Thanksgiving Day Car Fire

spearfish25

It had been sitting in the garage for a year or so. My brother came back from law school (his car), so we fired it up and took it for a spin. There was quite a bit of white smoke during the drive coming from the tail pipes. The suspicion is a bad head gasket or a cracked block was the cause. So we brought it back, took a look under the hood, and everything looked fine. Seriously, nothing under the hood looked suspicious (and definitely not smoking or on fire).

Then, 10 minutes later...the rest of the story unfolded. My brother did run into the garage when we first noticed and saw the flames coming from the passenger side towards the front of the engine bay. He said there is an ignition relay there. My suspicion is that an oil leak hit the headers and lit up.

Thanks for your best wishes everyone.

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2013 Cadillac V-Wagon, RIP Z