mickthemaverick wrote: 18 Nov 2022, 13:27
That looks a bit on the damp side Neil? I hope you are not in danger?
Thanks, we are fine and unless the river gets 30 metres above normal we should be alright!. Does cause a little consternation in that there was a danger last night on the way back home round 8-9pm that the road may have been flooded, and probably a good time to recap my experiences of taking our Xsara Picasso for a dip in floodwater in 2015.
There was no way I was going to attempt to drive through the flood had it made its way across the road. At that point is not just a pool but the river current flows through it as well. Luckily last night it hadn't reached that point. This morning it had and the road was closed.
So here is the cautionary tale, never drive through a deep flood in a Xsara Picasso 2.0 Hdi. It will suck up the water like a hoover from its low air intake, and it will wreck your engine. Yes and if you have an autobox with a breather tube, never drive through deep floodwater either. A flash flood on the Felling Bypass did for an AM6 box on a Vectra I had.
Unfortunately the incident left a ticking time-bomb of a broken glow plug tip which 5,000 miles later wreaked its revenge and the final score when all was said and done was Floodwater 2 Xsara Picasso 1 as the scrapmen took it prematurely away.
Regards Neil
