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Warning about Fords (Water running across road)

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20/4/2011 19:13:49  
 

Posts: 5
Since: 3/9/2010
Region: Birmingham
Status: offline 		Readers I would like to give you a warning about driving through Fords. I have a 2003 Cambiocorsa and recently came across a ford in the road. I stopped before I went through and checked depth. The level of water looked very shallow and was well below the first Marker on Depth Guage. I then drove very slowly through it and stopped dead in the middle of the ford abruptly. (Not deliberatly). Bottom line is that water got into the air intake and into one of the cylinders. Result new engine required!!!
So fellow owners please be careful. If anyone in UK has an engine I need one!
20/4/2011 19:23:00  

Posts: 155
Since: 7/11/2010
Region: Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Status: offline 		Sorry to hear your bad news, there are a couple of maserati engines on eBay. Good luck with finding one. Finally thanks for the info.
20/4/2011 19:29:48  


Posts: 183
Since: 8/7/2008
Region: Las Vegas, NV USA
Status: offline 		Very sorry to hear that you had this trouble.  This is certainly a known problem on the Maserati 3200 / 4200.  Unfortunately several owners have had a problem driving through any amount of standing water and even heavy flowing rain.  The air intake is sealed and quite low to the ground, water will enter the cylinders and cause a Hydrolock condition.  Here in the USA insurance will typically cover the repair (not sure about the UK), but obviously it's not a desirable situation. 

Best of luck with the replacement.  If need be, we can also help source engines from the USA (we do ship worldwide).  However, I think you should be able to find a proper replacement in the UK.

Best Regards,
-- Jeff

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21/4/2011 13:23:24  
 

Posts: 5
Since: 3/9/2010
Region: Birmingham
Status: offline 		Hi Guys,
Thanks very much for your replies. Very much appreciated.
Jeff would you mind quoting me a price, just in case I have no luck here?
Kind regards to you both,
Carl.
21/4/2011 17:09:28  

Posts: 485
Since: 5/4/2009
Status: offline 		Sorry to hear that Carl. The air intake point is very low (lower n/s bumper opening) on these cars, so easy to suck in water I guess. Hopefully you get it sorted soon - the engines are otherwise very robust!

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21/4/2011 22:08:21  

Posts: 38
Since: 21/4/2011
Region: Derbyshire
Status: offline 		Hi

I did this in a minibus (not mine fortunately).  Though I was going a little too quick and the water was a bit too deep.  you must have been very unlucky.  Sorry to hear about you bad news!
22/4/2011 23:06:37  
 

Posts: 8
Since: 20/10/2010
Region: Dorset
Status: offline 		That's what happened to mine at 39k miles. The engine rebuild cost £17k. Luckily it was before I owned it!
Like redonnylee says there's a few on ebay for under £4k. Good Luck!
22/4/2011 23:34:01  
 

Posts: 387
Since: 20/4/2008
Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: FormulaDynamics

Very sorry to hear that you had this trouble.  This is certainly a known problem on the Maserati 3200 / 4200.  Unfortunately several owners have had a problem driving through any amount of standing water and even heavy flowing rain.  The air intake is sealed and quite low to the ground, water will enter the cylinders and cause a Hydrolock condition.  Here in the USA insurance will typically cover the repair (not sure about the UK), but obviously it's not a desirable situation. 

Best of luck with the replacement.  If need be, we can also help source engines from the USA (we do ship worldwide).  However, I think you should be able to find a proper replacement in the UK.

Best Regards,
-- Jeff


Hi again Jeff,

is this also problem with Quattroportes?

thanks

Simon
25/4/2011 18:59:15  


Posts: 183
Since: 8/7/2008
Region: Las Vegas, NV USA
Status: offline 		@ Carl:  I'll need to match VIN #'s and all the rest but typically they are running 5-6.5K here in the US for a good low mileage (known) engine. Shipping could run $800-$1000 (but fuel pricing are changing shipping costs daily)

@ Simon: I don't believe that you'll run into this problem on the QP / GT models.  I also have not heard of this happening even once so far. (fingers crossed)

Best Regards,
-- Jeff

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30/4/2011 9:18:45  

Posts: 485
Since: 5/4/2009
Status: offline 		posted in error!

< Message edited by nigw -- 30/4/2011 9:19:06 >

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