everything ok was quite suprised how the little one has held up after hitting some of that standing water that around in cumbria/scotland it really is like hitting a brick wall. is there anything i should take look at to see if its ok ????

Your :pants: !

lol it was a bit messy at times i tell you must have been 5" deep in places :( what i find silly is trucks just drive straight through them no problem lol me i almost crash pfft

lol it was a bit messy at times i tell you must have been 5" deep in places :( what i find silly is trucks just drive straight through them no problem lol me i almost crash pfft

I ran Mud terrain tyres on my Disco which could seriously shift water! Always made me chuckle when I was being tailgated by someone in their car and I would just carry on at 50mph through a 3" deep puddle and they'd suddely be aquaplaning and trying to keep their car on the road

Btw, might also be worth checking the air filter is dried out - after some offroading in the Disco, I happened to check our air filter and discovered the engine probably wasn't getting a lot of air! :eek: Fitted a snorkel after that

Chris

mate has a snorkel on his he looks a bit silly sat in the carpark

will give it a check but it did 215 miles last night so it seems ok

i feel for the people running things like vipers with remote air feeds hehehe they dont stand a chance

Had a few hair raising moments on my way to head office this morning too. :eek: I did a lot of middle lane straddling to avoid long deep puddles on the left hand side, and when a great big juggernaut is heading toward you... :shocked: Brake hard and dive in to the water was the only option. Not a bad journey though - 55 miles including a fair amount of twisty B road + 30 lmits, 1 hour 10 minutes at an average of 48mph. Thankfully was quiet this morning, and I discovered a new shortcut to the motorway from my home. Always love doing that.

hehe good show yeah i did most of the a66 sat in the middle

did ayr to york in 3:37 minutes not too bad

My local lane often gets flooded in heavy rain, Picasso got stuck there last year and I just waded past, mostly driving on the verge (underwater ).

I find the important thing when wading is slow but constant speed, allow a bow wave to build up in front of the car, and not to enter too fast!

Of course if unsure, get out, get a stick and walk through it first - see how deep it is!

(but only if you cannot go another way! )

well what i found was i couldnt see the water when hitting it at like 50 :(

ands the rabbit didnt see me hitting it at some speed either poor bunny :(

I hit a patch of water in my saxo vts at about 40mph. It did a fair bit of damage!! It pulled all the inner arch out, popped the front arch out, pulled out all the underneath cables (hand brake etc) and flooding one of the front light. Lucky all was repaired under warrenty . But then I was already on first name terms with them!!!

i seem to have been ok then as it still drives nowts hanging out etc etc

I ran Mud terrain tyres on my Disco which could seriously shift water! Always made me chuckle when I was being tailgated by someone in their car and I would just carry on at 50mph through a 3" deep puddle and they'd suddely be aquaplaning and trying to keep their car on the road

I did a similar thing in my Disco, but i had the heaters and fans one, as the bow wave came over the bonnet it sprayed water thru all the vents and over the dashboard. Took it back to the dealer saying i think water is getting in somewhere, the took 2 days to says they couldnt find a leak, but they replaced the stereo for me anyway

My mate had his 306 GTi 6 written off by a Disco too, he was going dead slow thru a flood, the Disco didnt bother going slow down, the wave it cause swamped the 306 and distroyed the engine. He wasnt best pleased!

If you hit deep water in something with a good strong sumpguard....it planes nicely across the top

but...

in long floods...

it reaches the middle.....looses speed.....and sinks

I was not happy

lol now that sounds like it would be good to watch

lol now that sounds like it would be good to watch

it would have been great to see but wasn't fun inside....the sides of the road had disguised the fact that the water was well over the sills, i found that out when I had to bail out and push

soon after that it was the famous phone call....."daaaad " can ya come and tow me out

I didn't learn though...did something very similar a few years later in a company car...a Astra Sri while using it on a road rally

haha itsok if its not your car

haha itsok if its not your car

there were a few questions about how i managed to get mud in the air filter

is there anything i should take look at to see if its ok ????

Just watch out when you open the door:

My mate had his 306 GTi 6 written off by a Disco too, he was going dead slow thru a flood, the Disco didnt bother going slow down, the wave it cause swamped the 306 and distroyed the engine. He wasnt best pleased!

Not me, guv!

Chris

if it's a big enough "puddle" I normal wait for the other car to cross it before I do, that way the "bow wave" cant hit your car. As for 4x4 I defo let them cross first, coz if I have a 4x4 I'd just laugh if I flooding someone out.

When I owned a Lada Samara you could not drive through a puddle without the engine dieing. Learned the hard way to carry a can of WD40 to spray the plugs etc . Never got attacked by a great white while under the bonnet however. Don't think the WD40 would have done much good in that case.

everything ok was quite suprised how the little one has held up after hitting some of that standing water that around in cumbria/scotland it really is like hitting a brick wall. is there anything i should take look at to see if its ok ????

Water is a very hard substance. I can remember our Arun class lifeboat finding a "hole in the ocean" at 18 knots - it was out on a "shout" and came off the crest of a 30+ foot wave. When it landed, several seconds later, it did a good impression of a submarine :eek: The impact knocked out the radar and the MF radios. They crew were all belted in to their seats so came to no harm - it was a steel built boat.

On return to base we found that the radar scanner was full of water - it was supposed to be sealed. The whip aerial for the MF radios had been folded flat against the wheelhouse. Now, the aerial was about a 12 foot fibreglass whip, about 1" in diameter at its greatest, and was bolted at the base to the wheelhouse. We tried to straighten it by hand - no luck. We had to physically unbolt it to reset it to the vertical. The forces needed to fold an object with such a small surface area flat must have been incredible :eek: