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'03 P5, '17 Miata, stock AF
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- Dallas, TX
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- 2003 Protege5
Well, it flooded here overnight and the underground parking sump pumps at the apartment weren't working. (I woke up around 5:00 feeling something just wasn't right, and when I went downstairs water was halfway up my calf.) The P5 had water in the floorboards, and I drove it out of the garage carefully. I went to Lowe's and got myself a Shop Vac. After many hours of vacuuming, the car is mostly dry, but the car is having trouble so I haven't been running it.
Anyway, I have a P0302 code and white smoke coming out the tailpipe in puffs. You can smell the unburnt fuel and see it on the wet pavement around the tailpipe. I was getting a *flashing* CEL (and I turned the car off soon after), but that has gone away. Below are some videos of the behavior. Why would high water result in a misfire (P0302)? Certainly, I don't need to replace a coil as I normally would with a P0302, right? Any ideas on what I might need to replace, or do I just need to let it dry out more?
Engine a bit shaky:
CEL, and the shifter a bit shaky:
Big white puffs of smoke and fuel on pavement:
Anyway, I have a P0302 code and white smoke coming out the tailpipe in puffs. You can smell the unburnt fuel and see it on the wet pavement around the tailpipe. I was getting a *flashing* CEL (and I turned the car off soon after), but that has gone away. Below are some videos of the behavior. Why would high water result in a misfire (P0302)? Certainly, I don't need to replace a coil as I normally would with a P0302, right? Any ideas on what I might need to replace, or do I just need to let it dry out more?
Engine a bit shaky:
CEL, and the shifter a bit shaky:
Big white puffs of smoke and fuel on pavement: