My car EXPLODED!

[vinnym86]

So i'm sitting at a light on one of the busiest intersections in our town, coming back from a friend's house. I had just done roughly 15 - 20 miles on the highway at about 85ish. Sitting, waiting for the damn light to turn green, and my car starts vibrating violently... "wtf is this shit!?" i look at my revs, less then 1000 revs, almost at zero... "fuck." look at my temperature, its shooting WAY up there past the red rectangle... "fuck fuck." look over at my hood, and see smoke just beginning to pour out... "fffffag-a-licious." so there I am, waiting for the light to green so i can pull over in a parking lot and take a look, but the damn light, it just stays red forever! so i'm sitting there, and my next 60 seconds involved me being worried, to blowing a load, to being fucked i the asshole.

first 30 seconds; waiting... waiting... waiting..
next 15 seconds; yellow Lambo Murcielago FIRES past me on the opposite side... oh, it was beautiful... and the noise!!
last 15 seconds; waiting... engine stops... light turns green.

So there i am, the first car at the light, with a looong ass line of cranky middle-aged men coming home from a crappy NYC commute which probably involved several road-rage related homocides on the way behind me honking their horn like they Just saw Jessica Alba take off her top. Flick on my hazards, tell the fuckers to start giong around, and try starting her up again... wouldn't turn over. sat there a little bit, flicked off the white-collared jewbags who "gave me the look" in their pompous 911s and CLKs. (my town is full of rich jewish people who drive only porsche's and benz's. its sooo boring.) eventually, after about 2 minutes tops, i tried again, and it started, and let me go about 30 feet to the nearest parking lot. opened the hood, and (although i suspected as much) was surprised at the sight. My coolant had exploded all over the place. one might say my coolant started leaking, and there was a hole in the pipe, but that would be a gross understatement. This shit was in places i dind't know it can reach, and the lasceration in the pipe was gaping wider than your homeboy's girl.

Well, don't blame the car. i love it too much, it didn't meant to die. Sure, it's got 200k+ miles on it, 14 years old, shitty condition, but i can tell you know, this was my fault.
This morning, i reach class 30 minutes early (i commute to college), so i figure i'd take a nap. Throw on some Chili Peppers, turn on the AC, so leave the engine running, and pass out... Woke up 3 and a half hours later. missed pretty much all my classes, oh well. i think that's what fucked it up... i think. w/e, it'll be all fixed by tomorrow latest.

[TexasF355F1]

That sucks man. Hope you get her fixed.

[imtheoneandonlyD]

Atleast it didnt go up in a firey blaze. That would be some shit. Atleast its getting fixed.

[93rollaracer]

Nothing a little duct tape can't fix.


But seriously, good luck getting that fixed up/getting a new car/whatever you're gonna do.

[vinnym86]

It's nothing major, it just happened in the worst possible way. but the coolant had deriously gone all over the place. I've had coolant leak from our van b4, but this was the first time in my p.o.s. civic, and it made quite a show of it.

Originally Posted by 93rollarracer

Nothing a little duct tape can't fix.

exactly!

Originally Posted by ImtheoneandonlyD

Atleast it didnt go up in a firey blaze.

No, but that's how i'd like to go, i've decided. but atleast in a respectable car. not a civic.

[93rollaracer]

Originally Posted by vinnym86

No, but that's how i'd like to go, i've decided. but atleast in a respectable car. not a civic.

Wreck at 200 mph in my Ferrari...catches on fire...that's the way I'd choose.

[vinnym86]

Ferrari is my dream car, but i'd much rather go in a classic muscle, like a 71 challenger r/t, for example, on a desert highway. i dunno, some kind of automotive romance to it.

[Rally Sport]

Sorry vin, but what kind of CAR was it?

[vinnym86]

'93 Honda Civic. a 1.5l 4cyl, i think 80hp, automatic, sedan. color: aqua! lol

^that is the extent of my poverty.

[-Davo]

I was explecting pictures of this huge fireball, people dying, satan laughing, and someone yelling "WoW for life!"

Hope ya can get it fixed!

My first car suffered the same fate, but I was driving down the highway at the time, it was a 83 1.3l ford laser!

300 bucks yo.

[mas&NKS]

Id much rather fly off an overpass into an oncoming highway traffic lane in a semi. If I'm gonna die, im takin as many motherfuckers with me as i can. And it'll make headlines.

[G-man422]

Man, sorry to hear that. hope she gets fixed.

[clawhammer]

You may have blown the head gasket. Might want to run a chemical check on your coolant.

[-Jacko-]

Hope it gets fixed quickly mate!

[vinnym86]

Originally Posted by clawhammer

You may have blown the head gasket. Might want to run a chemical check on your coolant.

I did ... Mech is quoting atleast $700 for repairs, and my car really isn't even worth more than 5. i was reallly hoping it was just s simple pipe rupture and coolant leak... now i'm actually pissed/sad.

wow... i need a job again, ASAP.

plus, he said there was extensive wear on my engine that didn't look normal. he doubted that leaving my car on at idle for 3 hours could have caused this. maybe it contributed, but didn't cause it. When i start my car, it had ben dropping revs below 1000 for atleast 2 weeks now, staying down there for about 5 seconds, before idling back at 1500 to 2000. he said that was the first signs that something might have been wrong, and should have come earlier. i guess so. anyway, does a $700 quote sound right?