poohbearkrazy
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UPDATE #2: Okay i'll go ahead and spill the beans. Ford took full responsibility and sent us a check for the value of the van 
. I didn't want to say anything until I got the check because I didn't want to jinx it LOL . I just got the check an hour ago so I figured i'd let everyone know the good news. They also let us do whatever we wanted with the van, so we took it to the scrap metal place and made a little money off of it :thumbsup:.
UPDATE: I just wanted to update and say that we got some good news :thumbsup:. I can't spill the beans just yet but just know that everything is being taken care of. I will give full detail within a few days. Thanks again, to everyone for all your help and thoughts and prayers .
It was 30 degrees here this morning so I went out and started my van to get it warmed up before taking the boys to school. I was inside combing my boy's hair when I heard a loud thumping noise coming from outside, so I ran outside to find that it was my van and the RPMs were revving as high as they could go. I shut it off and got the keys out and within seconds there were flames rolling out from under the hood. Here are some pictures if anyone is interested. In the passenger side back captains chair was a rear facing radian 80sl. In the very back bench on the passenger side was a Britax Regent. From the looks of it, the regent held up better than the radian. But that could be because it was farthest from the source of the fire. It just sucks because these were my only car seats and only car and my insurance doesn't cover it. We only had liability on it. We can use all the prayers we can get.
. I didn't want to say anything until I got the check because I didn't want to jinx it LOL . I just got the check an hour ago so I figured i'd let everyone know the good news. They also let us do whatever we wanted with the van, so we took it to the scrap metal place and made a little money off of it :thumbsup:.UPDATE: I just wanted to update and say that we got some good news :thumbsup:. I can't spill the beans just yet but just know that everything is being taken care of. I will give full detail within a few days
. Thanks again, to everyone for all your help and thoughts and prayers . It was 30 degrees here this morning so I went out and started my van to get it warmed up before taking the boys to school. I was inside combing my boy's hair when I heard a loud thumping noise coming from outside, so I ran outside to find that it was my van and the RPMs were revving as high as they could go. I shut it off and got the keys out and within seconds there were flames rolling out from under the hood. Here are some pictures if anyone is interested. In the passenger side back captains chair was a rear facing radian 80sl. In the very back bench on the passenger side was a Britax Regent. From the looks of it, the regent held up better than the radian. But that could be because it was farthest from the source of the fire. It just sucks because these were my only car seats and only car and my insurance doesn't cover it. We only had liability on it
. We can use all the prayers we can get.
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