Flood water fun.

[idiotboy]

Proper motorcycle flood driving technique shown here:

 

[HillmanImp]

swollen fords

 

 

[dieselnutjob]

this is where the air intake is on the 607

 

 

 

These have a reputation for hydraulicing in flood water, but I don't understand how?

 

The only thing I can think is that people go into water so fast that it gets shoved in through the grill next to the front fog and then pushes up the inside of the wheel arch liner to where that air intake is.

[RoadworkUK]

This came in today having been driven through a ford a few weeks ago. Apparently it was running a bit rough.

 

 

It doesn't run rough any more.

[messerschmitt owner]

What model of merc is it?

[RoadworkUK]

What model of merc is it?

 

B-Class, I forget whether petrol or diesel. Ouch, nonetheless.

[PhilA]

Flooding here this year was 12 feet deep, thirty miles inland. Not overly bad really.

 

People here generally don't try to drive in that. They take a boat instead or wait for the water to go away.

 

Air intake on all of our vehicles here is right up behind one of the headlights, so wading through water is a no-no unless it's under about a foot deep. Don't want to usually anyway because the water's all full of silt. It's generally understood here that if you drive your car in the mucky brown water you run the risk of getting that muck inside the working bits of the car, hitting submerged things (the surge will usually bring rocks, gravel, bits of trees etc) and/or alligators and snakes.

 

I understand that the place can't simply come to a halt for longer than a few days (here it's usually about a 5 days to a week for a storm that the area is under evacuation notice and you're not allowed in) but seriously? Time for a KEEP CALM AND DON'T DRIVE IN THE WATER meme.

 

--Phil