Fire in da Trunk

[byrdman75 10+ year member]

so i was coming home from work last night and was about a mile away form my house when i smelt something burning, didnt think of it much b/c a guy in that area burns grass all the time, well i was listening to music at a decent level like just driving music, well i pull in my driveway and look in my rear view mirror and my back window is fogged up and was smoking, i open my trunk and flames shoot out of it, as soon as that happened i ran inside got a crap ton of water keep putting more water until it as out. i still dont know what happened but one sub blew up for an unknown reason and the internal power and ground touched and sparked and melted the cone and everything plastic, burned out all the carpet in my trunk and burned through the plywood that holds up my subs, the box is trashed, idk about the other sub, i dont know if it works, but not gonna use it and my amp got water all over it so it fried, just not a good night.

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[byrdman75 10+ year member]

bump

 

[CarAudioNewbie9 10+ year member]

Woah, what the hell happened bro? How did your sub burn out like that?

 

[bhsdriller 10+ year member]

post some pics

 

[byrdman75 10+ year member]

pics shortly

 

[twistedchild420 5,000+ posts]

post some pics

This......

Had this happen once......had 2 Blauplunkt 12's a LONG time ago in a MAZDA 929.......i'm driving to work and a coworker pulls up close and was pointing at my trunk....i looked back and sped up into the parking lot at work....jumped out and popped the trunk and **** sub was on fire! I ran inside and got a bottle of Ozarka and put it out.....whole cone and surround and part of box were burned up......my Directed 600D was giving them WAY too much power....lol

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Water on an electrical fire?

Win.

 

[CarAudioNewbie9 10+ year member]

This......
Had this happen once......had 2 Blauplunkt 12's a LONG time ago in a MAZDA 929.......i'm driving to work and a coworker pulls up close and was pointing at my trunk....i looked back and sped up into the parking lot at work....jumped out and popped the trunk and **** sub was on fire! I ran inside and got a bottle of Ozarka and put it out.....whole cone and surround and part of box were burned up......my Directed 600D was giving them WAY too much power....lol

lol funny stuff.

 

[byrdman75 10+ year member]

when i did the water all fuses were pulled and car was off

 

[Deeper_shades 10+ year member]

What a burn!

 

[energizedsbs 10+ year member]

tj do you have that allen and heath?

 

[byrdman75 10+ year member]

any other comments?

 

[Mynameismcgyver 10+ year member]

Possible the sub was getting high and dropped the blunt?

 

[byrdman75 10+ year member]

more pics

 

[Wingman0121 10+ year member]

Don't see that very often. Was it fairly warm out? Your sub's voice coil got so hot from the power of your amplifier that it spontaneously combusted and started on fire, not too many people know that it can be a few hundred degrees F inside the coil gap after hours of pounding. All speakers die differently and some rather shorts out in a pretty nasty way with sparks flying and possibly cause damage to your amplifier due to dead short.

Consider buying better subwoofers that can take more power and user abuse //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Are those Punch P2s?