Limp mode=Open Loop ( rich )+more throttle=more fuel===Plugs soaked with fuel !

 

Yup you got that right. I wonder (and im not really that serious about this) if its possible to use EcuFlash to create a map for such situations by altering the MAF tables, essentially turning the car into a naturally aspirated one in case of emergency. Food for thought.

They were completely black and moist too.

I guess the lesson to be learned it that if your intercooler piping blows off, check your plugs and swap them if you need to.

 

You cleaned them and put them back on rather than repalce them?

 

Not as a permanent solution, I just needed to get the car started and moved at that point.

I already replaced them with a temporary set of autolite's from advance auto parts...garbage... ordered some NGKs last night for the final replacement.

slightly but on that note of cleaning and reusing plugs...I was on the phone with my father and told him about what happened. He told me that back in the day before my family moved to the USA, they would clean dirty plugs and reuse them all the time in Russia (USSR). New ones were hard to find. What they did was hold the dirty part over a gas flame until all of the oil/gas/carbon deposits burned up. Then they used fine sandpaper to polish the electrode. Finally they would re-gap to correct for the sanding! CRAZY!!!

 

^^ Not crazy but that's how you fix broken parts back then, even on some countries that can't have parts available of too expensive.
Now we are just parts installers...." try this part...uh nope...how bout this...uh nope.."

 

i had cleaned my engine bay today using straight water, maybe held the hose on the entire bay for about 10 -15secs - no more. next i go to back out the car to continue its bath, and would not start. what you described as hearing the starter turn over, but no combustion is my exact case. now i have not tried to take anything or part, and aside from letting the good ole florida sun dry it off for about 4 hrs today with a fan directly on the engine, i have had no luck. now i have cleaned this engine, this particular way for 15 times since i have own the car. not to mention that this is the same proceedure i have used on my last two cars WHICH never failed to start. no fuses are blown, thank god. but one thing i haven't tried is letting the motor continue to turn over with the hope that it will start, or holding the down the gas pedal while starting it. in all honesty, it sounds it is right about to start, then it dies. no combustion. no CEL. from just simple test i have not found anything else that has been affected. the worse part about this whole day, is that now, my car is sitting out in the rain- and i am still hoping it will dry off some. the good news is after my dads hydrolocked his 05' e55, he has an new e63, that baby will be my loaner till this piece gets fixed. not to shabby.

funny it appears, that in my family, our kryptonite is water. hopefully this mistake doesn't run me 48,000 in damages - like the benz did. and it only had 17000 miles, very sad.

any help is appreciated. Oh and btw the way, something else that might help in anyone's reply, my car has died 5-6 times ( just the motor shuts off) while approaching a turn, attempting to downshift. don't know why, it starts right back up, except today. just my luck.


thanks,
john

- in a recent attempt to see if the car was able to continuely turn over, i gathered the is does in fact continuely turn over, some sputtering some, but for the most part there is no combustion.