im thinking you probably just got water on some sensors and they got wet. after you drove for a while they dryed out. i doubt you splashed enough water for the intake to actually suck it up.

 

I think that you should consider youirself to be extremely lucky. If the motor was hydrolocked, you would absolutely know as the motor would be seized and you would likely have a hole in your block with a piston/rod through it.

Sounds like you got some sensor wet which caused the erratic codes, but my guess is that the car is fine now.

 

Which highway was this? and which day? I was tempted to go out for some spirited driving after hearing that ALL the highways were empty Saturday night.

To stay on topic, you are very lucky.

 

damn man seen the reports you guys on the east coast dependin on where u are got hit with some harsh weather, even though we have 91 crap gas in cali, ill take hot weather and the risk of earthquakes anyday over snow and possible hurricanes....just sayin, best bet is to park your car in a garage if possible open the hood up dry as much as you can with a towel, and put a fan facing towards the underhood and let it dry. clear your codes and see if any codes come back. Good to see ya made it through me i wouldve said **** it went WOT through this mini lake you speak of and hope for the best haha.

 

 

I have never experianced this myself... but from stories that I have heard like this, I think you are going to be fine and you were extremely lucky. I would definately get the compression and leak down tests done to verify the shape of your motor and ensure everything has dried out and hasn't been comprimised.

 

to the threadstarter you got DAMN LUCKY !!!! and to the guy who told him why did he continue forward and not find an alternative route? how could he if he was on a highway?

 

Lol at earthquakes and mudslides.. who feeds you guys this crap.

More like sunshine and hot beach babes.

But on a serious note, definitely count your blessings. Times like that, its nice to have an alternative vehicle to drive, something along the lines of a large truck etc.

 

Yeah the car is fine now, I cleared the codes after the vehicle normalized itself and they have not come back. Of the few results that I've found where people got away with a 'partial hydrolock' it would seem if I bent the connecting rod, a hole in the block is only a matter of time. I really don't know if I did, I don't have rod knock but I also heard a bent rod doesn't always cause knock, so who knows...


It was the Van Wyck (West/JFK bound) on Sat night/Sun early morning around midnight or so.

WOT is actually a bad idea because of the resulting wake/splash you will create. I've watched video of offroaders shooting water into the intake and hydrolocking on even mildly deep puddles that would have otherwise been crossable if they forded it slowly.

Yeah, I ordered a compression tester from harbor freight. Hopefully it gets here by the weekend and I can run some tests. Though from what I'm told, a bent connecting rod will most likely not show from a compression test.

Yeah, those were my thoughts at the time too. Backing up or driving in the wrong direction on the highway for a few miles in the middle of a torrential downpour/hurricane would probably have been the greater of two evils. If there had been a shoulder on that stretch I think I might have considered pulling over and waiting it out, but sadly there wasn't.

I just called Progressive and reported the entire series of events. I'm waiting on a claims agent to get back to me, but from what I've gathered if my motor were to fail it is covered by the comprehensive portion of my policy under flood damage.

 

If you're still running without knock, you're fine.

A guy at work took one of the Ranger delivery trucks through a puddle at speed, hydrolocked the motor and not only bent every rod, but one snapped and went through the oil pan. If your light went under, so did your air filter. Consider yourself extremely lucky.

 

you probably just got some water in a few connectors, causing them to through a few codes and the car to run like ****. as you drove the water dripped out and it started to run better. i would change the oil to make sure it isn't milky. and check the trans fluid as well. if that's what happened, you should play the lottery later on.

 

I had a similar event happen to me. Driving in some pretty harsh rain on the interested I approached an area I knew flooded pretty quickly, I slowed up. After driving through the smallish puddle I accelerated and my car bogged and had no power. I was having problems with my upper ICP pipe surging off my throttle body so I just assumed it was that. I pulled over, grab a screwdriver and an umbrella. Popped the hood and everything was in place, mild case of the freak outs set in. Got back in the car and it started but it was not happy, bogging and cutting. I limped it to a parking garage and let it sit/dry for a few hours. Drove home fine and haven't had a problem since.

 

damn dude sounds like you got real lucky!

 

I've had the same exact issues you are claiming. I promptly took my vehicle home and changed the oil immediately due to slight milkyness and my car ran perfectly with no codes thrown.

 

OP, I had the SAME problem sunday when driving home from my buddies lake house... there was no other road open and the one that was... had a small section of flooded road... and saw multiple cars driving through it fine... so I took their same path and my car died and coasted out of the water....

Instantly freaking out...started up... ran like crap.. .died... started it agian and tried to drive.. it died...

Then I went into mechanic mode, called a buddy for some ideas, he helped BIG time for this...

I always carry a Navy handyman bag filled with tools to do just about everything to a car in my trunk... so I busted that out... took off the MAF dried it as best I could with some Microfiber towels I kept in my car... managed to dry it pretty nice, but the intake cone was still pretty damp. dried the intake pipe as best I could..

proceeded to try and start the car and it started to crank... So I put my foot to the floor( to kill the injectors) and the car started RIGHT UP... ran like crap for 5minutes or so... was probably recorrecting itself after the water issue... Vacuum went back to normal and the 02 readings went back to normal... so I was good to go... boosting was funky because the MAF wasnt 100% dry but it certainly got me all the way home (90 miles)

we both lucked out

As the post above me... I'm changing the oil tonight for this exact reason!