Never had one.

Garage fires
 

In the last 3 years, two. Both by cars.

One wasnt so neat because it got tied up in litigation and it was in a Twin. It wasn't funny but the sight of one perfect house attached to a charred structure for almost three years because of insurance.I felt bad for the owner of the unburned structure.....

You are right, the chances are very slight. Any maybe I am just being nutty about it, but when I think about all the combustibility of a car it makes me personally nervous

two hour fire rating..
 

As i said maybe I am being overly paranoid because if my feelings were truly valid, they would chnage the Industry Codes.

This is going off the subject, and I am no fire scientist and really know nothing about it. I just wonder if drywall burn rating really makes a difference when a house goes up in flames...they just go...

If I had my personal preference I would wish for a Detached Garage anyday.Hey wait a minute--dont insurance rates speak for themselves? Deatched garages, your insurance rate is less--maybe I am on to something, huh?

Actually, if one could check the statistics, I bet far more cars are burned up because the structure caught on fire, not because the car caught on fire and burned the structure!
My last house, which was in a neighborhood, I had a neighbor across the alley from me building a Cobra kit car. It was really really nice, and he was sparing no expense.
He had finally got the body tub in, after completing the whole driveline, and was putting in the interior. Basically the last stages. This was about 2 years up to this point.
And, you guessed it. Wiring over the garage sparked a fire and burned the garage down completely. Cobra never had a chance. And, sadly, he had not taken the steps to insure his investment.......
Ouch!
I appreciate your sense of humor while we bust on you a bit.:) Don't worry though, our day will come, and you can top the dog-pile......:D

Sounds like you can get a job with the Bush administration spinning some FUD

FYI, this is Diesel Discussion, not Open Discussion. We certainly don't want those two to get mixed up......;)

My last VW van nearly caught fire as I was working on it. Whoever replaced the headlight switch (before me) neglected to use insulated connectors on the UNFUSED hot lead to the switch! When I dropped a dash clip against it and the metal dash, you can only guess what happened. I did, however, cut power to it before the whole dash went up.

When I yelled to my dad "Get the fire extinguisher!", he replied "We have a fire extinguisher?".

Yeesh.

Yeah its the long green thing attached to the side of the house.;)

The hose doesn't really help when the battery keeps supplying the 12V wire-turned-heater filament. I guess I'm the dummy that didn't disconnect the battery.

I told you I was uhhhh
 

according to NFPA

#1 cause of home fires--COOKING
#2 SMOKING
#3 Playing with matches

so dont cook and smoke while playing with matches while changing out your fuel pump


SIGH I still want a detached garage in the boonies so I can paint my car

Move down here to the south side of the state. :D

If the house is new enough and IF the local building inspectors insist on it.

Tom W

If you are so worried about a rare car fire....even with all the fusable links and fuses in modern cars...then install a battery "shut off switch". The car's computer will temporarily lose memory but can retrain itself...and you will have to re-enter the radio code on highly secured radio systems when you turn it back on....but the cars electronics will not be the source of the fire!;)

When I was 16, we had a Bolens lawn tractor that we parked in the garage under the house. Bad move. We also had a gas fired hot water heater in the same room. It appears that fumes from the tractor gas tank found their way to the hot water heater, and the next thing that tractor was in big time flames. Only thing that saved the house was I wrapped a chain around the front asle of the tractor, and the other end around the rear spring shackle on a 64 T-Bird and drug that sucker out of there. Flames were just rolling off the ceiling of the garage and it would have been toast if no one had been home. :eek:

I can fit just enough oxygen in there to start a fire!