Destroyed JK
 

I wanted to share what happened today with my 9 month old JK. Basically it burnt to the ground with only a few seconds notice. It is my belief that the evap canister caused this. I am also very concerned for other jeepers that don't take caution and move that god&*(m canister. When the fire inspector finishes I will provide that information. Note: This happened almost instantly and I actually had to jump through fire when exiting the vehicle. Within minutes, the jeep was in the middle of a 20 foot wall of flame.

I will follow this up with pictures so stay tuned!

Here are a few that a friend took.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/lurkzil...7603412382071/

EDIT: A fellow jeeper took those pictures and they appear to have been removed . I will find out what happened or get the pictures and post them somewhere else.

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I'm really sorry to hear about you losing your JK. If im not mistaken I think this is the 2nd one to just catch fire like this. Very very strange im curious to see the reason for this.

Hopefully you had gap insurance. I wish you the best of luck with everything that follows this incident .

EDIT:Clackey you beat me to it! Wow thats crazy im glad to see you are ok.

Yep, This is the second one I've heard of. Sounds like the same thing. Up in flames in seconds!!!! There is a video on here somewhere of the last one.
Here's the thread to the last one.
https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...ghlight=burned


Wow!!!! Those pics are amazing!!!!!

I have lots- o photos and a video and will post those. Basically It happened like this. Driving through grass, I noticed a strange rpm fluctuation and then the air conditioner stopped blowing cold air. I stopped and told the guys that something isn't right and I was going to the main grade to check on it. I made it about 40 feet and it just died. A second later, I saw flames go past both passenger and driver door windows then die down a bit. I opened the door and jumped out through a small flame still burning. I actually hesitated because I thought I would get burned, but I also knew that I had to go. A few seconds later the flames died down, but I could hear popping coming from under and I saw a small flame in back A minute later, and it was engulfed. Not a good day for me. Oh did I mention, jeepers move and protect that damn EVAP CANISTER PLEASE.

If anyone has suggestions about how I can best approach this regarding how to recover the losses ( after market parts roughly $8000 ) other than what the insurance will pay, please let me know. No doubt DC design flaw caused this.

BTW, there is another thread on here with another jeep that burned to the ground like this. He was driving down the highway. So total so far = 3 and I think I have heard of more.

I think that was the second one.

Well who is on first? or third? Tried posting pic inline but it isn't showing up. It shows up in [IMG][/IMG] tags when I edit, but not inline with post.

You might wanna look at this. Found it on Google. I hope it can help you out.
http://finance.qandas.com/insurance/...y-covered.html

No...this would make 3 I think.:thinking: One was in a grass field earlier this year...posted on this forum. Will have to find it.

I wasn't counting that one cuz they parked in the grass and the hot exhaust caught the grass on fire. Whereas this one and the other one seem to be fueled by gas.