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Was your air filter soaking wet?
Can water bypass the air filter to gain entry to the engine? If not, then it should be soaked, I'd think. Is it?
Are our engines "bottom feeders?" If not, how could this happen? Even so, with all the plates covering the bottom side of the engine bay, I'm still hard-pressed to understand how the engine could ingest a significant amount of water.
Might the engine have simply over-revved (despite the rev limiter) when downshifting and accelerating hard while the drive wheels run over a patch of ice, and then BAM! grab clean pavement?
I don't know, just speculating.
If an owner plunged into a "puddle" of unknown depth, then maybe he might be held responsible. What you've described sounds like -- whatever happened -- it should be covered under warranty.
Let us know the outcome, won't you?
Edit: Ah, I see Post #8 went up while I was composing mine, so some questions are answered, but not all.
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