[Djw38uk]

Hypothetical one this but…….
Plenty of stranded cars here in the SW last few days where people have risked driving through flood water and severely damaged their engine.
Most (if not all) insurers will understandably refuse to pay out as it’s “avoidable” but what happens to a Motability customer in such an instance?

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[Adam]

remind me of this

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Adam. Reason: update

[Adam]

[Southamman]

There are some urban myths spouted about wading.

So long as you can keep your ait intake above the water, and the water us not to a depth that your car will float, you should be able to p8ssibly drive through flooded water.

Even Range Rovers have a max wading depth of 900mm as above that the car will float.

You can drive backwards through fluid water,nso long as your engine is running, the running of the engine causes positive pressure down the exhaust.

ICE Cars need two things to work, a fuel and air to mix under compression to create an “explosion” to drive the crabk.

The biggest problems are peopke who go through water at a speed high enough to not create a bow wave, but push water over the bonnet and into the air bix, sone small amount of water can be delt with, but a large amount saturates the air filter and let’s water into the cylinders which causes hydrolocking.

We also had an issue with tge two vent pipes for different and transmission, if you have a hot diff from ut working and plunge into water,na vacuum us caused and if the pipes are nit high enough up tge engine, it can draw water in. This is particularly dangerous for diffsmbas even a small amount if water causes emulsification and a damaged gears

 

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