Catastrophic failure - TSI sh*t the bed!

Here's the deal. Some dude went hauling balls through a huge puddle of standing water. The stock intake sucked up water and BAM, motor locks up. Alot of people don't realize its not possible to compress water, it doesn't take much to fill the space between the top of the piston and the combustion chamber when the piston is as TDC. If there is more water then space the water WILL win that fight. If you hit the jackpot and manage to only have the engine stop spinning dead in its tracks and stall.... go buy a lottery ticket cause it's your lucky day! More often than not it will bend/brake a rod or sometimes snap the ring lands off a piston before it stalls out. The car got towed into us, we pulled the plugs out cranked it over to get the water out of the cylinders and tried starting it. It ran without misfiring, the guys insurance company authorized an air filter since the old one was water logged. No oil change, no compression test, nothing, an air filter and ship it. A couple hundred miles later it got towed back....

Here's the belly pan




Back side of the engine in the car




Front side of the engine in the car


Here's a piece the block


And the balance shaft that used to be inside ^^^ that piece


Some pieces of block and a chunk of piston ring found in the subframe


Here's the front of the engine after it was out of the car


You can see a chunk of piston wedged up against the rod


I managed to get it unwedged and pulled 3 chunks of piston out the side of the block


Piston


Piston


Half of the rod still connected


Half of the rod still connected, notice you can see through the block


That's my hand on the other side of the engine


Here's the back side of the block


Front side old engine


Front side new engine (notice the rod exploded the water pump)


Rear side old engine


Rear side new engine






This pretty much sums it up.

My god...

daaaaaammmmnnnn! specially coming from someone who knows the car inside out... :yikes:

Now what did we learn from all this....... FIND A DIFFERENT ROAD WHEN THE FUCKING STREET IS FLOODED lol

Wow that suck well at least you have a good job there. What's that 12hr labor.

So that's not repairable with some JB weld?

:bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll::bellyroll:

HOMYGAWD

Does the stock intake really route that low on the GTI? That is some serious damage. No foul play suspected either??..

This is actually a CCTA engine out of a CC. The stock intake doesn't route low at all, on all the cars its at the hood line. There was a clear line of surface rust on the trans case about 1/4 shy of where the input shaft goes into the trans from where the water level was. They tried to drove through a mini lake, when you plow through the water it splashes up and over the hood, in the grill, ect. It doesn't take much water to kill an engine. We had a good storm and the following 2 days we had about 8+ cars towed in with locked up engines, all but 2 were totaled.

damn! that's a lot of damage!!

Everytime we get a monsoon storm in July and August there are always a few dumb asses that think they can cross the flooded street/temporary river and end up getting stuck because they lock their engine.

People are just stupid!!

DBESTGTI said:

This is actually a CCTA engine out of a CC. The stock intake doesn't route low at all, on all the cars its at the hood line. There was a clear line of surface rust on the trans case about 1/4 shy of where the input shaft goes into the trans from where the water level was. They tried to drove through a mini lake, when you plow through the water it splashes up and over the hood, in the grill, ect. It doesn't take much water to kill an engine. We had a good storm and the following 2 days we had about 8+ cars towed in with locked up engines, all but 2 were totaled.

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Ouch... well that's no good!

At least you guys are getting paid good Warranty money!

There's not a chance in hell warranty would be covering this.

And getting paid good warranty money is an oxymoron, there's next to nothing that pays good when it's warranty.

Lol a 5 series spun a bearing. We pulled everything out and am giving them a whole new motor. Warranty covereage. Dudes not paying a dime.


If it was a stock intake that sucked up the water, why isnt it being covered? Not trying to argue or anything like that, just curious.