smoking tsi

[misterjose]

while i was driving home from santa clarita to la. i smelled something burning! before you know it my cabin was full of smoke. i pull over because my eyes were becoming watery! i open the hood and there was nothing coming out of it. so i open the passenger side door and look at where the smoke is coming from. then i see fire underneath the passenger seat!!!!!! i panicked and just took off my shit and started patting it down. but it didnt work! thank god my girlfriend left her water bottle and i just downed it. i then pull out a cigarette butt. i was driving with the windows down because the weather was perfect. i was just crusing. then this happened. i almost lost my tsi tonight!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fullCircle]

so... i take it that a random cig flew into the car while you were driving? or was it an electrical fire?

 

[Aproductions]

so how did it catch on fire? a cigarette?

 

[fullCircle]

i really hate somkers that just chuck their cigs out the window.

 

[misterjose]

yess. i dont know how i didnt see that cig butt come into my window. but it happened to land underneath my passenger seat. and the foam caught on fire!!! im going to get a fire extinguisher tomorrow. now i know why people have those!!! im pretty sure most people just have it for the looks.

 

[1gengsx]

WOW I have seen people throwing butts out the window that blew back in. But not ones going into another car. Sorry to hear about the bad luck. Atleast you found the water bottle.

 

[ReYnd]

That's scary. Nothing sets me off like seeing the guy or gal in front of me flick a cigarette out their window, for reasons just like this. It's obnoxious, and believe it or not, I detest littering. My dad smoked for 47 years of his life, and at least he had the courtesy to hold onto the butt until no one was nearby.

I may get an extinguisher, paint it like a NOS bottle and mount it in the back.

 

[JDog_27]

Wow...now that's crazy and random. Thank goodness for the water bottle!

 

[Khadaw66]

that was definately a "once in a lifetime thing"

 

[Elek_ron_ix]

That's crazy. Glad you were able to extinguish the flames and save your TSI. Definitely get a fire extingisher.

 

[bring_1]

same thing happened to me, i am thankful to have been in my jeep and not my talon at the time tho, $200 jeep on fire isn't really a big deal.

 

[97-gst]

man thats really unlucky. So the only damage done was foam caught on fire?