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Well, your insurance company is obligated to cover the cost of your lease.. so you're fine on that front.

But you may also have a case against the car company if you can find out the cause of the fire and get some legal advice on it.

ZX3_2NV,Jan 22 2009, 03:50 PM Wrote:wow came out alot smaller than i expected sorry get ur reading glasses out.
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Yeah but it says essentially what I did (though mine was maybe a bit more complicated :P)

With the downswing in car prices lately people in your situation get... erm... "torched" :ph34r:

NefCanuck

just wait 3 months for a settlement and ride around in a rental vehicle lol prices will go up haha

Its not that easy Jamie I'll be looking at a 04 Jeep Renegade and a 04/05 (I think) Limited Escape. Ill make my choice when I compare the two.

Ford had a big problem in the states with the Cruise control Moduale a couple of years back about 2005 May-ish many fires and bunt houses. It's the same Moduale that I have in my car now, but the grounding pigtails are already on it. Not many ppl remember hearing this for some reason up hee in Canada. I was in Florida at the time eveything was catching on fire. They said used to mucha nd over heated. (that thing gets extramely hot)


Above the drive's side Head light. Only pic I could find.

This is off of Jeepforum.com

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Hello all, I work for a large electric utility company and we bought 3 Jeep Rubicon 4 door vehicles to maintain our Hi Lines. Friday we had 1 burn to the ground. The driver stated that it appeared that the fire started by the trans skid plate. We put one of the other vehicles on a lift today and what we found was a lot of sticks and brush on top of the skid plate by the exhaust, in fact one of the sticks we pulled out had char marks on it from what I would assume was laying on the right side pipe that crosses over to the left side of the vehicle. Another thing that I noticed was the fuel lines leave the fuel tank and cross right on top of the exhaust and appear to travel up to the engine on top of the transmission. If a fire did break out due to debris by the exhaust the flames would be directly under the plastic fuel lines. Has anyone seen this before? These are bone stock and just went into service within 3 months. Thanks in advance.

Yup like I said it has happened before there is even a you tube video of one on fire.

Wow that sucks...sorry to hear the bad news

Hope everything goes your way

You won't be dissapointed with an 05-07 Escape Limited...

yup I am disapointed AWD can't switch from 2wd to 4wd not cool and dark puppet your wrong about insurance having to cover the lease There going to cover the replacemnt value and if anything is left its out of my pocket but I talked to chrysler and they stated since it was a malfunction they will cover the gap and close the lease. I know someone in the same case as me he wrote off his year old dodge ram insurance replaced it and dodge sent him a bill for $6300 the difference in price from when he bought it and the replacement fee.

True, my neighbour was telling me he rolled his Astro van on the highway because the steering column let go. A defect from GM. The insurance only covered $28,000 and GM covered the rest I think he said if was about 6 months old and about $47,000. You never know.

ZX3_2NV,Jan 26 2009, 03:36 PM Wrote:yup I am disapointed AWD can't switch from 2wd to 4wd not cool

I have no idea what that means, but I'll assume you mean the AWD Haldex system in the Escape/Mariner/Tribute. It's primarily a 100% FWD system until wheel slip is detected - slip is calculated in 5ms intervals, or 200x per second. It operates with the same seamless power transfer in recent Subarus in that torque is routed accordingly as required until a 50/50 lock is achieved, if required. It'll go further in the other direction (to the rear) I believe as well, but you definitely know when you have a 50/50 split going on.

We've had one of our worst winters yet here in North Bay (in recent memory) and I'll vouch for how well it works. It's also very tossable in the snow with RSC turned off :lol:

I've bombed through well over a foot of snow in places and the truck just takes it and goes. Crawling through plow furrows is that - a crawl if you want. No need to go bombing through to make it through.

They're not meant for serious off-roading. Get a frame-based vehicle if you want it for that. I will say that when I did take it crawling through the bush, literally, outside Mikisew Provincial Park it two-tracked and crawled through washouts and dried creek beds nicely. We went through more than one ghost town back in the bush on the old Nipissing Road (settlers' route to the north when you couldn't afford the train ride) and at that point I stopped dreading owning a small SUV. :)

Sry to say Belair was crap I was not hearing things right it was another company. Belair is a really good company. And apparently StateFarm screws you over even more lol. 2 ppl living in a residence both with licenses and both with a car each also both have seperate insurance on there own with statefarm right are you with me here? Both pay for thereselfs and their car on the seperate policies but both ppl are a listed driver on each of the policies and each of the 2 ppl are paying for each other on both policies. Rip off.

Umm, I wouldn't say that my truck is 100% biased to the front axles...I have rooster tails of snow coming off the ass end all the time, and this little truck is DRIFT HAPPY if I drive it like a hammerhead. I'd say that the power gets transffered to the rear axles more often than not, and I gotta admit, that even with A/S, A/T tires, this truck can pull away from a dead stop, climb hills, and actually stop with a LOT LESS effort in the snow than FWD cars with snow tires (watching a bunch of them trying to climb the hill on Bronson in front of me, here in Ottawa last night during the storm, and almost going nowhere for several minutes with mad tire spin). I too am dreading owning this little truck less and less all the time...

Sorry about the threadjack NV, if you want something that's still 4x4 capable, what would interest you outside of another Jeep? Maybe a fully loaded Dakota or something?

Eww Dakota isn't that a pick up truck

Yarp...

Yaa no Ill be picking up my new Vehicle tomorrow I'll post some pics up next week.