Hi,

Had a problem yesterday in that my car set on fire.

Sad enough to lose a 3 week old car but I had quite a bit of stuff in the boot including two rods. They seem fine having cleaned them up from the smoke but do you think the heat may have weaked them at all?

I want to minimise the insurance claim but don't want to find out in the future that they where actually damaged.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Jim.

Hard to say until you try them tbh.

Can't understand why you want to minimise your claim Your excess will be a set amount, and you will either have no claims protection, in which case it won't affect your premium, or you will have to loose your no claims, in which case the amount you claim makes no difference.

Just claim them on insurance, if the others turn out to be fine, flog them.

I agree with Stuartpengs.

Carbon fibre is "baked" as part of the manufacturing process, although I'm not sure about the temperature, so the blanks should be OK. However, i'm not so sure about the handle, whippings etc. Don't take a chance.

Jeff

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I think Jeff's dead on with the above. Rather doubt the rod would have been effected by the heat, but as noted .... the other stuff??????

The decomposition temperature of most common acrylic resin systems is around 300 deg. C - however damage will be done at much lower temperatures. All depends on how hot your rods got....I'd be claiming.

I would def stick the claim in for the rods,its an honest accident and you pay your money so you deserve to claim,too many people in this country claim for a lot less.
If the heat hasnt domaged the cork or whippings or even the rod bag etc then the temperature wasnt hot enough to damage the carbon/graphite,
but personally i would take the chance,what if the rods break two months down the line,you could well ask yourself then did the fire weaken them.

Bryan

This is my worry. The rods where not even in the tubes. I know this sounds stupid of me but I fished into the darkness and never put them away properly.

I would say that if you baked them they would be knackered. But the only way to tell is to use em

don,t know about the rods may or may be not knacked, but what kind of car was it to go up in flames mate, and was it 3 weeks old or you owned it for that time?

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claim for them its what you pay your premium for don't take the chance on the rods . my granddaughter recently spilt a bucket of water over my lap top the insurance company had just added accidental cover as a bonus for 5yrs no claims I claimed on it two weeks later