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sucks that this happened. Just in case anyone reads this if your car starts to smoke at all or ever first thing you should do is pull over and shut the car off. leaving the car on means its pumping fuel from the tank into the engine and if that catches fire its just going to keep burning till the whole car is gone. Most of the time fires in cars are electrical. A wire comes loose rubs on something till its bare and grounds out and sparks. burning up the wires. For people driving cars more then a few years old they might want to consider having the engine steam cleaned or pressure washed. all that oil and random crud leaking out of the engine and comming up from the road builds up and gives it something to burn. Clean engines wont burn unless they are being fed fuel because the car is still running.
A fire extinguisher is a good idea but.. Stuff under the hood of the car is under pressure. The whole cooling system is pressurized and full of coolant that stays around 200 degrees if one of those hoses bursts from the flame while your trying to put out the fire theres a good chance you will get badly burned. Its just a car not worth getting hurt over. Most of the time if you just shut it off right away the fire will go out. if it dosnt i doubt a fire extinguisher will help much at all for a fire under the hood. but if your car seat catches on fire or something like that you will want one handy.
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