Dash destroyed in electrical fire.

[purpleminx]

They'll know I had a GPS anyway, considering it's fused into the top storage compartment, relatively untouched. You can see that the charger was plugged in to the car at the time of the fire. It was also plugged in to the GPS which was sitting in the top storage compartment. If it had been a fault in the GPS it would have melted the cable, and the top storage compartment would have been a lot more messed up than it is.

So... nobody thinks that the theory I presented is plausible?

It started in the dash itself. Not in the storage compartments. Look at the two photos from different sides of the car, look at how far back it goes.

[Bob_VT]

Originally Posted by purpleminx

They'll know I had a GPS anyway, considering it's fused into the top storage compartment, relatively untouched. You can see that the charger was plugged in to the car at the time of the fire. It was also plugged in to the GPS which was sitting in the top storage compartment. If it had been a fault in the GPS it would have melted the cable, and the top storage compartment would have been a lot more messed up than it is.

So... nobody thinks that the theory I presented is plausible?

It started in the dash itself. Not in the storage compartments. Look at the two photos from different sides of the car, look at how far back it goes.

What theory? You intitially said the carpet?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by purpleminx

They'll know I had a GPS anyway, considering it's fused into the top storage compartment, relatively untouched. You can see that the charger was plugged in to the car at the time of the fire. It was also plugged in to the GPS which was sitting in the top storage compartment. If it had been a fault in the GPS it would have melted the cable, and the top storage compartment would have been a lot more messed up than it is.

So... nobody thinks that the theory I presented is plausible?

It started in the dash itself. Not in the storage compartments. Look at the two photos from different sides of the car, look at how far back it goes.

I've done some analysis of this nature on some of our products that have had catastrophic failures in the field. If you weren't on the opposite side of the globe, I'd like to poke around under there. You would think that fuses would prevent this type of thing from happenning, but you'd be amazed at how little current it can take to set a small component ablaze.

Also, When I installed my remote start/ keyless entry unit in my car, I found a nice nick in one of the wires, with exposed copper. There is a mile of wiring in a modern car and a whole lot of sharp sheet metal (and humans dragging one over the other).

Having never seen a right-hand-drive Yaris in person, can someone describe what is different and the same under the dash. For example, is the fuse panel above the left front kick panel?

[purpleminx]

Originally Posted by CTScott

Having never seen a right-hand-drive Yaris in person, can someone describe what is different and the same under the dash. For example, is the fuse panel above the left front kick panel?

Knowing nothing about cars, I'm going to assume that you're asking if the fuse box is on the left hand side under the dash, the answer is yes.

Originally Posted by tuckevalastin

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Or there was a problem with car's electrical systems that caused a fire, or am I looking too far into this?

That's what I'm thinking.

Originally Posted by TheRealEnth

i thought there was an airbag around that area?

There is. It's lucky that the fire didn't get in there and get to the explosive chemicals in there. There are huge yellow stickers on the windows from the fire department saying not to reconnect the airbag and stay clear of the deployment area.


If you guys can see a little silver thing that looks like it has buttons that's visible a bit out of the top storage compartment on the left hand side, that's the GPS. If it was due to the charger being faulty I would also assume that the cable going from it up to the GPS would be melted? I'm not sure.

Thanks for all the brain storming and suggestions so far, I imagine that Toyota is going to take their time with this so I'm just trying to figure out myself what it was.

Even after all this though, my next car is going to be another Yaris!