Fording / Wading depth

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Andrew*Debbie

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 Anglesey
The road out to our house has flooded 4 times since August.

I found the maximum fording depth in the US owners manual. Presumably our UK spec cars are the same.

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250 is more than I'd be comfortable with. I wonder if the manual is incorrect. An F30 3 series is also 250mm. X1 is 300mm. Both generations of X3 are 500mm (20"). 20" just about covered the exhaust pipes on our old X3. :D
 
Bloody hell Carol, you hit that at speed didn't you? Well at least if you'd hit the electrics, you'd have coasted out nicely at that rate!! :rofl:
 
Blokes wouldn't have gone through that Carol, we have a completely different view of what 9.8 inches is, LOL
 
When my mum used to work, she had an Austin Mini (i.e. not the fat lardyass BMW version).

She was driving to work and went through a flooded area thinking nothing of it, apart from noticing a Land Rover stranded!

She was fine in her little mini!
 
kevinmarkwhite said:
When my mum used to work, she had an Austin Mini (i.e. not the fat lardyass BMW version).

She was driving to work and went through a flooded area thinking nothing of it, apart from noticing a Land Rover stranded!

She was fine in her little mini!
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Official fording depth for a Puma (Ford) Defender is only 500mm.
 
Correction: 5 times since August. Debbie wants to exchange the Z4 for a Defender :cry:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20723540
 
After drowning my Passat recently I wouldn't go through any more than 6" in a Zed. The air intake is down really low and a bit of a bow wave, especially from a vehicle coming the other way, is likely send water up into the engine leaving you with a bill for several thousand pounds and possibly a write-off on older vehicles.
 
I'd say about 1/2 that would be OK, especially if it were moving much. Depends how desperate I am. If it meant not getting home and home wasn't too far, I might give 7 or 8 inches a go. If I was already home, I would ring work and tell them I'm stranded if it was more than 4". :D
 
lacroupade said:
After drowning my Passat recently I wouldn't go through any more than 6" in a Zed. The air intake is down really low and a bit of a bow wave, especially from a vehicle coming the other way, is likely send water up into the engine leaving you with a bill for several thousand pounds and possibly a write-off on older vehicles.
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I wrote off an 18 month old 306 d-turbo doing just the above :oops:
 
Andrew*Debbie said:
kevinmarkwhite said:
When my mum used to work, she had an Austin Mini (i.e. not the fat lardyass BMW version).

She was driving to work and went through a flooded area thinking nothing of it, apart from noticing a Land Rover stranded!

She was fine in her little mini!
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Official fording depth for a Puma (Ford) Defender is only 500mm.
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Yep, the Range Rover is more.

A RAI will push a defender much further than 500mm if you have the balls for it.
 
How do you check the depth of the water. 9.8" sounds a bit exact. Are people expected to wade through first with a tape measure first to see if it's safe?
 
Quadracer said:
How do you check the depth of the water. 9.8" sounds a bit exact. Are people expected to wade through first with a tape measure first to see if it's safe?
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The question is would you test the depth or risk getting stranded? I'd test the depth.
 
Quadracer said:
How do you check the depth of the water. 9.8" sounds a bit exact. Are people expected to wade through first with a tape measure first to see if it's safe?
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It's an optional extra. The BMW Moses water parter. If the depth is 9.8" then it does its thing and the water parts allowing you to make sedate progress.
 
You watch someone else go through first or send the wife with a ruler to check first

Many years ago when I was an apprentice our training centre was in the middle of nowhere accessed via a ford or a long drive round

The ford was regularly flooded, one morning I was a tad late. Drove the van through the ford it was well over the bonnet everything from my waist down was wet where water came in

But the van survived and a few more go's after that too

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