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Old 06-20-2017, 06:08 PM
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my Trekker burnt , battery fire
http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/...age-unit-fire/

my trekker burnt .. OPTIMA battery fire .. battery was 4 years old !! happy fathers day to me !!!

face book users can see more pics on my toyotafiberglass page

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Old 06-20-2017, 06:19 PM
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So sorry to hear.
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Thats horrible news brutha. Hopefully youll get it back together.
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That's awful Was it on a trickle charger? They make me nervous but I used one for months. I'm on my second Optima after the first went bad and they replaced it under warranty. I hope you have good insurance.
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That has to be an awful feeling...

It makes me sad, and it is not even my truck....

I wonder why the battery caught fire.

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Sorry for your loss.

I am really curious if the start of the fire will be figured out .

Evil Rodents??
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my optima red top over heated and burst into flames .. much like the phone batteries !
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Wow. Very sorry for your loss.
Good thing it didn't spread to the other units!
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yep .. fire inspector said " because it was a small space , fire used up all the oxygen in the space , so it was a slow burn"
could have been much worse !
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Originally Posted by slacker
my optima red top over heated and burst into flames .. much like the phone batteries !
Sorry about the truck - that really sucks.

I've had Optimas for many years now and have never heard of that before.
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So sorry to hear about the truck I only finished reading through the build thread recently.

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Sad to read about this.
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Terrible news...glad you are OK, and hope you recover from this tragedy quickly.
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Terrible news...glad you are OK, and hope you recover from this tragedy quickly.
Second that.
The positive side is that you're equipped and skilled to rebuild the truck.
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my optima red top over heated and burst into flames .. much like the phone batteries !
Sorry to hear about your truck...What caused the overheating of the battery? ... Was it just the outside ambient air temp being hot and the vehicle being in an enclosed hot storage unit? Was the battery being charged?....This is worrisome as a lot of are running this battery.
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I don't know exactly what happened ? .. I only know what the "experts " have told me .
the OPTIMA red top was 100% to blame !
the white spots are the over heated spots



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NOOOOOOOO! Just rear this and saw this pictures, so sorry this happened
Glad it did not burn the whole vehicle..
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