Weird carwash incident...

[VAG_Tech]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

I'd just check that all your coils are seated firmly - sometimes the pop up a bit.

True dat, sometimes you may get compression leaking through your spark plug insulators if they are old enough.

[Khyron]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

Same thing for spark plug cables + distro caps. You should be able to powerwash (to a point) your engine and not have bad things happen.

I'd just check that all your coils are seated firmly - sometimes the pop up a bit.

[Mitcheh]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

Take a spray bottle on "mist" mode and spray it over the coils, if they arc then you know there's a crack.
That's how you do it for a VR6, might be different for the 1.8T, I might even have no idea what I'm talking about.

[Chris]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

wuh oh... how do I check them?

[Mitcheh]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

Maybe not freak though, could be a crack in one of your coils

[Chris]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

That's a relief.

Chalk one up to freak occurences.

[Kor]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

This would happen on my VR6, when the coilpack would get wet. Everything would go back to normal after 15 mins or so. Could be something similar.

I would say WAY more likely something like Mitch said than the CAI... at idle the intake won't suck up water even if you spray it on the filter.

[Mitcheh]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

This would happen on my VR6, when the coilpack would get wet. Everything would go back to normal after 15 mins or so. Could be something similar.

[Chris]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

No, Neuspeed CAI. So it sits in front of my wheel well. But I have never had this happen before in the last 50+ car washes I've had.

Maybe it was just a freak occurence and for whatever reason some water got sucked up briefly.

[Stonewall]

Re: Weird carwash incident...

Stock intake? I know on my car that the air comes in just under the hood lip (you can see the plastic mesh there) so maybe some water got sprayed in there for a second?

[Chris]

This weekend I was at an Esso touchless wash and when the rinse jets passed by the front of my car I heard & felt a HEAVY hesitation and then my car stalled!

I started it back up no problem (although it was idling a bit rough) and I had a CEL for a moment but then it went out.

I'm wondering, did I suck some water into my engine? I had my air conditioning on with the fan speed set to 2 but other than that i was just sitting there.

When I left the car wash I pulled out of the lot and everything appeared normal (CEL had gone out, idling fine) but when I pulled away in first gear I hit what seemed like a rev limiter at 3000 rpm. I then just drove back home on side streets at low speed and below 3000 rpm and parked my car so I could inspect it.

Lifted the hood - everything was dry. Check my CAI and filter - everything looked normal.

I then got back in and drove around with no issues.

Anyone know what this was?