SF Gate: Freak fire traps man inside Audi/Battery failure a possible cause

[DGraber460 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 1/14/2002 2:38:17 PM Mountain Standard Time,
brett at cloud9.net writes:


> $20 says that the fire department finds no traces of a vent hose,
> burnt or otherwise.

My money is on the vacuum pump under the back seat. Our 5kt (recently stolen,
and gone forever I hope), had the pump short out, partially melt, and stink
up the car. The battery was vented, but I think we probably came close to a
fire also.

Dennis
Denver
Life is too short to drive reliable boring cars.