What's the Boom outside in the car port?

[Roverlord off road spares]

My sister rang this arvo she was very distraught. She heard a boom out side and went to investigate and noticed the hazard lights flashing on her focus. Then she notices the smoke coming out from inside her car.
Seems the main loom runs under the dash top and something has shorted in there.
Shannons are picking it up to go to Mannheims on Monday, it was too late on a Friday to fetch it as Mannhiems would be closed . Sher only recently had a mobile mechanic fit a new Alternator the 2 days later had to replace the near new battery under warranty.
Lucky she spotted it before the house possibly caught fire
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[goingbush]

Thats a worry.

Maybe an airbag canister went boom?.

[Roverlord off road spares]

Thats a worry.

Maybe an airbag canister went boom?.

I don't know, but it melted in the centre of the dash top, the boom may have been the windscreen as it is all burnt and cracked where the fire was
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[Homestar]

Quite a few of Fords models are known to spontaneously combust including the Focus and Kuga but Ford won't lift a finger to fix or explain this.

This looks very concerning - what would have happened should your Sister have been driving the vehicle at the time. Most other reports say 'a bang from under the bonnet' but one like this in the cabin is far more serious IMO. What year is the vehicle? If it's under warranty it should go through the OEM and not insurance.

[Fattima]

Wow, didn't know Ford had gone back to using Lucas electrics.
Glad everyone is OK, could've been much worse had she been driving or the fire had spread.

[Roverlord off road spares]

Quite a few of Fords models are known to spontaneously combust including the Focus and Kuga but Ford won't lift a finger to fix or explain this.

This looks very concerning - what would have happened should your Sister have been driving the vehicle at the time. Most other reports say 'a bang from under the bonnet' but one like this in the cabin is far more serious IMO. What year is the vehicle? If it's under warranty it should go through the OEM and not insurance.

Gav, it was a 2004 model only driven to church on Sundays type. I went to a ford dealer today and purchased a later model replacement focus with "driven to church on Sundays milage." So this should see my sis out for a long time.
Cheers, Mario

[Roverlord off road spares]

Shannons quickly settled within a couple of business days agreed value no fuss, always been happy with their service.

Heather searched and found a replacement car, another focus ( Suits my Sister) 2010 in mint condition inside and out with 42,000 kms on it. from a ford dealership, it drives like a brand new one.
sister is a happy hamper again, with all the mod cons like DSC lots of airbags , hill assist abs etc etc. even though a 10yr old car lots of stuff she never had on the 2004.

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[Roverlord off road spares]

Incidently, the excess was paid to Shannons , and bank statement shows AAMI as reference, AAMI is owned by Suncorp, so Suncorp owns Shannons also

[Homestar]

Don't want to come across as being rude here and apologies if I do and I am happy that she's happy but I can't help wonder why you'd buy another one of these after the last one exploded for no reason but maybe that's just me?

[67hardtop]

Don't want to come across as being rude here and apologies if I do and I am happy that she's happy but I can't help wonder why you'd buy another one of these after the last one exploded for no reason but maybe that's just me?Im with you on that one Gav...

[Roverlord off road spares]

Don't want to come across as being rude here and apologies if I do and I am happy that she's happy but I can't help wonder why you'd buy another one of these after the last one exploded for no reason but maybe that's just me?
My other sister also has a focus and it is going fine. no fires.
that's like saying don't buy a another d2 or d3 because they have also caught fire. or why buy land rovers with their inherent faults , isn't it.

[Bigbjorn]

Gav, it was a 2004 model only driven to church on Sundays type. I went to a ford dealer today and purchased a later model replacement focus with "driven to church on Sundays milage." So this should see my sis out for a long time.
Cheers, Mario

Take that with a grain of salt. Norm Beechey advertised his Chev. Impala as "driven only on Sundays on bitumen roads."

[Roverlord off road spares]

Take that with a grain of salt. Norm Beechey advertised his Chev. Impala as "driven only on Sundays on bitumen roads."

it's only an expression "only driven to church on Sundays type." not actual fact

[Homestar]

My other sister also has a focus and it is going fine. no fires.
that's like saying don't buy a another d2 or d3 because they have also caught fire. or why buy land rovers with their inherent faults , isn't it.

All good mate, wasn't out to cause grief. Inherent mechanical faults are very different to an explosion in the cabin which would have seriously injured or worse the occupants had it been on the road when it occurred IMO. Had I a car that had done this to me, I'd not even want to be a passenger in another one much less own one or probably even anything from the maker, but again, just my thought process - not saying there's anything wrong with what's happened here.

[Bigbjorn]

it's only an expression "only driven to church on Sundays type." not actual fact

I was a used car dealer once upon a time. All my stock were cream puffs, straight as a gun barrel, only driven to church on Sundays, never been off the bitumen. Honest![bigwhistle]