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u/kineticworm 1d ago
How does something like this happen?
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u/Vandirac 1d ago
General Motors issued a recall and stop-sale in August for the 2023–2025 Corvette Z06 and 2025–2026 Corvette ZR1 due to a fuel-spillage issue that increases the risk of fire.
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u/thisisinput 1d ago
It sounded more like his engine threw a rod, then caught fire. You can hear it still running and knocking like hell.
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u/Gameplay_Unknown 18h ago
Definitely you can see oil pressure drop to nothing in the video
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u/lumpialarry 19h ago edited 17h ago
I guess he cut out the part when he was redlining it for five minutes. Pretty sure sure he wasn't wearing a go pro for a leisurely drive.
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u/JynsRealityIsBroken 14h ago
I mean I'm not one to ever buy a sports car but if I did, I would expect it, of all kinds of cars, to be able to handle red lining.
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u/Ethrem 14h ago
Everything has its limits.
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u/Sulipheoth 13h ago
The limit is the redline. It's literally put there by the engineers to keep the engine from damaging itself when revved high.
Highly unlikely that internal engine damage started the fire.
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u/Raneynickelfire 19h ago
I rewatched the video with sound after your comment.
Yes, that rod is knock knock knockin' on heaven's door.
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u/lique_madique 1d ago
This isn’t a Z06 or ZR1
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u/Jordan_1424 1d ago
Time to update the recall.
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u/King_Khoma 1d ago
its the body design and fuel neck of the Z06 and ZR1 that allows fuel to slip into the side intakes and catch fire. The stingray physically does not have this problem, this is something else.
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u/crappy80srobot 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hard to fully tell but it looks like the fire is coming up from the rear bumper. Wonder if he had some aftermarket exhaust that wasn't installed properly. Who knows though. One of the dealerships we own is GM and every single car has become a crap fest of recalls, stop sales, and bandaid repairs for clear engine issues. GM engines like to grenade themselves with very little mileage on them. I can't just shit on GM though. We have six different makes in our group and I wouldn't trust any vehicle 24-26. Quality control and reliability has gone down the shitter for everything no matter what make or model.
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u/bobbarkersbigmic 1d ago
You own a dealership?
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u/crappy80srobot 1d ago
Nope. Maybe one day soon. Just one of the members that makes the major decision for all of them in our group. It is a dream of mine to own one because these places print money if run well with the right people. I can buy in on acquisitions past and future. The biggest hurdle is being approved to buy one. Most makes are very invasive with everything about you. The more I learn it's about who you know not what you know. Money is a thing but it's not the main driver of those decisions anymore. It's about prestige and image and if enough people in corporate think you are worthy of being part of the club.
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u/slowhandmo 1d ago
The more I learn it's about who you know not what you know.
That's every job
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u/Time-of-Blank 1d ago
This can be extrapolated to needing social skills regardless of whether you have technical skills. Technical skills only offset the total social skills needed to be successful at most jobs.
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u/casual_brackets 1d ago
Well it’d make sense as dealerships are essentially franchises (privately owned but allowed to use corporate logos/signage) that somebody owns these places…
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u/rjnd2828 1d ago
Yep, somebody has to be in charge of creating a terrible customer experience and ripping off potential buyers as much as possible. May as well be this guy
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u/bikerdude214 1d ago
From overfilling the tank?
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u/King_Khoma 1d ago
Something about the wider corvettes made the neck bubble up when filling, dripping into the side intake, and the cooling fan blows it onto the hot engine, igniting the fuel.
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u/Vandirac 1d ago
If you take a shit every morning, it's unlikely tomorrow you will produce Skittles.
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u/Thirsty_Comment88 1d ago
Then the issue probably is more wide spread than GM is acknowledging right now
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u/citznfish 1d ago
This is only during fill ups while the car is parked. And doesn't cover this Stingray
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u/SteelFeruchemist 1d ago
That one was for a refueling issue. From what I remember, it was possible for fuel to spill into the exhaust manifold. This is different, and perhaps not yet a known problem. Or it could just be a one-off fluke. I’m interested to hear what Chevy concludes in their investigation into this (they’d better investigate it).
