urslooow

Had a small fire under my 2006 z06 rear. Looks like hard brake line ruptured onto hot exhaust as line goes down to Lt rear. We were able to get it out with an extinguisher and water. Rear cmpt Carpet was smoldering and had some flames from under car. Obviously I will contact insurance. I'm cleaning extinguisher residue now. Any other caveats? Driver window stuck 1/3 down, no e brake no brakes obviously ( no fluid). I pulled left rear off and cleaned area really well. Thx

C6DuffMan

Stock?

VetteVinnie

Ouch. If that isn't an endorsement for SS brake lines, I can't imagine what is.

Good luck getting it squared away. I am glad I decided to put SS lines on mine.

urslooow

I have SS lines, the break was in the hard line. SS lines are intact. Has stop tech rotors and calipers, suspension setup, motons, r6, headers, exhaust w/ heat wrap! programming seats belts

VetteVinnie

Wow. I'll be paying careful attention to mine, that's for sure.

ByByBMW

If you have had it since new, I have to wonder if where you live in FL. has a salty air environment that corroded the line?

amoahkuc

Sorry to hear that. I saw a similar failure just 2 weeks ago on a buddy's car of mine at PIR. He was on his first session at a track day with brand new calipers, and race pads and had the front drivers side brake line rupture at over +70mph.

Luckily he was able to spin the car without hitting anything, but when he was coasting the car into the pits the fluid caught on fire. We were able to put it out, rinse the car off, with only minor paint damage to the calipers, and were able to install a custom SS brake line and make the last two sessions of the track.

The hose sheared off right after the fitting that goes to the caliper and the shop that replaced his calipers hung the calipers with wire as to not stress the stock brake lines during the install. I believe that if you drive the car hard, then you should upgrade the brake lines to SS.

Chris AK

urslooow

Yes I agree that's why I have them. Car is at dealer insurance gave me a claim #. Let's see what adjuster says. Spent 3 hrs cleaning car up this am. I can only write about the panic I felt as flames were shooting out from under my car!

urslooow

despite looking pretty good and starting up, ins co may want to total the vette due to cost of repair. I was trying to talk the adjuster out of this route since I have alot of $ in parts. just put in a new torque tube, drive shaft, aftermarket couplings, quartermaster clutch and slave and new ati balancer.Not to mention the stoptech brake system and motons So far Ins says they are up to $20k. rear cargo pan, carpet, rear harness, brake lines, fuel lines, B&B mufflers, and e-brake need to be replaced not to mention what they'd find in tear down. dealer thinks he can do everything for $16-17k. Adjuster is telling me she's ltd by law how much she can fix, if it's 80% of "value" then she must total the car. The vette is obviously worth a lot more to me since it would cost much more to get all those parts put in

VetteVinnie

Well, if they total it, you could always buy it back and part it out.

Bill Dearborn

Its rare that a hard line would break unless something was rubbing against it. Has anybody been able to tell what caused it to break?

Bill

wolf8218

Fine, let then total it. Just not before you strip it of all your aftermarket parts.

urslooow

Can I just buy the whole car back and fix it myself

Bill Dearborn

It may be worth talking to the adjuster about using some used parts in the repair. There is plenty of used carpet that is in excellent shape and there are probably other parts that could just as well be purchased used as well. Harnesses and eBrake lines are a couple I can think of that would be candidates.

Think of it this way: Everybody drives on used parts.

Bill

VetteVinnie

Yes, but you'll end up with a salvage title.

urslooow

Adjuster is writing up for a lot of unnecessary stuff like mufflers which she said were $1600 ea side I corrected her B and B $1800 max

Gary '09 C6

then turn it into a dedicated track car...

crease-guard

Strip it, cage it, race it!

dvandentop

let em total it and buy it back for pennys on the dollar.