Bad luck, Chris, been there, done that, although without your terminal results.
It must have been at least 20 years ago, driving a car full of three
generations into one of the N. Beds villages between Sharnbrook and Carlton.
Drove through a big puddle, and just as you found, the bow wave was
overwhelming, water spray into the air intake did not have the desired result!
A long walk back to a public phone box to call for a breakdown truck, followed
by an equally long walk back ... not quite, I was met on the return by my
dearly beloved who had managed to restart the engine. All's well - except for
my reputation!
Piers
PS I thought water injection worked wonders for jet engines?
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From: olympus <olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Chris Barker
Sent: 17 June 2018 13:05
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] OT – Flood Fail
I’ve been a little preoccupied over the last two weeks: I drove into too deep a
puddle on 1 June and the engine stopped. It hasn’t started since, but I hoped
that a good garage might find the fault and bring my lovely BMW X1 back to me.
It hasn’t. I got a call from the insurance company last week to tell me that
the car was beyond economic repair.
It’s not the cylinders, it seems: the engine will turn over so there has been
no water to bend a conrod. But the OBD is dead and the garage (and the
insurance company’s engineer) reckon that the electrics have been badly
affected and that there is no knowing how much it will take to get the car on
the road and reliable again. I’ve talked to a few people and it’s not uncommon
for too much water to kill a car, it seems, what with all the microprocessors
and sensitive electronics.
So I feel a little daft, but I’ve managed to find myself a replacement, a BMW
X3 that’s just over 2 years old and not a stupid amount of money. This
prompted my younger son to accuse me of having engineered the accident so that
I could acquire a new car (he was in the car at the time, so he knows what
happened). And he sent me a Father’s Day card with the conspiracy sub-text:
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22875
<http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22875>
But I am consoled by my replacement car, although I’m back to a diesel engine:
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22878
<http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22878>
It isn’t ready for me yet, but I’ll be driving it (very carefully) back from
the dealer on Thursday.
Chris
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