Arg! I just did the dumbest thing, a little assistance please (huge puddle)
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Arg! I just did the dumbest thing, a little assistance please (huge puddle)
So I was driving in the parking lot of the driving range today, and I didn't have a choice and had to drive through this huge puddle. I didn't realize how deep it was until I got in it. (it was pretty dark and not really that well lit.) I heard a splash and decided to go through it pretty slowly. I then saw steam rise from my car. I got it to dry land and it was fine except steaming.
I hit a few *****, but I just didn't feel like playing anymore b/c I thought I damaged my car. I went back and it started and drove fine.
Could I have done some damage?
I think it could have been a foot deep. I also saw a post-2003 S430 with the AMG package go through it and I talked to the guy and he said that he went through fine.
Am I just worrying for nothing? What could happen?
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I hit a few *****, but I just didn't feel like playing anymore b/c I thought I damaged my car. I went back and it started and drove fine.
Could I have done some damage?
I think it could have been a foot deep. I also saw a post-2003 S430 with the AMG package go through it and I talked to the guy and he said that he went through fine.
Am I just worrying for nothing? What could happen?
Thanks!
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You should be fine, MB seals off the electronics pretty well, and the intake is pretty high, and you didnt stall so no water should have gone up the exhuast. Around here, whenever I go through a huge puddle, I rinse the bottom of the car with a garden hose ASAP. Around here you never know if its salt water or not which will F' up a car!
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the steam was coming from the sides, so I take it it was the rotors. but there was a little heat coming from the front, so I thought the intercooler might have gotten wet as well.
thanks guys!
thanks guys!
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Originally Posted by nlpamg
the steam was coming from the sides, so I take it it was the rotors. but there was a little heat coming from the front, so I thought the intercooler might have gotten wet as well.
thanks guys!
thanks guys!
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Originally Posted by Capt Nemo o2
The steam was comming from the exhuast. Brakes and rotors dont give off that much steam when they get drenched.
so if it didn't stall, then no water in the exhaust, and no damage?
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Some water may have trickled into the muffler but it would have evaporated out after a few minutes of driving. So no, you should be fine mechanics wise as long as it was FRESH water. Whether or not any water damaged happened to the bottom (ie: water getting into the cabin and under the carpeting) depends on how deep the water was.
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I was wondering, rain in Southern California? You sure it's not the apocalypse? <s>
I agree on the exhaust system steaming up. Unless you just did some hard breaking from 100 MPH your brakes should not be throwing up tons of steam but your exhaust system will.
I agree on the exhaust system steaming up. Unless you just did some hard breaking from 100 MPH your brakes should not be throwing up tons of steam but your exhaust system will.
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Originally Posted by Capt Nemo o2
You should be fine, MB seals off the electronics pretty well, and the intake is pretty high, and you didnt stall so no water should have gone up the exhuast. Around here, whenever I go through a huge puddle, I rinse the bottom of the car with a garden hose ASAP. Around here you never know if its salt water or not which will F' up a car!
I agree with Capt Nemo, around here in New York, once u hit a puddle, go home and rinse ur car out, or go to a local carwash, sometimes I hate it...water may look clean far away, but its so dirty =T its sick
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Originally Posted by Tishers
I was wondering, rain in Southern California? You sure it's not the apocalypse? <s>
I agree on the exhaust system steaming up. Unless you just did some hard breaking from 100 MPH your brakes should not be throwing up tons of steam but your exhaust system will.
I agree on the exhaust system steaming up. Unless you just did some hard breaking from 100 MPH your brakes should not be throwing up tons of steam but your exhaust system will.
cool, I've never taken my car to a carwash place since I bought it (I've only had washed or had the dealer do it). perhaps I should take it into a car wash place to have them get the underbody.
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Not to worry you, but wasn't there a Topic not to long ago about how the poster went through a small puddle and the car stalled? And he ended up having to replace the engine. Yet he claimed that the puddle wasn't that deep. I'm just wondering what else could've happend. I too live in SoCal so I don't really know what could happen if i go through a deep puddle...
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Originally Posted by nlpamg
oh, ok. thanks! I was born and raised in so. cal., so I totally don't know about any of these "weather phenomenon" that plagues other parts of the nation...
so if it didn't stall, then no water in the exhaust, and no damage?
so if it didn't stall, then no water in the exhaust, and no damage?
the rotors can heat up very well to create tons of steam if you had just made series of stops. if the steams coming from the side there's no way it's coming from the exhaust a foot of water would've seal the room between the ground and the exhaust.
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Phil,
No need to worry. If there was significant damage, your car would've stalled.
I used to run my MX-6 in rainy weather all the time (w/ a cold air-intake) and never sucked in any water to the engine. Just gotta be careful of puddles, regardless.
Gotta run, but I'll try to explain more later.
No need to worry. If there was significant damage, your car would've stalled.
I used to run my MX-6 in rainy weather all the time (w/ a cold air-intake) and never sucked in any water to the engine. Just gotta be careful of puddles, regardless.
Gotta run, but I'll try to explain more later.
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Originally Posted by FrankW
as long as you don't let off the throttle while going over the puddle, the water won't go into the exhaust.
the rotors can heat up very well to create tons of steam if you had just made series of stops. if the steams coming from the side there's no way it's coming from the exhaust a foot of water would've seal the room between the ground and the exhaust.
the rotors can heat up very well to create tons of steam if you had just made series of stops. if the steams coming from the side there's no way it's coming from the exhaust a foot of water would've seal the room between the ground and the exhaust.
