Distributor. Possible causes.

Probably, many Sundays in warm went to his car to rest for the city to sit outdoors, wander through the woods to collect mushrooms and berries, someone likes to relax by the lakes and rivers to catch fish, swim and forget the city behind. So somehow, in the evening in his car coming back home after one more time relaxing outdoors, in places where I like to be with my family, we saw a car was parked with the hood open, and to us to meet people fled waving his arms. Stopped, we realized that this is also lovers spend the weekend out of town. They told me that when they came to go home and slowly moved through the woods, saw overgrown pond and decided to wash the car and up to the nearest town about 20 km. The forest was very quiet, dusk, and the place of the deaf. It turned out that after careful water treatments including the engine compartment, the engine stopped running. Or nature rebelled, or perfume timber, but the battery is no longer breathing, but the car did not publish signs of life. The driver was outside of myself, much swearing, saying that all tested ten times, that this can not be. Yes, so it was a spark, petrol, well, what else is needed, all dried and turned inside-out. I asked to remove the ignition distributor cap, as previously encountered a similar case and guess what the possible cause. Taking cover in the hands and examined it from the inside, he saw something that is very difficult sometimes to see a thin hardened coal track, which was held from contact of the central wire to one of four candles, created by high voltage, and coal, as we know a good conductor. The cause of thinking such a warm engine, most likely in the ignition distributor cap hit cold water and under cover of temperature difference formed droplets. Condensation could not dry out quickly, even though the outside long ago weathered, and when you try to start the engine cover was broken high voltage, since water is also an excellent conductor. I know many drivers carry with them a large arsenal of all kinds of spare parts, but if something like that happened, and you do not have a spare lid timer, do not despair, try to clear a path from coal than a sharp tip of a knife and you can start the engine, checked. And take care of nature.