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Originally Posted by FTD
If it was a small do-nothing fire that I could put out without much calamity, like a little something in the front boot, I would put it out. But anything coming from the engine - I would rather my insurance bought me a new car than deal with bits and pieces of burned parts and extinguisher fluid crud, and contention over what should have been replaced and wasn't, and over time discovering yet another thing that was damaged but not noticed, etc., etc.
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Yeah, but some of us have so many mods to the car that the insurance company is sure to come up short no matter how "generous" they might feel.
I've got the BK-2030 mount with a 2.5 Halon bottle on the front of the passenger seat, bolted to the anti-sub belt bar on the bottom of the seat (don't know if it will work with stock seats). I use the quick release straps that came with the extinguisher (Pegasus, $125 or something) and they work just fine.
Make sure the fire bottle is big enough for the task. Smaller than 2.5 lbs of Halon is minimum for any real fire, and the Halon replacements (Halotron and friends) need to have about twice as much to be equally effective, so a 5 lb bottle of those.