Car electrical gone crazy

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

By washing the engine down with a garden hose you are risking water dammaging/shorting out parts of the electrical system, thus making the car so you cannot drive it. Fixing this problem, even for a competant honest shop, can be expensive and time consuming. If they can fix it at all.

I will leave to your imagination what putting this problem in the hands of an incompetant, dishonest business is likely to result in.

But to answer your question it is not necessary to clean your egnine so it is like the outside of the car. I ride motorcycles and people who own them like the bike clean. They wash the engine all the time. Then it wont run right or maybe even start. I cant tell you how many times I have been called to fix this problem without success.

My advice is get the idea out of your head you need to wash the engine!

What about the old school practice of steam cleaning the engine? I've never heard of anyone having any electrical problems re a properly steam cleaned engine.