yesterday i was driving down a major street after a heavy rain session and was getting ready to signal right to change lanes and make a right turn this mexican guy in a 96-00 integra turns out of a parking lot and nearly clips me so i swerved to the right to get out of his way... my car hits this HUGE ass puddle on the side of the street and rips 1/4 of my side skirt off bending it so its grinding on the ground... the water rushes into my cold air intake and causes my engine to hydro lock... i pulled over and waited out the water and drove to my mechanic just to find out my o2 sensor fried ... great stuff... i'll post pictures of the side skirt dent later its getting late

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btw i was going 45 ish if you guys were wondering how fast i was driving

 

that sucks donkey balls! sorry to hear,hope its cheap to fix or insuranse takes care of you

 

jeezus that sucks!

 

At least your car still runs after the hydro lock.

 

I wonder if it was a true hydrolock then if engine still ran?

 

shoulda beat that mexican up

 

what's with all this mexican talk? any driver who thinks he's a hardass could've "caused" this accident.

 

That sucks, man!

You're lucky it still runs.


That's the second one I've read about today... These things seem to happen in sets of 3's...

 

And you're next!

 

D'oh!

If so, I hope someone runs into the front of me! Just enough to screw up the headlights, bumper cover and hood...

 

So you can upgrade to '03? Just hope someone totals it out, so you can get a 6speed.

 

HAHA, sort of. Totaling it would be ok too as long as my mods survive the accident!

Otherwise, I was thinking... No more rock chips in bumper or hood (or possibly carbon fiber hood) and definitely '03 headlights.

 

good point... what happened was that my engine pretty much died out i couldn't accelerate and i slowed down slowly my engine sputtered like crazy and i was shooting out MAD smoke but the smoke could be explained by the water... but i pretty much barely made it into the parking lot to get out and check my car...

 

what happend to the mexican?

 

he stopped got out of the car got back in and drove off -_- i would've chased him but yeah...

 

fucking mexicans... cubans, now you'll never see a cuban doing that kinda crazy stuff

signed,
a cuban

 

That fucking sucks. Hope your car is OK. Water in engine is never good. May want to trade in that CAI for an Icebox.

 

Doubt it was hydrolock. Probably had something to do with a fried sensor

 

yeah it wasn't hydrolock i just took the car in for repairs yesterday and had my o2 sensor fixed thank god it wasn't fubar and had to be replaced =D i now have a lifetime warranty on the sensor which is cool but it wasn't hydrolock i will take pictures of the dent tomorrow and post them. i had pictures but i just reformatted the laptop and lost everything so sorry for the delay