My imaginary flooded car.

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86JR said:
Do the AA have helicopters or boats?
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Oh c'mon TBL. TBL, so let me understand this, you approached a 'puddle' which in turn was a small lake in the road, you went through it and I'm guessing you did know it was a mistake. You then carried on and went through another, with your electricals not working properly.

Did you not think at all that it would have been best to actually stop and ring for help? Or were you to prideful of your mistake which you had made.

I'm not having a go or dig, I just genuinely want to know what went through your mind. :)
 
How did you mange to still have the pictures of your sunken car after you'd lost the phone? You couldn't have uploaded them as you had no signal :confused:

There's many straights and pull-ins to wait at on the way to the garage, you'd know these exist by knowing the road well. Even at 2am in a major storm, not even Clarkey in a rally prepped Evo would be out there hooning it and not see you.
 
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His pics were taken with his iPhone 4, which he then uploaded to the net. They're easily found in a directory of some website. Funnily enough the pictures of the car a week before and an hour before are not taken with a iPhone 4.
 
86JR said:
Lol you guys make me laugh with your detective skills.

1. I own the domain and the server behind it of "some website", note I only uploaded them when this thread was started.

2. The flooded pictures were taken with my Dad's iPhone 4, as my Samsung Galaxy was gone.

3. I have an iPhone 4S - see my picture of my dog in the Dog thread.

Try again ;)
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You make us laugh with your story changing... skillz

Sorry but no one is going to believe you when your story changes 3x a day.
 
86JR said:
Lol you guys make me laugh with your detective skills.

1. I own the domain and the server behind it of "some website", note I only uploaded them when this thread was started.

2. The flooded pictures were taken with my Dad's iPhone 4, as my Samsung Galaxy was gone.

3. I have an iPhone 4S - see my picture of my dog in the Dog thread.

Try again ;)
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No detective skills. Just curiosity. Fair play to you mate. :cool:
 
Matt82 said:
Just speculating

You drive through the first puddle and practically ruin your car, realise its going to be a right ball ache to sort out with all the electrics and gearbox dead.

Then the "good idea" light bulb flickers into life. Drown it, take it properly swimming, wont have anything to fix then, thats what insurance is for.
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I wee'd myself reading this :)
 
On the subject of water-logged/flooded roads - how many would realistically STOP and turnaround prior to entering a flood which depth you have a rough idea, but still not 100%, with a queue of traffic behind you in torrential rain? (you drive the road daily, so have familiarity with it)
 
Depends on "rough idea". Are we talking thinking it's something like 1 inch, but it could be 2? Or more that your wondering if the stone surface you can see above the water line is the kerb, or the top of a 3 foot high wall?

If you think it could be too deep to cross, screw the traffic and turn around. Or pull over and let some other mug try it first. Perhaps the guy in the Audi with his lights off?
 
RedvGreen said:
On the subject of water-logged/flooded roads - how many would realistically STOP and turnaround prior to entering a flood which depth you have a rough idea, but still not 100%, with a queue of traffic behind you in torrential rain? (you drive the road daily, so have familiarity with it)
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I would and have turned around before, I've also pulled over to let other cars attempt it first to get a judge on depth. It's only a MK3 mondeo but I'm not risking binning it when it's a decently reliable car.
 
There is a road round here that is prone to flooding, it happens to be one of my favourite B road routes.

One night i was out, got to a wiggly section and the road (as far as you could see) was submerged and i was in the BMW (intake it down by the fog light!)

i did a u turn and went back the way i came and detoured the rest of the way home
 
RedvGreen said:
On the subject of water-logged/flooded roads - how many would realistically STOP and turnaround prior to entering a flood which depth you have a rough idea, but still not 100%, with a queue of traffic behind you in torrential rain? (you drive the road daily, so have familiarity with it)
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I would. Inconvenience other roads users momentarily, or potentially damage my own car? Obvious choice, surely.
 
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