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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 05, 2025, 02:32:06 pm

Title: how did that happen
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 05, 2025, 02:32:06 pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/taxi-catches-fire-outside-dublin-36015529.amp (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/taxi-catches-fire-outside-dublin-36015529.amp)

Title: Re: how did that happen
Post by: mercenary for hire on October 05, 2025, 02:53:57 pm

Anytime I see those aftermarket registration plates on a car I can't help thinking I wonder what else they modified and made a bollox of.

That car looks very low....do them yokes have air bag suspension from the factory?

There was a VW caddy taxi that went on fire from under the bonnet on the M50 a few months ago too.Maybe I should start bringing the fire extinguisher with me.

Title: Re: how did that happen
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 05, 2025, 02:58:50 pm

yeah the car's ride height looks like it was fucked with. someone wanted to pimp it out.
i'd say it has some dirty big custom media/sound system that overloaded the car's battery.

Title: Re: how did that happen
Post by: C5 on October 06, 2025, 01:13:20 pm

That could be a seized brake caliper and it boiled and went on fire and then everything else around it goes to. Some drivers are oblivious to faults like that, just give it more peddle and it keeps going past the drag.

Title: Re: how did that happen
Post by: Rat Catcher on October 20, 2025, 12:23:22 pm

Was she petrol or diesel?

Seems to be an increase in diesel vehicles going up in flames in recent years... no doubt related to the extreme temperatures required to regenerate DPFs and/or modifications aimed at circumventing DPF systems.