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Peter Car
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https://www.caradvice.com.au/917469/...-catches-fire/
Habibi too stupid to realize that burnouts don't work when you have traction control on. Keeps trying and fries the engine/auto, setting it on fire ![]() Police see the footage and charge him with dangerous driving. Insurance probably void. Notice he didn't actually get charged with doing a burnout ![]() |
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Kicking back
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Well, im sure he can sell more drugs to buy another one when insurance doesnt pay...
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And almost as comical.
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IT Drone from Sector 7G
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DIY Tragic
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Has anyone fact-checked the “it was a prize” allegation?
Prize awarded by Centrelink for childcare centre with greatest number of phantom enrolees? |
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The stupidest thing is, as i child I'd done bigger skids in my undies. And kmart doesn't charge as much as even a second hand car dealer for undies.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Old Mate is sponsoring young Moffat in his TCR Renault Megane 2021 campaign. Wonder how that'll turn out now.
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Wow! Looks like he's had it for at least 8 months and hasn't managed to work out how to disable traction control.
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Next challenge: Watch Habibi set fire to water!
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Probably one of those charity scams, where the winner is always someone the organiser knows and the donated money never ends up where its supposed to.
But "Trans fluid for $100 please Alex."
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Yes it was a LMCTPLUS prize. Those guys are 100% legit. I rang the charity to make sure when I entered. They do a lot of good work for the charity apparently.
They organiser even joked about including a fire extinguisher in the next prize, which happens to be another amg c63 ![]() Also the bloke who wrecked the car is blaming a fault in the car, so mercs have to now investigate ![]()
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DIY Tragic
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“…a fault in the car”
About 40cm from the steering wheel? (AKA Fault-40) |
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Disagree with the title of the thread the 'burn out' was perfectly executed.
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I realise that the owner is an absolute tool & it was his fault entirely, but you would've thought that the M/Benz could take more than that before it caved in.
It looked to be a bit more than an overheated transmission from the amount of smoke bellowing from the exhaust. Dr Terry |
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what a shame a nice car like that ends up with such a knob
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Seeing that 63 disintegrate like that is heart breaking. (My fav Car)
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I'm not sure what impact timing retardation/fuel cut would have on the engine though. I guess these systems just aren't designed around doing it for excessive periods of time. 99.99999% of the time they would work for no more than 1 or 2 seconds. It's so funny, cause one touch of a button and this thing would put on a massive smoke show. How could he have never heard of traction control? ![]() |
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Dunno if its just me, but whenever i get a new (different) car the moment i get home i geek out and lookup everything it can do, what settings can be changed, all that gear. Then honeymoon with it for a few days. Not burnouts, but pressing buttons and changing stuff because i can. But i guess some people dont do that.
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This is what happens when you take Lebos out of Commodores, I bet the mighty Ecotec would rip a sweet single pegger.
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I just realised these are a dual clutch 9 speed, so it wasn't the converter slipping, it was the clutch.
Bet the thing spat the clutch and flywheel out the side of the gearbox, through the exhaust and fuel lines.
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Can't find it on carsales anymore, but apparently he had it listed for $150k. Bet he wishes his ask was a bit less than that now.
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