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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 09:51 AM
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Anyone know anything about VSC module starting fire?
 
Old Sep 14, 2006 | 10:48 AM
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No, what have you heard?
 
Old Sep 14, 2006 | 11:04 AM
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I found this over on ToyotaNation.
That said (and I am no expert) I think the VSC was the victim of the fire and not the cause. I think a fire started, fried an ECU that was critical the the VSC and that triggered the first fault indication.

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t155235.html

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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 11:12 AM
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Anyone know anything about VSC module starting fire?

I wonder if it got overheated from overwork trying to keep one of these cars in line that has 60 psig in the tires???
 
Old Sep 14, 2006 | 11:43 AM
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The warning lite is really not proof of anything. When wires start melting any number of symptoms may result. Remember the Columbia shuttle stories about crew and control discussing electrical malfunctions when the real cause was the wing melting away because of a hole. The root cause could be anything from a hybrid electric fault to a fuel/oil leak to an oily rag left by a mechanic. Might as well even blame Al Qaida at this point, could be anything...

Cars catch fire sometimes just being driven about. I've seen it 2 or 3 times while working at a gas station in my youth, also my friends car bonfired too. It was a rear engine car, he looked in the mirror to see flames coming out the rear deck. It was engulfed 20 seconds after he stopped and got out...

At best we can hope for is to be privy to the results of a professional inspection, but not likely anytime soon... I'm sure regurgitated speculation will be rampant though...
 

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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 12:29 PM
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WOW!
 
Old Sep 14, 2006 | 12:39 PM
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Another fire and VSC in the same post.
Not a TCH's VSC.
Don't shoot the messenger.

http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forum...r-caught-fire/
 
Old Sep 14, 2006 | 01:05 PM
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Don't be too quick to dismiss this issue. There might be a real problem with Toyota's VSC system!! http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forum...r-caught-fire/
 
Old Sep 14, 2006 | 01:11 PM
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Just keep in mind the Tundrasoultions was a single post, back in Feb 2006, and the poster never gave a follow-up report. And it references a 2004 Sequoia. At least that's how it appears to me.
 

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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 01:20 PM
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I think there is a greater liklehood of a fire being started by that Dell Laptop in the trunk.
 


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