Quite a sobering thing to read about... I nearly had a case of fireball with my project truck. I had just put the gauge cluster back in after a good inside and out cleaning, turned the key to check the gauges worked, dome light dimmed low and the cluster started smokeing.
Turns out one of the sensor wires shorted out due to all the wigling needed to unplug the cluster. Ended up frying the flexi board on the cluster, but luckily it didn't catch fire. Quite a scarry experience. Took forever to get the smell out. It's always been my plan to have a CO2 extinguisher behind the seat just in case, and I have a small dry chem that might go in also. Walt On Jan 15, 2010 11:33 PM, "Mitch Haley" <m...@voyager.net> wrote: Allan Streib wrote: > Learn to keep a fire extinguisher in the car. Speaking of which, I need to take mine out of the 16v and put it in the winter car. Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.o... _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