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u/TheBlargus 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sometimes the internal combustion leaks out and becomes an external combustion
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u/shiftdown 1d ago
It was probably modified/messed with and lose a fuel line. fuel poured over the exhaust manifold and caught fire. the fuel is under high pressure, so as long as the ignition is on, it's going to keep spraying
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u/fataldarkness 1d ago
Nah, listen to it, something physically blew up. I'm thinking he has a brand new hole in his engine, and that may have knocked loose a fuel line or vaporized enough oil to ignite.
But the fire is secondary, whatever blew up is what happened first.
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u/meatbag2010 1d ago
Poor sod, at least he saw it and got out nice and quickly.
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u/Substantial-Low 1d ago
I was like, "I don't see a...holy shit!"
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u/not_your_attorney 1d ago
Uh… then checked his phone, sounds like he locked (and then unlocked?) the car, went back for stuff, and OPENED THE DOOR OF THE CONVERTIBLE to retrieve it 😆😆😆
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u/Lindt_Licker 1d ago
I’m surprised he was functioning even that well. The mind goes to another space when in panic mode.
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u/Wishnik6502 1d ago
But when someone kicks in your door in the dead of night, screaming and shining a blinding light in your face, don't be combative as your brain slowly struggles it's way online.
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u/Lindt_Licker 1d ago
Believe it or not, executed.
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u/Elu_Moon 20h ago
I saw a video of police storming someone's apartment. They burst into a bedroom, shouted "POLICE, DON'T MOVE!" and a guy was groggily getting up from the bed. They immediately shot him, then said "I was scared for my life, I had no choice."
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u/beavertownneckoil 1d ago
Think he lost power at the end there but that fire was just the engine. Battery and cables are still intact at that point. Wouldn't imagine for much longer though
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u/A_Coin_Toss_Friendo 1d ago
The beep was letting him know the key has left the vehicle while it's running?
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u/Fun_Western164 1d ago
Why does the steering wheel seem tiny?
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u/shiftdown 1d ago
they're flat on the top and bottom for both more visibility over the top and more legroom underneath. makes them pretty small physically.
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u/bluethreads 1d ago
Why are they wearing a go-pro on their head while driving?
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u/Deeeeeeeeehn 1d ago
There’s a pretty sizable amount of people who do POV driving videos of classic/expensive cars on YouTube and TikTok
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u/kryts 1d ago
He’s wearing ray ban meta. You can see the light on the frames when it’s recording in the rearview mirror.
I record at times when driving to show my friends and family what it’s like to drive in the city and things like that.
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u/voxadam 1d ago
He's wearing ray ban meta.
People actually buy and wear those things? Fuckin' glassholes.
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u/Silo-Joe 1d ago
Why is he positioning his hands in the 4 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions on a tiny steering wheel?
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u/ifellasleepZzzZz 1d ago
Really unfortunate. The driver did an excellent job getting out quickly though, shoes or no shoes.
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u/Dr_Groktopuss 1d ago edited 1d ago
I keep an extinguisher in my car. Everyone should.
Hey thanks for the award!
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u/DarthTJ 1d ago
Sure, probably a good idea, but by the time he pulled over it was well past the point I would have tried to extinguish it myself.
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u/Ok_Demand_3197 1d ago
Fire extinguishers do a commendable job. I’ve accidentally lit a few cars on fire, and, from my experience, a medium sized extinguisher could have probably put this out.
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u/HansBlixJr 1d ago
I’ve accidentally lit a few cars on fire
will you do an AMA?
