RealHumanBean
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- Aug 30, 2017
Hi all, hoping for some guidance here.
Earlier today I was driving home and I was turning onto a backstreet to get to my place, it was somewhat flooded out, about a foot of water or so. I drove through it but didn't expect it go get deeper or go on for as long as it did, seeing as it was a regular city block. But I ended up having to drive the car for two blocks on that flooded street. During that time the volvo never stalled out but it sounded like it didn't like what was happening very much. Little surges in power here and there but I didn't want to stop and let it stall out.
I got it home a block later and it was having a lot of trouble maintaining idle, if I gave it a quarter or more throttle it would stay running but as soon as I let off it stalled and wouldn't start. I let it dry off a bit and tried it earlier and it wouldn't start back up. The starter turned over but the car won't crank. I thought it did once but I didn't crank it long enough to start the car.
I tried the old hit the starter trick and got nothing, so I'm thinking it's an ignition problem, maybe the water shorted it out? Could it have shorted the neutral safety switch? I've heard that causes no crank situations. The car is an automatic by the way.
Anyway, does anyone have any leads of how I should go about tracking down the problem?
Earlier today I was driving home and I was turning onto a backstreet to get to my place, it was somewhat flooded out, about a foot of water or so. I drove through it but didn't expect it go get deeper or go on for as long as it did, seeing as it was a regular city block. But I ended up having to drive the car for two blocks on that flooded street. During that time the volvo never stalled out but it sounded like it didn't like what was happening very much. Little surges in power here and there but I didn't want to stop and let it stall out.
I got it home a block later and it was having a lot of trouble maintaining idle, if I gave it a quarter or more throttle it would stay running but as soon as I let off it stalled and wouldn't start. I let it dry off a bit and tried it earlier and it wouldn't start back up. The starter turned over but the car won't crank. I thought it did once but I didn't crank it long enough to start the car.
I tried the old hit the starter trick and got nothing, so I'm thinking it's an ignition problem, maybe the water shorted it out? Could it have shorted the neutral safety switch? I've heard that causes no crank situations. The car is an automatic by the way.
Anyway, does anyone have any leads of how I should go about tracking down the problem?