Car/Camper Fire Extinguishers

Submitted: Friday, Feb 21, 2003 at 17:12
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Has anyone had experience using fire extinguishers in a real situation whilst on the road? Anyone ever had extinguishers that have failed to work at all? Or, maybe it worked ok, but the capacity was not enough to extinguish the fire successfully. Example. I have a 1.0kg dry chemical type in the back of my car. It is about 5 year old, and still in the green on the guage. Was wondering if when the time comes, would it be sufficient to do the job.

All the extingushers we use on our ship are taken away for inspection yearly, regardless of type. Leading up to the day we send them off for the inspection, we occasionally let them off as part of fire drills and have had failures. These were foam type, but I assume there would be some failure rate for dry chem and CO2 extinguishers as well.

Any insurance companies still offer discounts for carrying one? I know AIM used to offer 5% discount, but they stopped that a couple of years ago.
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