Thread: What's the Boom outside in the car port?

Thats a worry.

Maybe an airbag canister went boom?.

Originally Posted by goingbush

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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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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

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?