Got flooded now have a problem............

Got flooded now have a problem............

I was driving home from block buster and i had to go through this one road to get home and the water was deep... I had to stop to let a car past and my car turns off on me. the water was pretty deep so i guess my exhaust was underwater. So i try to turn it back on and it doesn't. I take the key out and put it back in and i try to start it and it starts but chokes and dies. So i do it again and this time i give it gas. I keep it floored and until it sounds normal. I floored it home and got home ok kinda, next day car started hard but now its ok.
anyway...........
Problem is.......
I got that touring guage cluster wit the rpm guage and it has a temperature thing on it, well b4 it was showing "E" because o obviously didnt have a temperature sensor installed because i did a swap. Well after that incident it started showing a temperature, it varies from -13F to -22f. It goes to -22 when engine is warmed up. Well i reset the computer wit the battery unplugged for a good 2 hours. I plug the battery back and its still messed up....... So any ideas?
PS: btw when i opened my hood it was still wet from the other day, like that material lining between the engine and the hood was still soaked...

that happened to me too when i got my car washed at a machine carwash... when the underbody sparyers sprayed my car, it showed me the same numbers... im guessing its because the contacts on the temp sensors got wet...thats just my guess... im not sure... it should go back to -E later... coz mine went back to -E...

well i don't even have a sensor though.... so idk wat the problem is

i dont have a sensor on mine too... but the thing that you pug the sensor in is there...

from how i understood the back of my counsel is that the sensor plugs into the guage cluster itself, its basically like a wire, because i still have a whole to plug somethin into the back of my cluster

nope... on my car, the sensor is at the front of the car... its even in front of the radiator... and it was pointed down... so thats why it got easily wet when i did the carwash...

but my car originally didn't have have an rpm guage cluster, so i did a swap to have one, so i don't even have a sensor, plus i'm pretty sure i have to plug something into the whole in the back of my guage cluster that is still open and that whole is probably for the sensor

well... idk man... i did not have a tach before... i also did a cluster swap... my car did not have a sensor but!!!! my car did come with the thing that you plug the sensor in...

o thats odd mine didn't, maybe its somewhere in the back or sometin, i gotta check it out

you may have gotten something other than that wet. all i can say is take it to have someone look at it.

to toyota? i still have warranty until may.......
but i gotta put my stock airbox in, but warranty might be void casue of my guage cluster changed and i got a grounding kit....

... im clueless man... wait till it dries up or something... but im pretty sure you have the wires for a sensor... you have the wires for the tach... why not for a sensor...

It's water or something that's gotten into the contacts of your sensor plug. All the "sensor" is, is really a temperature resistor. When you purchase one and plug it in it completes the circuit and you get a correct reading. If you've got something else up there (ie water, or something else with resistance) you're also completing the circuit, albeit the readings are wrong.

and i've got an 00'. The sensor is located in the front of your vehicle by the radiator. And it's connected to your gauge cluster on one of the packs of wires that plugs into the back, there isn't something you have to specifically plug in. I had the same problem when I swapped in my gauge cluster, and i started getting correct readings when I bought a sensor and plugged it in.

how much was that thing to get the sensor working

i paid 85 bucks for a replacement at the dealer for the 01, BTW if it still has warranty why don't you just put it back to normal and have it serviced. i would and i have everytim i take the accord in.

i paid 35 at jcwhitney. works great!

but its not stock though and i really don't feel like putting my stocka air box in, taking my grounding kit off, plus my battery terminals aren't stock, too much work, plus i would have to switch guage clusters back again and swap the odometers

and anyway ijust checked and its back to E, so fixed itself