Does anyone in the UK know if the AA can fix a flooded engine?

 

Are you aware that the owner's manual has the deflood procedure? Hold the gas pedal completely to the floor while cranking the engine in ~5-10 second intervals, repeating 5-10 times. Crank engine to start normally.

Alternatively, you can pull the fuel pump fuse or disconnect the e-shaft sensor while cranking.



Keep in mind that flooding is a symptom of a deeper problem. For example if a weak battery caused the flood, deflooding won't fix the battery and it could just be re-flooding when you try to start it. Same with ignition failure, starter dying, and engine compression loss.

 

Why pull the fuse or the sensor? Shouldn't you be holding the pedal all the way down anyway? Then there'd be a delay when you hop out to reconnect things when you get to Step 3.

Ken

 

Some people have trouble with what "whole way down" means. Pulling the fuse or sensor is at least foolproof

 

human ...

 

I should amend that to:
"Pulling the fuse or sensor is at least foolproof for preventing fuel injection during cranking."

Owners could obviously screw up other stuff

 

If it's a MT...get them to give you a short tow That makes it basically a DIY

 

Just another friendly reminder to always use the search engine before starting another new thread

All of the info is here and new threads asking the same questions for the already provided answers only add clutter

 

There's actually a sticky in the Trouble shooting area...... on the main page.....