darrinb

5 min ago was my first time washin gmy car w/ the aem cai, i wen tto a touchless car wash and got the wash with an under body wash, so it sprays the bottom of the car. i wasnt hitting the gas in the wash. as li left the gas station i accelerated normally and the car felt weird as fuck and the MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP was flasing for like 5 seconds, then the car worked perfectly fine. i am being to worried??? wtf happened. i shud go buy a bypass

darrinb

you see i'm sooooo nervous i cant splell right

EricL

I doubt you hydrolocked your car. If you did, you wouldn't be driving it.

You do need someone to find out what is causing the MIL indicator. A "scan tool" will be required to find out what is causing the problem (find a "well-equipped" buddy or see the dealer).


High-pressure water can get into a number of different places.

You’ll get a million and one guesses until you reset the MIL lamp or have someone see what OBD II code was thrown to make it light up.

darrinb

thanks eric, but the car was in idle while washing, the intake still sucks in air at idle

typeR

air but not water....it would have to be completly submerged...take it from some one who knows

darrinb

so y did the malfuntion indiacator light come on??

EricL

You could blast a small stream of water into the engine with a few revs going and you wouldn't have a problem.

I know the car sucks in water during idle (the matter is how much). (See TypeR's response about it needing to be submerged.)

EricL

If you get two identical misfires or other transient event, you get a MIL lamp. Some out-of-range signals will force it on. There are about a thousand and one ways to get that sucker on. When you talking about water (high pressure), your talking about it getting into all kinds of places. If would help to know more about what is “messed-up”. At a point, remote diagnostics is going to prove “difficult”…

Have you ever looked at how much water gets left in the engine compartment after a "regular" car wash with a low-pressure hose?

Where did you point the water or did you look in the engine bay to inspect it and/or any connections, etc?

Is it firing on all cylinders?

Did you decide to just not run the car now?

Why do you believe that the water only went up the intake and is not somewhere else?

Have you ever gotten a MIL lamp before?

That's why I finally decided to ask Santa for one of these:

http://midwayautosupply.com/detailed...ption.asp?3352



(Thanks Santa)

EricL

BTW, after a good DIY car wash (me with a $12 nozzle), I have enough water running down on the filter to have it completely soaked. I've started the car during the process to move it, and never have had a problem with a soaked K&N filter...

darrinb

damn eric your pretty smart

that was the first time the MIL light went off, i was in a touchless car wash so i wasnt spraying the water near thr filter, why do ask if i'm firing on all cylinders???

EricL

Was curious…


As I said, remote diagnostics are "messy"/"difficult"...

Nashua_Night_Hawk

make to re-charge your CAI filter... wash/re-oil.

SinnedTL

its probably a high concentration of moisture in "mist" form that got into your cylinders, thus the engine got retarded or something, but it should do nothing to do any damage to your engine... don't worry about it

darrinb

its only 1 week old, dont u do this evry 10,000 miles

edgalang

The K&N recharger kit claims every 50k miles...but I tend to follow the acura manual so I dont forget and just do it at every 15k. (that's also good since you can visually check the filter for any holes).