Sucked to be him! I walked around my truck - the left side was melted like a Dali painting. All plastic parts (running board rubber, mirror, door handle, lights) horribly deformed or dripping down.
Better outcome: used cars had about doubled in value so the insurance paid to have it repaired. Now I have a F150 that's new on the left side and rusty and old on the right. Anyway I get in the left side, that's what I see so it's all good.
Petrols fires can be bad too.
The GM Saturn has a large amount of plastic. Or had. During forest fire season some dozen years ago, a photograph of the melted-through plastic door of a Saturn was published, making me think about the value of metal around the parts that protected the occupant. Yes there is steel cage material but these panels, I didn't realize, might not necessarily also be metal for certain cars.
They warped and the paint changed color. So had to be replaced. But miraculously the interior was unharmed! Or so it seemed.
Since then the driver-side window has misbehaved chronically. Power window wont respond, or goes halfway closed then reopens, or stops halfway. Once it rolled down on it's own! Gotta be electric short somewhere in there.
weak bait.