SMRT Chevrolet taxi catches fire in Jurong

j007 SG

Cabby Mohd Yusri, 30, was driving along Jurong Gateway Road at about 7.50pm last night when he saw white smoke in front of him.

He thought it was just exhaust from the cars in front.

But when other motorists kept honking at him, he figured something was wrong with the SMRT taxi and immediately got out, turning off the engine.

It turned out that the other motorists had seen flames licking the undercarriage of his taxi and were trying to warn him.

Read the full report in The New Paper on Wednesday (Aug 28).

so young driver, once age eligible, go take VL and start driving already!

Keepthechange666 SG

1st CDG caught fire....

2nd Transcab caught fire....

Now SMRT caught fire...

Who's next?....

Keepthechange666 SG

Cabby Mohd Yusri, 30, was driving along Jurong Gateway Road at about 7.50pm last night when he saw white smoke in front of him.

He thought it was just exhaust from the cars in front.

But when other motorists kept honking at him, he figured something was wrong with the SMRT taxi and immediately got out, turning off the engine.

It turned out that the other motorists had seen flames licking the undercarriage of his taxi and were trying to warn him.

Read the full report in The New Paper on Wednesday (Aug 28).

so young driver, once age eligible, go take VL and start driving already!

Young TD is not a problem, but whether they can sustain long enough like us or not is another question mark....

j007 SG

Young TD is not a problem, but whether they can sustain long enough like us or not is another question mark....

Younger driver better stamina to get that 7k/mth!

Keepthechange666 SG

Younger driver better stamina to get that 7k/mth!

When that dream bubble go burst....

Than they will be back to reality and start to look for job....

bowah SG

Young drivers mostly drive as tho there is no speedometer, odometer and also no temperature guage and does not even know what those blinking sign is all about. Never check engine, water level, cooling level, oil level...

Terry Young SG

ya lar see how long stamina last.

taxi driving is not 100m race. Its marathon. long term running.

Anyone got photo from last night (wed) spectacular accident on north bridge road between 3 cab, 2 chevy and 1 sonata? Heard fantastic

bowah SG

Today car is so expensive, a typical men in 30s can hardly effort it, not to mention their high spending lifestyle, and those who started to get marry and build a family, cannot even think of it. So for most of these youngs, to have the best of both world, freedom + a Car, they go into taxi driving in a naive state.

A car then can ferry his family and relative during hari raya, cny or deevapli etc, thereafter he would had to chiong all the way to make up the losses or cover rentals, as such, the car might miss the maintenance period and these young chaps tends to take a car like his house TV, no need to bother so much. There is a reason for those indicator like temp guage to be put there in your dash board. Any flick across the half way mark, engine is damn hot

Taxilim88 SG

Fire started from undercarriage. Could be oil leakage getting onto the hot exhaust..

bowah SG

Nope, if so exhaust will be like a rocket.

I gather most is electrical burnt, from fuse to wiring.

Uneven distribution of current can also be the cause.

Like some taxis, the rear or headlight somehow like to blow off, sometime ok, sometime goes dim, some keep changing bulb, service men fed up, use a higher Amp fuse and so on.

In the auto market, there are many product that help to stablise the current with more equal distribution

Ct2220 SG

The most Jia-Lat case is the one in CTE Tunnel

Whole Blue cab become WHITE

bowah SG

You mean indian driver also become white...wa lau