Why a Thai lady never made it to her Fiesta's oil change....

[webfact]

Picture: Naew Na

 

Dramatic pictures on the Naew Na site showed a Ford Fiesta on fire on the Petchkasem road leading to Ratchaburi in central Thailand yesterday.

 

Thanawan, 53, said she had been taking her car to the garage for an oil change when it started behaving erratically.

 

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She got over a rise before deciding to park by the Niran housing estate as smoke then flame engulfed her Fiesta.

 

Locals tried to put the fire out to no avail and when the authorities arrived they succeeded in quelling the conflagration in just 10 minutes. 

 

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Picture: Naew Na

Picture: Naew Na

Picture: Naew Na

[tomazbodner]

Guess she won't be needing oil change now but rather a car change... ????

[KhunBENQ]

Burning car. Is it daily news now? Can't recall how many during the last week.

 

[worgeordie]

47 minutes ago, webfact said:

when it started behaving erratically.

 

What's it's name Christine .........????

regards worgeordie

[ourmanflint]

Amazing how many defective car/vehicle stories there are in Thailand

[NE1]

Google Translate :-It appears that the car has a malfunction. Due to the accelerator pedal, but the engine is slow He drove until he got off the bridge in front of the Eternal Village. It appears that the car can't step on the brake, so the car slows down by using the handbrake to force it. until the scene car engine failure before a plume of smoke erupted from the hood. until a fire erupted The nearby villagers saw Bring a fire extinguisher to help extraction, but can't extinguish. before the firefighters arrive which this car is a car equipped with gas as fuel Therefore, it is not yet known what caused .

[Dmaxdan]

Ford Fire-esta? 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Guess she won't be needing oil change now but rather a car change... ????

Good news is the filter survived.

[Bangkok Barry]

Was she using a Chinese-made phone charger in the car, I wonder?

[Tubulat]

This is not a Ford fiesta.

[kingstonkid]

Found

On

Road

Dead

[Andyfez]

Unusual for a Thai to want to change the oil. Makes me wonder if the actual story was that there was no oil, and she was driving the car to get some. Hence the engine burned up.....

????

[rickudon]

Ford fiestas (and other Fords) did have a bit of a reputation in the UK for going up in smoke. happened to my ex-wife and to a colleague at work. Only cars i ever saw burnt out and not the result of an accident/vandalism.

[bristolgeoff]

One very lucky lady and a car  change happening soon at a dealer near you

[brianthainess]

10 hours ago, rickudon said:

Ford fiestas (and other Fords) did have a bit of a reputation in the UK for going up in smoke. happened to my ex-wife and to a colleague at work. Only cars i ever saw burnt out and not the result of an accident/vandalism.

There was a problem with their CVT transmission which ended up in a class action, in Thailand also. 

[JonnyF]

That will buff out ????.

 

From the translation it sounds like maybe the accelerator stuck so the driver applied the handbrake. Car still in gear and trying to accelerate with the handbrake on? Sounds like a recipe for heat, friction and a fire. Maybe turning the engine off would have been prudent?

[richard_smith237]

14 hours ago, Tubulat said:

This is not a Ford fiesta.

What makes you state that ?

[Tubulat]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

What makes you state that ?

In my memory a Ford Fiesta is a much smaller car, but ok, maybe i'm wrong.

[richard_smith237]

29 minutes ago, Tubulat said:

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

What makes you state that ?

In my memory a Ford Fiesta is a much smaller car, but ok, maybe i'm wrong.