2010 Wrangler Burns
 

Just thought I would share this article from the Ottawa Citizen this morning...thoughts?

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Co...101/story.html

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Good Morning,
Thanks for posting that KAVIC. I'm glad the McRaes are mostly OK and the article serves to remind us all of the dangers of a hot CATALYTIC CONVERTOR (which, I'm assuming caused the fire and SHOULD have been mentioned in the article) BUT I don't think the Jeep was at fault.
Yup, the Jeep WAS designed and built to be driven off road but with some common sense. One doesn't race through a 4' deep water hazard, for example, and then complain the vehicle stalled out.
Who knows how much and where the combustable material was packed under the Wrangler.
After all, this isn't a Ford Pinto.
Peter

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Hummm...interesting. I wish there were more details on this" engine revving but didn't go anywhere" ( I have to reread that ) anyhow....

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Greetings,
Sounds like she put in into "P" for pull.

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My 2006 Rubicon did the same thing 2 weeks ago. I had just filled it up and was parked horizontally on slight uphill incline. I was out of it for less than 10 minutes.

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Dude that sucks! Glad you are ok.

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I'm fine and have just replaced it with new 2010 Sahara that will look like Jeep Rescue when I'm done with it. Bummer was that my wallet, phone everything in it was lost.

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Hiya,
Interesting. I could have minimised a potetial fault with a new model. Glad you're OK.
Peter

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just saw the photos from the incident posted by the owner in another jeep forum i am on...total loss....

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Glad the folks involved made it out alive! The loss of the two Jeeps does really suck!

I for one will check the 'charge' on my fire extinguisher...I'm gonna' buy a second one for safety I think

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We dumped three large extinguishers into it but no stopping rubber and plastic once it's going. My new rig has two extinguishers in it already. I'm considering full underbody skid plates to help prevent buildup of debris around exhaust and catyl converter. I'm not convinced this is what happened in my case but it is high on the list.

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Glad your OK after this ! I feel bad bringing this up but what happened to the Jeep now ? I might be interested in buying it from the insurance comp. Can you PM me ?

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I tried that already - no go, they would not let me buy it back. Insurance company has a salvage contract with one company to take all wrecks and off it went. I'm sure it go parted out one way or another but no info provided when I asked about it.

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Ya , figured that happened. But at least you can't say we didn't try. It'd be a "maybe" cheaper way to get into Rubicon lockers.

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Great idea! I will too, now that you mentioned it.

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Scary shhit. something to keep in mind when your out there enjoying yourself on a hot day with your NEW 2010 jk.. for sure a design problem... and love all that plastic...