Car died after self car wash

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10-07-2010, 11:55 PM

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5pointslow91

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Originally Posted by MU71L4710N

1) it would literally take you sticking your air intake into a bucket of water to suck up any significant amount of water, so don't worry about that.

2) very possible you got water in your plug wells and are shorting out a cop or 2 or 3. this has happened to my car in heavy rain - rain dripped down through the holes in the hood that the hood scoop is bolted to. blow them out with compressed air like said.

3) another possibility especially if you have a CAI is you could have gotten water on the filter, and once you started the car you could have sucked some moisture onto your MAF. when this happens your maf "reads temperatures" that are WAY wrong, and your car adjusts fuel levels for something that doesnt exist. this happened to me in a bad storm one time when i drove through a deep puddle and my car wouldnt even hold idle and had almost no power. the solution for this is taking your air filter and maf off, and let them dry in the sun for a few hours.

i turned my car on 2nite when i got home from work and nothing again.

if it was the maf would it have dried more than 24 hours later even if it wasnt in the sun?
i can try your number 3 and put it out and let them dry if u think they wouldnt hav been dried already?

as for your number 2. is it possible that water shot thru the grille when i was using the high pressure water gun and shorted them that way?

10-08-2010, 12:01 AM

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