Top signs your car engine has water damage!

We go over the steps on how to inspect for a flooded engine to see if it is hydrolocked or has water damage.

[TrailVapor]

Good video. Oil dipstick checks the floating oil & won't necessarily show water emulsified oil

[Cookingoil]

Great video, drove thru a flooded road Thursday(now Saturday) the truck struggled to start but gave in on the 3/4 crank
It would fire right up after warmed up (Friday& Saturday morning)
But today I went to go get gas and was left stranded at the gas station
The starter doesn’t budge at all could it be a blown fuse? I did find a couple table spoons of water in the intake hose and my air filter does look damaged/ dried

[jesseperez]

2016 chrysler 300. After running over a puddle check engine is on with po302. Coil, spark plug and fuel injector replaced. No change. Leak down and compression test passed. Rough idle. Persistent code.

[richard]

Hi, I have a question. I committed a mistake of trying to start my car after a storm. It started just fine but and then it shut off when I tried to start it again. It wouldn’t stay on. There was no water in the air filter box, but I saw there was water in the engine oil. In terms of it was liquid form and dripping this car belong to my deceased mother, and I would like to try to save it. What are the possibilities? I could save this car

[artmartinez]

Great video but it was difficult to hear you. Your voice vol level was too low.

[garylawton]

I went through a puddle due to flooding in my local area and the cars been jerking and missing revs when driven especially uphill could it dry out by itself do you think?

[kasondrapace]

What if there’s white smoke coming from tail pipe after the flood n they took spark plugs out but I don’t think they got all the water out 😢

[sanguinesydttv]

Okay so hoping this is a good place to ask:
Today I hit a pretty large puddle that was at the bottom of a hill just before an incline. I'd have to say it was maybe a 3-4" deep puddle? Right after, my car started being loud. It doesn't sound "abnormal". There's no extra clanking or anything like that, it just sounds like a normal engine but if you cranked the volume up.
The vehicle isn't running sluggish or chugging or jerking. It shifts just fine and it's not revving at higher
RPMs. I had to drive it about 50 miles home because I had no other option. I noticed that the volume of the sound got significantly quieter the more I drove it. There's no check engine light and it's not overheating at all either.
I feel like maybe I'm just being paranoid and there's nothing major do worry about but I don't know.
Just gonna go to bed and check the oil and transmission dipsticks when I wake up and start it to see if the sound is still present.
I should mention, it's a 2004 Honda Element manual transmission 4cyl 2.4L and it's a 4 wheel drive.

[madscientistkicks]

What “shorts” when water floods above a connected battery?

[FiveMCity]

starting the car after flooding and driving the car throw was will cause the rod to bend? Or if the car has been sitting in water, without being started, the rod shouldn't be bent correct?

[sameerzx]

in my case the engine jammed, no movement at all .what would be the fix ?

[nobody]

Great investigated work, but nobody is going to the what you did. There are easyer ways to check for flood damage.

[tonyanthony]

Helped needed I drove my 5 series through water which the wave went to top of bonnet!!
I started the car as it stalled and water was getting deeper. When it started white smoke came out of exhaust for s while. I’ve left it a few days it starts up but idles rough! Air filter had some dust and some minor stuff.. any ideas going forward?

[bareless]

Thanks fucking ETA tropical storm. Major flooding down in south Florida. Went through a good amount of water in a parking lot reaching above the grill and hood. Car stalled jump out pop the hood open air box filter is soaked. Sucked water right in the engine. Towed it home pulled the intake and spark plugs engine wouldn’t turn over by hand. Engine is fucked. 2006 Cadillac SRX

[Totally_wrx]

your camera man or girl sucks too much motion and hard to see parts of the video

[mikewiebers]

I’m a very old man 👴! I thought this video would be about an engine that wouldn’t start because it had too much gas in the carburetor 🎃. Never mind 👻.