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Yogi Bear
07-02-2013, 12:10 PM
Confirmed by investigation CFA and POLICE. Electrical Fire from behind radio area, car destroyed in 7-10 minutes. Spectacular Video taken from when the CFA arrived till extinguished. Passenger side headlight was on the whole time.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
lolmclol
07-02-2013, 12:14 PM
Holy shit, you ok? ... any further damage to surrounding areas?


There were recalls in other countries due to a switch in the drivers door, but nothing in australia as far as I can see.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/honda-recalls-20022006-crv-for-fire-risk-20121007-277eo.html
ep3rsteve
07-02-2013, 12:29 PM
I take it that's your car and house in the photo? If so, its good to know you're alright.
Any more information regarding your car? Any Issues with the car previously? How was it serviced/maintained? Were all the in car electronics standard?
I'm sure there's plenty of 06 CRV owners out there who want to stop this happening if they can!
Yogi Bear
07-02-2013, 12:34 PM
We nearly lost the house. If I didnt get out of bed at 3am after hearing a bang, we could have perished. All happened extremely fast. Very lucky peeps. Thanks for the link, I had not seen this
Yogi Bear
07-02-2013, 12:38 PM
All serviced by Honda. There had been a dvd fitted to the back years ago, was removed. We had previous documented issues with the passenger headlight not working. As this light was ON during and after the fire, I suspect a slow blow.
ep3rsteve
07-02-2013, 01:10 PM
I found this article that mentions 2002-2004 CR-Vs we're recalled due to faulty headlight wiring in the USA. Could possibly be related to your faulty headlight issue.

http://www.torquenews.com/106/honda-recalls-over-half-million-cars-headlight-failure

"the Japanese automaker believes that there could be a problem with the wiring going to the headlight switch"
JDM DC2R
08-02-2013, 02:48 PM
No leg to stand on when the wiring was altered with the install of the DVD player! unlucky. were u insured
infurNOS
10-02-2013, 11:33 AM
No leg to stand on when the wiring was altered with the install of the DVD player! unlucky. were u insured

this.
boss_da_man
11-02-2013, 09:24 PM
Wow...
JDM DC2R
13-02-2013, 10:30 AM
Sorry to be blunt. But with all time times ive been asked to fix things poeple have attempted them self electrical wise is a joke. At least 30% of my work!
And all the poeple who do installs at jb hi fi, auto barn extra arnt qualified in any electrical feild!