Mods... Move this wherever appropriate I just want people to be able to see this when they google around to solve this issue their own way.
I had icing issues last winter which was my first month owning the car... I didn't really solve it the weather got nice and I've been fine since, until it got cooler and I stared ingesting water. Meanwhile... I had dpf failure and when I removed my skid plate I found a big sloppy mess
So turns out the hot side charge pipe(the expensive one that is dealer only) was cracked and spraying sludge everywhere. Also I found leaky ic hose connections. So bought new seals and that pipe and then noticed the water ingestion symptoms. So researched and there's a lengthy thread here somewhere about drilling a hole and I don't see anyone coming back saying they're car blew up subsequently so I went for it...but, I improved it a bit. I dried the hole maybe 3/32" and screwed in a roofing screw. That's summer mode.
There's winter mode engaged. Open hole. But that would make a sludgy mess again and I'm not about that. Sooo. I took a 1 inch plastic abs pipe and made a "road draft tube" the oil can drip/spray freely beyond the skid plate and below the car before being sucked away into the "slipstream"
Pretty simple, just cut the corner yeah off my skid plate, hole saw through the litter bumper closeout, and zip tie the pipe to the ic by drilling through the pipe then zip tie around it into a couple holes in the closeout.
Test drive revealed the following...
Clean skid plate but did anything come through?
Finger dabbed the tube... Looks effective. Good luck dudes.
I had icing issues last winter which was my first month owning the car... I didn't really solve it the weather got nice and I've been fine since, until it got cooler and I stared ingesting water. Meanwhile... I had dpf failure and when I removed my skid plate I found a big sloppy mess
So turns out the hot side charge pipe(the expensive one that is dealer only) was cracked and spraying sludge everywhere. Also I found leaky ic hose connections. So bought new seals and that pipe and then noticed the water ingestion symptoms. So researched and there's a lengthy thread here somewhere about drilling a hole and I don't see anyone coming back saying they're car blew up subsequently so I went for it...but, I improved it a bit. I dried the hole maybe 3/32" and screwed in a roofing screw. That's summer mode.
There's winter mode engaged. Open hole. But that would make a sludgy mess again and I'm not about that. Sooo. I took a 1 inch plastic abs pipe and made a "road draft tube" the oil can drip/spray freely beyond the skid plate and below the car before being sucked away into the "slipstream"
Pretty simple, just cut the corner yeah off my skid plate, hole saw through the litter bumper closeout, and zip tie the pipe to the ic by drilling through the pipe then zip tie around it into a couple holes in the closeout.
Test drive revealed the following...
Clean skid plate but did anything come through?
Finger dabbed the tube... Looks effective. Good luck dudes.