Travel can be a real pain in the behind for most people. Lining up airline tickets and then minding the p’s and q’s that go along with air travel. If you can mind all those formalities, then you get the pleasure of sharing a 150-foot-long aluminum tube filled with 200 other talking pieces of meat hurtling through the air six miles over terra firma. Of course, anything and everything can go wrong throughout that process, but there’s an extra-crushing feeling when everything goes bad before you even get inside the airport. For this Renault Scenic driver in El Prat, Spain, things go horrendously wrong in the unloading zone just outside the airport.
We can’t say for sure, but we’d expect this is a diesel-engined Scenic with the little oil-burner running away in spectacular fashion until the tiny mill clatters to a halt. As the Scenic is a popular five-seat rental car in Europe, it may also be the case that someone may be about to rue their decision to dismiss the damage waiver when picking up the their rental. Whether or not it was in fact a rental car, the video title is particularly apt for the ironically named Renault: This is indeed a scenic engine failure.
Best thing that could have happened to one of those awful heaps. One down, several hundred thousand to go. If you’ve ever worked on one you’ll know what I mean
There’s no one behind the wheel. It seems like a prank where a heavy weight has been placed on the gas pedal and the car’s been left running maybe in the hope that it blows up.
It looks like the local jihadists have emptied their piggy bank buying LS motors to put into Fords…..
I’ve seen this happen to older Mercedes diesels when the pneumatic fuel shut off fails and something jams the throttle open. Older diesels can also suck crankcase oil into the intake through the emissions equipment and will run at max rpm until they either grenade or until someone gets a clue and blocks the air intake.
My curiosity is this: if the car was (likely) a stick shift, why didn’t they get in it, stomp the brakes and release the clutch until the engine stalled?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the work of Brian Lohnes esq. after receiving a complimentary rental car after a rather unpleasant experience with Delta Airlines recently?
It’s not an uncommon failure on Renault diesels; the turbo oil seal fails and the motor sups on finest crankcase oil until the oil runs out, then they seize. Most people don’t seem to figure out to just stick it in top gear and pop the clutch to stall it.