This is why you carry a 'grab it and run' bag....

**austastar** · 22nd February 2020, 12:05 PM

Hi,
Depends on the neighbourhood.
Cheers

**4bee** · 22nd February 2020, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by W&KO

I don’t reckon a battery isolator is going to stop a fire once it starts.

We have to have two battery isolators fitted to our work cars, one for starter only and the other for everything

Back to the video, am I the only one that leave my car running when I pull up to open a gate....seems strange he turns off the car and put keys in his pocket.

Was it because he was about to enter Private Property on foot for a recce, albeit a dump.?

My S2A has a Batt. Isol. fitted. I fitted it the day I recommissioned the vehicle Who wants to start a fire in the middle of a grassy paddock with 10 gallons of Petrol on board? Not I.

NB. Didn't mean a dump as in a ****, although that could have been his motive, just that the property was in a bad repair sort of dump.

**Ancient Mariner** · 22nd February 2020, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by W&KO

I don’t reckon a battery isolator is going to stop a fire once it starts.

We have to have two battery isolators fitted to our work cars, one for starter only and the other for everything

Back to the video, am I the only one that leave my car running when I pull up to open a gate....seems strange he turns off the car and put keys in his pocket.

A battery isolator won't stop a fire once started but does remove one source of reignition after you think you have the fire out

**W&KO** · 22nd February 2020, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

A battery isolator won't stop a fire once started but does remove one source of reignition after you think you have the fire out

Maybe I guess....but car fires are few and far between therefore not at the top off many mid lists.

**Tins** · 22nd February 2020, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

This is why you fit a battery isolator and turn it off before you do any thing else.Any wonder he couldn't extinguish it

AM

Funny, that. In late September, 2009, my wife rang me at around 08:30 at work to say " Johnno, our house is on fire!!". What I said to her was "turn off the main switch". Why did I say that?? The house was already alight. It made absolutely no difference, and I fail to see why you would think it would in this case, AM. Ignition is not the problem, because that has already occurred, The car was ablaze. An isolator would be of no help, and might expose the car owner to life threatening risk trying to do something that is pointless.

And as for the suggestions for shovelling dirt.. have any of you actually tried that in that situation?? I have. it doesn't work when the fire is as advanced as this one, and is fuelled by the accelerant known as diesel. Don't even THINK of doing it if is petrol. You will probably die. Diesel is hard to ignite, but is harder to extinguish. Petrol EXPLODES. This guy couldn't pinpoint the source of his fire, so where does he shovel? Fires are scary, and readjust people's thinking.

Much better, as the thread title suggests, grab the vitals and run. A short run on the extinguisher, sure, but save some to stop the fire getting loose in the bush you say you love.

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