Thread: Where do you put your fire extinguisher?

There was already one mounted in my D3 when I brought it. Passenger side footwell on the trans tunnel

On my D4, its under the drivers seat accessed from behind.

If you need it, you need it in a hurry!

Good thread...

Keep in mind guys - you'll need a 2.5kg+ to be effective on anything serious!

MY risk assessment has gone along the lines of - the risk of needing a fire extinguisher when strapped in the driver's seat is VERY low. Any crash where you were trapped in the vehicle with a fire, you would likely have several other issues to sort out as well (and probably be dead). (Note this is different to a competition car.) The much higher risk of fire is someone else's vehicle or say a cooking fire when camping. Then the fire extinguisher's position is not important other than to be readily accessible. Mine is fixed to the front of the cargo barrier, accessible from the rear doors. Away from risk of injury to rear seat passengers of course.

C

Thanks Chris - you make good sense, and when I think about it, the only 2 times I've used my on board extinguishers in 30 years have been on other peoples cars!
I'm tending to mounting one or two on top of my rear drawers when I make them.
But I'm still curious to see what come out on this - SWMBO was not in favor of one in the passenger footwell area!!!

As I have a rear wheel carrier, I was debating placing mine on that. Might be different if I had draws, but I like the idea of it being outside.

I went against mounting mine accessable from the rear cargo area as this area is most likely to have an electrical fire due to fridge etc, so I would not like to be reaching to grab an extinguisher amongst a fire. 2nd row seat area was compromise re assessibility vs not isolating it re a fire itself.
C