Re: Car flooded

Car is Escort LXi 1.8

It filled yes. But not all the way. Below window level

Michael ( snipped-for-privacy@yourbusiness.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

That's MORE THAN high enough to flood every single ECU in the car, and f*ck them up *royally*...

Throw it away. It's not worth losing the NCB for a claim, even if it's fully comp.

Well car is back.

Mechanic said let it dry and see how it goes

Well , see if it works. But if it dosn't it's dead, it'll be cheaper to sell it for scrap & buy another than start fixing it.

DuncanWood ( snipped-for-privacy@dmx512.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Even if it does, there's going to be all sorts of problems with

Sorry! It was the red flag-man's night off.

Hi Peop's

Not to mention the pong!!

Sounds like you drove into a pond...."half filled to below windows" ?!! Tim..

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Steve Sweet" saying something like:

Oh yes; the smell is going to be there permanently.

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I went through a rather deep bit on Thursday night - about a foot or so, which is a lot for a car. I got rather wet 'cos before I could get my window up, not only did I get my own splash through the window - but a bus went the other way. I was dropping when I got out.

You can get rid of the pong, you just need to take all the seats, carpet and sound insulation out, clean them and dry them thoroughly.

I did a similar thing with a vauxhall nova, decided to drive through' a flooded road near York, only it was a lot deeper than I expected, about bonnet height at deepest, I made it 2/3 of the way across before it conked out so I got out and pushed. I managed to bump start it again and it was fine for another 30000 miles.

James

Well i might be buying a Volvo 440 Si for £500.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:

First speed wading experience I had was in a ShiteOldMinor. The water pressure under the tranny tunnel blew the gearlever gaiter off and the subsequent waterspout hit the roof and thoroughly soaked me and my passenger.

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Short pause while I wipe snot off the monitor.

My first flood experience was in a 1989 Fiat Uno.

The water came right through the engine bay and into the footwell, thoroughly soaking my legs. I managed to jerk it out of the flood and still drove it home. Being my first car, and me being a bit younger at the time, I was more bothered by the fact that I had lost a wheel trim in the incident rather than any damage to the car!

Al

I did speed wading in a Honda Civic VTi at 60-ish. There had been a huge downpour earlier in the day that had had me feeling dangerously fast at

I was moving fast enough that the water hit the back seats and missed me entirely.

Didn't half take some cleaning and drying though.

Warwick

I once went boating at Bourton on the water in my Mondeo. I switched off as I dived in as I knew I'd fill the inlet duct and the abiding memory is emerging the other side in silent majesty with a live mallard as a hood ornament.

I'd filled the airbox to the filter with river water - my switch off was just in time to not lock the engine solid.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Warwick saying something like:

LOL!