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Water gushing out from my car's exhaust pipe!
Hi everyone,I'm facing the following issue in my 2004 Maruti Alto LX. What seems to be an abnormal amount of water is gushing out of the exhaust pipe when it is revved a little. I am attaching a video that my mother shot (so please forgive the quality).This was first seen a couple of weeks ago, and has happened a couple of times after that. I first asked my mother to ignore it, thinking it could be accumulated water due to condensation (and since the car had not been taken out on the road for six months) which got ejected when the engine was revved. However, this has happened twice after the video was taken, so I am now thinking that the problem is definitely more serious.- It is in Bangalore under the care of my mother. For the past ten years, it has run very little - Once a week, my mother has a driver come over and takes the car for her weekly errands. It runs about ten km on that day.During the rest of the week, she unfailingly starts the car every morning until the engine warms up (she uses the temperature gauge as a reference).The once a week run however, stopped ever since the lockdown began in March. Since then the car has not been driven, but the every day starting has continued except for a few days in between.The car stays in a covered car park, and is cleaned everyday with a damp cloth (no water is thrown on the car)Today, we got the car towed to RNS motors, Yeshwantpur. RNS, after looking this same video told us not to take a chance getting the car driven over, and recommended towing. The SA refused (politely) to start any diagnostic work until I paid an advance, so I transferred Rs 10,000 to the service centre account. The car's annual service/engine oil/other fluids change is also due.The car has always gone to RNS motors for its annual service during these past ten years, but unfortunately the branch that it was going to has been closed during the lockdown, so this time we had to send the car to a service adivsor and branch with whom we have no prior relationship. For the record, RNS motors have been good to deal with, and they have not tried to take advantage of my mother's lack of 'car' knowledge.The SA has asked us to be prepared for a bill of anywhere between 25 k to 70 k. I have taken that estimate with a big pinch of salt. I have asked him to first give me the exact diagnosis and only after approval, proceed with the next step.Ideally, I would have liked to be there at the service centre, but I am based in Delhi and travelling just for this seems a little unjustified. I can take the help of my brother, who does live in Bangalore (in another area), but I do not want to ask too much of him, given the fact that his architecture firm is just getting back on its feet after the lockdown.I would be grateful for the inputs of any Bhpians who experienced something like this before. My limited knowledge tells me this might be a leaking head gasket, but I could be very much off the mark. Any guidance would be appreciated!
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