trinils97

Last night there was a lil bit of a storm , so when I woke up to go to work hoped in the car its completly dead an not to mention my carpet is wet , I didn't leave any windows open I guess it must have flooded. When I jumped start the car it starts but it dies right back out . HELP!!!!

ThomasGS4

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Either it flooded, or you have some clogged sunroof drains.

trinils97

K but that still dosent explain y the car won't stay runing

fatcat2

Sounds like your battery is bad. maybe it got shorted with the water? go take it to any shop and have them test it out. they can tell you if its working correctly or not.

trinils97

nope put a fully charged battery in the car , it starts and dies out , now the starter wont disengage it stays turning even if i take the key out i have to disconect the battery . im thinking the ecu is messed up cause it prob got wet

LS4Lalonde

How do you clean the sunroof drains out? I have a similar problem when it rains. My driver side gets completely wet to the point it gets foggy if I leave it shut for 3+ hours. How do ya clean 'em?

RA40

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What location in the car is the carpet is wet?
If you have leakage in the front, the location may give clues as to what may be shorting out.

trinils97

The whole...front carpet I parkerd right near a drain that floods

RA40

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As in front of the car submerged? Do you see any signs on the outside or inside the engine bay how high the water level was?

The alternator is midway so the car would have to be about bumper deep to get it. If so, you may not only have the alternator but other parts of the wiring harness holding water at the connectors.You will have to get in and see just how high the water is and what electronics were exposed. May be lucky and it will dry out in time.

trinils97

Ok so got up this morn n tried again , this time I kept foot on the pedal an it stayed on but when I lift off it wud die . So I kept my foot in it . I said **** it let me see if it drives ,it did an after drivin a lil it stays on now but the majority of light on the dash are on an the radio dosent have any sound but other than that it works..

Lazy

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Check ur alternator

deanshark

+1. If the water was as high as it sounds you're saying then the alt would have been submerged. A little advice; unplug your airbag fuse until you figure this out. If everything is acting funny, you sure don't want the airbags going off for no reason. Idk how much of your wiring on the interior got wet but the computor for the airbags is directly under the shift lever.

trinils97

Hmm will do.. seein that the air bag light is on lol . Well the caris runin an the light on the dash went off . The radio comes on but no sound . An sumtime the headlights wud turn on by themselves even with the key out the ignition . Oh an if u beep the horn it stays on lol ... but on a gd not the car is driving again

trinils97

Looks like the alternator is bad , car died out an battery was dead got a jump drove home but had to keep it @ high rpm's an as soon as I got to the front of my house an let off the gas it died n wouldn't start back. This sucks....

deanshark

That would be a good start but I think you have more then just a bad alt. If you got a jump and drove the car it would be running off just the battery, which wouldn't last long with just the jump start, maybe 10 minutes. RPMs wouldn't matter at all, when the alt is dead and the bat goes dead it just dies, no warning except dash lights. When my alt went and I was driving on just the battery I needed a full charged battery, it wouldn't take a jump and drive. It wouldn't have enough juice. A full charge battery would last me about an hour of highway driving before it completely died and I had to switch it. When the alt goes bad all the lights on the dash will light up. (bat, brakes, engine, trac)