A puddle? When water reaches the top of the tire this is a river, a stream, a something other than a puddle. YOU drove this car to this body of water. At this time all you can do is to contact your insurance company to see if this could be covered. Every year, in spite of warnings by officials as to driving into bodies of water of unknown depth thousands do exactly just that. This is "flood damage." Intentional flood damage. Now the consequences have arrived. Only a mechanic can determine the problem. Asking here is not functional and it is not going to get this car evaluated. Dude, do not drive into water! And, please, capitalize the proper names of the brand and models of cars. Teens have some secret grammar code that they seem to follow. Hyndai Accent.

Pull the spark plugs and fuel pump relay or fuse, and crank the engine with the key until water stops coming out of the cylinders. Make sure you pull every spark plug and remove the relay, because you do NOT want the car to start while doing this. Before you put the spark plugs back in, inspect them for damage. Put everything back together and run the car to operating temp before driving it to dry out the rest of the water. If there is no knocking or ticking you are OK.

My brother recently hydrolocked his truck. They did this, and got the truck running again, but with a bad miss on 2 cylinders. Upon further inspection, they found 2 broken spark plugs. Replaced the plugs and the truck runs great. He was lucky, and hopefully you are too.

HI, you may have done serious damage to the motor... Hydrolocking a motor that is running can cause rods to be bent destroying the motor. If you are lucky pull the spark plugs out turn the motor over (if it well ) and pump out any water in the motor.. then try to restart it..

good luck

tim

You said it in the first sentence. Engine took a sip of water and killed it.

When there is water in the air-cleaner housing no doubt the throttle body sucked water into the engine.

The water drains in the air intake between the two left side fenders could not drain off the standing water fast enough.

As Pedal2TheMetal45 says, it is probably doomsday for the engine. DO NOT do anything yourself at this stage; have it towed and seen by the insurance adjuster. A friend found out the hard way that getting it running and driving it afterward made it not the insurance company's problem... his ruined engine was his problem. Otherwise it is covered under comprehensive.

It was raining today and I drove my car through a large puddle it came to the top of the tires. I hit it pretty fast and got through it but then my car stalled. It won't even crank over. There is no water in the oil but the air filter is wet. How bad did I mess up my car?