mike88se

I live in Houston. Lots of flooding the other day. I went outside during the storm to check on things and found water past the door sills and water on the floor. The water was too deep to risk starting it up and driving up closer to the garage and higher ground. I got my floor jack & some stands out and got busy. Its hard jacking a car up in the dark... in water The water went up about another half a foot while I was working but I managed to feel around under water to find jacking points and get the car jacked up high enough to keep any more water from getting in if the water didn't rise any higher.
I put some sand bags around the doors of the house and went back inside and waited for daylight and hoped for the best. When daylight came and the water went down I went out to check. The carpet was soaked on one side and wet on the other. I put the key in the ignition and crossed my fingers. It started right up and ran normally. Then I started removing the seats and pulling the carpet up. Got everything totally dry and so far no smell Too much drama.
The only thing I've noticed is the SRS light is on now.

2012wagon

Glad to hear you and the car are safe

Though used markets will be soon flooded with Texas flood cars

justnspace

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im in houston too.

not hating on you, but if you didnt start it up while the intake was submerged, then the engine WILL be totally fine. i noticed a lot of friends saying this exact thing...
if no water was sucked up the the engine via intake, you're totally fine.


HOWEVER, what concerns me is that the ECU is sitting low behind the carpet.
if the ECU gets wet, YOU WILL HAVE ELECTRICAL GREMLINS FOR THE REST OF THE CARS LIFE!

so. if you're having SRS lights, I would totally call the insurance company, granted you have full coverage...

mike88se

Thanks! Yes, people will be selling their problems.
Yep, the engine and the ecu were what I was worried about. The water didn't make it up to the ECU but there may be a few other places it could have an effect. I didn't notice the SRS light until I pulled the seats & carpet so I'm wondering if I caused that. There are 3 electrical connectors under the passenger seat and 2 under the drivers seat. Maybe something there.
I didn't know what the SRS was so I looked it up in the owners manual. It's the air bags obviously but it also has something to do with seat belt tension. While I had things apart I thought it would be great to route the seat belt through the loop in the lever that moves the seat back up. Wrong It got all knotted up and had a lot of tension.

justnspace

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right, maybe you touched the SRS airbag and seat belt sensor!

in an accident, the seat belt gets locked and throws the SRS light.

in order to reset the SRS/seatbelt light, an HDS is needed.


Here's to hoping no damage was done and its just the SRS sensor!


glad you made it out alive, I'm in the Sugar land area

mike88se

I'm in west Hou... Spring Branch. After seeing pics of the rest of Houston (and Texas) we got it light. My sister lives one street over. Her house flooded. She had to have the carpet and floors pulled up and tossed.

aznboi2424

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SRS is on probably because you pulled the seats, which has airbags in them. I would reset the SRS light using the paper clip method and see if it still comes back.

mike88se

Thanks. I did a SRS google search last night and half the hits were Honda/Acura Saw the paper clip method a lot. I'll try that. I saw several seat belt sensor problems. I still need to do the air bag replacement too.

gplayer

Why would pulling the seats cause an SRS light? I was under the impression the SRS light won't come on unless the system detects a fault in one of the airbags or sensors, which wouldn't be caused by unplugging the seats, would it? I've pulled and replaced my drivers side seat three times now and my passenger seat once and haven't gotten a light yet.

aznboi2424

iTrader: (10)

I've pulled the airbag fuse before and that even set off the SRS light.

Yes, the seatbelt buckles will also set off the SRS light. I've had to replace both of my buckles before.

gplayer

Interesting. I didn't know our SRS was that sensitive lol I think I'll take a little bit more care pulling the seat out then

mike88se

FWIW I did the jumper wire reset and everything is fine now. I'm guessing it happened when I ran the seat belt thru the seat back lever and too much tension was on the seat belt.