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Rain/Floods etc.

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  • 14-11-2009 12:12am
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    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭


    /cue seasonal influx of 'one post wonders' with something along the lines of "I drove thru a 2ft deep pool of water and my car wont start, help" :rolleyes:

    Note to people of Ireland: water in engines kills cars. You don't have to be a mechanic, I'm not and know this by reading the amount of sob stories on here the last time we have a bad run of weather.

    Yet tonight I still see the very same eejits lashing thru flooded parts of roads like thier cars were built for it. A person is smart, but people are dumb?


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    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    ..or, and made the local radio here yesterday, 11 cars damaged in one pothole yesterday morning.

    Me, I'd have been at walking pace wondering what the 10 cars with 3 wheels parked, were doing..........:rolleyes:

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    Dartz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,371 ✭✭✭Dartz


    I drove through a 2 ft deep pool and myt car runs fine.....

    Do I have a problem.

    Or is it running because I kept a low enough speed to prevent forming too much of a bow-wave, while at the same time keeping the revs high, and being aware of where on the car the intake was?


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    Rulmeq
    Registered Users Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭Rulmeq


    I drove through 2 feet of water, OMG?!?!


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Dartz wrote: »
    I drove through a 2 ft deep pool and myt car runs fine.....

    We're talking depth here, not length :D

    What kind of car have you got that can go through 60 cm of water?


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    Dark-Mavis
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Dark-Mavis


    I have a golf and wouldn't bat an eye lid at going through a 2 foot flooded road. Keep at a steady pace with revs up and NEVER stop.

    Love going by people in their jeeps staring in astonishment, while failing to do a three point turn:D

    Clip on youtube of a Honda NSX going through about three foot of water, can't find it now though.


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    Fintan Stack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Fintan Stack


    Dont understand why you would want to keep the revs high. Surley if water is going to get sucked into the engine it would cause more damage if the engine's running at high speed, bent rods etc. :confused:

    I generaly try to coast through deep puddles if I can.


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    Rev. BlueJeans
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    One would need to be very aware of where their air intake is before fording, for want of a better word.

    Hot turbos don't like the thermal shock of cold water hitting them, and we all know what water will do to ECUs.

    Tread carefully.


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    Dark-Mavis
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Dark-Mavis


    Fintan Stack wrote: »
    Dont understand why you would want to keep the revs high. Surley if water is going to get sucked into the engine it would cause more damage if the engine's running at high speed, bent rods etc. :confused:

    I generaly try to coast through deep puddles if I can.

    Stops the water rushing into the exhaust and cutting out the engine.


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    cascade35
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭cascade35


    There is some major work going on in Clonmel to stop parts of the town flooding, even so it still looked like the quay was about to burst its banks last night.
    What amazed me were the people who parked their cars there last night ignoring flood warning signs the council put up all along the quay.


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    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Rev. BlueJeans wrote: »

    Hot turbos don't like the thermal shock of cold water hitting them, and we all know what water will do to ECUs.

    Tread carefully.

    I remember reading Boreham's (Works Ford Rally Team) solution to removing blown turbos in Rally Service in the Sierra & Escort Cosworths - one bucket of water over the hot turbo. The result - one cracked turbo housing, making it easier to remove.


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    Martron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    Dark-Mavis wrote: »
    Clip on youtube of a Honda NSX going through about three foot of water, can't find it now though.


    i think it was an infiniti in america. could be wrong. i saw that clip/

    i have had ford focus that i drove through 2 foot of water nay bother to it. its when you hit it at speed is when you crack pipes and stuff


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    Martron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    my mistake it was acura


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrlWy6IAdM


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    tossy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,590 ✭✭✭tossy


    Martron wrote: »
    my mistake it was acura


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrlWy6IAdM

    Engine in the rear :rolleyes:


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    Vagante
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Vagante


    A bit guilty admitting this but found it horribly funny watching poor people on the footpaths being drenched by huge waves as the coach I was on yesterday evening drove me home!!


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    Eccles
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭Eccles


    What a pack of sissies!I remember once a few years ago driving a lowered MX5 through flood water that was way over the bottom of the doors (not a hint of an interior leak)-as any good driver knows keep the revs up and speed steady (and obviously dont stop!)-I also had moved the air intake about a bit -maybe extended it and made it a bit 'higher'...How anybody could flood a 4x4 in a small flood is beyond me !


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    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Dark-Mavis wrote: »
    I have a golf and wouldn't bat an eye lid at going through a 2 foot flooded road. Keep at a steady pace with revs up and NEVER stop.

    Love going by people in their jeeps staring in astonishment, while failing to do a three point turn:D

    Clip on youtube of a Honda NSX going through about three foot of water, can't find it now though.

    No offence, but there's only so long you'll get away with that


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    slimjimmc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,787 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    Rev. BlueJeans wrote: »
    One would need to be very aware of where their air intake is before fording, for want of a better word.

    Hot turbos don't like the thermal shock of cold water hitting them, and we all know what water will do to ECUs.

    Tread carefully.

    Hot catalyic convertors don't like thermal shock either, can shatter the ceramics inside.


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    Caliden
    Registered Users Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    galwaytt wrote: »
    ..or, and made the local radio here yesterday, 11 cars damaged in one pothole yesterday morning.

    Me, I'd have been at walking pace wondering what the 10 cars with 3 wheels parked, were doing..........:rolleyes:

    I know the road you're talking about and with the traffic in the morning along that road, you wouldn't have been able see the cars pulled in until you were up to them and by that stage you would've gone passed the culprit pothole.

    Nice try though


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