Everyone has a theory. But if the water is too deep, it will fuck up your engine, however fast or slow you go through it. Just turn around, go different way. This particular road in Kenilworth has many other routes you can take.
This is really easy to do, all you have to do is know where your intake is. Mine is in the passenger wheel well of my truck, so any water that goes above that, I won't cross.
I know defenders are absolute tanks and are pretty much built for this, I personally wouldn't have risked a 70K+ defender. I guess these rich farmers have a few of them 🤣
What if you drove through it in reverse in a front engined vehicle? If your RPMs are decently high then it’ll keep the water out of the exhaust in theory right?
The truck driver was going slowly, and it's not his problem that the cars are there. The VW was more than likely going to be written off as uneconomical to repair anyway.
@@PaulRobertsPR I've got one the same shape, transit sport had it over 10 years now only thing ever went wrong was the alternator and it gave me loads of notice there was a problem, I fixed it over Xmas one year even I had no work booked and had 0 down time.
I drove my transit through worse when The River Ouse broke its bank at Barcombe Mills, probably about 1/4 mile through 2 to 3 feet of water, i was 💩ing it a bit 😆
If you have an electric vehicle and the current isn’t too strong it might still sweep away the vehicle or is too deep where water might seep in, I would still take a different route… but generally, water won’t affect modern electric vehicles as I’ve found.
The correct way being driving a car that is capable of it? He's actually going too fast, look how high the water is getting on the front compared to the water level.
As a German trucker, he's probably been through a lot worse than that . Also his engine is much higher than that of a car, so at that depth, very little chance of flooding his engine. He knew what he was doing
I remember years ago living in the northwest of England , a brook broke its banks , it was tributary of the Mersey , the road was flooded , but the thing that flooded my neighbour’s homes , was the wake from lorries and vans travelling too fast , overwhelming their flood defenses
For me, the correct way is to turn around and find a different route. Not just because I daily a roadster, but also because you never know if there's something in the water, like a big log or a rock. I wouldn't wanna risk it even if my car could handle the water.
