Bentley Arnage T destruction downtown @ dealer?

Surprised no one has posted about this. I just saw on another board, anyone know what could have happened?


"Today at work an Arnage T 60th ANN got stuck in the snow. I got out too go get a shovel and walk inside. And one of the other porters gets in too try and get it out. I hear a loud bang in the shop. I then go outside too see the tire had blown apart bead and all it ripped the bumper off. Dented the rear 1/4 beyond repair. sent one chunk of tire through into the trunk cutting wires and ****. One chunk flew off scuffing another car. Cut hydro lines. The blast was so intense it caused the airbag in the car to go off. Then a hour after the car was parked the tire that was in the trunk and cut some wires or something caught fire burning the trunk out. I have pics on my phone but cant make them send to my mail. At the end of the day i then lost my job even tho i wasn't even near the car when it happened. The owner of the dealer is lucky none of use were trying to push the car out when it happened. People could have gotten real hurt."

another site posted:
Dustbmx, a tech at a high end service shop in Chicago, explains in this thread at VWVortex:

“I pulled the car out of the garage. It got stuck in the spot you see it in the side shot pic. I got out to go get a snow shovel to dig it out. As i am in the garage I hear a loud bang from outside. Walk out to what had happened I asked the porter who was in the car if he was ok and asked him what happened.

The porter tells me when you went inside i tried to get it unstuck He put it in revers and then in drive gassed it and bang the airbags went off. He thought thats all that happened till he got out and walked around the car. I took side pic cuz thats what I walked out too from the garage. The pic of the trunk before the fire is what we found when we took the spare tire out too put it on the car.

We then got the spare on it and pushed it back into its parking spot. The last pic is of the trunk after the fire that happened about an hour later. That tire that went through into the trunk must have cut the positive battery cable or something and just heated up till it started the fire. I was not in or around the car when this all happened.

I don't know why i lost my job. I guess it just cuz i got it stuck. Or the owner wanted too just fire people. I understand it was a $400,000 car down the drain. It was the dealerships car so no one owned it yet. It did not have winter tires on it because it was in the showroom in downtown Chicago.”
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I'm assuming that car would have some form of anti spin tech, so one of them would have had to turn that off and then just stand on the gas. Since the car isn't moving and the tire is surrounded by the fender and snow and it's spinning it's likely to build up heat pretty quick that it can't disperse effectively. Air in the tire heats up and pressure increased until the tire came apart and beat the body up.

then they went in the trunk, put the spare on and noted/photographed the damage there and didn't consider that some of the twisted parts might be laying across the battery terminals or that the positive cable might now be grounding. They walked away and an hour later the electrical fire in the back gets noticed..

Someone on the board he posted it on suggested the tires may have been overinflated for shipping, which would have helped speed up the process.

something tells me if the employee who got fired hadn't posted pics online no one would have ever known that poor car had that damage, fire and a repaint has to hurt the value of that car.