Technical Engine Warning Light, One off?

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Technical Engine Warning Light, One off?

majwimott

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I was driving round today doing a few bits, the weather being totally horrible. Ended up driving through a large puddle, about 100 yards after that the car felt like it was loosing power and my engine warning light came on. I eased off, on approach to a junction, but had no where to pull in. Once setting off it was jerky, then at the next roundabout i over revved slightly and the light had gone off and the car felt normal again, and continued to feel normal all the way home.
Since then about an hour later i had to pop to a shop, and again there was no issues and the car felt perfectly fine.
My only concern is that only doing 40miles through the day it has taken just under less and a quarter of a tank of fuel, but at time time I usually do more distant driving as apposed to city driving, so that could be a factor to the consumption.

Should i be concerned, or could it have been a minor hiccup because it was a very large puddle?
 
Hi, I would say it was driving through the puddle,try & drive through them at a low speed & if possible once leaving the puddle apply the brakes very slightly for a few seconds to dry out the front pads (avoid heavy braking).
 
Depends what side it was, just have to be careful as water could of gotten into your engine through the air filter but I doubt it, might of just splashed something :L
 
Probably wet the crank sensor
Shicked the cat into closed loop
And drowned a coil pack or ht lead setup and the car freaked out....

I did this once before
No power
Misfire
Rough running but no eml for me

With a large amount of throttle it kept running and started to recover been wet dont helo the car
Drive slower through puddles and streams

Ziggy
 
answers in the question, for us old enough to remember, get your engine wet and it will miss fire, pop and kick till its dried out again, ask anyone who has ever owned a mk1 escort, bit of damp in the morning and you would be lucky if you could get it to run on 3 cylinders never mind 4 :cool:
 
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