Re: another quattro goes down in its element

["Scott Mo." <scottmo@teleport.com>]

Someone said:
> > ... My car was on fire, burning quickly.

> Phil said:
> I wonder how many of these under-bonnet fires are caused by bad drain pipes from the control pressure valve.
> 

Very possible, there was also a recall for fuel leaking past the fuel
distributor plunger and into the air filter housing soaking into the
filter element. A back fire through the intake system would cause a nice
fire....in the air filter housing....

Another recall was for leaking injector seals (Non-Viton) with
subsequent fuel leakage and fire danger...

Yet another recall was for a problem with the fuel filler neck that
allowed overfilling of fuel which would swamp out the charcoal cansiter
near the engine compartmetn and cause a fire when the excess fuel came
out the bottom of the canister and was ignited by the exhaust system...

Yikes...please don't "flame" me on this one.....

The NHTSA site has some of this info at

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls

HTH
Scott Mo.
1989 200TQ
http://www.teleport.com/~scottmo