Driving in my way from work, and notice a lack of acceleration when cruising. Then my car starts shaking and hesitating. Next it completely shuts off car is in drive pressing the gas and not acceling, and steering wheel is locked. My car sounded like a hesitating srt4...anyone know the issues?

 

hydro lock possibly?? do you have any type of CAI setup?

 

thats exactly what happened to me when i almost hydrolocked the car. i neutral through a deep puddle and it sucked up water. like previous post, do u have a cai?

 

not creeping but i looked into his profile to check his mods and he has the TRD intake which is a CAI if i remember right.

 

^^ true point...but if memory serves... don't/didn't most TRD brand CAI's come with the hyrdo-shield? Or was that an extra part people with the TRD CAI's usually bought? Any that I've seen running all the way into the fender have one installed.

I just keep my Injen CAI a Short Ram setup... no problems, no worries..and easy to maintain

 

Oh and I used to live in AZ... Kinda surprised that you're having this problem now instead of like mid August there during the monsoons lol.
But any time it rains out there... always the risk of flooding.

 

i dont have the trd cai anymore, i switched back to a fujita cai...thanks for the helps scionlifers.

 

Funny, my brother lived in Phoenix for a year and that was his #1 negative stereotype of the area. He worked service at a honda dealer: "Every time it rains we get more ricers with hydrolocked motors..."

If water splashed on your filter, it is probably a toasted motor. If it won't start, try pulling all four plugs and looking for water in the cylinders. If it will start and runs fine, you got lucky, but if it starts and sounds funny, could be a bent rod, rod knock, or a half dozen other failures.

How fast were you going when you went through the puddle? (assuming that's what happened)

 

probably like 45, however my car starts and runs fine...guess i dodged a bullet there. tomorrow and friday is suppose to be the worse.