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YOUR RESEARCHDriving in the rain!!!
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yesterday I was driving, the weather changed suddenly and it was raining cats and dogs.
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Fortunately the woman driving the car (a 1960-ish Ford something or other with a 3 speed manual) was able to extract the car from the water by putting the transmission into reverse and using the starter motor to back the car out of the water and the heat of the engine soon had the engine dry enough to fire and run.)
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Fortunately the woman driving the car (a 1960-ish Ford something or other with a 3 speed manual) was able to extract the car from the water by putting the transmission into reverse and using the starter motor to back the car out of the water and the heat of the engine soon had the engine dry enough to fire and run.)
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But the engine was fine and the car was fine and after I was on dry ground I used the brakes a few times to dry them out. They were so wet at first they didn't work.
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Fortunately the woman driving the car (a 1960-ish Ford something or other with a 3 speed manual) was able to extract the car from the water by putting the transmission into reverse and using the starter motor to back the car out of the water and the heat of the engine soon had the engine dry enough to fire and run.)
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But the engine was fine and the car was fine and after I was on dry ground I used the brakes a few times to dry them out. They were so wet at first they didn't work.
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Fortunately the woman driving the car (a 1960-ish Ford something or other with a 3 speed manual) was able to extract the car from the water by putting the transmission into reverse and using the starter motor to back the car out of the water and the heat of the engine soon had the engine dry enough to fire and run.)
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I know is a dumb question but well!!!!!
yesterday I was driving, the weather changed suddenly and it was raining cats and dogs.
We all slow down I was in the highway and I took the first exit, some big puddles form all of a sudden, I went through without a problem, I follow other small cars.
When I got home, I talked with my neighbor and he told me his mini was total because water went through the doors after crossing a puddle and a Veloster in front of him, pass without a problem.
Can I get trap in a puddle in which a car size like the Veloster can go through?
How amphibious is the 911
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Back when I was researching buying a new or possibly used MINI Cooper S, the MINI -- at least some MY's -- have a problem in that when driving through standing water if the water is too deep, if the speed too high -- the engine can ingest water which can ruin the engine, via hydro-lock.
Occasionally one hears of other cars suffering from this after a very heavy rain storm with localized flooding/standing water.
From my years of living/driving in areas -- midwest -- where heavy rains (cloud bursts of heavy rain) and localized flooding is not uncommon, my advice is to avoid driving through standing water. The reasons are you do not know what is hidden by the water. Could be tire damaging debris washed there from the side of the road. There could be large potholes, even part of the roadway could be washed away. Even if the roadway is intact, you may not know how deep the water is. If the water is deep and the flow too high the car can be washed off the road.
Reminds me: Years ago in my '96 Mustang GT heading home after leaving my parent's house late at night and I was taking a county road and making good time if you know what I mean and came up a bridge with blackness on the road beyond the bridge. I slammed on the brakes and stopped in time to avoid crossing the bridge into the blackness which once I was stopped and could give it a better look was very calm flood water over the roadway. I backed up and turned around and took another route home. A few days later I had a chance to retrace that route and found the water I had gone around had been over 3 feet deep over the road way. The road surface on the other side of the bridge was quite a bit lower than on the dry side that I approached from.
Now I have been in fairly deep standing water with my Boxster.
Not too long after buying my Boxster I was in Higginsville in north central Missouri. Just driving around. A very heavy rain storm hit. I mean a cloud burst rain storm. Two cloud bursts. On the west side of town I came upon a railroad underpass which was full of water. I was trapped by traffic behind me and no way to pull off and turn around. There was traffic coming from the other direction. Fortunately by watching this traffic and the vehicle in front of me go through the water I could see the water was not that deep. I pressed on. A big rig was coming from the other side and I got on the handheld CB radio and asked the driver to go easy to avoid possibly splashing water into the engine air intake vent on the driver's side of my car. The driver replied back he would go slow and he did. I drove my car at under a walking pace through the water. At the front of the car water came up to partially submerging the headlights and on the side of the car was at least up to the bottom edge of the doors. But the engine was fine and the car was fine and after I was on dry ground I used the brakes a few times to dry them out. They were so wet at first they didn't work. And that was that.
After making it through that water ok I circled around drove through town heading the other way towards home and away from the water and just my luck came upon a city street that was curb full of water for several blocks. No way around and I didn't want to back track, so I went ahead. As before other traffic ahead of me showed there were no surprises in/under the water as long as I stayed in the tracks (so to speak) of the other cars. So again I just creeped through the water and all was well. Further outside (south now) of town heading back to I-70 freeway) I ran into the later stages of a localized heavy bit of rain. Water was flowing together from a couple of hills into a stream of water that was rushing down and overflowing the highway. The "stream" in this case was not a regular stream with a bed and banks and such, but just a lot of water the result of the two adjacent large grassy hillsides getting a huge amount of heavy rain fall in a very short period of time with the stream forming where the two hills intersected to form a valley (of sorts) between them. I could see the water from this impromptu stream what was flowing over the road ahead was not deep -- just an inch or two but it covered a large area -- and the roadway was intact so again I proceeded very slowly through this with no problems.
Based on my experience with reasonable precautions these cars are tolerant of navigating through standing water. But as I covered at the beginning one should if possible any standing water and if he can't he must be sure of what he is getting into before he gets into it.
True but the coils are reasonably well sealed. And I have to point out at that time the car was fairly new. With its currently 13 year old coils in place of the new ones, I could very well imagine the outcome might have been different. New and well sealed coils notwithstanding, this is not the time to test the integrity of coil seal by submerging the coils in water.
But you indirectly raise a good point, and that is the engine could have died. I didn't say it above but there was a risk in going through the water the engine could have died. Fortunately it didn't die. (My previous experiences with other cars and standing water is only in one case did the engine die. Fortunately the woman driving the car (a 1960-ish Ford something or other with a 3 speed manual) was able to extract the car from the water by putting the transmission into reverse and using the starter motor to back the car out of the water and the heat of the engine soon had the engine dry enough to fire and run.)
In the case of my Boxster the engine didn't even give any sign it was in any way affected by the water. As I did mention I would have preferred to have been able to avoid the water but in the 1st two cases it really wasn't an option to turn around or to even pull over out of the way of the vehicles behind me and wait for the water to recede.
"Turn around. Don't drown" is what my local news always bangs on about every time we get a good rain. Yet they always have a good 5 minute segment full of idiots that got stranded and risked the lives of rescuers because wherever they were going was too important to find an alternate path...
As mentioned earlier, it's a low slung car so it doesn't take much to be a problem. If it's deep enough to get to the rockers, then you have a chance of water getting in through the drains and your alarm/immobilizer module is right there at the lowest point under your seat. You really don't want to get that wet... Unless coming out the other side submerges your bumper skin you are probably OK with the engine, but if too much water gets thrown up into that area and your cables and coils aren't as in good of shape as you expect you could have some fun that way too.
What's rain?
Actually...its pouring in Scottsdale today and only about 58 degrees out. We don't put up with 115 degree summers for this crap.
I hate rain.
