Rufford ford again

"Operation Reacher"

Not what I was expecting

I've passed these to a person I know who wrote off a BMW by speeding through the ford. (that person now has a £60 battery car, and knows not to submerge the works...)

Bill

english kooncil hooses are nice

If you mean £60,000, EVs generally cope much better with water than ICE cars. The electrics are all very well protected.

Tim

Apart from losing bit of bodywork what damge do the cara sustain that force a stop. (Having driven Minis in the early 60's I wa more thn familiar with water causing a stop but it was never anythin major)

Transit van once sucked in water and bent the crank shaft. Not mine so I don't know the detail. That was just a deep puddle.

Inhaling water is probably the main thing, a mate of mine wrote off a Berlingo that way in the Gloucester floods. I suspect because of the bow wave rather than the depth of water.

The air filters on some 4x4's can cope better than those on many cars in that if they are flooded they stop the air flow and hence the motor without collapsing and letting water through to the cylinders. IIRC my Fourtrak had a downward facing "intake" which sounds wrong at first, but I think that was so that if the inlet plenum did flood, it would also drain completely once the vehicle was towed out.

Often breaks the pistons or bends con rods. Neither will do the crankshaft much good of course.

The early Renault Espace had an air intake mounted very low and there were regular reports of them taking in water and causing a very expensive repair.

Wonder why they designed it like that given that that would normally be the hotter air in summer.