Deep water
 

I had my car parked in front of my house and we don't have good drainage so our street turns into a river pretty quick. When we returned after a long day of traveling my car was pushed 2 feet downstream but appeared ok. Today I get in and my abs light won't turn, off so when I got home from work I check my abs box under the seat. Well it is soaked the water was so high it flooded my rear floorboards and maybe fried the comp. Sucks...any advice?

Pontoons? (sorry, it was just so obvious)

Is that really the only problem with your car - the ABS? I think you got lucky, if it is. But I know that if my car was submerged enoguh to be pushed two feet (that's a lot of water), I'd be looking for a new car. :(

Floating svx
 

It had a bunch of palm fron's and crud behind it, it flooded the whole street

Electronics usually survive submersion pretty well. If they don't work, it's often because they're still wet. If you've ever dropped a cell phone or camera in the drink, your best bet is to give it plenty of warm dry air.

If you own a dehumidifier, drying things out goes very quickly. Simply place the electronics in the path of the outlet air vent. Using the heat registers in a central heating system also works pretty well, but not as well as an actual dehumidifier.

In the case of a soggy interior, I recommend putting a dehumidifier inside your car. I've pressure-washed the interior of several cars and simply placed a dehumidifier in the back seat and a box fan in the front seat. In winter, this often does not generate enough heat to dry out the carpets and far corners of the cabin because the shell of the car keeps these areas rather cold, but it will at least dry out the seats. During the cold season, you may need to put the car in a garage while doing this.

In lieu of a warm environment, sometimes you can run the car with the heat set to max in recirculation mode, or place electric heaters inside. (Be careful not to set your car on fire, and use one, short 10-gauge extension cord for each heater.

If you don't have a dehumidifier, a warm, dry environment will suffice, but it will take considerably longer. You can pick up a small dehumidifier for less than $100. You will also need short, 10-gauge extension cords for high-draw devices like this. Most people don't own cords like this, so you must buy them. (If the cord gets warm during use, it's too small and it will cause problems including early failure of equipment and electrical fires.)

I hope your ABS problem is simply because something is still wet.

ABS computer
 

Well, I didn't have a dehumidifier and my garage is full of @#$%. So I grabbed the wife's hair dryer and went to work. Well it got the moisture out of the box and my idiot light went out. Everything seems to be in order, now I just have to drive to Vegas with my heat at 85 degrees to get the carpet dry....lol.....I need to lose weight anyway. Thanks everybody.

Re: Deep water
 

ok, one advice, when you soak something electronic, don't try to turn it on!!!! just disassemble it and dry it really good. the ABS system must be dried and cleaned not to leave any residu inside.
and If I were you, I would worry more about the exhaust...

Exhaust
 

Silver wouldn't the exhaust just heat up and blow out the water as steam? If you know of a problem I might have with it could you elaborate on it? Thanks for all the advice everybody.

Re: Exhaust
 

it will of course, but inside the muffler there is a raw fiber material which will be disintegrate because of soaking first then drying up... this will kill the muffler, will have a loud sound, a bad smell and a low backpressure....
imagine it like a tissue paper which is soaked with water then put in a microwave for 30 seconds...
trust me on this...