"Nigel Pendse" wrote the following
in:

I now own a car with a fiendishly complex 32V V8

snip

But a friend's car has a larger version of the same engine, that
was recently ruined when he drove through a deep puddle, because
water got sucked into the cylinders. That cost a cool £10,000 to
repair -- and he was told that he'd got off lightly.

Perhaps it cost so much to repair because it was an unnecessarily large
and expensive 32V V8 engine. This is hardly standard kit.

--
message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith.
Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

"Handlebar catch and nipple."