well i was driving home from work and it was a crazy storm here in tampa,Fl...long story short i was going insanely slow through a puddle when suddenly my car just shut off and wouldnt turn back on...im thinking that my aem intake sucked up water and the engine is seized. Im just looking for any other advice that would be helpful. has this happened to anyone else? does insurance cover it if it still has full coverage on it? please help...thanks in advance..

 

That does sound like you sucked up water... possibly bent the rods etc.. Im not sure if insurance covers that or not. Better put your stock air box back on before you call them.

 

thanks ill do that...i really need to find someone to lend me their stock intake setup because i dont have it

 

Oh wow that is a sad, sad story indeed. So sorry to hear.

 

yeah it sucks so bad....just waiting for a claims adjuster to give me a call today to see what the deals going to be...hopefully they will help me out

 

ouch...sounds like a hydrolock for sure.....AEM V2? V3?


Sucks to hear man....How deep was this puddle? Sounds like it might have had a name... I have always told people with AEM CAI's they are great and you would basically have to submerge the damn thing before it would hydrolock the car.

Future reference: puddles are not worth your cars engine. Stop, turn around, find another way...the inconvenience of driving around the puddle is def. better than replacing the engine.

Not sure how you would explain the hydrolock with the stock air box though...at that point you would have to have driven through a puddle that was windshield deep to get water into the stock airbox....

 

im not sure what aem intake it was because it came with the car when i bought it...im just going to tell the insurance company that i bought the car with the part on it already and that i had no control over what happened because it was basically flooded all around the air force base that i work at...

 

Sucks man....good luck with insurance. They do cover this is most cases so lets hope they do.

This is why I will not keep a CAI on any of our cars...FL floods too damn easy lol

I suggest getting the K&N FIPK when she's all fixed up.

 

thanks for the advice man ill definitly check that k&n out when i finally get everything resolved...i really hope that insurance will help me out...

 

thanks a lot you tampa guys have been great with giving advice....well im still waiting to figure out whats gonna happen with my insurance company but i really just wanted to say thanks s2ki-tampa...