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car won't start after driving through flood

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  • Horizon81
    Horizon81 Posts: 1,594 Forumite
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    Yawn.... this forum needs a newbie filter with a nice OFF toggle, or some other kind of DM filter.
  • zaax
    zaax Posts: 1,914 Forumite
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    New car time, you can get a bit for scrap.
    Do you want your money back, and a bit more, search for 'money claim online' - They don't like it up 'em Captain Mainwaring
  • benjus
    benjus Posts: 5,433 Forumite
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    Bit of WD40 should sort it out.
    Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
    On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
    And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning
  • EdGasket
    EdGasket Posts: 3,503 Forumite
    The car sucked in water which doesn't compress and the engine has therefore snapped a con-rod putting it through the side of the block, hence you're oil leak. The engine has had it I'm afraid. If you are extremely lucky, the insurance might pay out as a 'flood' damage incident but don't know if that covers the owner driving through a flood or only where a flood engulfs a parked car or even if flood is covered at all.
  • BeenThroughItAll
    BeenThroughItAll Posts: 5,018 Forumite
    EdGasket wrote: »
    The car sucked in water which doesn't compress and the engine has therefore snapped a con-rod putting it through the side of the block, hence you're oil leak. The engine has had it I'm afraid. If you are extremely lucky, the insurance might pay out as a 'flood' damage incident but don't know if that covers the owner driving through a flood or only where a flood engulfs a parked car or even if flood is covered at all.
    Insurance doesn't normally cover damage caused by stupidity.
  • WellKnownSid
    WellKnownSid Posts: 2,105 Forumite
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    sarahhartley wrote: »
    this time the front wheels weren't spinning and were just dragging and smoking along the road, not sure why but it only did it when in gear the wheels turned fine when out of gear so i think the breaks were jammed on or something.

    Sounds like they only fitted 'breaks' to the front of the vehicle, to reduce maintenance.

    Must have been quite a sight, a previously submerged Yaris being dragged along with the back of the car fishtailing all over the road as the locked FRONT tyres reached a sufficient speed to start smoking.
    Probably really dulls the handling when you do that.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,994 Forumite
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    Duck tape fixes everything. Your going to need lots of it though.
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • cajef
    cajef Posts: 6,283 Forumite
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    forgotmyname wrote: »
    Duck tape fixes everything. Your going to need lots of it though.
    If that won't hold everything back together they could try super glue.
  • facade
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    Sounds like a Pugeot Diesel to me, they all do that if they go through a puddle, but usually they keep running on 3 cylinders, as long as you can afford to keep putting oil in to replace what comes out it should be ok.

    Try pushing it backwards in gear to see if you can dislodge some of the water back the way it came in.
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • enfield_freddy
    enfield_freddy Posts: 6,147 Forumite
    facade wrote: »
    Sounds like a Pugeot Diesel to me, they all do that if they go through a puddle, but usually they keep running on 3 cylinders, as long as you can afford to keep putting oil in to replace what comes out it should be ok.

    Try pushing it backwards in gear to see if you can dislodge some of the water back the way it came in.




    lol :j:rotfl:
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