The Ultimate "Driver's" Road Trip

[Joe_Mama]

I wouldnt use that filter anymore btw, it probably has been damaged enough that you could end up destroying your turbo .

 

[CowTownRacer]

Drove with a bag on your intake? No comprende

 

[CowTownRacer]

I wouldnt use that filter anymore btw, it probably has been damaged enough that you could end up destroying your turbo .

It's probably restricting airflow quite a bit now.

 

[Joe_Mama]

Drove with a bag on your intake? No comprende

I think what happened was he put a bag on his intake filter during the tow? Then forgot to take it off once he started driving? Im not really sure...

 

[Cole2999]

I think what happened was he put a bag on his intake filter during the tow? Then forgot to take it off once he started driving? Im not really sure...

Put a bag over it while I was washing since I was spreading water directly in the grill and up through the wheel well. Drove out the car wash, immediately noticed a lack of power, and a few feet later realized I had the bag on still

 

[Joe_Mama]

Did you really think you could hydrolock your non-running engine at the car wash by getting the filter wet?

 

[Joe_Mama]

So I forgot to take the bag I had covering my intake (I'm super paranoid) off for half a mile, or less, and look what it did to my intake.

Drove out the car wash, immediately noticed a lack of power, and a few feet later realized I had the bag on still

 

[brat_burner]

You're supposed to leave the filter open and blast water in there until the motor explodes. Then you call insurance and get a built motor out of the deal....

 

[Joe_Mama]

You're supposed to leave the filter open and blast water in there until the motor explodes. Then you call insurance and get a built motor out of the deal....

Nah just let your wife drive it during a rain storm with a CAI like i did.

RIP mk4 24v VR6

 

[Allchokedup]

keep trucking man, great stories! Gotta do this shit while your young. I have to stop and piss before my kids do!
That many days on the road/camping alone would be pretty cool.

 

[Cole2999]

No, but I could saturate it with high pressure water. Same reason you're supposed to cover it when you wash your bay.
Also the half mile comes in with the "noticed a lack of power." And I say "or less" the distance is neither here nor there; it was mostly meant to be a comical look at what vacuum does to your filter. I never would've expected that, I would've guessed it'd rip a hole in the thin bag before crushing the intake

 

[alpha3]

Old saying by a famous man: Sometimes, '' discretion is the better part of valor. ''

On this trip you've done, and certainly experienced, more than most people would ever do. It's time to go, head for home base. I don't know how deep your funding goes but you've sure spent way more than that $1200 you said you had left, way back when. A lot of this more recent stuff was a clear waste of money, like needing to pay several hundred dollars to get out of the mud flats.

 

[1ashchuckton]

I've never cared for open element air filters. Using a plastic bag over the filter while spraying the engine compartment isn't a bad idea. No it's not going to hydroloc, but water in the wrong places sure can lead to fun & games. Leaving the bag on the air filter must have been for comic relief.

Enjoy the rest of your trip, stay on the pavement & out of the quicksand.

 

[torga]

I think I now know why you've been having so many mechanical issues with your car thus far.

All over the continental US, it has had to drag around the massive balls it takes to think, "hell yea lemme just dip off the freeway at 50mph into some mud" while driving a GTI.

 

[Cole2999]

More like it had to carry around a sack full of stupid.
There's a difference between brave and stupid, and I crossed that line at full speed about 5 years ago