I was taking a U-turn under a highway and my car drove through a fairly deep puddle and my car stalled out. I pushed it to a nearby gas station and the car refused to turn on. I even tried turning it on when it stalled out in the water. Now the car is in the shop and I'm waiting for an adjuster to look at it tomorrow. I'm worried to death and I wanted to know what you guys think's wrong with it.

 

Fairly deep is vague. How deep? Did it ingest water through the air intake?

BTW, continuing to try to start a car that has bee stalled from ingesting water is the worst possible thing to do to make a bad situation worse.

Rule of thumb, watch someone else go through high water first if possible. If it comes higher than your center caps, turn around and take another route. It's not worth it.

 

Sounds hydro locked.

But I'm not a mechanic

 

Pray its not hydrolocked or your out alot of $$$ for a new engine

 

engine shot. insurance got your back

 

Can someone explain hydro locked?

 

It's when water gets into the inside of your engine and basically prevents it from firing/breathing.

Essentially, your engine drowns just like a person can.

 

Hydrolock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When the piston is on it's upstroke, it rapidly compresses the fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber. The spark causes the compressed mixture to explode and push the piston down. Repeatedly and rapidly. It's designed for this. Water in the combustion chamber does not compress and the result is that something's gotta give. The weakest link will break. Or sometimes multiple links depending on the amount of water in the combustion chamber and how hard the engine is running at the time.

 

Hope you can resolve it asap!
That sounds like a huge puddle if it's hydrolocked..

 

Sounds more like a huge puddle....sounds like you drove through flooded streets. What kind of intake are you running. Stock? Wouldn't hydrolock occur only if you got water in your intake? If stock, it would have had to be submerged past the headlights right??

 

Did you have a CAI on the car at the time? Stock intake you would have to be REALLYYYY deep to hydrolock. If you have something thats more exposed or goes down into your fender, then I would be worried about hydrolocking. Happened to my maxima last year. Pain in the ***, but I got everything working again.

Lesson learned: turn around before going through deep puddle. If you chance it and stall, DO NOT TRY TO TURN THE CAR ON AGAIN!!!

 

Why are idiots always quick to assume it hydrolock ??


Hydrolocking will only occur if the engine ingests enough water to fill up the bare minimum of the compression section within the cylinder bore...unless the op has a CAI and he didnt drive his car through a river im sure its not that serious...op should have checked for blown fuses...a blown alternator/engine fuse will keep the car from starting.

 

Did it crank when you tried to start it?

 

I guess we're all idiots. Let's close up shop fellas. "ill wiz" can take care of it all.

We'll keep that in mind when you have questions.

 

He won't have a question cheese...sounds to me like he knows it all already.