ON SEP 12TH 2014 THERE WAS A FIRE IN MY 2009 PONTIAC G6. LUCKILY SOMEONE NEARBY HAD A FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND PUT IT OUT, AND ALL OCCUPANTS ESCAPED UNHARMED. IT IS CURRENTLY AT A GM DEALER IN OWING MILLS MD, AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THEIR ASSESSMENT IS THAT THE POWER STEERING HOSE SOMEHOW CAME TO REST ON THE EXHAUST PIPE OR CATALYTIC CONVERTER, OR THAT THE HEAT SHIELD AROUND THE HOSE HAD BROKEN. THIS THEN CAUSED THE POWER STEERING FLUID TO HIT THE EXHAUST SYSTEM WHICH THEN CAUSED THE FIRE. ANOTHER MECHANIC THAT I HAD IT TOWED TO BEFORE THE DEALER (I ASSUMED GOING TO THE DEALER TO DIAGNOSE THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM WAS BEST) TOLD ME THAT HE CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THEY WOULD DESIGN THE CAR SO THAT THE POWER STEERING HOSE WOULD BE SO CLOSE TO SUCH HOT PARTS--AN INSURANCE ADJUSTOR WHO SAY THE CAR TODAY ALSO SAID THAT THE REPLACEMENT THAT THE DEALER HAS SINCE PUT IN IS IN THE SPOT THAT IT WAS DESIGNED FOR, BUT HE TOO CANNOT BELIEVE HOW CARELESS IT WAS TO DESIGN IT THERE-I LOOKED ONLINE AND SAW A NUMBER OF OTHER POSTS FROM PEOPLE THAT HAD THIS EXACT PROBLEM-THE RESULTING FIRE DESTROYED THE AIR CONDITIONER HOSE ASSEMBLY, AND THE MECHANIC AT THE DEALER TOLD ME IT ALSO DAMAGED THE EVAPORATOR LINE-HE ALSO TOLD ME THAT IT IS AMAZING THAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE SO TIGHT TO THE EXHAUST SYSTEM-THANK GOD NO ONE WAS HURT, AND WHEN THE FIRE HAPPENED THE CAR WAS BEING DRIVEN SLOWLY IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, INSTEAD OF ON THE HIGHWAY WHICH IT HAD JUST EXITED. *TR