Flooding and deep puddles!

Yep loved the puddles on the way home tonight :D Really brought out the child in me for some reason & had a splashing time...Fun times...
 
I went out for some shopping earlier and there were a few good ones. Tell you what, crossplies with no fenders don't half kick some water up. Quite comedy when it soaks the exhausts and there's gallons of steam. Great fun :cool:
 
once driving up winter hill in the winter i hit a flooded road at about 40, water came over the car and we slowed down quite quickly :p just managed to keep moving to get out of it. was in a punto so i was suprised it didnt crumple.
 
[TW]Fox;15310617 said:
There is no way it did anywhere near £27,000 of damage neither does it cost anywhere near that full dealer rate to replace the engine. Either the car was worth noway near £27k (Which unless it was barely a few months old is likely the case) or it was insured under a policy which provides a replacement new car on cars less than 12 or 24 months old in the event of a large claim.

It wasn't £27k of damage.
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Ofcourse it wasn't worth £27k at the time of the accident :), it was 5 years old (and about to be replaced anyway). It's just me using that figure as it's what work payed for it. Guess the insurance would be using trade value, Audi main dealer labour rates and the price of a brand-new shrink wrapped engine on a palette from Audi prices for the economical to repair or not thing.

Moral of the story kids; check where the air intake is on your car! :o
 
Bug One said:
Always reminds me of this.

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LOL, that would have gone through it they went dead slow. Bow wave is only any use with a Landy style intake on the side. On anything else a bow wave makes it worse.






I need to keep away from puddles really, it dissolves the engine electrics, and bends heat shields off round the silencers.
 
I've had a bit of fun in the floods tonight, I came across a road that was flooded, Coppers turning away all vehicles, he simply waved me through - my chassis needed a good rinse which it duly got. :D
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I've had a bit of fun in the floods tonight, I came across a road that was flooded, Coppers turning away all vehicles, he simply waved me through - my chassis needed a good rinse which it duly got. :D
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nice, would have liked to have seen that. :D


Theres just something about seeing cars/lorries going through floods that i find "fun". As long as im not getting drenched by the wave i guess.;)
 
[TW]Fox;15310617 said:
There is no way it did anywhere near £27,000 of damage neither does it cost anywhere near that full dealer rate to replace the engine. Either the car was worth noway near £27k (Which unless it was barely a few months old is likely the case) or it was insured under a policy which provides a replacement new car on cars less than 12 or 24 months old in the event of a large claim.

It wasn't £27k of damage.
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Maybe not that much damage, but most flood damaged cars are written off as the dirty water will slowly knacker the electrics causing untold problems. If you get sufficient water up to a given level in pretty much any car it's quite likely it'll be written off. Particularly on a new car a manufacturer will remove a warranty unless everything electrical is stripped and replaced.
 
I came through a monster "puddle" on the A£ this morning. I didn't see it until the last minute. The rooster tails either side of the car were quite a sight to see. Car was fine though (well, it's german!)
 
I'm only after ploughing thorough one that was right across the road, was deeper than I thought, and my emissions warning light has now ominously come on. :(

Good laugh all the same! :D
 
Had a few hairy situations on friday, it had flooded in places that I've never seen running water.

The cold air intake on my car means the filter lives about 1 foot above the road. Scary times
 
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