Brand 1: Jeep Shepherd Case: Is it all caused by the three-way catalyst? Nearly 500,000 cars have disappeared ... On May 28th, 2009, a Jeep Sahara owner was playing on the sand of Emerald Island in the south of the Gold Coast in Changli County, Qinhuangdao City, and suddenly he smelled a burning smell, then the middle and lower parts of the car began to smoke, and suddenly flames burst out. The car owners and fellow car owners saw it and rescued it as quickly as possible, but the fire and water were ruthless. Within five minutes, the car burned into a sea of fire and could no longer be rescued. The owner said that the herder bought it in April 2008. After the incident, the owner asked industry experts to identify the car and judge that the position of the vehicle transmission may be the fire point. In addition, the engine is in a state of high load, high temperature and high speed, and improper computer configuration leads to excessive oil supply, and the three-way catalyst cracks due to excessive temperature, which leads to a fire in the flammable parts near the three-way catalyst, and then the whole vehicle burns. In fact, recently, at least four herdsmen who have been confirmed by netizens have become victims of vehicle spontaneous combustion. However, this incident is different from many other auto spontaneous combustion incidents in the past. After a single spontaneous combustion case in Jeep herdsman, the owner quickly and frequently posted a series of descriptions, pictures, videos and interviews about the spontaneous combustion accident on the Internet. Chrysler immediately contacted the owner after receiving the accident report to investigate the cause of the accident. Repeated negotiations with the owner failed to reach a final solution. Brand No.2: BMW 760 Li Case: "BMW" becomes "Fire Horse"! On the afternoon of June 28, 2009, a parked BMW 760Li car suddenly caught fire in the underground parking lot of Jiadi Garden in Qinxian North Street, Taiyuan City. Security personnel quickly called the police and put out the fire in time, and firefighters quickly came to put out the fire. Due to the timely rescue, the bottom of the BMW and the left side of the body were robbed by fire, and the left window glass was melted in the fire. One side of the body of a Toyota car adjacent to the car was deformed by the fire and the window glass was melted. Prior to this, on July 19, 2008, when Mr. Zhang, the owner of Ningbo Xiangshan, was resting in the BMW, the car suddenly spontaneously ignited and burned into a frame a few minutes later. In August of the same year, a white BMW private car caught fire in the bus stop section of Yongtai Square, Guangcong Highway, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, and the owner's family of four was forced to abandon the car and flee for life. BMW car exploded in high-temperature combustion ...1October14th, Mr. Xie, a native of Xiangshan, licensed the newly bought BMW 3 Series roadster. Unexpectedly, when the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Expressway was driving 52km towards Ningbo, the car suddenly caught fire, and the raging flame swallowed it up instantly. Unfortunately, when the traffic police and firefighters rushed to the scene to put out the fire, the BMW had been burned into a pile of scrap iron. Fortunately, the three men and women in the car jumped out of the car in time to avoid getting angry ... Spontaneous combustion seems to have nothing to do with BMW, but the fact that it was exposed at the moment forced consumers to re-examine the safety hazards of BMW cars. Brand No.3: Ford Mondeo Case: Ford car instantly turned into scrap iron On March 6, 2009, Mr. He, the head of an electronic limited liability company in Sichuan, drove a Ford Mondeo car bought in June 2005 and wanted to go skiing at Xiling Snow Mountain Ski Resort. Unexpectedly, just one kilometer before arriving at the destination, the car suddenly spontaneously ignited. An hour later, the car was burned into a pile of scrap iron. In fact, as early as February 29, 2008, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned that 4.6 million Ford cars that had been recalled but not yet repaired were in danger of spontaneous combustion, and the owners should go to the dealer as soon as possible to replace the parts. The bureau also said that the main problem of these vehicles is that the cruise control system may cause engine fire. It is reported that since August last year, there have been about 60 complaints about the fire of Ford's engine. Brand No.4: Beijing Hyundai Elantra Case: Road fright staged in north and south cities. On the evening of April 26th, a Beijing Hyundai Elantra car was driving from west to east on Fuxing Road and suddenly spontaneously ignited when it reached Yongding Road. When the fire brigade arrived, the car was surrounded by fire and all the tires were burned out. Two months later, a motor vehicle with a modern logo spontaneously ignited and exploded near Dalian University of Technology. