Mg4 fire

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Is this the same vehicle, or are we talking about 3 different vehicles.
The first photo in this post the vehicle is less damaged, whereas the following 4 photos the fire has taken place where the vehicle is.

EvTek23 said:

Is this the same vehicle, or are we talking about 3 different vehicles.
The first photo in this post the vehicle is less damaged, whereas the following 4 photos the fire has taken place where the vehicle is.

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This is my card four photos, Mg4 black is in France

capitan capete said:

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So sorry to see this bud ; do you feel that it was the heater in the centre console or the HV battery which took alight? - Best wishes J.

EvTek23 said:

¿Es este el mismo vehículo o estamos hablando de tres vehículos diferentes?
En la primera foto de este post el vehículo está menos dañado, mientras que en las siguientes 4 fotos el incendio se ha producido en el lugar donde está el vehículo.

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Las primeras fotos del principio del post, y las cuatro últimas son del mismo coche, y el coche negro es de otra unidad procedente de Francia. He solicitado información al propietario del coche negro pero de momento no me ha respondido.
Moderator: Please post in English. Translation:

The first photos at the beginning of the post, and the last four are of the same car, and the black car is from another unit from France. I have requested information from the owner of the black car but he has not yet responded.

capitan capete said:

The first photos at the beginning of the post, and the last four are of the same car, and the black car is from another unit from France. I have requested information from the owner of the black car but he has not yet responded.

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Thanks

Wishing now I'd taken out gap insurance as mines depreciated 50% in 6 months

There is no evidence of the HV battery catching fire in any of these photos. In fact the base of both cars is about the only part still in one piece other than the steel sheet metal body and other metal parts. All modern cars have a huge amount of combustible material in them, mostly from plastics, rubber and synthetic materials almost all by products of the petro chemical industry. A short circuit somewhere, even just a small one will create intense heat to melt and then with sufficient heat combust. The burning material melts everything around it and that begins dripping flaming dollops on to everything else around it and the process expands and grows.

As soon as you notice it, it is generally too late even if you do have an extinguisher (dry powder) it will not be enough to quell the flames. There are videos on you tube of fires usually in houses starting from an electric heater or any source too close to curtains or combustible materials and in less than 2 minutes the entire room is engulfed in flames. This is called "Flashover"when the temperature becomes so intense that everything reaches the point where it all catches fire at the same time.

I noticed that the alloy wheels were not completely gone. Aluminium burns ferociously as the superstructure of HMS Sheffield did when hit by an Exocet missile in the Falklands war. The wheels will burn entirely if the heat is high enough but as they are at the bottom they are still recognisable.

If the HV battery suffered a thermal runaway fire the heat would have been so intense that the wheels are unlikely to be there at all afterwards & some other metal parts would be gone or melted in to the ground.