in a Ford! 2020 Ford Ranger XLT Hi Rider! |
|||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 11:39 AM
|
#8 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,652
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 11:43 AM
|
#9 | |||
|
It's Cat huntin season...
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Wagga Wagga
Posts: 515
|
Quote:
__________________
XRB055 - Black BA MkII XR8 Ute. 6 Speed manual, Leather seats, hard lid. To do list - Cat back exhaust, new wheels, new shock and front sway bar, and whatever else seems like a good idea Old Ride XR40RD - Phantom BA XR6 160 rear wheel killer wasps - Pacemakers - 3" HiFlo Cat - 2.5 Redback exhaust - 18" Speedy Graphite Rims - Dumped on King Superlows - Standard ICC with iPod cradle, 5x7" Boston Acoustics, 12 Alpine sub powered by 4 channel Alpine amp |
|||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 01:31 PM
|
#10 | ||
|
turboute
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perth WA
Posts: 502
|
Spinifex catched on drivelines of almost any 4WD, if you are up that way you should be stopping everyu 30 min to clear it away from the exhaust / radiator /engine area, otherwise this will happen, no matter what car you are driving. (unless you put a complete underbody tray on it)
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 01:53 PM
|
#11 | ||
|
Official AFF conservative
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Adelaide, SA
Posts: 3,549
|
Lol, will send these off my mate at toyota dealership!!
__________________
A cup half empty... but full of euphoria. |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 04:12 PM
|
#12 | ||
|
Back in a Ford
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Australia
Posts: 2,620
|
I did a search earlier on this. It's amazing how the story changes.
On one site they said it happened on the Canning Stock Route in WA. It actually happened on Newcastle Waters Station NT. Another said someone stole the Prado, and took it for a joyride (They based that assumption on the fact the bullbar has a bend in it, and has no numberplate)
__________________
Back in a Ford! 2020 Ford Ranger XLT Hi Rider! |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 04:29 PM
|
#13 | ||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canberra Region
Posts: 9,021
|
In that 4th pic it looks like someone is getting out of the drivers door.
__________________
2016 FGX XR8 Sprint, 6speed manual, Kinetic Blue #170 2004 BA wagon RTV project. 1998 EL XR8, Auto, Hot Chilli Red 1993 ED XR6, 5speed, Polynesian Green. 1 of 329. Retired 1968 XT Falcon 500 wagon, 3 on the tree, 3.6L. Patina project. |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 04:31 PM
|
#14 | ||
|
It'll Buff Out.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Newcastle NSW
Posts: 1,298
|
The ghostrider was driving perhaps?
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 05:07 PM
|
#15 | ||
|
Where to next??
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney
Posts: 8,893
|
As turboute mentioned....
Any 4x4 info book or video mentions that driving in long grass needs special attention. I saw one doco advising that first you drive with the windows down to smell for fire, then you have handy a coat hander that has been straightened but hooked on the end, as well as a 5ltr garden sprayer (the kind with the long neck nozle) then when you smell fire, or every now and again you hop out, pull out all the trapped grass with the wire and if there is fire get right under there with the sprayer and put it out. Shame about the 4x4... $15 of gear and some common sense would have stopped that from happening! |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 05:50 PM
|
#16 | ||
|
eskyman
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: adelaide
Posts: 874
|
itll buff out
__________________
who says kents cant be quick |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 07:35 PM
|
#17 | |||
|
Force Fed Fords
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Enroute
Posts: 4,050
|
In the bottom picture you can actually see where the left rear wheel left a pool of molten aluminium where it burnt. Unbelievable, hope the fella had mobile phone reception.
__________________
If brains were gasoline, you wouldn't have enough to power an ants go-cart a half a lap around a Cheerio - Ron Shirley Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 07:38 PM
|
#18 | ||
|
Back in a Ford
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Australia
Posts: 2,620
|
He grabbed his Sat-Phone out luckily.
The boss gave me a huge tune up for breaking the UHF aerial on that Prado too...had to buy a new one... At least I didn't burn the car to the ground!
__________________
Back in a Ford! 2020 Ford Ranger XLT Hi Rider! |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 07:47 PM
|
#19 | ||
|
.
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 6,197
|
spot the ghostly image in pic 4 beside the drivers door.
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 07:54 PM
|
#20 | |||
|
Clevo Mafia Inc.
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 10,496
 
|
Quote:
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=87798 |
|||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 08:04 PM
|
#21 | |||
|
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mount Gambier - South Aus
Posts: 662
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 08:35 PM
|
#22 | ||
|
Ford Fanatic
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,480
|
I think one word sums this up
BUGGER
__________________
Everyone is entitled to my Opinion  2007 Territory TX SY RWD Ego |
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 09:07 PM
|
#23 | ||||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,602
|
Quote:
__________________
Quote:
|
||||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 09:08 PM
|
#24 | ||
|
Fiat POWAAH!
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 2,309
|
bloody cowboys
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 09:17 PM
|
#25 | ||
|
Banned
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: South East Melbourne
Posts: 6,156
|
One less Prado in the world can only be a good thing.
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 09:25 PM
|
#26 | ||
|
Starter Motor
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: BRISSY
Posts: 2
|
Oh What A Feeling Toyota !!!!
|
||
|
|
|
|
21-02-2007, 09:27 PM
|
#27 | ||
|
nitroman
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Young
Posts: 322
|
geez... what a lot of pollution, but one more toyota road block off the road has to be a good thing!
__________________
AU1 XR8 E303 cam,Crane Rockers,Crane double valve springs,Rollmaster roller timing gears,Crow +80" pushrods,SS cold air induction, 2 1/2 inch custom exhaust,Capa flash tuner.KONI shocks. EF fairmont wagon. GASGAS 400 enduro. Honda hr192 mower |
||
|
|
|
Prado Barbeque (Not 56K Friendly-Pics)
Linear Mode
