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Old 03-12-2011, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MRV99 View Post
Cars with water in the engine that does damage is not a slight thing. Kinda like you cannot get kinda pregnant. If water got into the engine your wife would still be sitting in the deep water. When you hydrolock an engine, it is immediate and catastrophic and it does not take that much water. My dad was driving his 650 through water 6 inched deep when a semi came through at 10MPH causing a huge wave. 30K later and one totaled car later.... you should be just fine
Thanks.

I wasn't worry about engine damage since she was able to drive it home. I was more worried about electrical issues since the X5 has a ton of them. But so far so good (knock on wood).
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