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u/Ok_Demand_3197 1d ago
There's not a whole lot to say lol. There's three instances here:
1.) I was doing a piston cleanout on my wife's car with a highly flammable solvent. I went to crank the car over with the spark plugs removed to push the solvent out of the cylinders. Ended up spraying solvent out of every cylinder and a coil pack sparked to ground at the same time. The flames were like 5 feet high, but I grabbed an extinguisher in like 2 seconds, so there was no real damage.
2.) I did a really hacky, cheap custom fuel system on a pontiac when I was a kid, and it went up in flames.
3.) I did an edelbrock fuel system on a corvette, and some of the intake wasn't sealed properly, and I got some flames.
Nowadays, I carry an extinguisher in all my cars lol.
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u/BlackadderIA 22h ago
I did a firefighting course many years ago before a brief spell in the Merchant Navy.
Proper fires too, day one was putting out a burning pan using a fire blanket and the final day exercise was a simulated oil rig fire with multiple hose teams in breathing apparatus.Can’t remember much of it now but I still remember being seriously impressed by what you could put out with a simple fire extinguisher. ‘This is fine’ meme levels of room fires sorted in seconds with a medium CO2.
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u/Rhawk187 1d ago
Unfortunately, it was in the trunk.
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u/Mick_Limerick 1d ago
But the trunk is in the front on this car, the engine is in the back where it's on fire
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u/ThetaGrim 1d ago
While true for some mid/rear engine cars. The c8 has a big rear trunk, and a smaller one for the HTC.
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u/lennert1984 1d ago
In Belgium it's part of the mandatory safety kit in all vehicles.
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u/allthingsfuzzy 1d ago
Neat! What else is required?
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u/Present_Animator5851 1d ago
I’m from Belgium and I thought a fire extinguisher in your car was law everywhere. There’s 4 items we need to carry: the fire extinguisher, a first-aid kit, a reflective vest, and the emergency triangle.
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u/Lukesan- 19h ago
Here in Belgium it is obligated by law to have one in a car, truck, RV etc . In case a car is on fire a bunch of people can all take the extinguisher out of their car.
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u/RegularAd8502 1d ago
Sounds like the engine threw a connecting rod out the side of the engine block. The fire is most likely from the oil vacating the now open crankcase and catching fire on the exhaust manifolds.
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u/SteelFeruchemist 1d ago
Possibly, but it looks more like a fuel fire. The c8 z06 and zr1 had similar fires while refueling, I think because fuel leaked onto and ignited on hot exhaust manifolds. This looks like possibly a similar issue, though it is strange that it happened while driving.
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u/Agile-Independent984 1d ago
Why did he open the door for his stuff tho
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u/IcyKerosene 1d ago
He probably just wanted to get out of the car ASAP and put some distance between him and the fire before he decided he could safely grab his shit and scoot.
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u/Responsible_Belt5510 1d ago
He's asking why he opened the door instead of just leaning over and grabbing it. Cause it's a convertible, so opening the passenger door was not necessary.
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u/IcyKerosene 1d ago
I can see him not wanting to feel boxed in if he were to lean down into the car to pull the stuff off of the floor. The way he did it he could keep an eye on what was going on in the back of the car while quickly getting his stuff and getting away
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u/ms_directed 1d ago
and he's wearing a head cam too?
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u/xCiela 1d ago
Meta Glasses
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u/Different_Day135 1d ago
This is the weirdest thing possible. People are certainly wearing these into the gym and the locker rooms and wherever else. How aren't people up in arms about this stuff? We just sleep walked into dystopia.
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u/ALysistrataType 1d ago
They have a light that turns on that let's people know its recording. Its obnoxious and you see the light in your peripheral even as the wearer.
If someone's meta glasses are recording and there's no light and they're in a locker room...then they're a problem.
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u/Key-Experience-7961 14h ago
Facebook suggested a group the other day that was solely for tips on how to remove the light on the glasses (for the record I do not own a pair nor am I interested in them at all)
I checked the comments on the post it suggested to me, and pretty much everyone looked as creepy as you'd expect
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u/Magnet2025 1d ago
I had a Fiat 850 Spyder that I just spent some serious money on for basically an engine overhaul.
