The other day I received a phone call from my wife. After running an errand, she had returned to her 2014 Forester and it wouldn't start.
She was in a parking lot only a little over a mile from home, but by the time I got to my car and waited for two stop lights it probably took ten minutes to reach her location.
I got in her Forester, turned the key, and it started right up.
This incident has the earmarks of a flooded engine. During the time it took for her to phone and for me to get there, the excess fuel had evaporated and the engine had returned to normal.
If a flooded engine is what it was, then this is the first time I've experienced the phenomenon with a modern, fuel-injected, computer-controlled engine. I didn't think it could happen.
My questions are: Can a modern engine be flooded? If so, what might my wife have done to create the condition? If it can't be flooded, then can anyone suggest what did happen?