You should always carry a fire extinguisher in your Kombi

at all times

you just never know when you may need one

& if it`s sitting , mounted correctly

in the cabin with you

then it`s easy access, quick & simple

no hassel

for those times

when a brand new SLK Mercedes catches on fire behind you at the traffic lights early this morning, Wellington rd , east Bris

wow,,, this Merc guy needs to buy a lotto ticket today,,, flame on from oil cooler hose on extractor pipe & she was going up in flames big time

got my fire extinguisher out & saved his Brand new SLK,,, probly should have let it burn hey? :-)

nah,,, i had to put it out,,, no matter what type of car it was,,, Damn it , now i need a new fire extinguisher :-)

he should have shouted you a new extinguisher at the very least !

Mine is rolling around in the back of the Bug waiting for a decent crash so it can hit me in the back of the head. Not very clever, but I will get around to mounting it soon! Perhaps next holidays. The problem is that there isn't really any place that you can easily mount them within reach of the driver when strapped in, which is what the CAMS rules technically ask for. I had it on the passenger side floor just in front of the seat in my last Beetle but there's no way you could reach it if your seatbelt got jammed on somehow.

Not that you'd really want to try putting out a decent sized fuel fire with a 1kg fire extinguisher, you need to catch it very early! If the fire gets much bigger than a pensioner's birthday cake then you're going to need more than 1kg of dry powder to put it out. The correct fire extinguisher type is very important as well! I was in Charlie's Diner (Brighton Metro Hotel) several years ago when they had a fat fire from the spit roast in the middle of the restaurant. For some reason all they had was CO2 and water extinguishers, and after emptying about four or five big fire extinguishers on it they had only spread the fire and made it worse, so they had to evacuate the building.

I got bord one day waiting for someone to come home with the house keys... i had let my car unlocked and pulled out the fire extinguisher...

didn't realise the powdered ones make such a haze lol, the street looked like it was full of smoke!



It was an ugly thing anyways... scratched and beaten

Should be the first thing you buy when you when you buy a car.

I keep a 2.5kg one handy in the Baja and the Caravelle

yep, after my kg vert caught fire i wont go out in a vw without 1, and get a big 1 too, not those useless small ones which run out after 10 seconds!!!

I have one in the bug, but I probably should get one for the Bora. I am pretty sure I had one in the VR6 Golf.

Do people carry the powdered ones or co2 ?

i had a powder one, but apparently that can be really corrosive to metals and doesn't do ur car good. (better than fire though)

It was giving a slight tingle/irritation to my skin when i had it on me with a bit of rain to mix it in. musta been reactive.

wow,good job champ.
couple more brownie points added to your list.

You need at least two of the 1kg ones...

mounted so they don't hit you in an accident...

didn't know about the corrosive stuff though....

thought it was like baking soda....??

BBQ caught fire a few months ago and burnt thru the gas hose..

so a good fire..... thru a wet towel over the tank..

used one squirt to put the fire out.... EXCELLENT..

last thing I thought of though... lol

impressed me...

they virtually smother the flames while blowing it out at the same time...

Lee

PS. old VWs burn as they are very old... and the pipes in the carby or fuel pump can come out especially with a fuel filter sitting in the engine bay....Lee

Hey Lee, its baking soda then its alkaline and therefore corrosive

Have extinguishers in my cars, left the doors unlocked on one of them one night & some kids got in & let the bastard off inside the car, emptied the whole %^(&^$%( thing. What a %&^(*& mess. Pricks!!!!!!! Didnt do anything else, didnt steal anything, just let off the extinguisher. Pricks!!!!!!

That said my extinguisher has saved my beetle before.