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the car. In April last year, Mr. Huang, the owner of Guangzhou, suddenly spontaneously ignited when driving a white modern car with the license plate number of Guangdong 340 to Qifu Road, a new city in Guangzhou. Immediately after the local fire brigade dispatched two fire engines to put out the fire, a piece of car wreckage appeared: everything in the car was burned out, and the white modern became a black solitary iron shelf, which was terrible. Brand No.5: Dongfeng Kia Cerato Case: Cerato Spontaneous Combustion Not Discussed At the beginning of this year, an incident of "Dongfeng Kia Cerato ran in Xiamen 18 days later" aroused Mr. Li's confidence in pursuing his own interests. On September 6th, 2008, Mr. Li bought a 1.6L white Cerato at Da Yue Kia Hanhuada 4S store. After driving for 38 days and 2800 kilometers, Mr. Li carried out the first maintenance on the car, but then the car had a spontaneous combustion accident during normal driving. After that, Mr. Li contacted 4 S stores and manufacturers many times, but he didn't get a valid answer. Brand 6: Buick Excelle Case: What happened to Buick's spontaneous combustion? On February/February 2, 2009, a car owner in Dongguan drove the Buick Excelle 1 .6 LE purchased on February/June 16, 2008. During the driving, he found a lot of black smoke coming from the front of the car, and then the front of the car caught fire, and the firefighters who arrived later put out the fire. But at this time, the Excelle has been completely unrecognizable. Before that, news about Buick's spontaneous combustion kept coming. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year's Day in 2009, Mr. Wang from Yanhu District of Yuncheng bought a Buick Excelle for one year and spontaneously ignited in the yard of his relatives. A Buick Excelle car worth150,000 yuan owned by Mr. Jinyun Road, Zhejiang Province, just started driving for more than a month and spontaneously ignited in the early morning. On July 1 day, a black Buick car spontaneously ignited at the intersection of Yue Wei Road and Sima Road, Hebei District, Tianjin ... Brand No.7: Haima Case: Prima suddenly caught fire in less than 9 months, and the new car actually spontaneously ignited. At 9 o'clock in the evening of April 19, 2009, Mr. Xu, a citizen of Nanchang, and his son drove a "Freema" brand (new Prima) Haima brand car (5 seats) to Zhangshu. During the driving process, they smelled a strong plastic smell inside the car and felt hot under their feet. Xu's father stopped the car and found smoke coming out of the engine in front of it, and an open flame nearly one meter high came out. Before the driver could save himself, the car began to burn in a large area. Five or six minutes later, the whole car was burned beyond recognition. Since then, Mr. Xu and his son have fallen into a "ball game" between Haima automobile manufacturers and insurance companies. Yu Xiansheng, the boss of Liaoning team, also suffered from this situation. On August 10, 2006, Prima Mazda, which Yu Xiansheng bought for more than 40 days and ran 4,000 kilometers, spontaneously ignited. So far, this problem has not been satisfactorily solved. Brand No.8: China Zunchi Case: The road surface also spontaneously ignited \ r \ nAt At about 5: 50 pm on May 27th, 2008, a Chinese Zunchi car traveling from north to south suddenly spontaneously ignited on the east side of Nangehua Building, Xiaojieqiao, North Second Ring Road, Beijing. According to witnesses, the cockpit was enveloped in fire within a few minutes. Prior to this, on March 8, a black car with the license plate number Joan AC20 was driving 1 1 km from Haikou to the crater of the Ring Expressway, and the driver found in the rearview mirror that the rear of the car suddenly smoked, which scared him to get off and check. It turned out that the car was on fire. Subsequently, when the traffic police highway brigade staff rushed to the scene of the incident, there was only an empty shell left in the spontaneous combustion car. It is reported that in the first half of this year, there were no fewer than six auto spontaneous combustion incidents in China exposed by the media. ■ Tips What should I do if I encounter spontaneous combustion of a car? There are some precursors of auto spontaneous combustion, such as the dashboard is not bright, the water temperature is too high, the body smells when driving, and smoke comes out. In these cases, you should immediately find a safe place to stop and check. If spontaneous combustion really happens, it usually takes a long time from smoke to open flame, and cars usually explode after the open flame is ignited. At this point, the owner must not panic, and covering with fire extinguishers, water or clothes can eliminate spontaneous combustion; If there is really no way, seek the help of fire and traffic police as soon as possible, protect the scene and leave the basis for claiming evidence afterwards. Emergency equipment: emergency hammer, an emergency hammer can open the door to escape at a critical moment. This device is mostly equipped on closed air-conditioned buses, but ordinary cars do not have this configuration. Large-capacity fire extinguisher, don't expect the pocket fire extinguisher in the car to be useful in dealing with fires. The best they can do is put out the small flames that have just started. Spend tens of dollars to buy a large-capacity portable pressure-storage dry powder fire extinguisher in the mall and put it in a place where it is easy to get in the car for a rainy day.