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Help!!!
I have a c6 corvette and I drove through some shallow water and the car stalled out and won’t restart after I tried restarting it the car melted the negative battery cable can anyone help me please
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wow. that sounds like some serious cause and effect.
did the motor turn over at all? Or did it just make a click and nothing? I would be concerned that the engine sucked in water. You may want to remove the plugs and see what falls out... I hope the cable sacrificed itself for the betterment of the engine.
did the motor turn over at all? Or did it just make a click and nothing? I would be concerned that the engine sucked in water. You may want to remove the plugs and see what falls out... I hope the cable sacrificed itself for the betterment of the engine.
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Need more info.
Shallow water?
Did the engine ingest water...if so possible hyrdolock and damage.
As mentioned remove the air filter and look into the throttle body for water.
Remove spark plugs insert camera look for water (or try to manually turn over the engine and see if water exits the spark plug hole.)
Those could be first steps.
You could go deeper by removing the intake manifold.
Melted battery cable is odd.
Piece of metal picked up near the starter and is shorting?
Do not have a lead or good answer here with the OP's brief description.
Good luck.
Shallow water?
Did the engine ingest water...if so possible hyrdolock and damage.
As mentioned remove the air filter and look into the throttle body for water.
Remove spark plugs insert camera look for water (or try to manually turn over the engine and see if water exits the spark plug hole.)
Those could be first steps.
You could go deeper by removing the intake manifold.
Melted battery cable is odd.
Piece of metal picked up near the starter and is shorting?
Do not have a lead or good answer here with the OP's brief description.
Good luck.
Last edited by Kenny94945; May 19, 2019 at 09:38 PM.
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