Flood water fun.

[Spiny Norman]

I know we've got a You Tube thread but this was just so LOL-some I thought it deserved its own little airing.

 

Footage shows a few vehicles fording some flood water.

Moderately amusing when WVM gets stuck in VW van and begs Land Rover man for help but check out the awesome wading ability of the shiter at 1:30!

 

[rml2345]

That was quite funny. VW van in not very good at fording shock.

[Felly Magic]

That Hyundai certainly wasn't High & Dry! Great vid, and class driving from them, and the bloke in the VW Transporter will have had some explaining to do

[face]

I was out for my regular lunch stroll yesterday and found this near Hinxton, Cambs. Washed away by the high waters thundering through the ford there.

 

 

In the last twenty or so years, I have found a MK1 Golf, MK1 Cavalier, a Renault 25 and now this in the same place.

[Ben_L]

I was out for my regular lunch stroll yesterday and found this near Hinxton, Cambs. Washed away by the high waters thundering through the ford there.

 

 

In the last twenty or so years, I have found a MK1 Golf, MK1 Cavalier, a Renault 25 and now this in the same place.

 

A friends girlfriend told me about the Hinxton ford claiming another victim, you've got to be stupid to go through there if it's anything more than 1ft deep, even the Cavalier struggles for traction when it's 6" due to the algie on the concrete through-way... Utterly hilarious!

[beko1987]

Liked the drawn out 3 point turn by the red corsa in that video!

[vulgalour]

I forded my first flood today in the Maestro, got about 3/4s of the way through before I realised just how likely it was that my distributor was in the water and the engine went a bit chuggy, but we made it without getting wet feet! Cleaned all the mud off the sides too, which was nice.

 

I want to give blue Hyundai guy a cigar. He must be super cool too, you know what they say about guys with blue cars.

[Felly Magic]

I have s sneaky feeling the engine in the van was lunched too. Water up the air intake?? A mate tried fording some deep water in his Clio derv, biiiiiiig mistake. Air intake in front bumper, engine hydraulic'd its self to death. Next day, car went 'over the bridge'

[Spiny Norman]

Best car I ever had for floods was my old Diesel Citroen CX.

I remember one foul night in Barrhead coming up to a bit of flood water with a Fiesta stranded in it with water up to the top of the wheel acrches. I stopped, raised the suspension to its maximum height and made it through the water no bother.

A quick dab on the brakes and flick the suspension lever back down and off we went in a huge cloud of steam!

[Shep Shepherd]

Owing to bitter and expensive past experience (hydrolocked/destroyed Rover 214 engine in 2002, sheared Volvo V70 exhaust downpipe flange in 2009), I keep well away from flooded roads and swollen fords (respectively) nowadays

[pervypaul]

Looks like the fiesta failed. At least it's floated to the local garage

[willswitchengage]

07-09-08_0939 by willswitchengage, on Flickr

 

This was my first ever place of work, the "anal garage". Due to its clever location, it used to flood a lot.

[Partridge]

Blimy, it does actually look like that Fiesta has “floatedâ€Â. It’s listing to one side so must be full of water. At least it was a new one.

[trigger]

There was a feature about people deliberately driving though the floods on the Jeremy Vine show today, I have to agree with the people who phoned in, it's bloody stupid, It causes tides (forget the proper word for it) which end up flooding peoples homes and damaging other vehicles and causes more pressure on the local services having to rescue you when you breakdown.

 

Another thing I've never thought about before which they talked about was how the high water causes the manholes to lift so whilst your driving along a flooded road (which you may know like the back of your hand) you could end up losing a wheel down a opened manhole.

 

I saw this video last night of a twat in a LR showing off in the floods a few days ago, I had to laugh when it floated and broke down.

[oman5]

I had a lucky escape going home from work on the (unlit) M48 at 11.30 pm. I was in the rover 45 doing about 60 and didn't see the lake across the whole carriageway until I was on top of it. feet off all pedals and just let it plunge through.(I'd never have stopped in time) the engine didn't die or owt but I was more concerned with it aquaplaning. shook me up anyway.

The only other floods I've seen have been when at work, behind the wheel of a volvo artic which isn't really troubled unless water is stupidly deep

[JohnDeere]

The A1101 Welney Washes is flooded every year as part of the flood management on the fens. Depth is up to 1m above road level today when this brave man took his Landie through

 

I was there on Sunday when the level was quite a bit lower and saw the same monster tractor in the video which barely noticed the water.

[Woody]

Scary, that LR driver must have balls of steel!

 

I took the old Felicia through a deep one on the Holland-On-Sea marshes a few years ago, with just a slight bit of panic when the water headed over the bonnet line. Fortunately I got away with it, saw a Metro parked smack in the middle of the same flood next day who hadn't been so lucky...

