Where there's smoke...

[UKBraderz]

So this morning i woke up at 5:00am to go to work picked up my mate & off we went, when we got there i decided to reverse my car into the workshop & use the airline to get all the crap out from between my seats (there a pain & the hoover never fits)
As i started reversing, some penis i work with just stood there so i went to beep the horn & to my suprise no beep came out, i pressed it again & the car alarm went off, lights started flashing & a pile of smoke just came out from inside my steering wheel, followed by a nice orange glow.
Straight off i grabbed the fire extinguisher & doused the flame then dissconected the battery, now as you can see i have a lovely melted piece of plastic & burnt rotary arm! Renault reckon it's going to cost me £280 including VAT & labour...
NOT what you need at that time on a bloody Saturday!

 

[Christopher.]

Bloody hell !

 

[imprezaworks]

Oh dear

 

[guysy]

Blimey mate, after seeing 3 fire related threads recently im going to get a fire extinguisher for the car I think.

Hope it doesn't cost too much to fix.

 

[UKBraderz]

Blimey mate, after seeing 3 fire related threads recently im going to get a fire extinguisher for the car I think.

Hope it doesn't cost too much to fix.

well all together with some new headlight jets i've ordered it's come to £314, not too bad! It could always be worse...
I'm just lucky i was at work when i decided to push the horn because i had people to help me & there was a fire extinguisher close by...

 

[JackJack]

I remember when people took the piss out of a lad for having a fire extinguisher in his car.

Unlucky mate but as you say lucky it happened when/where it did.

 

[Brian]

On the plus side, you dealt with it swiftly!

I'm going to get a fire extinguisher for the car I think.

+1

 

[dmallett]

Didnt this happen to someone else a few weeks ago?

I should probably have a fire extinguisher in mine tbh, especially with the amount of wires that have been fiddled with.

 

[bmh.01]

Got away very lightly there. Lucky.

 

[UKBraderz]

I honestly do recommend a fire extinguisher being in your car at all times! They should come standard... If I didn't have one this morning I couldn't imagine what my car would look like at this very moment!

 

[Clio RS 172]

f**k:S

 

[DannyR]

This has happened before to a few people

 

[UKBraderz]

This has happened before to a few people

Do you guys know anyone this has actually happened to, so I can ask them what the actual problem was because I'm worried if Renault fit this rotary arm & it costs me £300 odd quid! What happens if it doesn't even solve the problem! Renault are b******s because they won't tell me the problem without looking at it which would cost me £84!

 

[Russ_16v]

Could have gone alot worse, glad to hear you dealt with it quickly mate!

 

[JackJack]

Do you guys know anyone this has actually happened to, so I can ask them what the actual problem was because I'm worried if Renault fit this rotary arm & it costs me £300 odd quid! What happens if it doesn't even solve the problem! Renault are b*****ds because they won't tell me the problem without looking at it which would cost me £84!

How are they meant to know if they don't look?

 

[pastieman]

it is the horn wiring or contacts that melt.... When I removed the after market steering wheel the pervious owner fitted to mine...
The two contacts for the horn in the squib were burnt and touching hence when I took my wheel off the horn just stayed on... And the wiper arm where the live and earth go to the wires were melted

I changed the squib and it has sorted the problem...

But if your steering wheel angle sensor is damage that is not just a plug and play it it will need programming to the car

 

[UKBraderz]

How are they meant to know if they don't look?

Yeah I understand that but they said to me on the phone this has happened before & they said its the rotary arm which needs to be replaced, but what's stopping this from happening again! I just wanted to know how someone else dealt with this problem?

 

[Danith]

right! I've seen this come up about 3 times in the last 6 months! Anyone know of any checks/preventative action to ease my paranoid tiny mind?!

 

[UKBraderz]

right! I've seen this come up about 3 times in the last 6 months! Anyone know of any checks/preventative action to ease my paranoid tiny mind?!

Just carry a fire extinguisher at all times! I will be now!

 

[Danith]

Just carry a fire extinguisher at all times! I will be now!

So it can only go off when you've got the ignition on? Can it not just set fire when parked up and you're in bed??

 

[UKBraderz]

So it can only go off when you've got the ignition on? Can it not just set fire when parked up and you're in bed??

I have no idea! It just happened as soon as I pressed the horn!

 

[RF4]

This has just happened to me as well! The exact same situation! My dashboard module is apparently the cause!