Fires & Jeeps don't mix.

That puts a new slant on the term hotassed.
Lucy is under threat from fires eminating from his seat in the jeepney wether he has seat heaters fitted or not. The frequency of those explosions down there in any vehicle that he was in would be under risk. :))))))))))))))

"There is only one Jeep"

Now we know why - the rest of them caught fire.

A few years ago on our one and only trip to Robe SA, our party consisted of some 8 - 10 Jeeps. Yes, it was a Jeep club and I owned one of them.

Our trip leader had managed to bog himself after trying to go around another bogged Jeep. The trip leader left his vehicle and walked off to try and help somebody else in trouble and after about 30 mins, during which time the vehicle would have had probably ample time to cool down. Mind you, the day wasn't particularly hot nor had the vehicle been given a hard time.

What then happened is that one of the boys decided to jump into the trip leaders car, without his knowledge, and try to power his way out of the bog.
Now remind yourself here that this vehicle had been sitting still without the engine running for over 30 mins, yet within 200m of this "powering out" manouvere the jeep caught fire from auto. trans. fluid being sprayed onto the exhaust. Fortunately we were able to extinguish the flames immediately but the trans was dead.
We had no other way of extracating the vehicle from the beach other than sheer pulling power of the trip attendees. That's right, we dug and pushed it out by hand for some 600 - 700 m out of the beach.

Lovely spot, but we haven't gone anywhere near the place with our club since.

..........we don't drive a Jeep anymore.

Cheers. GU

If there recalling 10 year old ones like the one that burn on the beach then thats some great service!

Good thing I was to poor for the heated seats(they come in the limited for another 10k)
Thanks for the info anyways but hey....

cya

seems quite possible 1995 auto commodore were recalled for possible auto fluid boiling & discharging out small breather hole at top of filler tube onto hot exhaust & catch fire.