Martin S.

Let's say, God forbid, I have a random engine fire in my 991.2...I do have a 2 1/2 Lb Halotron, extinguisher. Where would I point it?

3 Openings on rear deck....

Wolpertinger

Not really a lot of options back there. Assuming you can even get the lid open if there really is a fire. I have to take periodic fire extinguisher training, and we're always taught to aim at the base of the flame and sweep back and forth. Works great on a flaming bucket of oily rags. Probably not so much on a 911 engine fire.

9914s

Behind the wheel tire aiming up.

Laszlo_Laz

There wouldn’t be much to do but watch it burn and wait for the fire department.

asellus

car fire 101 you don't spray from the top. you spray from the bottom.

asellus

also your coolant cap isn't all the way on

bkrantz

Back when I worked as a race track marshal, for SCCA, PCA, IMSA, Lemans, and F1, we trained with 20 lb dry chemical extinguishers. It was relatively easy to put out some training fires (mostly pits or large pans filled with diesel and gasoline), but anything with burning equipment got challenging. We we trained to use our minimum equipment to help get drivers out of the car--that is the primary mission. Once evacuated, cars are not that important.

The one time (IMSA) we tried to put out a burning, wrecked car (after the driver was removed) we emptied at least 4 or 5 dry chem bottles without doing much. Once the fire gets burning inside the car structure, it's hard to get the extinguishing material in there. The truck-mounted crew showed up in about 2 minutes and finally put out the fire with a big foam sprayer.

911-TOUR

But...it does look cool :-p

Noah Fect

Car Fire 101: Get out of the car. Ensure any passengers are safely out of the car. Call the fire department. Break out the marshmallows.

You don't want to save it, and you don't want it back.

tx-911

Car FE are there to help save the occupants from fire related deaths. Not likely you will put out a car fire with a 2 Lb FE by the time you see flames.

SConn

This makes the most sense!

My TTS was ordered with one and my mind immediately went to "Ugh..the first owner must have tracked it." But there's zero signs of track usage. Now I just have this red extinguisher under the seat which I assume after 8 years isn't even charged anymore? Lol!

Quadcammer

the extinguisher is to either throw or swing at anyone who tries to help you put the fire out. In other words, once its burning, let it happen and call your insurance company and tell them where they can pick up their bonfire.

Martin S.

Thanks for your responses.....some of out local Clubs providing DE and Time Trial require them. In my former 993 track car, I had a complete system, with the 3 liter bottle in the Frunk, with nozzles in the engine compartment and the cabin. The fumes would probably have killed me had the bottle gone off. It had a "T" handle below the windshield, drivers side, and a handle inside the cabin, about $1,000 at the time. I am DE now, not going this route.

The present bottle and mount will have to do. Let's hope it is never needed...and agreed, put out fires, or attempt to do so, from the bottom up...this would mean taking a prone position on the deck at the rear of a burning car...as was said in an old Hollywood flick, "Let it burn!".

As for now, the present mounting will have to do...I will be flipped 180 degrees when I figure out hour to the the mount of the bead at the bottom of the bottle.

Martin S.

By god it's on now. Thanks for the heads up!!! And as we know, the "Devil is in the Detail".

In the inimitable words of legendary Chris Walrod from Singer cars, "Is this a great place, or what?".

El_Tigre

You're driving an insured car, not a one-off racecar that can't be replaced. Its for you or your passenger in case you're somehow on fire as you get out of the vehicle and wait for a firetruck.