Burning R....

[Mike02z]

What he said.
Kinda silly not to have a halon on board.

I'd submit that with something like this, an extinguisher may be useless. Get out of the car and run, it's a goner.

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[Zitrosounds]

Seriously! Halon is no good for the human operating it.

 

[TxOilMoney]

Seriously! Halon is no good for the human operating it.

That would be correct. This product is definitely not meant for human consumption! However, when used properly, it's a reliable, effective tool for extinguishing chemical and electrical fires. Also used extensively in the aircraft industry.

 

[Zitrosounds]

That would be correct. This product is definitely not meant for human consumption! However, when used properly, it's a reliable, effective tool for extinguishing chemical and electrical fires. Also used extensively in the aircraft industry.

I work in Army Aviation. Halon is the chemical used in all our handhelds. Guess what the EP (emergency procedure) is for an onboard fire? Get the F!@#K out when rotors stop turning. LOL It makes sense in flight to have access to halon since you have much more time to react to emergency procedures in flight then say in your car at the track after a crash or during a fire. I think trying to put a automobile fire out is not the smartest thing to do and places the operator/owner in danger. I have witnessed aircraft and automobile fires and the outcome is not a salvageable one. Why place yourself in danger trying to put it out?

 

[Mike02z]

I work in Army Aviation. Halon is the chemical used in all our handhelds. Guess what the EP (emergency procedure) is for an onboard fire? Get the F!@#K out when rotors stop turning. LOL It makes sense in flight to have access to halon since you have much more time to react to emergency procedures in flight then say in your car at the track after a crash or during a fire. I think trying to put a automobile fire out is not the smartest thing to do and places the operator/owner in danger. I have witnessed aircraft and automobile fires and the outcome is not a salvageable one. Why place yourself in danger trying to put it out?

This was exactly my point. Even if you get the extinguisher, The car is already totaled so what are you tying to save? Is it worth injury or death? I'd say HELL NO! Get away from the car and call the FD.

 

[TxOilMoney]

"............Why place yourself in danger trying to put it out"?.......

Good god man, it's a Shelby!

 

[Zitrosounds]

"............Why place yourself in danger trying to put it out"?.......

Good god man, it's a Shelby!

Its just a car. lol I value my life much, much, MORE!

 

[wireeater]

Could you imagine owning a Note 7 and a GT350 at the same time. Talk about frustration.

 

[Mike02z]

Could you imagine owning a Note 7 and a GT350 at the same time. Talk about frustration.

Imagine leaving your Note 7 in your GT350 on a hot day.:doh:

Off Topic: The Note 7 will be dead soon. Samsung pushed an update that will keep the phone from charging. All carriers have no agreed to push it. Verizon was the only hold out now they have agreed to push the update after the holidays.

 

[TxOilMoney]

Its just a car. lol I value my life much, much, MORE!

I tried like hell to make my sarcasm apparent. I really did.

 

[stanglife]

Not so sure about this...

There are multiple stories of people arriving to their cars to find puddles of oil under their cars due to oil filter leaks.

There are also multiple stories of cars using oil in ways even Ford dealers can't seam to find out how.

But here's another posture... the owner of the burned R hasn't voiced the story to us yet so we have no idea what happened and how, only the result. For all we know, he could have had an unclamped fuel line under the hood, an oil line leak, he could've been on the way home from WalMart after getting an oil change... who knows?

Stories. I haven't read the rest of these pages...but.. Not to say that more will not happen but still, the only EXAMPLE (I guess I need to put that in caps) that comes to mind that has an ACTUAL RCA is Joes car - and that wasn't the filter, or the hoses.

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