My invoice said they replaced the plugs and reset the codes and that it took them 1.3 hours (if I'm reading it right). Does anyone know what resetting the codes involves? I am guessing it means that they disconnected the battery for a short period of time, but don't know for sure.

I have not tried to reach the plugs from above, but I don't think it's possible to reach the leading plugs except from under the car. That's a problem if the car is dead because you can't drive it up onto ramps. I wonder if just pulling the trailing plugs and letting the car sit for a bit might not do the trick, or at least letting with the plugs removed, then move the car slightly to expose the next chamber, then let it sit some more. Eventually, if it is just fuel in the chambers, it'll evaporate. If the plugs are fouled, however, I think you have to pull em.

Also, you guys with MTs can push or pull start the car, but I don't really know what that involves. I agree: a DIY would be helpful... my dealer says it may be $250 the next time I bring the car in for a deflood.

 

sorry there. I was going for the typical rx8club poster response. I suppose it wouldn't be a problem if you just remembered to warm up the car enough before shutting down, but if you still do that and it floods then I suppose it's a problem.

 

That's got to be the single most ridiculous statement I have ever seen posted here.

Sure, if you're in the roughly 80% of the folks on the board that don't seem to have this issue it might be very easy to say, "I don't get it. What's the big deal?"

Just for discussion sake I had a 1985 Pontiac Fiero that had a screwy computer chip that didn't like temperature or moisture fluctuations. The car stuttered when it was cold and if it was cold and wet it was a 50/50 chance that it was going to stall just getting out of the driveway.

I finally had enough when it stalled in an intersection and a 18 wheeler was coming up from behind at an uncomfortably fast rate of speed and my car was acting like it was gagging on a chicken bone.

So although I don't feel like taking an 80/20 bet with $30,000, I can fully sympathize with those that have the flooding problem since I have gone through a similar situation.