miggit wrote:

Interestingly both systems..(the first I found) have the option of triggering a warning light... this could be used to trigger the explosive battery coupling! Extra safe #

So totally automatic, and as far as the fire suppression goes not reliant on electricity! I wonder how much you could reduce your insurance with such a system??

Picking this thread up again after a few weeks; found this which was interesting:

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Now being revealed by Liverpool Mayor that fire started in a 16 year old vehicle ( not named) which had been, and I quote, converted to an alternative fuel system.

It wasn't this one was it??

DaveK wrote:

Now being revealed by Liverpool Mayor that fire started in a 16 year old vehicle ( not named) which had been, and I quote, converted to an alternative fuel system.

Good to know - thanks Dave.

Love the steam rover

Resurrecting this thread as I saw this video in my YouTube feed:




God knows why they are binning a perfectly good looking Hilux. Discovery next to it too.

. Cheers, Greg
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Maybe there was no way of getting to them? Shell of the building was obviously compromised with the fire!

Exactly, there was no easy way of removing any of the undamaged cars from the top as the structure of the building was completely unsafe.

The fire even burned completely though the concrete floors of the lower decks. I didn’t even realise that was possible until I saw the internal photos.

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concrete doesn't burn, but it does expand at a different rate to the steel reinforcing.... basically the steel has swelled up much more than the rest of the structure and the floor has popped.... bit like popcorn... but hotter!!

Is that the ill fated HiLux in the back ground of your picture?? Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

There is also no telling what the heat may have done to the vehicles on the top - might be all sorts of melted and scorched rubber, trim, seals and fluids etc, even if they look ok. The insurance assessors will have written them off regardless - its cheaper (ironically) and simpler, than try to salvage them. We had it recently in Carmarthen in the flooding in October - a few car garages had a number of cars axle deep in flood water overnight. The insurance assessors wrote them off instantly - some were brand new - rather than take the risk of there being issues later. Current Fleet:-
2018 Discovery 5 3.0 HSE
2021 Ford Ranger Wildtrack
2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt 5.0 V8
1993 Defender 90 200TDI Pickup

Gone - not forgotten
2016 L405 4.4 SDV8 Vogue SE
2012 L322 4.4 Westminster
2004 L322 4.4 V8 Autobiography LE
2000 P38 RR 4.0 HSE (ex Clarkson test car)