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Refrigerator fire or tires??

Yahoo Message Number: 79642
Re: Refrigerator Problem.

Bruce Pearson brucep996@...> wrote: Refrigerator Problem
Bruce: My fridge ate my Allure that was newer than yours. To me, saving money by choosing tires over that fridge is a questionable decision if personal safety is of any concern to you. Considering all the warnings you must have seen on this forum, what are you thinking? What are any of you thinking that still have these even when they falter?

Note: Mine never faltered and the recalls had been attended to.
If money is an issue, borrow it. What is more important, a couple thousand dollars or the rest of your life? Or the lives of your loved ones and pets?
Perhaps you have never seen one of these fires.... The materials in an RV are worse than tinder, they might be pretty, but they are tinder all the same.
It is mentally convenient to question the cause of these fires when they occur far from a fire department and the RV burns to the ground. In my case, the fire department was here in a few minutes and the fire still destroyed/baked the inside of the RV and put a hole in the wall and roof where the fridge used to be.

Please do more than just think about this.
Terry Apple, 2004 Allure 31001 in a salvage yard with eight new Michelin tires.

Re: Refrigerator fire or tires??

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 79644
What did norcold do after the fire...Sure if not you, the insurance company must of sued them?

Mike

2008 allure 31619

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Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 79653
We never saw or talked to the manufacturer. We had actual-cash value insurance, the insurance company gave us local retail and they are going after the manufacturer. Had there been injuries or death, that would be an entirely different story--there have been millions paid out because of these incidents.
However, this was our fifth and nicest RV and we never expected to sell it at this point, so had lots of other costs/equipment that would not have very much increased the local retail price, such as four solars, new tires, new AGMs, full fuel, full LP, sat receivers, new mattress, etc.
Dealing with the satellite company that wanted their (now melted) receiver's chip back (or hundreds of dollars) was a challenge, but I digress.
You might be interested in what was left. Because we were parked in our own driveway only a few minutes from a fire department, the insurance company had a lot of salvage with which to recover some of their loss because the fire (and water) did not get below the floor and three outside walls appear undamaged with the driver's side wall and the roof having a big hole where the fridge was and I mean WAS because the fridge was mostly ashes.
Anything above the floor was at least smoke scorched. Things in closets below waist level were ruined because the hot smoke was thick and sticky and things we retrieved still smell like burned rubber unless made of glass, enamel or metal. All steering and controls above floor were toast. Chassis, engine, tires, generator, HydroHot, pull-through drawers, etc. likely were okay. The Splendide in the closet at the back likely would be okay after the rubber is replaced to get rid of the smell, but the gray and black Stetsons in the cupboard above are sticky black and stink. Have not had the heart to toss them or my white Pendleton blanket with black streaks out of the garage yet....

Thank you for asking.

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Yahoo Message Number: 79727
Bummer on the Fire! Was your Norcold in a Slide out? Several friends with SOB's had fires with Norcolds mounted in the slide out! After seeing first hand a fire from a fridge in a slideout that put its self out the upper wood was charred behiend the Fiberglass Insul. Seems to me there is not enough free air flow. The RV Insurance companyes know of this. A freind with a Monico had a fire ext. installed in his lower outside fridge Bay and the Fridge cought on fire but put itself out and the fire ext. never went off. I think it was a Mc Coy the fire guy's prouduct they bought at a FMCA Rally. Sacry! Our Older Allure has a fixed Fridge not in a slideout. I check it al lot after hearing the horror stories. Ken 99 Allure 30356.