Interior Fire!

[Retro Pug 0 1 Cars]

Gutted.

 

Just got the 205 back on the road and i went out to it this morning to find it full of smoke and the interior still smoldering!

• The sunroof vacum handle and interior light fitting is burnt out
  
• The front seats are burned and have melted pastic on them.
  
• The handblake surronund is melted away
  
• The carpet is burned
  
• Roof lining and sunroof cover is burned.
  
• Both sunvisors are melted
  

I have no idea how its happened?

 

Can anyone offer any ideas?

Anyone have any of these parts?

 

Thanks

John

Edited May 1, 2012 by Retro Pug

[welshpug 1,657]

aerial water leak into the light unit causing a short is most likely.

[Anthony 1,003]

I should have most (if not all) of the parts you need, assuming it's a factory sunroof model

 

Why it's happened is another matter entirely though - sounds like something has shorted out in the roof console and started a small fire, possibly as a result of water leaking in through the aerial or similar in the heavy rain we're experiencing? There's a couple of lights and the RCL receiver up there, two of which are constantly live. Most of the damage immediately below that will be as a result of burning and melted pieces falling, although the handbrake surround does seem a bit far back - there's nothing there to start or sustain a fire though.

 

A little worrying that it caught fire rather than pop a fuse though, although sounds like you were very lucky the whole thing didn't go up in flames!

[Retro Pug 0 1 Cars]

Thanks both, I did wonder about a short but I though too the fuse should have blown?

 

Yeah very lucky could have been a lot worse!

 

Sounds great on the drop me a PM on what you have and costs etc.

 

Cheers again

John.

[trogboy 17]

How's the paint on your roof?

[Retro Pug 0 1 Cars]

Thankfully its ok! You can see some evidence of the fire but I'm hoping I can flat and polish it out....