driving through floods

GeX said:
why do people even try?
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TBH, i jealous of the folks that get a chance to try, we've had nowt down here and there are only a couple of fords around to wash the chassis with :(
 
whatleytom said:
we just went through slow at about 6000rpm.
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Quality. :D

The beauty of trucks & floods, is watching cars / vans & people geting swept away by your "bow wave" ;)

The air intake is about 4 ft above ground level,no risk of flooding out really, you have to watch out for the cold water finding hot items such as brake discs & turbo's though!

Floods, the HGV drivers way..... Drive in slowly, give it some to get out.

Managed to pull off a mudguard on my trailer in one flood, the water took it clean off! :o
 
Haha SB118, i could go out and find a flood, there all around us at Banbury.. i could video it to..

But my motor is a 96' Polo, it weighs about as much as a feather and i would be more afraid of getting swept away than anything.. just think.. i could end up in France.. and that wouldnt be good.
 
R124/LA420 said:
Quality. :D



The air intake is about 4 ft above ground level,no risk of flooding out really, you have to watch out for the cold water finding hot items such as brake discs & turbo's though!
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Exactly what I was worried about, I could feel the water sloshing under the car and cringing about my new exhaust being very hot, and obviously the brakes and anything else hot underneath the car.
 
whatleytom said:
update on what happened, was in town earlier with mate in hire car, said about that bit, now had to go around the edge of swindon in my own car, ended up on a part of the ridgeway to get back home, went through about 4 or 5 3-4ft deep puddles, i don't even know how my car is still running. but we made it :cool:
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Are you sure they were 3-4ft deep? On an average car that would be lapping round the windows. Don't think you'd get very far.

Fog
 
may not have been that high, but would have been half way up the doors, this is a 1991 106 i was driving, 1.0 with a carb at the back of the engine bay, quite high up. prob the reason for it surviving. I have honestly never experienced anything like it, one puddle was around 40 ft. long at its deepest, the car honestly felt like it was floating, and moving with the water, i was just creeping through keeping the engine revving high and slipping the clutch every now and then. did this to get home, through about 4 similar puddles, and down a very potholed muddy track, as opposed to queing in traffic to go about 10 miles in 4 hours. no thanks.
 
whatleytom said:
may not have been that high, but would have been half way up the doors, this is a 1991 106 i was driving, 1.0 with a carb at the back of the engine bay, quite high up. prob the reason for it surviving. I have honestly never experienced anything like it, one puddle was around 40 ft. long at its deepest, the car honestly felt like it was floating, and moving with the water, i was just creeping through keeping the engine revving high and slipping the clutch every now and then. did this to get home, through about 4 similar puddles, and down a very potholed muddy track, as opposed to queing in traffic to go about 10 miles in 4 hours. no thanks.
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Prob 1.5 to 2 foot then, still very deep to be driving through :eek: . Is your air filter assembly on top of the carb etc then, if so then thats why it went through ok, plus the high revs to keep the water out of the exhaust, and a bit of luck with the electrics :D

Fog
 
yeh air box assembly is all right at the back of the engine bay at the top, so must have helped no end, was running a bit rough when we got through it but a good run on the road and it was soon fine again. i love having an old car, that i don't really worry about, can be a lot of fun.
 
If you must change into reverse do it this way:

Moving along in 1st at 2000RPM.

Clutch down, leave the throttle where it is (avoid tick over).

Into Neutral and stop the car with the brake. Keeping the throttle open a bit.

Into reverse and start letting the clutch out with the throttle still open a bit.

Once the clutch is all the way out, you're running along backwards doing 2000RPM.
 
Thats blue octavia seen earlier in the thread in my pic, just found it was my mates old mans car.
Written off (not surprisingly) it floated down to where it was, thank god it stopped there and didn't go onto the main road.

Been talking to loads of people saying "yeah we used loads of high revs and swam through it " I was like, yep, you ****** your engine a goodun mate.
 
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