Well good luck man.

Start making a list of people that would want to see you dead.
SHorten the list by the people that would know how to kill you and consider the ones that would prolly not have much of an idea how.

Ex Wife?

LOL

Anyways OK, sorry and good luck bud, that is pretty fucken unusual.

Glad you're ok. Please keep us posted regarding the cause and MB reaction.

Ok, you tell me what happened.

Maybe the battery blew up?

the battery isnt under the hood in that model class

well.. the good part is that u have a mercedes...

i really wonder how people still can buy those cars, when they work in this business... profits going down each and every month... seriously wonder if they are working in this biz or in other...

I'm putting my money on movie location shoot.

Holy fucking shit that's crazy! Glad you weren't in it when it decided to explode.

Go that right. I've seen other people's cars start on fire, but nothing like this.

New to you is what you probably meant to say.

Judging by the non pointed grill and front spoiler that looks like its an 03-05

Thou fail-est at thy sarcasm:

2008 E Class.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/...3351990006.jpg

umm a car doesnt blow up not started, even a battery exploding wouldnt do that, im calling bullshit either way.

Just Scary, Thank GOD You're ok Man, remove all the cars and switch to Bikes, world will be more peaceful probabely ;)

Keep us updated and Pls let us know How this worked out for You.

If it's real, I would guess it's the battery which exploded. They can generate a huge velocity if the core blows out, and it would be in a single direction since mostly just the core is getting ejected. :2 cents:

What's the model and year? It looks like a late model E-Series. I drive an 08 E63 AMG, so I'm curious about this. E500?

No way is there enough force to do that kind of damage. I had a battery blow up on my motorcycle when I went to start it up. The only outcome was one large exploding sound and plastic from the case being scattered.
I wasn't injured and the bike was still fine.

ok I searched everywhere for exploded hoods, car bombs, even videos of bombs in hoods, pics of batteries exploded.. nothing comes close to what happened to your car. there were cars with nothing left underneath and still the hood still in one piece in the air.

again I say bullshit,, or your the first

thats fuked up lol

keep us updated with what happens

the E-classes are fire

something is very strange here - the police haven't contacted you yet? a car explosion doesn't seem like something that would be treated so lightly. you'd think they'd want to interview the owner of the car. police didn't come and collect any evidence. that very well could be a crime scene.

that would have killed you and others had it happened on a freeway.

good gawd! wtf?!

What could have happened is that there was an explosion as a results of a fire, not the cause of it.

If the engine would have a small fire, the heat would weaken the hood and a small explosion as a results of that same fire could have ripped the hood open. I'm putting my money on that scenario.

Shit... I got an '02 E320, I'm sure that won't be covered in your service b plan. That sucks man.

Yeah, the AMG version is hot. I wanted to upgrade... maybe i'll wait for a bit :thumbsup

Did the engine catch fire and the Fire Dept. axed the hood open to spray it?

If the car blew up with enough force to shred that hood, you would have heard it inside the store.

the gfy scienctists are hard at work on this one :1orglaugh

seems as if you have at least one enemy

Fuck bad week for vehicles, my Hummer blew up earlier in the week :(

What the fuck happened there??

Ok who wants the easy explanation? Fuel lines run right under the intake manifold which is covered by a plastic engine shield. So you get a leak in the fuel line that is more spraying vapor than liquid. Cars get hotter AFTER they are shut off. Fuel vapor hits the hot manifold and lights. The hoods on those Mercedes are nearly sealed when shut.

Vapor + ignition + plus sealed hood makes the hood pop open like a jiffy popcorn container.

Go dump some gas in a coffee can, put the lid on shake it around till vapor gets going, have a small hole in the can, throw a light at the can near the hole. Kaboom.

Battery COULD blow up and dent the top of the hood (if it was under the hood that is) but unlikely it would do that much damage. This is fuel vapor plus sealed space, plus ignition boom! I think that is very likely what happened here. :2 cents:

damn..:Oh crap

Some one planting a bomb under the hood is much more exciting and capable of generating extra thread views though.

That and its more fun to yell PHOTOSHOPPED lol

Damn that is seriously some scary shit. Lucky for you, you were not in it.

I call BS.

the battery is in the TRUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg!!! :s

There's a simple explaination for this. Probably there was a leaking fuel injector, or fuel line, or the rail for the injectors or something, made a puddle of gasoline somewhere which igniting from the heat of the headers or shorted out something electrical...

I knew you had junk in the trunk!

maybe there was a fire under the hood and the fire department axed it and peeled back the metal to put the fire out

seems like what happened there

someone jammed M90;s in there

wow

something went wrong for sure seems like some gas got stuck and got sparked and exploded the whole engine

never ever seen something like this

fucken petrol + nitro = fucked.

nitro?

who fucking runs nitro in their MB

you people are fucking weird

told you not to borrow money from that guy

Ok, I'm back. No clear answer just looking at the car, but the best guess they say is that a fire started and then caused something else to combust. I don't know enough about engines, makes me wish I did so I could understand all that they said. They did offer me a replacement right on the spot, but I'm going to wait a few days, talk to a few people.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi?url=http%...tos%2Fcar1.jpg

EXIF checks out..

So what exactly did they say? There are quite a few gearheads around here, we can explain it in english.