81 Interior fire help!
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81 Interior fire help!
im lookin at an 81 vette that had a minor interior fire... the pass seat went up in smoke, and took the pos wire out (short). only the bottom seatpad was affected... any ideas what could have done this? from what i can find there are no electronics running under that side of the car... might it have been the exhaust getting too hot under the car there? the pass seat bottom pad burned through, the foam is gone, and the pos wire to the batt melted out... please help i need ideas and fixes! email me for pictures @ oberth1@comcast.net
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I use to work for a company doing fire restoration on houses. I can tell you this. Smoke has acid in it. The acid lands on electrical contacts. It might not appear to have any immediate affect, but over time, all kinds of electrical problems will appear from the corrosive effects on all the elec. contacts in your car. I don't just mean contacts as in wiring harnesses, I mean circuit boards, relays and switches. In an enclosed area such as a car, the effects would be very strong.
Now, here is where I sit back and wait for someone to tell me that they have owned a car that had a small fire and ran for decades. I'm not going to say that isn't possible, but when I worked for that company, any electrical devices in the immediate area of the fire were tossed and replaced. That included anything and everything that ran on electricity.
Now, here is where I sit back and wait for someone to tell me that they have owned a car that had a small fire and ran for decades. I'm not going to say that isn't possible, but when I worked for that company, any electrical devices in the immediate area of the fire were tossed and replaced. That included anything and everything that ran on electricity.
