Byebye bikes...

[cheese]

Wow thats horrible to see. Gutted for you mate. What started it?

[tommorth]

that sux hopfully the arsesors feeling generous
things like that make you aprececitate the fire dept house must have been close to catching aswell

[barty5]

Major bummer dude not good so close to xmas hopefully insurance pays out properly guess on the up side it solves the bike not running properly problem you where having.

[takitimu]

That looks ugly, the fire brigade did great to avoid save your house though.

Hope the insurance works out ok !!.

[andy mac]

Shite, that's a major setback and hassle at this time of year - but it's good news they saved your house. Tell us how you fare with the insurance company.

Recently someone broke thru my garage roller door (they only keep honest people out) and tried to steal my bike, failed so tried again the next night. AAI was excellent with the house & contents claim, and bike insurer is arranging repairs. Lesson learnt take digital photos of everything in your garage and home tomorrow because you won't have receipts or even be able to remember everything you own.

[evoetr]

Big thanks to everyone for your support, we are very thankful that we noticed it when we did and saved the house and possibly us too.

The contents insurance is with AMI and my bike, they have been very good and fast to act on removing the garage car and bikes. At this stage the AMI investigator suspects it to be a Jump Start Pack that was on charge (One of those portable ones for your car) it was left on charge because it has a trickle charge option which should of stopped it from over charging... (less then 2 months old)

But we wont ever know for sure, but it is the most likely cause.

I removed what was left of the jump start pack after the fire was out and it was still sparking the next day...! Bloody thing wouldn't die..!

Bad start to the Christmas holidays but yes onwards and upwards.. rebuild with a better garage and hopefully replace with some better bikes depending on the market value...

[NZsarge]

Good luck with the replacements, hope it works out ok.

[evoetr]

Lesson learnt take digital photos of everything in your garage and home tomorrow because you won't have receipts or even be able to remember everything you own.

Agreed...! While AMI have said they wont need receipts for the most of it, it is definitely worth while taking photos (before anything happens) and (after) of the inside of your garage to remember what was in there and add it to the list... I've been back through some older photos of cars in the garage and bikes and noticed things hanging in the background that we had forgot about... big job to remember everything.

[Taz]

Here's a pic i've taken of my garage should I ever need to claim.

[cheese]

Hey do you have the EVOETR plate? my mate got that originally in about 1999 when I had my Evo and he had a GTIR.

[nomnomnom]

Good to hear your ok! Bummer about everything thats gone, but youll get better new stuff now The insurance company im with (and happen to work for ) pay out the amount that you insure as long as the bike was 'in a reasonable well maintained condition". So mines insured for 5grand, something happens, as long as I had wof & reg, ill get 5grand

[A&R]

Sorry to here that but glad you and family all alright. Close call that with it being so close to the house. Garage is eactly same as mine too.
Has just made me look and check the insurance docs to check i'm covered ! 7 bikes, lathe, tools and all the gear in my garage would be unthinkable if that went up in smoke. With all the paint, acetone, meths, petrol and volatile cans etc. in my garage it would be a pretty big explosion luckily my garage is about 10m from the house so at least no chance of that going up with it although neighbours would be prety close
Hope all works out an you get some decent bikes in the xmas sales!