High pressure wash made my car turn off...

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12-01-2007, 09:13 PM

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High pressure wash made my car turn off...

...a couple of days ago I was coming home from school, and a semi-truck sitting next to me at a stop light had diesel leaking/spraying everywhere from under his motor, which my entire right side got sprayed with

K, so I didn't have time to actually hand wash my car at work, so I took it to a Jewel "high-pressure"/touch-less wash. The thing shoots hard as a **** and I had my car turned on the whole time, until the car just shut off by itself

I was like

and just laughed and turned it back on.

When I got out, I opened the hood and a good amount of the bay was "wet," and the radiator was smoking noticeably. I am going to assume that the Fujita sucked it some water and it stalled?

Either way...is this something I should worry about, or is it all good now? I drove the car for about 30ish miles, and had no problems...knock on wood

12-01-2007, 11:19 PM

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you should be good... how did the fujita suck it up... ??? only way that could happen is in you were at WOT ... hmmm

all in all u should be fine... keep us posted...

12-01-2007, 11:26 PM

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If you really are worried about it alot, change the oil and see if the oil has water in it and then flush a quart of oil through and then all should be fine.

12-01-2007, 11:59 PM

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The Fujita would have to be immersed to draw water.

12-02-2007, 12:39 AM

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The Fujita would have to be immersed to draw water.

+1....

12-02-2007, 05:50 AM

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Perhaps an electrical wire was 'hit'. It may have shorted out or gotten tempermental until it dried.

12-02-2007, 09:02 AM

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Cars at idle do not take a lot to stall out, a high pressure wash could have suffocated your car and made it turn off

12-02-2007, 12:36 PM

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your fine...... that happened once or twice with my GTP

12-02-2007, 01:29 PM

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yay

The car has been sitting for the past few days because I got my sisters 99' Civic for the "winter"

12-02-2007, 01:38 PM

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OUCH..... might as well walk...

12-02-2007, 04:11 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 4MySwee

Perhaps an electrical wire was 'hit'. It may have shorted out or gotten tempermental until it dried.

That's very likely. I see people pressure washing their engine bays and then the car runs like crap. I usually tell them to let things dry and see if the problem goes away. It usually does.

!PrjctMax!, if the car is running ok now, I wouldn't worry about a thing.