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[Willthewelder]

12V No you won't go bang! And have you been buying Poundland wire cutters?!

[ToM 2012]

12V No you won't go bang! And have you been buying Poundland wire cutters?!

i do have some poundland ones yes and work a treat. 

[Willthewelder]

Cutting breadsticks!

[JacckKirk]

After visiting scrapyard earlier saw a mini that had an electrical fire (from faulty wires in the dash probably)afterseeing the effect of that 5k+ mini now left for parts im gonna check/replace most of mine ..

[sixtyeight]

I've had some first hand experience at this!

 

First time, I had the wrong air filter element in and on a cold morning she backfired up through the carby and the air filter element caught fire. Easy to put out.

 

Second time, my coil was mounted over the alternator/oil filter area. It's mounting bracket cracked from vibrational fatigue (only one bolt holding it on, not two!), and it fell onto the positive of the alternator and the engine block so nice unfused short there. Fried my ammeter lines, plenty of flame and molten plastic. Had a fire extinguisher though (after the first time above!). rewired it on the side of the road and was on my merry way. 

[Gremlin]

After visiting scrapyard earlier saw a mini that had an electrical fire (from faulty wires in the dash probably)afterseeing the effect of that 5k+ mini now left for parts im gonna check/replace most of mine ..

I think you'll find it is non standard, non fused 'add-ons' that cause 99.9% of mini fires

[Dave S1]

Use proper fuses... NOT circuit breakers that you just press to reset.... the circuit breaker tripped for a reason[faulty wiring]

 

Fix the fault first.

[adampat84]

Petrol pouring on a hot exhaust from an ill fitting Aston filler cap will not do it!!

 

I have had experience in this department!!