I do avoid puddles especially in built up areas - where I can't avoid, I slow down.

 

It's not nice splashing pedestrians.

 

Also illegal if you get caught doing it deliberately.

Also illegal if you get caught doing it deliberately.

 

Possibly even if you do it unintentionally.  

Possibly even if you do it unintentionally.  

 

 That would be a question of intent m'lud

Firstly, no, sorry but I value my car too much to take risks like that. Secondly, I saw your car on 9Gag

Yep, nice to see you here too! And oh man… I need to give a cookie to the first reply. I come back to find pages of responses, ranging from irresponsibility, broad threats, to other scenarios. I recently made another post on 9gag about this thread. And that Rapid I posted on Camber Sands has unfortunately been written off; I left Apollo last year and the car was given to another driver. He drove across a country road crossroads which had no street lighting or signs and the road markings were nearly gone. Add to this the fact it was night time… crash.

And as for the 'submarine school run' Octavia in question, I'm handing it back on Sunday. I'm going to miss the fuel economy, the space and the way it 'drives through the River Thames without conking out' .

I assumed the story's exaggerated elaboration was enough give. Indeed, I drove through standing water which was as deep as the tyres' height for a brief moment at the dip and trundled through with 'deep' anxiety, but since the Rapid had the same engine and assumed layout and it survived, it would have been fine. And it still was. It seems I was quite a troll and didn't even know it. Funny stuff!

No because it would get my car extra dirty!

I do avoid puddles especially in built up areas - where I can't avoid, I slow down.

It's not nice splashing pedestrians.

I agree. Dont wanna be splashing pedestrians.

Cyclists on the other hand.. Thats fair game

Went wading in a bone stock mk1 disco, had water over the bonnet but still kept going somehow, was ****ting bricks

Lass where I worked did that with a Citroen BX " The Picasso you passed " and wrecked her engine. If OP had done the same, at least he'd have taught the poor kids something about the incompressibility of water

 

The BX had a high air intake anyway, and with the suspension up was very good at going through floods.

I say this from experience, so they must have been a complete twit to manage to flood the engine on one of those.

The BX had a high air intake anyway, and with the suspension up was very good at going through floods.

I say this from experience, so they must have been a complete twit to manage to flood the engine on one of those.

All models of BX? I'm asking because I know that the ZX XUDT with the same interheater system carried its air cleaner box just behind the LHF fog light.

Its a wee bit damp right now in parts of Scotland.

 

Maybe some D!ck5 might think that Dipped Beam and rear lights are needed, & get them on, the minimum required, and sufficient.

(What was a Skoda superb driver with 8 white lights showing to the front and sitting up my jacksy earlier playing at?

There are cars in front of me, and huge floods of H20 across the road.)

You know who you are on the A77. Pillock..

 

Just DRL's to the front and nothing to the rear obviously is not driving with a brain activated, even though your new car is lovely, 

& for those with Fog Lights, it is not Foggy, and you do not have Driving Lights anymore.

Also if you are crawling along in traffic and you have lights on the rear fog light is surplus to requirement.

Edited 20 July, 20169 yr by GoneOffSKi