SatNav Warning

[Valvejockey]

My son works for a large UK Company that delivers LPG Liquid Petroleum Gas to rural properties and businesses, who are not connected to a mains Gas supply.

They drive these very large Tanker lorries filled with thousands of litres of gas, and they all have SatNavs in them similar to TomToms, but are unbranded.
A few weeks ago, a SatNav in one of the lorries burst into flames, luckily there was a driver in the cab who managed to grab it and chuck it out of the window.

I hate to think what could have happened if there had been no driver present, it could have been like a bomb going off.

 

[canderson]

My son works for a large UK Company that delivers LPG Liquid Petroleum Gas to rural properties and businesses, who are not connected to a mains Gas supply.

They drive these very large Tanker lorries filled with thousands of litres of gas, and they all have SatNavs in them similar to TomToms, but are unbranded.
A few weeks ago, a SatNav in one of the lorries burst into flames, luckily there was a driver in the cab who managed to grab it and chuck it out of the window.

I hate to think what could have happened if there had been no driver present, it could have been like a bomb going off.

Would be curious to know what your son could turn up in the way of any and all identifying information on the exterior of one of those devices, especially as you've called them 'unbranded'. There are very few nav device manufacturers outside of China, and they all brand their products. I'm betting we've got a Joe's Taiwanese Garage Shop unit here.,

Sounds like a lithium ion battery issue.