Why I HATE Nitrous!!!!

[Eddie 70]

Man, talk about a bad day. After seeing this, I am going to say that I don't think nitrous will ever be on my car. I have never thought much about it, but this makes me think even less about it on my car.

[froggy47]

Originally Posted by RocketSled

Cars do burn for no good reasons, sometimes. Collision insurance should cover a fire that's the result of a collision. For spontaneous immolation, Comprehensive covers this, pretty much like for loss from theft, even if it's the results of modifications to the car (I saw a Pickup Truck "totally involved" on the side of the road last night. I always enjoy a good car fire. Nothing else quite smokes and smells the same. I imagine I wouldn't like it if it was my car, of course. But I bet a Corvette doesn't smell the same, anyway).

If this guy blew it up on the street, provided he wasn't ticketed for some traffic infraction like racing, he'd probably be able to get coverage even though it was his N20 that set it off. But on the track? No way. Doesn't even matter how it got wrecked, "off road" is all that matters.

So you are saying, that in my policy, where it mentions "mechanical or electrical breakdown or failure" that is saying my insurance will not pay for REPAIRS like a broken fuel injector,

but

If my broken fuel injector sprays fuel on my hot exhaust manifold & then the car burns to the ground then it is all covered (except for the deductible & one fuel injector)

Not being argumentative, just trying to understand insurance.

[RocketSled]

That is indeed my understanding. The "comprehensive" part of the policy insures you from "act of god" losses and theft. Fire is an act of god. Maybe due to mechanical failure, but I doubt any insurance company will make the effort to ascertain why your car burned unless it looked like vandalism, in which case they'd probably insist on a police report.

Other than that, hey, cars do just catch fire sometimes.

[ZO6 AL-X]

Ouch.

[froggy47]

Originally Posted by RocketSled

That is indeed my understanding. The "comprehensive" part of the policy insures you from "act of god" losses and theft. Fire is an act of god. Maybe due to mechanical failure, but I doubt any insurance company will make the effort to ascertain why your car burned unless it looked like vandalism, in which case they'd probably insist on a police report.

Other than that, hey, cars do just catch fire sometimes.

Thanks.

[Z O SICK]

I've found that 99% of the people who are scared about using N2O don't know much about it. Like everything else, if not tuned correctly or abused, your car can go boom. I've seen people blow up cammed cars, boosted cars, and N2O cars. Hell, I've killed one boosted car and one N/A car. Does that means I won't buy another Vette? Of course not. I'm one my second N2O car and (knock on wood) everything is fine. You have to remember that everything is meant to break or has a breaking point. Race cars use the best parts and they still break. See my point. I use to be anti N2O untill I started do research and talking to tuners and people who used it. I'm currently running a 100 shot on my set up but as soon as I go with a forged set up, it's on lol. Don't be scared of the unknown!

[Golffox]

Originally Posted by SonOfaDragRacer

...also it eats the living $hit out the rings..You can always tell Nitrous cars after some usage because of the blow by..Andy

Now you tell me