Why it is so important to have a fire extinguisher on board??
Let me tell you my little story and afterwards you decide by yourself it is necessary or not.
It was happen in my first night drive together with Moe, XJ and Chuck. We enjoyed the nice weather and play around in the well known musaffha place.
After a while Chuck was forced to stop his car ( Yes, he get stuck ). Moe and XJ stopped as well and walk to his little red rusty bucket, to see how to get him out. I am the last one in the line and park my car on a way to get light to his place. Then I get a smell of burned plastic. I am just wondering coz that much it wasn’t before. So I opened the glove box in the dashboard and surprise, surprise there was a fuse melding down, but not in the normal way like the steel just meld and disconnect the power! No, the steel stays and the plastic around meld down and start burning. I get shocked and start screaming “Fire, Fire” ( Later on Moe told me I was screaming in German first, which was not very helpful ). Chuck gave me his spare extinguisher before we start the trip and this helps me to get the flames down quickly and minimise the damage.
Altogether I can say I had much luck that I discover the burn quickly and I got the extinguisher from chuck before, but it also could easily run a other way.
The technical reason was a lose cable at the frond light. By the heat the insulation get soft and rubbed down at a sharp edge. Then the fuse was a poor quality and so this happens.
I bought then 2 extinguisher at the next weekend and install them below the frond seats. 1Kg /40 Dir and 2Kg /60 Dir.
One thing at the end. I also like to joke about LR, LC, Nissan or Jeep drivers, but please at the right place and I think this can happen to all of us. So lets keep it a little more serious. Don’t get me wrong. Jokes about my burning dirty Wrangler or Chucks stuck are welcome, but the matter of safety should be keepen.
Tobias
