This time it was my brother - not me for a change. His truck was parked at work, & in typical GM fashion, it reached ZERO on the self-destruct timer while in the parking lot at his work. The block heater shorted out & lit the second battery on fire, which then melted the windshield & all the paint off the corner of the hood. What a friggin' mess!!
GM built lots of shitboxes in early '00. They must've known bankruptcy was right around the corner. In addition to all this, the waterpump is leaking like a sieve. My ol' man took excellent care of this truck since new. Has close to 200K on it now & everything seems to be self-destructing on it, one after the other. It's an '02. Body is still mint on it, although the rear bumper frame is eaten up pretty bad. Can't see it unless you crawl under it.
Anyway, this was his perfectly timed incident (Christmas Eve, wtf ...):
Way to work, GM.
