car won't start after driving through flood

Horizon81

Yawn.... this forum needs a newbie filter with a nice OFF toggle, or some other kind of DM filter.

zaax

New car time, you can get a bit for scrap.

benjus

Bit of WD40 should sort it out.

EdGasket

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

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

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

Duck tape fixes everything. Your going to need lots of it though.

cajef

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

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.

enfield_freddy

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: