stalls

[gldgti]

my curse continues.. just got back from the USA after 8 weeks and found that my car had not been touched or looked after. it had also recieved a bath and was never dried..

basically the car was parked above a drain and the drain obviously overflowed and flooded the car.....
battery was flat and had a 6inch sespool of bacteria and all sorts of stinkyness. ive since bucketed out all the water i could and recharged the battery.

im getting it professionally cleaned today as its got mould spores and all the nasties all through the interior especially around the pools and on the seatbelts except my seat and seatbelt for some reason?

ive been advised to just flog the breaks to get all the obvious buildup of rust and whatnot off them.. ive done a few laps around the block just trying to lock it up.. its slowly getting there... for the first 10 attempts at about 50km it didnt even skid... was getting worried for a while!

its out of rego and needs a pinkslip also.. i had just got it serviced and had all the breaks and rotors replaced.. is there anything else i should do to ensure a pinkslip since this horrific flood?

ps: some of the wiring must have been affected as the power windows dont work for about 2mins after the car has started and sometimes one of the windows goes down on its own.. AND 2 of the lights on the dash that have never worked are now working..hahaah

hey mate, long time no chatty chat haha.

sounds like you're electrical issues are to do with bad earthing. its difficult to track down these kinds of faults but if i were you i'd get a cheap multi-meter from Supercheap and try measuring resistance through some of the earth paths from the devices that commonly don't work properly.

your brakes should be right with a bit of use.

bummer about getting flooded... its a good idea, and not too hard, to take out all the seats and lift the carpets. the sounds deadning/insulation should be loose under the carpet. you can remove it and sit it out in the sun for a couple of days to ensure its not going to breed mould in your car forever more.

good luck,
aydan

[Rednut]

should the floor/undercarrage be waterproof? i can see that theres seals that arent..sealing..
the seals themselves are all painted so im not sure if theyve been painted to look newer or thats how they come.. are they there to drain any water from inside out or to keep water outside from getting in underneath? (sorry if this doesnt make sense )

got him rego'd with minimal hassle. one of the rear break lights was going out when i applied them if i had the lights/parkers on which the guy doing the pinkslip fixed in 20seconds as he said it was the wrong globe. other than that.. sweet as, no worries with the rust on the passenger door (will need to attend to that very soon!)

thanks for the info ayden, glad to see you can speak my language

ps: hows the gosford area.. still around that neck of the "woods"?

[gldgti]

yep... very wet.... apparently when it rains a lot, people unlearn how to drive and so it takes me 30minutes to go the last 1km to my house...

[Rednut]

turn that frown upside down, you get to spend that extra time in ya VW

[Rednut]

ok, so i definately need this new distributor cap assembly by the looks. would it be worth getting the whole assembly or just a new cap to see if thats the problem. the cap itself has a bit of green errosion on all 4 of the metal contacts around the inside except the springloaded contact in the middle. it looks like the part in the centre of the dizzy with the crack is getting larger too..

[Rednut]

bump

barrrmp

[Rednut]

hall sensor in the dizzy has been replaced.. so far so good.. no stalling once warmed up.