Hydrolock was never a possibility. Only problem was the gasoline quality was insufficient to allow the engine to run properly.
It is nice to have the back.

There was so much water in the gas that the car would barely run. Then for a few seconds would smooth out, then run like crap again. When I drained the tank, I got most of the bad gas out, but I wasn't able to drive the car around enough to slosh mix the water/gas combo up a bit. A fuel sample taken...

Hughes? Holy cow. Beers must happen. Sitrep: I had the car taken to Mazda of Lakewood, and they couldn't find what was wrong. They did do a compression check, and it was 170-90ish-90ish-170. Looks like head gasket. That makes some kind of sense, because the overflow has been dry for some time, and i...

'07 5, 5speed, 60K. Car ran perfectly, until yesterday while sitting at light, started to run rough, CEL came on then engine died. Restarted once, ran rough for a few seconds, then could not restart. Pushed car off street into parking lot where it still sits. Trying to figure out how to fix it, or b...