Thanks, Piers. Aren’t mobile phones just great now that we have them? I was
close enough to home for my wife to come down and “rescue” me, but nothing
would start the car.
I don’t think that the engine ingested water, although the filter was a little
wet, as it turned over. But the electrics have been damaged terminally (ho
ho). However, I’m happy that I’ve found a better car for towing and one which
will cost a little less to run.
Ho how, water injection does great things for jets, cooling the efflux, but
apparently it can “hydraulic” the cylinders on a car engine :-(.
Chris
> On 18 Jun 2018, at 18:02, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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