[Secret Agent Man]

72,000 normal cars catch fire each year in the usa? just sitting there? i’m not talking about the ones in accidents, where you could possibly expect it. the electric ones were siting in somebody’s’garage and they started on fire.

[Seizethecarp]

As it turns out I happened to receive from GM a notice back in 2008 that it might be a good idea for me not to park my Regal GS in my garage until warranty work was done.

It seems that owners would park the car in the garage and go in the house and after several minutes the car would catch fire and in some cases burn the house down!

The GM fools improperly designed the head gaskets on the one bank of the V6 that leans forward and it would leak oil onto the hot exhaust manifold but ONLY after the engine was turned off. Go figure.

A new, improved gasket and an additional flange seems to have worked, at least on my GS, which I still drive.

But that is the exception in gas vehicles to be sure!