One at a time - The smoke was probably clutch fluid on the crossover exhaust pipe. The squeeling noise is the now-wet clutch disk. Sounds like time for a new clutch and slave. You may even have a larger leak in the hydraulic tubing, judging from your description of the "soft" clutch pedal. RE the light switch - it is kind of a POS. I'm on my third one, unfortunately the failure mode is pretty much as you describe, but without the fire. My first one just melted internally and quit working. Not much you can do to prevent this, it is just a symptom of high-resistance (old/dirty) contacts in the switch heating up. The second one quit latching (try driving 25 miles with your finger on the button to keep the lights on - in a 5-speed car - in traffic). You are probably about to find that cleaning up the fire extinguisher remnants will be the biggest pain of this experience. I did the same thing in a non-DMC, (i.e. shooting a dry chemical exinguisher into the dashboard). The only way to clean this up will be to disassemble the dash darn near to the component level. The chemical used is not very nice stuff, you really do want to get it out of there. Keep in mind that it is now inside the switches, radio, heat ducts etc. Good luck - sounds like you have a couple of projects on your hands. Keep us posted. Dave --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Nathan E. Green" <gzen21@xxxx> wrote: First, his clutch line: >As I decelerate, I look in the rearview to see steam/smoke rising from > the rear. Ohh noo. Also, the clutch pedal gets soft and I hear a screeching > sound(like a loose belt) coming from the rear. . . . The car is shifting OK, but > something is definently wrong with the clutch, as it makes a horrendous > sound everytime it is engaged Then his light switch: > I push them back on, except for the switch sticks and they between > parking & headlights and they aren't lit. . . . .The switch is toast. It is > definently stuck, I can't get it unstuck with out taking the dash apart and. . . . Fire Exinguisher! > The manager comes out, give two quick bursts in the dash to put the fire > out.