driving through large puddles

[Mattie]

was on way to work this mornin and turned the bend of this road i always use 2 get 2 work....

and i was faced with the road being flooded!!!!...i could see every1 struglin 2 get through it and there cars smokin afterwards!....

i decided 2 attempt it, 1 side of the car on the footpath the other in the water lol, managed to get through it ok wiv minimal smoke :)

wot kind of damage can this do 2 your engine if 2 much water gets in there, apart from making it cut out! and how can it be fixed?

[Scott-16v!]

lol, duno how much damage it can do, tho my zorst seamt to be clunkin a lot after i went playin in the floods yesterday :P splitter hasn't faired too well either

[Lunner]

You'll be fine, all the electronics are at the top of the engine, so they need to stay dry, also the air box entrance, if itys a closed system needs to stay dry or the engine will drown.

teh smoking will be from the exhaust

[VIPERONE]

if water it sucked in to the inlet it will **** your engine as it doesnt compress.. so when it attempts to compress in the middel of the piston and valves..boom...

thats why Some landrover enthusiasts have a relocated air filter on the top of a snorkel., as per the royal marines.

[Gav]

true, my old man had one of his camel trophey replica

[Lunner]

Saying that when its really wet my engine sucks water in, you can feel it runs really rough, esp when you put your foot down

[Mattie]

seemed as good as ever on way home from work so luks like no water was sucked in :D

[VIPERONE]

if water was sucked in your engine would blow

[Mattie]

:shock:

looks like im goin a diferent way 2 work 2moz then!

[big hp]

If water was sucked into your engine it would hydraulically lock and **** it completely.

[Mattie]

wud a new engine be needed or cd it be fixd?

remembered 2day and went a diferent way 2 work! :lol:

[Martin]

I did a scooby conversion on mine by soaking all the plugs after driving through a flood! lol Ran like shit till I managed to dry them out...

[big hp]

wud a new engine be needed or cd it be fixd?

remembered 2day and went a diferent way 2 work! :lol:


New engine.

[number1]

if you get enough water in the engine it will bend conrods seen it done on a diesel except it's so much easier for a diesel engine to do this a small drop of water is all it needs whereas a petrol will splutter unless you drown it lol

Dave

[Zollo]

Yeah, fer christ sake don't go bombing through deep water like a WRC driver possessed. I did just that in my GTi6 and hydraulic locked the engine. Needed a complete new engine.... £3000 :shock:

Still, put in a second hand GTi6 airfilter, jacked the car up and let the water run out of the inlet manifold, sprayed a load of carb cleaner through it, ran it (making an almighty knocking racket) and took it to Peugeot saying it just started making funny noises :o :lol:

Thank god I bought an extended warranty 8)

[JonnyK]

I did a scooby conversion on mine by soaking all the plugs after driving through a flood! lol Ran like shit till I managed to dry them out...

I did this when my car was sitll a 1.4 my car sounded so scoobyfied!