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Old 04-15-2003 | 04:19 PM
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If your car caught on fire? Even if you had a extinguisher? If the fire was in the engine compartment, how long would you fight it? Before running??
I was just wondering this.

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Old 04-15-2003 | 04:34 PM
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as long as it took to get it out
Old 04-15-2003 | 04:38 PM
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Id stay until it was out if I had a fire extinguisher. Otherwise do as much as I could with what I had then watch in dismay.
Old 04-15-2003 | 08:54 PM
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I set a car of mine on fire once. There was a spider on the passenger window. I stopped the car, got a can of starting fluid and lit that little mofo up. Unfortunatly, I lit the car up too. I just sat around and waited for the cops and firemen. =-/ I hate spiders.
Old 04-15-2003 | 09:00 PM
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I lit the engine in my dodge shadow on fire once, tried to start it with the exhaust disconnected (I was just trying to see if I got the cam timing right, it's a non-interference engine) and it was wrong.... big belch of flame out the exhaust manifold.

Unfortunately there was also a slow fuel leak from the lines into the throttle bosy, and it had pooled with some spilt oil on top of the intake manifold (back of the engine on these cars.

*woosh*. 3' flames.

My fire extinguisher was buried in the back of my other car smile.gif

I ended up dousing it with the garden hose... no other choice, the car was half in the garage, and the garage (wood,of course) had several 2 gallon barrels of lacquer thinner, primer, couple bottles of propane, oxyacetylene set, etc.

I wouldn't have *run* though, car's don't explode like in the movies until they're well engulfed (and even then it's the tires), and by then the fire department (a mile up the road, literally) would have been there.
Old 04-16-2003 | 12:34 AM
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I'd keep fighting it until the fire was out or the fire extingisher ran out...then I'd start spitting and pissing on it.
Old 04-16-2003 | 01:03 AM
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I'll do something, that's for sure. That includes crying like a sissy, running away, and crying like a sissy.
Old 04-17-2003 | 10:02 AM
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i'd yell "NAWWWZZZZZZ" and run, like vin diesel. most likely, i wouldn't be a pu$$y and i'd use a fire extinguisher.

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Old 04-17-2003 | 11:12 AM
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QUOTE
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i'd yell "NAWWWZZZZZZ" and run, like vin diesel.
AHAHHAHA lol lol lol
Old 04-17-2003 | 11:19 AM
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MWAHAHAHAHA that was funny... lol lol lol lol



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