The Element fire extinguishers (E50, E100) are pretty popular on here, and I even have 2 of them. However, I've started noticing in feeds elsewhere that they have been getting a bad rap lately for not really being effective at very many real world situations. It's making me second-guess whether I should even have one in the vehicle at all if it ends up causing more delay before containing a fire. You can easily find reddit and youtube examples where it simply does nothing to a fire.
It's easy to keep them in the drawer, but it might be a false sense of security... I'm curious if anyone else has additional personal experience, good or bad?
Here are two examples, one where it works fine, and one where it does not:
Where it works okay:
Here's a failure:
It's easy to keep them in the drawer, but it might be a false sense of security... I'm curious if anyone else has additional personal experience, good or bad?
Here are two examples, one where it works fine, and one where it does not:
Where it works okay:
Here's a failure: