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 Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:17 am |
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Well the other day on the way to Leeds I noticed my car car loosing power/missfiring, but wasn't sure wheather the loss of power was due to the motorways been logged with water, we hit donny and my car all of a sudden missfires like hell and lost all power, engine management life started flashing then came on perminant, putting me in what I imagine was limp home mode, pulle into the services turned my car of and unplugged the battery, left it for 5/10 minutes then struck her back up, started perfect no missfiring, decided to bottle the trip and head home, took it steady home and it ran sweet as a nut, took it out today and gave it some to see how it went and it seems to be missfiring at around 4/5 thou rpm, I was thinking plugs and coil pack but anyone got any other ideas? Much appreciated 
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:30 am |
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What engine? Year?
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:40 am |
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1.1 8v 2001
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:18 am |
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Get the fault codes and check the filter to see if it is wet.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:23 am |
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| Rob2859 wrote: |
| Get the fault codes and check the filter to see if it is wet. |
Yeaa that was the plan next, mates got a fault code reader so im of to do that tomorrow, what does a wet filter mean?
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:38 pm |
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The engine could have sucked water in.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:40 pm |
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Ahh never good, I'll have a look tomorrow
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:59 pm |
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how deep is the water?
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:14 pm |
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Do you have an after-market intake?
You would be surprised how strong TU engines are. I hydro-locked my engine completely on Wednesday and after giving it some love it is up and running again.
This was in water up to the bump strip. No doubt the gearbox is full of water as it was totally submerged so I will drop the oil out of that next week.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:32 am |
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| Seabook wrote: |
| how deep is the water? |
How deep is what water?
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:34 am |
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| Rob2859 wrote: |
Do you have an after-market intake?
You would be surprised how strong TU engines are. I hydro-locked my engine completely on Wednesday and after giving it some love it is up and running again.
This was in water up to the bump strip. No doubt the gearbox is full of water as it was totally submerged so I will drop the oil out of that next week. |
Bloody hell! Water pretty bad but I wouldn't say it was that deep, I haven't got an aftermarket intake, I'm going to have a look at my filter and change my spark plugs tonight, any ideas how to check the coil pack to see if it's faulty?
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:18 am |
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Filter is soaking! Oil is milky, water must have seeped into my
Engine from the trip, what are the next steps? 
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:57 am |
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| Rob2859 wrote: |
Do you have an after-market intake?
You would be surprised how strong TU engines are. I hydro-locked my engine completely on Wednesday and after giving it some love it is up and running again.
This was in water up to the bump strip. No doubt the gearbox is full of water as it was totally submerged so I will drop the oil out of that next week. |
OEM intake are notorious for sucking up water 
as well as those cold feed duct+enclosed induction kit
heat soak open cone are the best 
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:19 pm |
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| Seabook wrote: |
| Rob2859 wrote: |
Do you have an after-market intake?
You would be surprised how strong TU engines are. I hydro-locked my engine completely on Wednesday and after giving it some love it is up and running again.
This was in water up to the bump strip. No doubt the gearbox is full of water as it was totally submerged so I will drop the oil out of that next week. |
OEM intake are notorious for sucking up water
as well as those cold feed duct+enclosed induction kit
heat soak open cone are the best |
think i might invest in one of them! ceeeb with it doing this everytime i drive through a bloody puddle -.- any links to one mate ?
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