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There is No Fire Suppression System in a Car

I thought when your car lights ablaze the vehicle’s built-in automatic fire suppression system kicks on and saves you but was I ever wrong, because there isn’t one.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

A car lighting on fire is a rare event, but a smoking engine is more common. Check the colour of the smoke – white is water, black is rubber, and blue is oil. White is the colour you’re hoping for – steam – as it’s the least damaging and dangerous.

If your car lights on fire:

Don’t open the hood, and never open the coolant cap – hot liquid will shoot out and burn your face off.

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A Quick Way to Defeat a Padlock

The Attack

Forget breaching the lock.

Instead, remove the plate and loop the lock is attached to.

The Defence

Install the plates and loops on the inside of the doors.

Same thinking as to why the hinges on your home’s exterior doors are located inside your house, or should be.