Had my cousin clean my car now problems!!

Hey guys,

My cousin valets car for a living so asked him to do mine.

He TFR'ed the engine bay and pressure washed it! i told him not to but he didnt listen! while he was doing it the car died, it wouldnt start at first but after 5 minutes it did but was missing badly. little tosser!

took it for a run hopping it would dry out but hasnt yet whats the best thing to do to dry it out. Obviously he has got water into the spark plugs/HT leads.

I have got to drive it over 100miles tomorrow and cant have it running like this!

erm!

i say kick hell out of him! should make you feel better!!

and he does it for a living , theres only one way to do a supra engine bay , by hand and lots of patience

If it idles OK might be worth running it for a bit to get the heat up in the engine bay and evaporate a lot of the moisture in there.

W.T.F!!

I though even steam cleaning was a big.....No! No!

Pressure washing an engine bay is insanity!! I would be making sure he eats through a fooking straw.....cousin or not!!

I'd be getting it in a garage and blasting it with hot air if possible. Also WD40 everything to death!!

H.

remove coil packs and pulgs, the plug recess's will be full of water

Hi dibbley, the exact same problem happened to mine, i had to take all the inlet off and where the plugs are will be full of water, it needed new plugs and a couple of them were split in the white ionised bit so not good. Get it done asap.

i pressured washed mine ok, done many cars with it before also

not something i would advise , maybe got lucky ric

Dizzy cap full of water - I presume the retard didn't wrap the electrics?

I caught my friend doing this to his Civic Type R at work with a hose:blink:I couldn’t believe it! He was going for gold at it & didn’t see a problem with it either??

And by cousin do you mean you.

well its easy isnt it get him to put it right

used an air line to dry it out seems to be ok now, i will find out in the morning when i start it up!

gonna slap him when i see him next

That was very stupid of him:(

WTF He's a professional?

i am a mechanic and there is nothing wrong with steam cleaning an engine if you know what you are doing, if you have degreased it properly by hand then you are going to need the pressure to get rid of all the solvent, that said , always wrap major electrics air line dry an wd40 everything when finished, i have done probably around 1000 engines in this manner and have never broken anything electrical or otherwise so give the guy a break,

thats my two bobs worth SO THERE

I disagree saying that you shouldnt use a pressure washer. As long as the electics are wrapped up ok then its absolutely fine to get water in there. Ive done it on both of mine without a single problem. Its all in the prep work.

i am a mechanic and there is nothing wrong with steam cleaning an engine if you know what you are doing, if you have degreased it properly by hand then you are going to need the pressure to get rid of all the solvent, that said , always wrap major electrics air line dry an wd40 everything when finished, i have done probably around 1000 engines in this manner and have never broken anything electrical or otherwise so give the guy a break,

 

thats my two bobs worth SO THERE

I don't see anyone attacking him as a result of him carefully steam cleaning an engine with it's electrics wrapped to protect them... the fool jetwashed the engine using a high pressure hose and didn't cover anything up... have you done that 1000 times with success?

Thought not.

Some people!!! You don't pressure wash engine bay's putting in raw water to an engine bay full of sensors isn't exactly a good idea....

RETARD!!!

i am a mechanic and there is nothing wrong with steam cleaning an engine if you know what you are doing, if you have degreased it properly by hand then you are going to need the pressure to get rid of all the solvent, that said , always wrap major electrics air line dry an wd40 everything when finished, i have done probably around 1000 engines in this manner and have never broken anything electrical or otherwise so give the guy a break,

 

thats my two bobs worth SO THERE

Doesn't really matter HOW many cars you have done in the past, have you done a supra... are YOU aware that the area around the spark plugs is a gulley and as such ANY liquids sprayed around that area will run into the spark plug holes and fill up. Unless you wrap the whole engine you just have to be careful. WD40 EVERYTHING??? you tried it on a dizzy cap or spark leads?

Given that you are relatively new here, I'd make the assumption that you are new to supra's as well... Some people on here ACTUALLY have an idea what they are speaking about when they say don't use water near the plugs.

mine all done by hand , why would i want to risk fucking it up , sounds to me like he couldnt be bothered to do it properly

patience is a virtue

patience is a virtue

And excellence is visible (Nice job chap)

thank you