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Basically what happened is we(Florida) had some insane rain come down this past Friday and initially the car was running fine, but about ten minutes away from my house it started to hesitate a little bit. Then about a block from my house, the car shuts off.
Initially I thought (still possible) that I sucked water through my intake. Besides the fact it was flooding, and the puddle I went through was decent deep. Nothing crazy, but the water in the road in general was up to my ankle while I pushed my car back to the driveway.
I do have a Skunk2 cai, but we've had big downpours before and I drove in those fine and dandy with just a velocity stack (no filter) multiple upon multiple times without any issues. That doesn't mean something may not have happened, but I'm just putting it out there that I never had trouble with this issue previously.
So the car shuts off and when it did I tried to turn it over, all it did is what you see in the short clip I uploaded to YouTube. On a side note I've had another car I've owned in the past and it actually did suck up substantial water but it would still crank. I ended up letting my previous car sit overnight and it eventually started up and drove fine.
My Si on the other hand doesn't do any of that. I didn't hear any random clunks, pops, weird noises etc when it shut off this past Friday. I ended letting the Si sit til this past Sunday and then began to diagnose what might've happened.
Pulled the intake and the filter was pretty wet due to my fender lining coming off, but the filter itself had very little moisture on the inside. Checked the MAF, intake piping all the way to the throttle body and there might've been droplets of water in there. To be safe I wiped it all down, cleaned the maf with maf cleaner and let the whole intake assembly dry for a few hours. After that I installed all of that and tried to start again. Same concept as before. So after that I tried to jump the car being that it is acting as if the battery could've possibly been dead, still same result. After that I pulled the plugs and shined a light down each cylinder to see if I saw any water laying around. Only thing I saw was that one plug had a very minute amount of moisture. And the other plug even less than that.
Being that the plugs looked like they needed to be changed anyways (which I'm assuming happened from street tuning for a month straight) I went to advance and bought the factory laser iridiums and installed those. Made sure there wasn't any water or moisture in the coil packs and tried it all over again.
Still same result.
I've been researching on here and other sites and I'm starting to wonder if it's the starter, the only thing that's throwing me off is the situation that seemingly caused all of this. Outside of that I'm pretty lost. I'd rather not goto the dealer for something like a starter since that can be done in my driveway, but idk how to check to see if that's the case.
And if it wouldn't be the starter but possibly the relay or a fuse of some sort, which relay and fuse do I look for? I looked through the owners manual and didn't see anything that was labeled for the starter. Maybe I missed something?
Anyways, I know this post is very long, but I didn't want to leave out any details so you all could possibly give a good guesstimate.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Basically what happened is we(Florida) had some insane rain come down this past Friday and initially the car was running fine, but about ten minutes away from my house it started to hesitate a little bit. Then about a block from my house, the car shuts off.
Initially I thought (still possible) that I sucked water through my intake. Besides the fact it was flooding, and the puddle I went through was decent deep. Nothing crazy, but the water in the road in general was up to my ankle while I pushed my car back to the driveway.
I do have a Skunk2 cai, but we've had big downpours before and I drove in those fine and dandy with just a velocity stack (no filter) multiple upon multiple times without any issues. That doesn't mean something may not have happened, but I'm just putting it out there that I never had trouble with this issue previously.
So the car shuts off and when it did I tried to turn it over, all it did is what you see in the short clip I uploaded to YouTube. On a side note I've had another car I've owned in the past and it actually did suck up substantial water but it would still crank. I ended up letting my previous car sit overnight and it eventually started up and drove fine.
My Si on the other hand doesn't do any of that. I didn't hear any random clunks, pops, weird noises etc when it shut off this past Friday. I ended letting the Si sit til this past Sunday and then began to diagnose what might've happened.
Pulled the intake and the filter was pretty wet due to my fender lining coming off, but the filter itself had very little moisture on the inside. Checked the MAF, intake piping all the way to the throttle body and there might've been droplets of water in there. To be safe I wiped it all down, cleaned the maf with maf cleaner and let the whole intake assembly dry for a few hours. After that I installed all of that and tried to start again. Same concept as before. So after that I tried to jump the car being that it is acting as if the battery could've possibly been dead, still same result. After that I pulled the plugs and shined a light down each cylinder to see if I saw any water laying around. Only thing I saw was that one plug had a very minute amount of moisture. And the other plug even less than that.
Being that the plugs looked like they needed to be changed anyways (which I'm assuming happened from street tuning for a month straight) I went to advance and bought the factory laser iridiums and installed those. Made sure there wasn't any water or moisture in the coil packs and tried it all over again.
Still same result.
I've been researching on here and other sites and I'm starting to wonder if it's the starter, the only thing that's throwing me off is the situation that seemingly caused all of this. Outside of that I'm pretty lost. I'd rather not goto the dealer for something like a starter since that can be done in my driveway, but idk how to check to see if that's the case.
And if it wouldn't be the starter but possibly the relay or a fuse of some sort, which relay and fuse do I look for? I looked through the owners manual and didn't see anything that was labeled for the starter. Maybe I missed something?
Anyways, I know this post is very long, but I didn't want to leave out any details so you all could possibly give a good guesstimate.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
