Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:55 pm, by: Jerome Faulkner(Swizzy)
Had my silver soarer TT for about 3 months now; i could'nt have chosen a better first car. Finally glad to be among fellow soarer enthusiast and i look forward to sharing my knowledge and learning more from those soarer gurus cheers will post picks ASAP
Monday, July 07, 2008 - 10:10 am, by: Jerome Faulkner(Swizzy)
i regret to inform you all of this great tragedy but my soarer had an engine fire...she will be missed. i recently bought an Aristo 3.0V, not as fast as the soarer but it will do...for now
Monday, July 07, 2008 - 12:09 pm, by: Jerome Faulkner(Swizzy)
it was an electrical fire. i never tried to figure out exactly what happened because its not going to bring my baby back but this is a pic before the fire (sorry for the poor quality)
Monday, July 07, 2008 - 12:21 pm, by: Tim Hutchings(One_jay_zed)
It must have been God smiting you for covering your Soarer in rice stickers!!!
Nice Aristo though mate, there's only one thing you can do if you've got a perfectly good 2JZGE sitting under your bonnet... It's like a dormant volcano
Monday, July 07, 2008 - 12:27 pm, by: Jerome Faulkner(Swizzy)
funny you should mention those damn stickers. they were on when i got the car from the previous owner...i never got around to removing them, but i guess we know the real cause of the fire now huh?
Stuart Smith Tinkerer NEW SOUTH WALES SC400 V8 GT LIMITED
Monday, July 07, 2008 - 05:53 pm, by: Stuart Smith(Leader428)
Would this be a good time to think seriously about a fire extinguisher?, I am going to buy one tomorrow and mount it in the cabin where I can access it.
Monday, July 07, 2008 - 08:14 pm, by: Tim Hutchings(One_jay_zed)
Yeah you're right Stuart, such an overlooked life saver. $30 now could save you tens of thousands in the future... I remember a sad story about a guy around wellington with a WRX (yeah I know, I hate them to) show car that he'd (by "he" I mean "his Daddy" ) had spent around 90k on, as far as rex's go, it was pretty nice, if not a little ricer (but that's beside the point), he was driving out in the middle of nowhere one night and a small fire started under the bonnet - just a loose positive wire earthing out on something. It spread pretty slowly, if he had a fire extinguisher and some masking tape he probably would have driven home... But alas, no. To cut a long story short, there was nothing salvageable from that charred wreckage. It was a cover car in NZPC magazine, Kiwi readers will probably remember it.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 06:48 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Hey, you had those silly rubber door guards too - I had one of those on my drivers side, but got rid of it. I figured if I ever got to the point when I actually needed it, it was time to go on a diet.
Mike Beck Goo Roo New Zealand Soarer Limited UZZ31 & Soarer 3.0GT JZZ31
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Jerome!
but this is a pic before the fire (sorry for the poor quality)
) had spent around 90k on, as far as rex's go, it was pretty nice, if not a little ricer (but that's beside the point), he was driving out in the middle of nowhere one night and a small fire started under the bonnet - just a loose positive wire earthing out on something. It spread pretty slowly, if he had a fire extinguisher and some masking tape he probably would have driven home... But alas, no. To cut a long story short, there was nothing salvageable from that charred wreckage. It was a cover car in NZPC magazine, Kiwi readers will probably remember it.
