How long does it take for water to damage an engine? I recently purchased a car and after 31 days the engine locked and the mechanic is saying it was because of water damage. I have not driven in a flood or high water although I did have my vehicle splashed with a lot of water while driving. He sa…

What it sounds like to me is, you had a blown head gasket. The coolant got into at least one cylinder, and this caused the piston to blow. air will compress on the compression stroke, but coolant will not, and the pressure has to go somewhere. once the piston was blown, the coolant went into the …

Ignoramus posted a very plausible possibility. Another is that you somehow got water into the air intake is sufficient volume to be drawn into a cylinder as fluid, the insbility of the water to compress caused the piston’s connecting rod (or wrist pin) to break freeing the piston and connecting rod…

It’s quite possible for an engine to be destroyed by rain water or engine coolant if it is pulled through the intake and causes a hydrolock situation. Since the air filter is wet and the engine is obviously trashed this means that you must have driven through one puddle that was just a tad too deep…

Even it was water how quickly can water damage am engine? What I’m thinking is that If it the insurance could have pinned on the dealership from where I bought it about thirty days ago they would have so that they wouldn’t have to pay for the replacement motor.

If an engine takes in big gulp of water, then it will be instantly damaged (as in less than one second). As soon as a cylinder fills with water and begins its compression stroke, it’s all over. This is known as hydolock. Look it up on the web.

My wife was driving and left a parking lot and there was no rain or puddles and the car stopped about two miles from where she left. I’m just confused about how the water got there. Is it too crazy to think that the I bought the car with water damage. Then again I would think the car insurance inves…

Now that more of this story is coming out could you fill in all of the details? This is starting to put a different slant on things and knowing the details would have possibly steered any advice off in a different direction. So does this mean the car was at the dealer for service? If so, what kind …

I took it to my dealer and they sent it to the manufacter at another dealership. This is where they said there was water damage and where te car insurance claim adjuster did his investigation. My wife was driving it and said that it suddenly had problems and shut down. She drove it about 18 miles to…

how quickly can water damage an engine?

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the_same_mountainbike May 6, 2010, 6:23pm 7

Tardis is absolutely correct as always. The damage that we’re describing in detail in reality happens instantly. Remember that if your engine is turning at 2,000 rpm when the cylinder hydrolocks, each piston is going up in its compression stroke roughly 16 times every second. The damage is immediate.

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