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      03-20-2017, 12:43 PM   #12
bailyhill
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Maintainance just done????

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Originally Posted by ehonda View Post
My friend's i3 Rex spontaneously caught on fire. She noticed smoke coming from the rear, pulled over, got out, and it caught on fire right after. The Rex maintenance was just completed a month earlier. I would definitely get the recall done.

Well we will never know, but its pretty suspicious that the REX maintenance was must done and the vehicle bursts into flames within the month. I wonder if any of the REX maintenance involves removing the gas line? Of course the recall is for vapor, and that's a little ways from the gas. Now the gasoline as a liquid will not catch fire at room temp without vapor being formed first, which happens with natural evaporation.

Just Speculating
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