Azza
Tuesday 18th April 2006, 10:26
Hi all, bit of an odd one here..
Was off on my weekend away, a road gets flooded twice a day due to the tide coming in, was driving around 1.30am and came to the road and it was a bit flooded. Having my little one in the car and it being so late i didn't want to hang about for an hour or so till the road cleared, and other cars were coming through so i went for it.
Kept the revs really high and eventually got through, about 400m worth of road i guess, but there was a lot of water getting thrown over the car and i can only guess the level was somewhere near the middle/top of my wheels.
Came through it, stopped for a bit, checked everywhere i could think of, no water had come in or anything. Then proceeded to drive a further 250miles that night at varying speed levels without any problems.
I was just wondering if anything could have been damaged, i.e with salty deposits (oo-er!) ? Everything seems to be fine, turbo is fine, car was running beautifully all weekend, just a bit concerned.
Are there places that you can take your car to to get the engine/bay cleaned out or anything ? Or do you think that's overkill ?
Thanks,
Azza
Was off on my weekend away, a road gets flooded twice a day due to the tide coming in, was driving around 1.30am and came to the road and it was a bit flooded. Having my little one in the car and it being so late i didn't want to hang about for an hour or so till the road cleared, and other cars were coming through so i went for it.
Kept the revs really high and eventually got through, about 400m worth of road i guess, but there was a lot of water getting thrown over the car and i can only guess the level was somewhere near the middle/top of my wheels.
Came through it, stopped for a bit, checked everywhere i could think of, no water had come in or anything. Then proceeded to drive a further 250miles that night at varying speed levels without any problems.
I was just wondering if anything could have been damaged, i.e with salty deposits (oo-er!) ? Everything seems to be fine, turbo is fine, car was running beautifully all weekend, just a bit concerned.
Are there places that you can take your car to to get the engine/bay cleaned out or anything ? Or do you think that's overkill ?
Thanks,
Azza