Burning it up on the Autobahn.... my D3 was really smoking.

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Originally Posted by lebanon

Does it run on diesel or petrol?

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TDV6 Diesel.

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Pure speculation, but there is always the possibility the inspector disloged/damaged something, or left an oily rag in the engine bay...

However it could just be a coincidence...

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Dont know if anything was damaged/dislodged during the inspection. Its hard enough to see anything in the engine bay without removing all the plastic covers everywhere!

There was no rag left in the engine bay, as I was looking to install a second battery and had been measuring up the 2nd battery bay dimensions, and trying to determine the best way to place wires around the engine bay.
Nothing out of the ordinary that I noticed.

Andrew

If I remember correctly there are 1 or 2 threads buried in AULRO somewhere about D3's self combusting in Aus while being driven.

Unsure if anyone ever posted the root causes of the fires.

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Originally Posted by Ferret

If I remember correctly there are 1 or 2 threads buried in AULRO somewhere about D3's self combusting in Aus while being driven.

Unsure if anyone ever posted the root causes of the fires.

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http://www.aulro.com/afvb/d3-d4-rrs/...atch-fire.html
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And this

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-ch...tml#post786325

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Originally Posted by Andrew.W

TDV6 Diesel.

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MY07-MY08?

Land Rover

Been there several times, luckily I had no fires.

Best of luck for a satisfactory resolution!

Cheers,
Rob

Sales were halted in Russia due to fire relating to HP fuel pump issue.
Maybe showed up first due the teir crap fuel?

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Originally Posted by jonesy63

MY07-MY08?

Land Rover

Been there several times, luckily I had no fires.

Best of luck for a satisfactory resolution!

Cheers,
Rob

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Thanks Rob,
Mine is (was) a 2005, already checked against this recall.

Andrew

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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Sorry to read this, I hope you can be on the road really soon with another.

I am now a bit perturbed by reading about the amount of fires in the D3's, so I hope a fire investigation officer does find exactly the source.

I happen to have a very melted diff centre from a D3 in my collection and I have no idea what caused that fire.

By the way, to reduce the damage in a given time, but only if it is safe to do so, leave open all the doors, that stops the heat building up quickly in the cabin.
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If you leave the doors open you are ventilating the fire, if temperatures are high enough it will allow the fuel to ignite (fuel meaning combustibles). Keeping the doors shut keeps starves the fire of oxygen.

The first thing we do when we arrive in a fire truck is to ventilate, that way we can see the flame and know where to apply retardant. If you ventilate before we arrive there might not be much for us to do when we get there...

Everyone should carry a fire extinguisher. Buy the biggest one you can accommodate. Less than 1kg is cheap, and easy to stow, but most people waste the retardant learning how to aim the extinguisher. If you waste 5 seconds of a 7 second burst getting the extinguisher on target you won't have much left.

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Originally Posted by theresanothersteve

If you leave the doors open you are ventilating the fire, if temperatures are high enough it will allow the fuel to ignite (fuel meaning combustibles). Keeping the doors shut keeps starves the fire of oxygen.

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In this case the fire had not started in the cabin, it had started under the bonnet and where that fire was there is already a draft of air.

Would not keeping open the doors before the cabin catches alight, keep the heat build up down, the plastic trim ( fuel ) then would be slower to gasify and therefore slow the spread of the fire from the engine bay to the interior?

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The first thing we do when we arrive in a fire truck is to ventilate, that way we can see the flame and know where to apply retardant. If you ventilate before we arrive there might not be much for us to do when we get there...

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I have no argument with that procedure if the fire is already in the cab.

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Everyone should carry a fire extinguisher. Buy the biggest one you can accommodate. Less than 1kg is cheap, and easy to stow, but most people waste the retardant learning how to aim the extinguisher. If you waste 5 seconds of a 7 second burst getting the extinguisher on target you won't have much left.

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I agree with those points about carrying an extinguisher entirely and leaning to use it correctly is essential.

Don't forget a shovel or a spade with sand or soil can be quite effective at putting out a small fire by smothering.
The danger then, is getting burnt if you try to lift the bonnet to gain access.
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