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Nic Jarman · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: VERY SCARY

I have been planning to sort the wiring out in the boot for some time but now it will have to be done.
I was driving home and I noticed the radio had gone quiet, nothing unusual around Cavendish as there is poor reception. I looked at the radio and smoke billowed out of it. Fortunately I had the top down and I managed to flip the front of the stereo off but it continued to smoke so I turned the ignition off. I coasted into a conveniently placed lay by and I yanked the radio live feed from the battery - job done and I am 5 miles from home.
When I checked the wiring in the boot I found the live feed to the electric aerial had rubbed on the spare throttle cable that was under the plastic petrol can that is FULL. The cable must have glowed red hot and the thread on the adjuster had melted into the plastic. How lucky is that - I think God loves me.

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intransit · Joined: 03 Mar 2009 Posts: 14

bloody hell Shocked

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22449 Location: UK

sounds like a very close call indeed!

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Nic Jarman · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject:

I checked the fuse in the stereo and it is OK. Very strange as the feed for the aerial comes through the unit. If anyone has an electric aerial put a fuse in the feed.
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1936 Morris 8 Series 1
1973 MGB roadster
1977 MG Midget 1500
Dax Rush

47Jag · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject:

Nik,

You should have bought a lottery ticket that day. I read that a gallon of petrol has the same explosive power as 18 pounds of TNT.

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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

A narrow escape indeed. Glad you managed to prevent a disaster
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Nic Jarman · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks 47p2 and 47jag I have run out of clean underwear - just thinking about it.
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1936 Morris 8 Series 1
1973 MGB roadster
1977 MG Midget 1500
Dax Rush

ianm · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:47 am Post subject:

G,day Nic,
I'm thinking that if you were a cat you would have used up your 9 lives
Ian Shocked

Jim.Walker · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield

Considering modern cars I have long said "the more gadgets you have the more things there are to go wrong", but I never imagined anything like this!
Glad you are still around to write about it! Looking at my Dad's quote below, perhaps he did.
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