Today I passed Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou and saw a car on fire in front of the Mazda 4S store. I don’t know what’s going on?

Let’s first take a look at the original text of the Quanzhou Evening News report at that time:

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This newspaper’s news

At about 4 o'clock in the morning yesterday, near the Aviation Hotel on Fengze Street in the urban area, the front part of a Mazda 5 car spontaneously ignited. Fortunately, no casualties were caused. Shortly after the incident, the firefighters who arrived spent 15 minutes putting out the fire, but the car was seriously damaged.

The reporter saw at the scene that the front half of the car body had been completely burned, the front windshield was shattered by the explosion, the two front tires had been burned beyond recognition, and the ground was covered with glass fragments and burned cars. body parts. According to the car owner, at 11 pm on the 25th, she parked her car in the roadside parking space downstairs in the community as usual. Late at night, she heard a loud explosion. When she looked out, she found that her car was on fire. At that time, a security guard also noticed the situation and called for help. The owner then called the fire alarm.

After receiving the alarm, the officers and soldiers of the Second Special Service Squadron of the Quanzhou Fire Detachment immediately dispatched two water tankers and 10 officers and soldiers to the scene to deal with the incident. After 15 minutes of hard work, the fire was completely extinguished and the danger was eliminated.

(Reporter Chen Xiaodong

Luo Jiansheng

Correspondent Luo Bin text/picture)

In fact, this is not a spontaneous combustion of the car. The burning Mazda 5 is The owner parked the car in front of the Aviation Hotel at 11pm, and it didn't burn until 4am. Anyone with a little common sense knows that if a car is parked for 4 or 5 hours in the middle of the night, the temperature of the car's engine and cooling system will have dropped. At normal outdoor temperatures, the conditions for spontaneous combustion cannot be reached at all, and the car is stopped and the electrical equipment on the car has stopped working, so there are no conditions to trigger spontaneous combustion.

According to subsequent identification by a third-party investigation agency, the burning Mazda 5 was caused by external factors. At that time, the car was parked near a trash can on the roadside. The front bumper of the car was close to the trash can. There were unburned waste paper and cigarette butts at the lower part of the front bumper (the ignition point) and next to the trash can. The burning car was The ignition point is the front bumper, not the engine. In other words, the car burns because the bumper burns first and then ignites the engine compartment. The car burns because of an external fire source.

Later, according to 4S, the burning Mazda 5 was not maintained according to the manufacturer’s warranty regulations. In the past year, the customer had never been to a Mazda repair station for maintenance, and the car was usually maintained. It was done by an outside auto repair shop that was not authorized by Mazda, so FAW Mazda refused to provide warranty on the car. In addition, since the customer did not purchase insurance, the cost of repairing the car can only be borne by the customer himself.

After the car burned, the car owner immediately called the fire alarm and then notified the media to report. It was not until the next day that the car owner notified 4S and the manufacturer that the car was burning. After that, the car owner asked the manufacturer to compensate for the new car in the Fujian market, but the manufacturer refused.

At present, the car owner still insists on demanding that the Mazda manufacturer be responsible for the combustion accident.

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