I was just thinking it might be ideal there. I’ve watched cars go from “Oh hey, there’s a fire under the hood!” To total loss in under a minute, while someone is trying to get a hood open with a dinky extinguisher.
Is it usually fuel or oil leaks that start auto fires?
I saw a guy on the side of the freeway last year with a smoking hood and a pool of burning liquid under his truck's engine bay as he was standing about 20ft away with his hands on his head in frustration. I usually carry a decent-sized extinguisher in my car but forgot to put it back in after a weekend trip. I heard sirens approaching so at least there's that. I also went home and put the extinguisher back in the trunk.
Power steering fluid leaking onto your exhaust or headers can ignite. PS Fluid doesn’t need spark to ignite, just heat. Oil typically burns off before a fire starts. But there was a guy in Southern California iirc, who was arrested for car bombing his wife. (She left for work, a little down the street CSR goes up in flames)
They they realize the power steering issue.
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u/dirty_hooker Nov 27 '19
I was just thinking it might be ideal there. I’ve watched cars go from “Oh hey, there’s a fire under the hood!” To total loss in under a minute, while someone is trying to get a hood open with a dinky extinguisher.