worried after driving thru flood water

AdrianC

pd52 wrote: »

seeing as the national speed limit of 60 applies on this road i think 25mph was reasonable

So are you saying that the speed limit tells you what a safe and appropriate speed is? Does that work for all roads in all conditions, then?

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Of course it does, that is why there are speed cameras set slightly above the "speed limit" to catch dangerous drivers who exceed it :rotfl:

Ebe_Scrooge

Richard53 wrote: »

... anyone taking a Landy into seriously deep water will have done a lot of preparation beforehand.

Spot on. A mate of mine has an old Defender which he bought purely for "fun". Paid quite a small amount for it, but spent loads getting it up to spec. Air intake and exhaust snorkels, a "diff breather" ( whatever that may be !! ), and shed loads of other things. He's taken me out in it a few times, I must say it was great fun. Mind you, I thought I was a reasonably good driver, but he really knows how to drive this thing properly, puts me to shame :-)

Joe_Horner

pvt wrote: »

That's not pedantic, it's just wrong.

Fluids are compressible, it just requires an enormous amount of pressure to do it. Far far more than a piston and conrod can exert.

A singularity or black hole would do it....

Now that's pedantic

Joe_Horner

Not quite sure why some people are having a go at the OP for this incident. Early in the thread he fully admitted that he'd made a mistake and has (hopefully) learned from it.

Because there was no harm in this case, the only immportant bit is the "learning from it". It's called a lucky escape, and we've all had them at one time or another no matter how much of a Driving God we are.

Personally, I'm right up there with Zeus, but I still managed to launch a Triumph 1300 sideways off a bridge into a hedge as a 17 year old. And to slide into the outside lane of a dual carriageway trying to take a slip-road too fast. And to do a full 360 in a lane that was almost narrower than the car was long by accidentally hitting kickdown on a wet bend in an auto. But I learnt from that sort of thing and have a 27 year clean record with no damage to anyone else's property and only two of my own cars damaged (the Triumph and the BMW auto, both survived) in that time.

So, well done OP for taking the lesson onboard

Stoke

colino wrote: »

Of course carb cleaner, if you thought about it, instead of just using it for your argument, flashes off readily and isn't a fluid when it gets into the engine, but then again 1600cc is the capacity, or swept volume of the bores, not the entire free space in an engine.
Either way, unless its an emergency, you don't take modern cars swimming, if they don't ingest it and wreck the engines, their many electronics are just looking for a way to check out early.

That's a standard rule in general though to be fair

colino

Just waiting for a bargain new Range Rover to come in to Copart where the driver didn't believe the Wade Assist.

pd52

AdrianC wrote: »

So are you saying that the speed limit tells you what a safe and appropriate speed is? Does that work for all roads in all conditions, then?

obviously not or I would of been doing 60

AdrianC

pd52 wrote: »

AdrianC wrote:

pd52 wrote:

seeing as the national speed limit of 60 applies on this road i think 25mph was reasonable

So are you saying that the speed limit tells you what a safe and appropriate speed is? Does that work for all roads in all conditions, then?

obviously not or I would of been doing 60

OK, great. So we're in agreement that a 60 limit doesn't imply 60 is always safe and appropriate. Does it imply 50 is always safe and appropriate? 40? 30? No? So why does it say that about 25?

It's quite simple... You drive at a speed from which you can stop in the distance you can see to be clear. The road conditions alone set a safe and appropriate speed. The speed limit merely sets an upper limit for a legal, safe and appropriate speed. No more, no less.

Joe Horner's right when he says that everybody makes mistakes, and that they're not necessarily a bad thing if nobody's hurt, nothing's badly damaged, and - most importantly - you learn from them. Where I disagree with Joe wrt this thread is solely that you don't appear to be learning from it. You appear to be in denial that you were driving too quickly for the conditions. This time, you've been lucky, and your car hasn't been badly damaged. This time.

Richard53

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Air intake and exhaust snorkels, a "diff breather" ( whatever that may be !! )

Small tubes attached to a breather hole on the diffs, which goes up to a level clear of any danger of water ingress - usually cable-tied to the snorkel and terminating above roof level.

Axles and diffs get hot, and if they are suddenly submerged in water they cool quickly and suck air in - or, rather, suck in whatever is around, such as muddy water. Axle breathers prevent this.