[Morgan84]

Not only will driving through water fudge up the electrics on cars,the water filling the cars sills and other sections with water will do them no favors at all. That's assuming you don't hydraulic the engine if you are unlucky enough to take in water up the air intake

[Polystratus]

I have s sneaky feeling the engine in the van was lunched too. Water up the air intake?? A mate tried fording some deep water in his Clio derv, biiiiiiig mistake. Air intake in front bumper, engine hydraulic'd its self to death. Next day, car went 'over the bridge'

 

There was an 2009 Octavia in the place where I usually take the car for servicing/repairs that had gone through flood water and the water had gone over it's bonnet - was having it's engine replaced for something like £4k.

[Felly Magic]

OUCH! That will be a hell of an insurance claim

[SambaS]

This was my mates CLK a few years ago. He followed a taxi through the water, the taxi made it he didn't.

 

Bad day that, outstanding finance... third party insurance and to add insult to injury when we went to recover it, the Police had already ordered a local firm to remove it at a cost of 160 pounds. Plus a nice fee for every day it was at their yard.

 

[andrew e]

 

Did this about 6 months ago to my lovely Beige Vectra Design wagon. Note the ridiculously low water level. I didn't even breach the interior. Unusual wagon - 6 speed auto, ESP, full satnav, towpack, self levelling shocks a shitter's dream in 2020!

 

Also note the air intake for a 150 HP 16 valve derv Vectra is just beneath the front foglight under the bumper....

[Spiny Norman]

Also note the air intake for a 150 HP 16 valve derv Vectra is just beneath the front foglight under the bumper....

That raises a question.

How high (or otherwise) is the air intake on most 'normal' cars? The one on my Saab seems quite high, being in the join between wing and bonnet quite far back on the passenger side, a good two feet off the ground at least. I'd imagine that would give it quite a decent wading ability.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Through work we see a fair few small vans that have sucked up water, bent con-rods are always on the menu afterwards.

[bub2006]

A lot of floods on back lanes where I have to drive down to work. Little reliant is fine through it. Air intake is on top of the engine as its a carb. Dizzy is quite high up and the alternator is a bit lower but higher up and behind the front wheel mudflap. Had a little water come in bottom of drivers door but that's it. Quiet interesting when front wheel dips and starts a bow wave and headlights are just illuminating murky water! One of them the water did come up over front of car. Good job my bonnet is set back from front of car!

[idiotboy]

Just had to detour in the Valiant Volvo 340 variospastic as the road in front was blocked, by 3 things.

 

1. Over a metre of water

2. A hydrauliced BMW X5 in the left lane water almost up to the bonnet line.

3. A similarly f**ked Merc M class (with a lady sitting on its roof waiting for rescue) facing the other way.

 

I must admit I felt sorry for them for ooh maybe a nanosecond and then laughed heartily, 3 point turned and trundled off to take the other road.

[Ben_L]

Well, after a 150 mile round trip to south Essex and back to Huntingdon, I can officially say that this flooding is shite.

 

Offords - Flooded

Lt. Paxton - Flooded

 

Added 30 miles to my journey.

 

Then saw a brand new Clio with leather and the like which looked as if it'd been up to the windscreen in water last night (Windscreen was misted up to buggery and shit on the scuttle panel) in the middle of a trickling ford.

 

I've got no fear of flooded roads, taken gently, they're managable. After driving 1/4 mile in floodwater that was 10-12" deep, I came through the other side, over a bridge and then it was 2ft. I turned around and had to drag some numpty in a Bippa out of the mud as he'd strayed onto the verge and got well and truly stuck. Made him tie the rope up as I refused to get out of my car!

 

There's so many tards driving at it as fast as possible and killing cars, that car on page one in Hinxton would have been avoidable - There's a brand new fugging ruler at the side of the road that states the forthcoming water is 6ft deep...

[Micrashed]

The North.

We is higher up than you

[Mr Lobster]

^ +1

 

Been driving around all week and haven't noticed any floods at all up here.

 

Southerners should be grateful that we are letting them have our water, they'll be moaning about hosepipe bans soon anyway

[ashmicro]

That raises a question.

How high (or otherwise) is the air intake on most 'normal' cars? The one on my Saab seems quite high, being in the join between wing and bonnet quite far back on the passenger side, a good two feet off the ground at least. I'd imagine that would give it quite a decent wading ability.

 

The one on the Rover is under the passenger side headlamp. The Jag and Merc have have 2 each, level with the bonnet slam. A Barry modification of "stick a K&N straight on the throttle body" would make the Rover's one pretty high up, roughly level with the base of the windscreen.