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Old 12-02-2018, 11:10 AM
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Any fuel injected vehicle can catch fire. It is important when you smell gas fumes to check for leaks especially around the fuel injection rail feeding the cylinders where just tiny o-ring prevent fuel under pressure from spray everywhere which if it hits hot exhaust manifold can cause instant inferno. In Early 90s GM and other manufacturers has this problem when o-rings failed to prevent high pressure fuel from spraying out after couple years in service. But, most likely the smell of gas fumes was present before the infernos.

other places to look are under the car and on the ground if the leak bad enough to drip before evaporation. IMO in service bay it would be hard for cool engine to catch fire, now if open fuel was present and low ignition source close to ground can flash over if fumes are bad enough ( why gas water heaters have to be 18” or more off floor of garage due to fumes ignition) hopefully the fire inspector s can nail down source or cause of the fire?

Another cause could of been short from battery, but usually batteries are disconnected during maintenance to prevent sparks, shorts, arc’s, and computer damage. A mechanic could of been careless And left battery c0nnected or some metal close and it rolled and caused dead short.