I just blew up a car engine by driving through a puddle. Many of us remember our older vehicles tackling flood conditions. My old 1983 station wagon and my full-size 1996 van drove through three feet of water, more than once. On many new vehicles, including the Chrysler minivans, Dodge Challenger, and the Minis, the intake tube for the air cleaner is actually down behind the fog lamp near the bottom of the air dam. I drove through a puddle no more than 8″ deep, which threw up a bow wave, and the engine inhaled it. Water doesn’t compress. The block …
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