SUBARU BRZ FIRE
 

[SIZE="4"]]I am the owner of the BRZ that caught fire while John Visconti was test driving my car. Don at Accelerated Performance did the install, and John tuned it. My experience with both companies has been a bad one. I was hours away from getting my car back. John called me and said “you are about to have a very bad day. We had an accident…we’re talking worst case scenario type accident. I need you to meet me at the shop ASAP.”

I soon learned my car was totaled. This experience has been a total nightmare for me. I want to forget about this and move on with my life. AS of today 8/14, the results of the fire are still under investigation! Subaru now has my car and is looking at it very closely. My advice to anyone working with John Visconti, don’t do it. John Visconti has been dishonest to all of us. He has denied ANY responsibility for what happened because he did not install any parts on my car! It is my personal opinion that he doesn’t care about the safety of anyone using his products, only the sale. Visconti is a bad vendor and should be banned from this forum! As for me, I will not be replacing my BRZ, and John…you ruined much more than my day.

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I knew this would happen eventually,
I'm sorry for your loss.

I wish I thought this would awaken enough people to the truth about these sacred vendors, but I doubt it will.

sorry man

For those of you wondering, here is the thread about the fire and the presumed flex fuel fittings in Visconti's kit on the OP's car that may have failed and started the fire: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44024

Also quoting one of his customers from the aforementioned thread since it's relevant:

Sorry for your loss, OP. This makes two (known) engines that Visconti has destroyed while tuning, the first being one of the Innovate SC test cars.

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Wow man.. this sucks. Sorry

No way....

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That's terrible.

Yeah I always got a bad vibe from that guy...

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Sorry to hear about this loss of car, time and money.. Not to mention all the other crap.. Hope you get it all resolved.. Hang in there !!
Thanks for the vendor feedback !!!

Thanks for sharing your story and this is so sad. Visconti has the nerve 8 DAYS AGO to say this:



Just wow...

Wow.

I'm sick at my stomach to see those pics man ... so sorry ...

Sorry that you had to go through this. I can't even imagine what I would do if I left my car with someone and they called me up to tell me it was gone.

From your post on the BRZ forum, it sounds like the insurance company was willing to pay out $26K. Was this Visconti's insurance company or yours?

brzturbo,

Sorry to hear about and see the results of modifications gone bad. As your experience shows, the owner of a car takes more risk then simply the warranty when modifying a car. You are fortunate that you weren't driving with a passenger when this happened, or that the car didn't burst into flames in your garage while you and your family were sleeping.

A word of advice; make your last post just that, your last post...until all is worked out with Subaru and your insurance company. I'm sure there will be some type of subrogation and any information you provide this forum is discoverable as public domain.

Condolences for your loss. :( Very tragic, regardless of the cause. Hope you can bounce back.

And I concur with Gary in NJ. As curious as I am on all the gritty details, don't overshare until everything is finalized.

this scares the shit out of me. Sorry for the loss

!!!!!! not worth the power goin too lean oh my god!! horrible I cant look at the car it goin make me crying......

sorry for you man

what kind of idiot starts a conversation with "you are about to have a very bad day" sorry to hear man.

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Sorry for the loss, what mods did you have?

you have a typo, what did you mean?

Ohh man sorry for the loss.

i think he meant the *nerve then added a quote

your right ppl will still use him

He sounds like a real Di*k. The funny thing is he probably has insurance to cover you, but doesn't know how to do business the right way.

LOL, meant NERVE.

@brzturbo, sorry for this horrific loss. I hope you get the best out of this situation, maybe even come back to one of the twins. :)

That said, I would suggest going through the insurance company, providing them with all the information you have, on paper, email, anything else that shows any possibility of who may be at fault. Let their lawyers sort it out, but the fact that you didn't do the work on the car OR were the one driving it works heavily in your favor.

And @Visconti...shame on you. Your reputation on here is nosediving. Your first duty is to the customer, and you owe brzturbo a new car, or the cash equivalent. If you are unwilling to do this, please close up your shop and remove yourself from this forum permanently.

sounds like dude is a real douche, you should go after him in court

Wait until he burns a GTR up see how quick he nosedives

Wow this is just crazy. I would have gone to jail had some shit like this happen to me:flame::fighting0040::paddle:. I'm genuinely upset for you bro. Sorry this happen to you, Just happy to hear that you and your family were out of harms way when this happen.

His rep on this forum is almost completely trashed at this point. Depending on how this plays out, I think Jalopnik needs to hear about this one.

Dang this sucks....like others said at least you and a loved one were not the car when this happened, but this is heart-wrenching to see and read this experience hopefully insurance goes through smoothly. I am one to always give the benefit of the doubt to actually mechanics as this is their profession and should know what they are doing as well as tuners. Accidents happen and it just sucks that it has to happen to you, a similar issue happened to my 02 WRX with close $30,000 in mods (my jdm phase). It seemed to be an electrical problem and insurance was able to pay it out, it was not associated to any other engine mods in the car so i was lucky. It seems that Visconti has seemed to get a bad Rep, i've only met him once and he does not seem to have very good people skills. He may be biting off more than he can chew as he tries to service a large part of the community and can't handle the work load...idk. Anyways i do wish you luck and i know it probably doesn't mean much but keep your head up.

Let the insurance company handle it. He's paid his premiums for a reason.

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Good luck in the future Johnny boy, maybe you'll do better on another platform.

Sorry for your loss OP!

ya he would fry after he ends on op that site

Nothing. I'm saying this should be brought up to them.

i changed my quote..soon as i hit post it clicked wtf you actually said. website not person lol

I kind of wish this happened on MSF.org...the inquisition that occurs when even a whiff of doubt about shady vendors pops up is amazing.

Curious of why Visconti is being blamed for the fire? If he was just test driving and tuning.... why is he getting the blame?

A fuel leak or oil leak onto a header is really only way for a fire to start. I had a oil leak onto the headers of my mustang almost burn it down 20 years ago. Always have a fire extinguisher in a modded car now.

I will agree that the recent behavior/responses in regards to this situation have been unnerving, but I think it's premature to commence a witch hunt. This situation is truly demoralizing, and if the flexfuel kit hose issue is at fault, I completely concur that Visconti will need to take major and immediate action to rectify the situation and the perceptions it's causing here in the community.

I can see where Visconti's casual responses about it are a bit off-putting---and the timing certainly does not bode well---but before we all gather our pitchforks, let's wait for official proof to be posted. The investigation is ongoing. Righteous indignation is understandable, but let's make sure we have all the facts straight before we start to point fingers and slander a long-standing vendor.

I hope this doesn't offend anyone. Truly sorry again for your misfortune brzturbo. :\ I hope everything works out in your favor in the end.