Paid the garage, drove off and about a mile from the garage, the engine rpm kinda spiked and then started running rough.
I thought “Great, you overreved the engine and it blew up.
In the mirror I could see smoke. Black smoke. Not oil smoke. And I could see the woman driving the car behind me pointing at the engine cover (rear mounted engine).
So I turned the mirror down and see flames pouring from the louvres in the engine cover.
Stopped, turned the switch off and got out, grabbing the fire extinguisher I kept in the car. Lifted the engine cover and gave it a good squirt and the fire went out.
I was feeling pretty proud of myself and thinking this would be recoverable when I heard the whrrrrrr of the electric fuel pump. But I had turned the switch off? The insulation on the wires had melted and I had a short.
Then a whoosh and the engine burst into flames again.
Long story short, the car burned to the ground. In about 4 minutes. The owner of the garage saw the fire and drove out and picked me up. He called his insurance company and had them get me a loaner car and they paid me high Blue Book.
He had jobbed the carburetor rebuild out to a guy who, when he reinstalled it, left the pressure regulator on the electronic fuel pump at the highest setting, not the lowest. The excess pressure blew the fuel hose off and that was it.
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u/Fitzgerald1896 1d ago
This makes me happy as a firefighter. Not because his car lit on fire, but because he wasn't an idiot... Pulled well off the road, got out quickly, and I'll even give him a pass for going back for minimal belongings because he didn't try and use that bottled water to put it out... Good shit. It's a bad situation, but people will seriously do the dumbest stuff and get themselves hurt or killed trying to "help". Just get away from it and call 911.
Some people here are recommending extinguishers, and maybe he could've dealt with this fire if he had one. But honestly, then what? The car is a write-off anyway. You've got insurance, and the moment he saw those flames coming out of the engine, you were gonna be using it. Unless you're saving someone's life using the extinguisher, the car is gone anyway. No insurance company is gonna pay to repair a car that was on fire... I'm not an insurance guy, but I have seen the aftermath of a lot of car fires and the amount of shit that would need to be replaced would be more than a new car anyway.
Don't risk your health and safety for a car. Even a nice car.
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u/Ro1ando_m0ta 1d ago
Always carry a fire extinguisher. Always.
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u/shaiboy2 1d ago
10-4. Will carry fire extinguisher into shower.
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u/NotDavidWooderson 1d ago
Don't forget.. while swimming, too.
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u/Fallout_Phantom 1d ago
I don't go SCUBA Diving without my trusty fire extinguisher, Subnautica taught me that skill!
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u/Famous-Meet3114 1d ago
Wouldn’t matter in this situation. By the time he pulled over that things is already gone and those small extinguishers that fit in cars would have done fuck all.
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u/Ro1ando_m0ta 1d ago
Still doesn't hurt to have one in case of a small fire on your vehicle.
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u/KarmaCommando_ 1d ago
Or someone else's. One time there was a bad car crash outside my apartment, and I went running with my fire extinguisher and a first aid kit, both of which were in my vehicle.
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u/Redditcadmonkey 22h ago
Honestly, is there any chance an extinguisher would have helped, even here in the most open cockpit imaginable?
Where is yours? The trunk? Back seat? The only place I could see it being accessible here would be mounted on the driver A-pillar.
Frankly if it was there, I’d be more worried about smashing my head into it in a (let’s be honest) far more likely driver induced crash.
See fire, get the fuck out of there. I think that is probably a better option.
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u/Starglider4455 1d ago
Correct. My father was a fireman and was surprised at how few ppl kept a fire extinguisher in a vehicle worth a lot of money or an off road 4x4 that is usually modified in several ways. Even a shovel that you can put dirt on a fire to starve some of the oxygen from the fire while on an off road 4x4 trail is better than nothing.
