I have done it right! Last August 13, 2019 i drove against a flooded road due to heavy rainfall. The water current was strong, and there was a long queue of cars and buses on the mountain. I have to arrive on time in my destination, so seeing the Toyota Revo able to drove safely I also thought I can do it. Imagine a driver with no experience driving on a flooded road I really had that scary feeling coz one wrong move we might fall from the high high mountain. But I did the same procedure as you said, as I drove along and halfway through, the car tilted about 30 degrees on the right and that time I stayed focus and stepped on the accelerator steadily...God thank you for giving me courage I did it. My mother soooo frightened of that experience.
Most important point of the how to is that, you keep your foot on the accelerator and don’t ease off at any time while in the water. If you need to slow down push the brake at the same time without releasing the accelerator. This creates pressure from the engine and keeps the water out of the muffler. Which is the reason why taller cars do better. The goal is keeping the water out, from going into the engine through the muffler. That is why most cars die. I know of someone who did this for 3 hours and the car never died nor was affected. 👍
Just drove my Nissan xtrail through at least 2.5 feet of water in London, Uk. It went up my windscreen and windows. I was backed up in traffic for 3 hrs and decided to drive along the pavement as it appeared safer. Boy was I wrong!!. I saw maybe 4 cars attempt this during the course of 2 hrs and I had no idea whether they even lived to tell the tale lol. I drive a manual and it was very difficult driving slow enough to not flood my engine and at the same time not to stall my car. I was bricking it!! The adrenaline got to my legs and I was trembling, I thought it was gonna be a wrap. I drove past cars and vans that were flooded and abandoned. I must have driven at least 70 meters. It looked like a horror movie. I prayed all the way through. I don't think I would do this again. Too risky.
Good video, very instructive. We recently had flood water in our village over in the UK, was pretty deep. Drove our Toyota RAV4 Hybrid through and our Land Rover Discovery (which went past 3 stranded cars!!)
Just few minutes ago, I drove my WagonR through logged water. It was fine till the moment a man stopped his bike infront of me, and a scorpio was completed from the opposite site. The water from the passing scrorpio swept my front window screen, I somehow crossed both of them, i was 70% sure, that I would not make it, but I made it through by driving in 1st gear. I have to return now, but I will try an alternate route.
You missed out fitting a snorkel if driving through deep water is a regular occurrence. For some models of certain cars, such as the Land Rover Discovery and the Jeep Wrangler, snorkels are sometimes fitted in the factory, but for those types of cars, the ground clearance is so high that the type of flooding that occurs during a prolonged period of rain would pose minimal issues anyway.
I drove through 2ft or more in a ford fiesta and I had no choice but to drive through as it was a flash flood on a motorway, I couldn't turn back, so I tailgate a Van he moved water for me but I lost my rev counter and transmission light stuck on for a couple of days then went, Luckily
