I'll go through what has happened and what I have diagnosed so far....
About a week ago I was filling up at the gas station, got back in the car and smelled something electrical burning and smoke coming out of the glove box. It stopped, I drove it home (couple blocks), and could not get it to repeat this.... I had driven through some standing water about 30 min previous to this and it was raining quite hard....
The next day I drove the car around with no issue, but that night when I was driving home the car cut out for just a second three different times in a 10 min drive, no electrical smell, no smoke....
The next day I was driving out of town, drove through some standing water (not fast), and just down the road the car died, and the electrical burning was back, but only for a few seconds. Pulled the car over, couldn't get it started and the electrical burning came back, again just for a few seconds. Went and got a trailer, car started and drove it on, got it home and it started and ran fine....I pulled the ecu and found no visible damage, unwrapped the wiring harness to the ecu and didn't find any burnt wires....
Next day, my dad went to move the car, wouldn't start at all. He pulled some stuff apart, cleaned, dried, etc.
Today, I get in the car, it fired right up. I let it warm up, tried spraying water all over thinking that is the common factor here and it continued to run fine. I drove the car around for a little while, got within a block from my house and smell electrical burning only for a couple seconds but couldn't tell where its coming from. The car continues to fire up and run fine....and it was all dry today other than the water I sprayed.
I'm baffled
......
Only thing I can think is the ecu.....but there is no visual damage, it does tick a bit though and the bottom plate gets a quite hot, don't know if this is normal......
Someone please help!!!!
About a week ago I was filling up at the gas station, got back in the car and smelled something electrical burning and smoke coming out of the glove box. It stopped, I drove it home (couple blocks), and could not get it to repeat this.... I had driven through some standing water about 30 min previous to this and it was raining quite hard....
The next day I drove the car around with no issue, but that night when I was driving home the car cut out for just a second three different times in a 10 min drive, no electrical smell, no smoke....
The next day I was driving out of town, drove through some standing water (not fast), and just down the road the car died, and the electrical burning was back, but only for a few seconds. Pulled the car over, couldn't get it started and the electrical burning came back, again just for a few seconds. Went and got a trailer, car started and drove it on, got it home and it started and ran fine....I pulled the ecu and found no visible damage, unwrapped the wiring harness to the ecu and didn't find any burnt wires....
Next day, my dad went to move the car, wouldn't start at all. He pulled some stuff apart, cleaned, dried, etc.
Today, I get in the car, it fired right up. I let it warm up, tried spraying water all over thinking that is the common factor here and it continued to run fine. I drove the car around for a little while, got within a block from my house and smell electrical burning only for a couple seconds but couldn't tell where its coming from. The car continues to fire up and run fine....and it was all dry today other than the water I sprayed.
I'm baffled
......Only thing I can think is the ecu.....but there is no visual damage, it does tick a bit though and the bottom plate gets a quite hot, don't know if this is normal......
Someone please help!!!!
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