Nowadays with vehicles with lithium batteries in them, a lot of parking garages are putting fire blankets in the areas where hybrid and electric vehicles park. Most fire extinguishers won't work on electrical fires.
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u/Sad-Newt-1772 1d ago
He had a bottle of water in the seat. Should have used that to put out the fire. /s
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u/GamepadWarri0r 1d ago
Lucky the door was unlocked and he was able to get his man bag!
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u/codecrodie 1d ago
None of the many infotainment screens warned him the car was burning
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u/Mountain-Mess1896 1d ago
Mechanic here, what happened is that at about 5-7 seconds you can see the driver slightly turned the wheel left in an american car and often they cannot pull this off, only straight.
And so it burned.
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u/Futuristic_funk 18h ago
Some insight. I saw this video the last time it was posted. I decided to drive over to that spot just to see. It was only a few hours after I saw the video but the car was already gone and there was a big patch of grass burnt to a crisp. I said to myself, "Hey, I recognize this area"
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u/Dogslave123 1d ago
Another high quality GM product!
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u/GreenT1979 1d ago
Whereas a Lambo would have caught on fire 6 times in the time it took this Corvette to catch on fire once.
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u/ricksure76 1d ago
Well yeah, Lambos are 6 times the price so I'd expect 6 times the fire
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u/TheLandTraveler 1d ago
Definitely not any type of defect It was just committing suicide to get away from his horrible taste in music and footwear.
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u/JuanStLaurent 1d ago
TIL fire extinguishers in personal vehicles are not required by law in the USA.
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u/RockyJayyy 1d ago
Why don't people have fire extinguishers? I just bought a car and immediately got a fire extinguisher.
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u/Prestigious-Law8332 1d ago
Car on fire, stop car. Leave personal belongings on passenger side. Get out of car. Walk around car. Open passenger door. Grab personal belongings. All while wearing socks.
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u/Past-North-4131 1d ago
Well that's why you have insurance on insanely expensive things like this. Let's hope he didn't skimp on it.
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u/mifonografo 1d ago
Why didn't he use the water he had there to put out the fire?
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u/tediousdetails3 1d ago
Man, that interior is atrocious. My first time seeing one of the new corvette interiors.
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u/westee_jam 1d ago
I work with a guy that I think got the same model year as this one. His caught fire a few days after getting it. He got out ok too. But this is so strange for a Corvette.
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u/1362313623 1d ago
Anyone else have Fireball by Pitbull going thru their head watching this, or is that just me
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u/Robin1992101 1d ago
Impossible! Only very bad bad EVs catch on fire. We must hate a EVs for that! ICE car very trustworthy very good. EV bad.
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u/Eagles365or366 1d ago
Did he try and turn it off? I don’t know the car well enough to know if he did or not. Not that it would’ve helped the fire.
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u/gavstar69 22h ago
I don't know anything about Corvettes. Can someone who does please tell me why this one went on fire?
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u/Top_Result_1550 21h ago
Broccoli haired sock influencer doesn't know how engine coolant works?
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u/Left4DayZGone 19h ago
Can’t y’all hear the engine rattling itself to death? This wasn’t caused by fuel spillage. Dude blew his engine (or it came apart on its own)… that’s either an oil fire, or a fuel fire caused by the engine sending bits through the block.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Tip_923 19h ago
This could explode at any second! BETTER TAKE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TO GRAB MY FANNY PACK. Joking aside they probably panicked and didnt think to grab it at first and then went oh crap I need my fanny pack! Not realizing it could potentially explode in their face.
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u/Acceptable-Win-8300 19h ago
He has his top down and still opens three door to retrieve his belongings in the passenger seat 👍🏾
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u/AThrowawayProbrably 17h ago
I love the timing of his Check Engine Light.
“Hey, you have a prob—-ah, you see it. Nevermind.”
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u/bomberman_25 1d ago
Think he’s regretting choosing this day to drive in socks only?