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Offline Kus

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How to drive through floods?
« on: 30 April 2012, 22:37 »
Quick question then,I know you should slip the clutch,keep the revs up ect but how many revs should you stay at and would it do damage to the clutch/gearbox...

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #1 on: 30 April 2012, 22:40 »
Drive.... dont stop.... pray.... check brakes

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #2 on: 30 April 2012, 22:43 »
I sold someone a MK2 that drove through a Fjord maybe they could advise?  :lipsrsealed:

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #3 on: 30 April 2012, 22:49 »
Pray is a good one haha

I'm talkin about a full on flooded road.

I drove through a huge one a few years back in my 206  :grin:  was so deep it was going over the windscreen think it got to the middle of the door made it through though car was spitting water out the exhaust new gearbox a month later though

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #4 on: 30 April 2012, 22:50 »
Get a mk3 and barge your way through... :rolleyes:

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #5 on: 30 April 2012, 22:53 »
Get a mk3 and barge your way through... :rolleyes:

Costa would hit a rock so would not chance it.

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #6 on: 30 April 2012, 23:05 »
I sold someone a MK2 that drove through a Fjord maybe they could advise?  :lipsrsealed:

well Costa is Fjord blue!

i think there is a subtle difference here though between 'Fjord' and 'Ford'


(can you spot the mk3?)

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/17/32/173265_3d0adfbb.jpg

remember Fords can be dangerous and you can still die crossing them...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17897637

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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #7 on: 30 April 2012, 23:06 »
About walking pace, create a bow wave in front of the car, and maintain it, until clear of water.... You must not stop in the water at all, If water enters the air intake, the engine is likely to hydraulically lock, read scrap!
Best of luck :rolleyes:

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Re: How to drive through floods?
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Re: How to drive through floods?
« Reply #9 on: 30 April 2012, 23:11 »
dont do what my mate did and drive into one thinking it was a puddle to then find out that it was not, you couldnt see the wing mirrors because it was that deep. he got stuck. one of his mates had to come out swim through the water then try and put the hook onto his tow eye (head fully under water  :grin: )

new engine rebuild. and new interior as the interior was all water damaged

then a month later racing a st the st spun out and crashed into him at over 2x the national speed limit  :lipsrsealed: both cars were a right off