Incoherent arguments? Dude, here's the deal... You don't like what I have to say and you call it incoherent, that’s smart! Keep on believing the same ole BS some of these morons feed down you throat I don't care it's your car. My arguments are valid only to ppl with common sense. You drive through a deep enough rain puddle (not knowing how deep it is because it's muddy, dark, etc) you can and or will hydrolock your car. You might think it's a shallow puddle but in reality it's pretty deep and boom! Hydrolock and you're out about 8k for a motor. What is so "incoherent" about that? I'm sure my 7 yr old nephew could grasp this simple concept... You’re insults are pathetic by the way, just another one of this forums sheep’s following H&A, nothing new here.
P.S. Take a little visit to Central Florida during the summer months and watch your thoughts/ opinons about hydrolock give you a reality check like real fast.
Wait, I have sheep following me here? If only I'd known, I'd be mobilizing my armies for the powers of good!
RE: puddles. I find it hard to conceive of a puddle that is a stealthy foot and a half deep. At that point, it's not even a puddle anymore, anyway, and that is quite literally the sort of depth you need to get to before you can conceivably submerge your CAI. There are things like curbs, the grading of the road, and other things around your vehicle and the area you are driving to give you perspective. And if you can't see them in the rain and in the dark, maybe you should, uh, turn on your headlights?
I've never said you
can't hydrolock your car, only that the risk of doing so is completely trivial and always within your control as the driver of your vehicle. But I guess this only applies to people who use headlights and depth perception. I hope a two and a half foot "puddle" doesn't sneak up on you in your treacherous Southern Florida driving or you and your SRI are so totally hydrolocked, brah. Actually, that does sound pretty bad, I think I'm going to have a snorkel installed on my car just in case a really deep puddle jumps out at me from behind a highway sign next time I'm driving in the rain, wouldn't want to be caught off guard, you know?
I knew I shouldn't have gotten into this here with you still floating around, so this next comment is not addressed to you because it is simply going to be over your head: CAI/hydrolock/warranty concerns (as brought up by someone else in this thread) are not realistic issues. It's so monumentally hard to accidentally hydrolock your car in the first place, and almost any time it happens it can be chalked up to driver error or driver negligence, and I'm pretty sure warranties do not ever cover that.