Thread: Fire extinguisher location - passenger side only.

Originally Posted by phl

FWIW, mine is suppose to be CAMS rated, with the powder supposedly of a higher rating than the Bunnings job.

Any chance you could snap a pic of the label & post it up?

Just be interested to know what is in it.

Cheers

Here's an example from the weekend of just how effective "cams approved" fire extinguishers are. What started as an under-bonnet fire, quickly became this:




One 4kg fire bomb, two 1kg hand-held and one 2kg hand-held extinguishers later:




Fire bombs have to be FIA approved and use AFFF as the extinguishant. Hand-helds are just ABE to AS1841 - nothing special. The only thing cams requires above AS1841 for hand-helds is that the extinguisher must remain restrained under an acceleration of 25g (how they measure it is beyond me). Here's the link to schedule H of the cams manual if anyone is interested:

http://docs.cams.com.au/Manual/Gener...e-H-2014-1.pdf

They are all pretty much useless, especially with anything turbocharged. All they are really designed to do is give you a little extra time to get out of the car.


Cheers,
Jon