I'm at the dealership right now, and I eavesdropped some poor bloke who drove his brandspanking new G (~400 miles) through flood waters. It stopped working, and is apparently hydro-locked and water logged.

We had a tropical storm pass through the East Coast. I left my car in the car port, not b/c of the storm, but b/c I had my windshield repaired from a rock chip.

On a totally unrelated note, how much should a half-inch rock chip cost to repair, and is it acceptable for it to still retain 40-50% of the blemish? It's directly in my field of vision and glares in my eye when the sun shines.

 

The filter has to be pretty much submerged in water to hydrolock your car. The only way I can see that happening to that guy's car is if he has Injen CAIs and drove in water that reach inside his car.

 

Yeah that guy is an idiot if he hydro locked his car. He did something WAY wrong.

As far as rock chips, call Safelight (those stupid commercials on TV)...I've used them countless times on many cars and I've never paid a dime

 

it sounded like he went pretty deep; i mean his interior was water logged. we got A LOT of rain in some parts around here. we're still under flood watch until tomorrow.

 

actually, i called safelight (the company) and they came out to my apartment to repair it. they're apparently like a nation-wide repair company. but im not convinced the job was done that well. if it was, then i'll just deal with that blemish in front of my face.

 

A friend of mine hydro locked his. It wasn't all his fault, however. Apparently the street flooded while he was away, by the time he got back home the water had already receded, not knowing what had happened earlier that week. Turns the engine on and *bam*, there it went. It's a completely stock coupe.

The local dealership and insurance worked with him in getting a "new" engine.

 

Safelight does an awesome job (they have every time I've used them least) but if you aren't satisfied, they should have left a paper with you that is the lifetime warranty for the glass repair. Just call them up and tell them you think they did a substandard job and they will come back out for free

Oh yeah, that is totally innocent. I'm just saying that if you are driving the car when it hydrolocks, you have to be doing something stupid to cause that. Being gone and having a flood like your friend is totally not anyones fault, that's just a crappy situation. But glad to hear they fixed everything!!

 

lol. i'm curious now. what's *bam* did his engine smoke, pop, what?

 

Usually the valves bend............water does not compress well. Water may have entered through the exhaust system. Based on the location of the air intake, the car would need to be submerged in water at least two feet deep...or more to enter through the intake. I would have thought the electronics would have been fried...making it impossible to attempt a start.