Flooded CLK 320cdi

[Lesgrandepotato]

Bugger. The land barge did not float.. turns out the puddle was rather larger and deeper than expected. Engine cut out when the water went over the headlights. Had to be dragged out as the auto box refused to shift from P. Once out of the water we got N and towed her home.

Anything to do before spinning her over in the AM?

Water was about 12+ deep.

[eldar]

did the engine stop slowly or suddenly?

[Lesgrandepotato]

I’d say it was slowly, felt more like a cutout than a hard stop

[Classy6]

FYI from experience - Mercs aren't very good at being flooded.

Take air filters out completely, then take the glow plugs out (careful - they snap VERY easily), remove and empty water out of intercooler pipes leave disconnected and attempt to spin it over until all the water fires out.

If it doesn't spin over, it's bent a rod or damaged something else. If it spins over nice and quick without any knocking then refit glow plugs and hope it goes.

If you can get it running I'd personally still have it recovered into a garage for a compression check and have the intercooler removed and emptied, filters replaced etc.

Or just have it recovered in to a garage anyway and let someone check it out properly. Sometimes you get lucky when you drive through a flood and it just hydrolocks, if you attempt to start it without removing the water you could end up doing more damage.

[ZX10R NIN]

Get it to a garage the intake isn't high & the bow wave you would've probably gone in the intake.

[Lesgrandepotato]

Its dead. Pulled the glow plugs out and it still won't spin.

The hunt begins!