Flooding and deep puddles!

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Hawk Tuah

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Anyone got any big puddles round your way?

Had some crackers on my way in to work today (A20). Some drivers are complete chickens though. It took me ages to get in because everyone was moving into the middle of the road (2 way traffic!) to go around anything more than an inch deep, and people were completely stopping before attempting anything that had visible waves.

I was sat behind someone in an Audi Q5 - who literally had to wait till all the traffic coming the other way had stopped before risking the puddle that could only be 3 inches deep. :p
 
When I lived in the sticks I used to see exactly the same thing.

I normally wait till its clear and then floor it through the puddle creating as big a splash as possible. Only problem is that sometimes after disrupting a particularly big puddle, you get a really really bad smell for a few minutes from the putrid water!
 
I went through a big one last night in Crayford on the way back from the Muse concert. Roundabout on Dartford Heath...no one around, there was a big puddle so I went through a bit quickish. Must have been deeper than I thought, whole windscreen was swamped for a few seconds. I grinned like an idiot, Im a complete child when it comes to puddle jumping :D
 
I tend to be cautious, yet not girly, through the larger puddles as they can hide holes and lumps and all sorts (lions, tigers and bears, oh my!).
 
Conscript said:
I went through a big one last night in Crayford on the way back from the Muse concert. Roundabout on Dartford Heath...no one around, there was a big puddle so I went through a bit quickish. Must have been deeper than I thought, whole windscreen was swamped for a few seconds. I grinned like an idiot, Im a complete child when it comes to puddle jumping :D
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Went through a puddle (more like a stream across the road!!) on a motor way slip road like that last year at 70mph, I was preying the car in front which suffered the same didnt slam on his brakes as i could not see a thing! A massive adrenaline rush!! Would have gone through it again had it not been a 5mile round trip to get to it. :D
 
Janesy B said:
You own a Ford, I'd be avoiding those puddles if I were you ;)
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It appeared to hold up better than the Fire Service van in front of me. Despite driving through the puddles like a complete girl (who knows it may of been a girl) a huge plume of black, then white smoke came out of the exhaust. Ground to a halt and looked terminal. :eek:

I happily splashed past just to show my defiance. :p
 
The wimps will have the last laugh when they see your fiesta stopped in the middle of the deep puddle with a bottom end all bent and water flooding into it ;)
 
Clarkey said:
The wimps will have the last laugh when they see your fiesta stopped in the middle of the deep puddle with a bottom end all bent and water flooding into it ;)
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There is driving through a deep puddle at the correct speed, there is having a splash through an inch puddle and then there is being a wimp.

If a puddle was properly deep, I wouldn't even consider driving through it. I'd turn around and get the Baja. :p
 
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Bug One said:
There is driving through a deep puddle at the correct speed, there is having a splash through an inch puddle and then there is being a wimp.

If a puddle was properly deep, I wouldn't even consider driving through it.
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Do you want us to get out and measure the puddle with a depth guage before deciding on a course of action? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
Get back to ironing the creases out of your seats Fox. Its not hard to gauge the depth of a puddle when traffic is in front and coming the other way.
 
[TW]Fox;15309631 said:
Do you want us to get out and measure the puddle with a depth guage before deciding on a course of action? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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If there are other cars in front driving through the puddle it is reasonably easy to gauge how deep it is :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

It really isn't difficult - if you know the puddle isn't too deep (by observing other vehicles in front going through said puddle) then there is no harm in having a bit of fun.

If you aren't sure how deep it is, caution is appropriate.
 
It was piddling down here a couple of days ago, was dry when I set out and by the time I got out of the city I was faced with some nasty puddles at the side of the road. I was off for a B-Road blast in the MX5 of course, but after I hit a deep puddle with one wheel at NSL speeds and the car wanted to drive off the road, I chickened out and went home.
 
i once had to take the golf swimming :( the annoying part was havnig the ehxaust submerged in water, that cant be good for cats at all

it would have to be 2 foot deep to get near an air intake on mine, so surely would have to be higher on most other cars
 
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