Water damage

ben12321

ben12321

ben12321

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Managed to drive my diesel golf into 3ft water luckily none got into car however the engine stopped and obviously would restart. My question is would they be able to clean the engine out as the car is 6 months old
 
Going to assume you mean "wouldn't restart". If it's actually sucked water into the internals of the engine, chances are you've completely destroyed the engine and it'll need a new one.

How on earth did you manage to drive into 3ft of water?
 
There is a thread on here somewhere of someone doing the same recently. The car wasn't as new but needed a new engine iirc and was therefore a write off :(
 
If the engine was in neutral and idling then you might get away with it.

However if you've tried to restart it with the plugs and injectors still in, you may well have killed it :(
 
Was driving down country lane at night doing 30ish saw the water just and thought it was just surface water next thing water sprayed everywhere and car completely stopped got towed out went to turn the key and it made a noise kind of line when your starter motor is jammed just a click and that wax it. The car has been towed to Vw to be assessed
 
You've almost certainly killed the engine.

You'll need to claim from your insurer but with it being brand new they may replace the engine rather than write it off.
 
What with being in gear and trying to start it after it stopped, I'm afraid to say I don't think there's much hope that the engine will have survived.

Best of luck getting it sorted.
 
Insurance company are great had courtesy car dropped off first thing this morning. Needless to say lesson learned big time won't make that stupid mistake again, no doubt I will pay for it once my renewal is up
 
Matt82 said:
Just amazing. Its not like 3ft can just creep up on you!!
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It can, and the way it tends to work is that you have already passed the point of no return when you realise it is getting too deep. Been there, done that, lucky for me the car kept going and was fine, luck was on my side for sure though. On a road just around the corner that I've driven/walked/cycled down a million times and would never have thought water could pool so deep on.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Surely you slow down just in case?
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Matt82 said:
Just amazing. Its not like 3ft can just creep up on you!!
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+1 on these, roads where I live have been bad recently, and if I have caught a sight of a deepish puddle, I will slow down and drive through it slowly so I can assess where to aim the car so that it is not as deep and not dont accelerate or brake hard and keep the car moving through the puddle as level and smooth as possible without causing a splash and have never had a problem in 18 years of driving, with various cars old bangers and new.

Or I pull over and wait for people coming down the road who believe there car is the is as unfloodable and unsinkable as the titanic and see how much water splash there is and if their car still runs lol
 
This is how I approach puddles. :D

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:D
 
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