HELP FLOODED ROAD, DEAD CAR!

[OakeyDoak16v]

Just giving the wife a lift to town and i came to a junction on the road that was severely flooded.
After much hesitation i decide to just go for it. Half way across i bottle it and reverse back. Driving off in different direction and 2 minutes later the car stutters and dies. It's now sitting in a park and ride on it's own
My fear is that i've got water into the engine and i'm thinking at the moment that it's got in through the exhaust when i reversed through the flood.
Any ideas what the worst case scenario is. Have i killed it? The engine turns over but doesn't spark up. Also when trying to restart the engine over and over i never got any smell of petrol as you sometimes would so not sure if fuel is getting sent along.
Any thoughts guys would be awesome as quite worried
Baz

[Organisys]

first step is to dry all the electrics. start with the distributor.

[boneybradley]

wd40 time...it works wonders on getting rid of wet!

[Ade244]

If it died 2 mins after backing out of the flood I would say its very unlikely you got water in through the exhaust.
The pressure on the exhaust keeps it out. Its only a problem if you stall in the flood isn't it?
Unless you went up to the lights it shouldn't get into the air inlet.

I would say it's electrical. Fuel pump, water in dizzy etc..

Not had my 16V long. Can you pull the plugs one at a time, ground them on the block and check for sparks
If it's not that then its fuel.

[OakeyDoak16v]

Thanks guy's will try drying everything out over the weekend and see how that goes

[russ-vdub]

yes as above, it wont have killed it..turning over but not starting is deffo a spark issue it'll probs start first time when you go back to it

[dabill]

when we had floods in sheffield, mates polo got nearly fully submerged. 2 days later, he turned the key, pop pop and its running fine. let it dry out and you'll be fine.

[logix42p]

Like others said just try and let it dry as i flooded a car and stalled and got water in the engine and the engine seized completely (hydrostatic lock) so as yours is turning over then this isnt the case.

[capoot]

Where in cheshire were you?!

[OakeyDoak16v]

Where in cheshire were you?!

In Sunny Chester, I think your from around here too aren't you?

By the way, went back to the car this morning and fired up first time so great news. Certainly be more careful though next time i'm faced with flooded roads
Still gonna check the distributor etc on Sunday for damp.
Cheers eveybody for your comments.