It seems that there is a disproportionate number of DeLoreans that have caught fire. Think about it, how many other cars can you name that have had fires or how often have you seen car fires on the side of the road? It is pretty rare. But that is not the reason for this topic so don't provide answers to those rhetorical questions.
This topic, or its potential spinoffs are meant to determine:
- How many DeLorean car fires have happened (we need accounts and they need to identify if it is first hand info or second, third, fourth, etc)
- What was the reason (as best can be determined):
- Fuel
- Engine compartment line ruptures
- Fitting failures/leaks
- Other
- Electrical
- Relay module failures
- Wiring failures
- Fuse block failures
- Other
- Probable user error ... a problem caused by the user/service person. These are problems worth noting but not inherently related to the car & its parts
- Other TBD
- Fixes... here we can identify the changes/upgrades/maintenance items that might reduce the probability of fires.
By tracking and highlighting problems, we can focus on prevention. If this was Detroit, they may be issuing recalls or TSB's. But, for all practical purposes, we are "Detroit" so this forum may be the best way to track problems and raise awareness.
Moderators - If this topic gets traction or is deemed worthwhile, maybe this should be a section by itself and then run multiple threads for the topics mentioned above instead of lumping replies haphazardly in this one topic. Maybe the high level topic is "Catastrophic Failures" and can be expanded to other topics such as TAB failures, frame rust through, ball joints, suspension components, steering loss & other.