Yuck. I ordered the improved upper air box for my 2017 3.5 EB.
A few weeks ago my partner wanted the van for a ladies weekend in Asheville. I thought it would nice to give her a clean van so I took it to the car wash and spent to much money soaping and washing it off for the trip. She called me on the trip and said the van was doing something weird and going into an unsafe limp mode with a wrench icon on. She said it did it to her 3 or 4 times. It's never done this before to us. I bought it used with 55k now has 85k. I had know about the poor water management of the cowls. I had put drain lines in to help mitigate water onto the air box and electrical components. The cowl has gotten worse from the time I put the drain lines in. Now water pours in from numerous other spots. I'm pretty sure now that the limp mode was related to me washing the van. I hit the windshield and cowl area pretty hard so I imagine a lot of water hit the ECM (?) PCM (?). She would pull over real quick, turn the van all the way off and it would start back up without any hesitation or wrench indicator. It has happened since.
After that, I peeked in the air box to see if the air filter was discolored and sure enough it was so I ordered the new upper airbox. I might do a turd as well. Pics of the air filter. Yuk.
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A few weeks ago my partner wanted the van for a ladies weekend in Asheville. I thought it would nice to give her a clean van so I took it to the car wash and spent to much money soaping and washing it off for the trip. She called me on the trip and said the van was doing something weird and going into an unsafe limp mode with a wrench icon on. She said it did it to her 3 or 4 times. It's never done this before to us. I bought it used with 55k now has 85k. I had know about the poor water management of the cowls. I had put drain lines in to help mitigate water onto the air box and electrical components. The cowl has gotten worse from the time I put the drain lines in. Now water pours in from numerous other spots. I'm pretty sure now that the limp mode was related to me washing the van. I hit the windshield and cowl area pretty hard so I imagine a lot of water hit the ECM (?) PCM (?). She would pull over real quick, turn the van all the way off and it would start back up without any hesitation or wrench indicator. It has happened since.
After that, I peeked in the air box to see if the air filter was discolored and sure enough it was so I ordered the new upper airbox. I might do a turd as well. Pics of the air filter. Yuk.
