Take the 2-minute tour ×  Basically, 4 nanos in the past 3
months have caught fire.  Total sales have been close to 6500.
Any idea on what is it that causes nanos to self combust?  Each
of these fires has been in the engine area  Pls add the
appropriate tag.. I couldnt find any  share|improve this
question  2 Answers 2  up vote 1 down vote accepted  As per
discussions on a popular Indian motoring forum, Tata Motors had
identified the root cause as the starter motor. A defect in the
starter motor caused it to continue running even after the
engine fired up, because of which it would burn out, and the
materials surrounding its housing would ignite. This has been
fixed now, and the subsequent batches of nano's do not have this
problem.  share|improve this answer Yes.. I noticed the posts
today thanks –  Akash Sep 9 '11 at 13:00 Sifting through some
other comments by Tata Motors rep's was needed though. Their
first reaction to burning nano's was that there was some foreign
elements in the exhaust pipe which comb