To Avoid a Burning Car, Pay Attention to the Cables!

In the past few months, the incidence of cars catching fire seems to be very common in various cities in Indonesia.

The cause of a car catching fire is generally not from an explosion or a hot engine, but rather from a cable.

Short-circuiting cables are suspected to be the cause of most car fires.

As quoted from GridOto.comMost cases of cars catching fire usually start with a shorted cable.

From this shorted cable, overheating can occur and start burning other flammable parts of the car.

The shorted cable can strike the hood heat damper, or the worst case is directly striking the gasoline vapor.

You also need to know that there are various causes of shorted cables.

First, it can occur due to bare wires coming into contact with other wires.

This bare cable could have been bitten by a rat, which then peeled off the cable armor.

This kind of thing often happens in European cars, especially those that are rarely used. Logically, cars that are just sitting idle often become a rat's nest.

Secondly, due to tricked out cables, usually the cables have already been tricked out.jumpers in order to get electricity, but the load becomes excessive. Therefore, you need to be careful when you want to do the jumpers to your car.

Jumper cable or cable connection, most often the cause of shorted cables.

Because if it has been connected carelessly, we do not know whether the electrical load on the cable will be less or more.

The most dangerous, if the electrical load is excessive, but the capacity of the fuse is too large so that the electric current does not break.

This is what causes the cable to heat up and start burning.

Thus, it is important that you pay attention to the path of the cables in the car.