Not sure if it's made the UK news much, but at present it's not easy to get from Sydney to Melbourne via inland routes. Many of the areas I like to haunt, are underwater or cut off.
There's at least one tale of a fellow setting his C5 to maximum driving height and carefully fording a flooded roadway. He said that many of the 4WD types weren't so game.
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Brave man that - I would certainly think twice then wimp out now I have seen where the C5 air intake is, although I have done it in the past.
Worse here is it is on the nearside, where the water runs down the road edges/gutters
How long have you had rain there Adam, been very dry the past few years. Is there enough to revive the farmland and reservoirs?
Worse here is it is on the nearside, where the water runs down the road edges/gutters
How long have you had rain there Adam, been very dry the past few years. Is there enough to revive the farmland and reservoirs?
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I Sympathise Adam.
I live in doncaster so had to cope with very bad floods a few years back, and then i had a fiat coupe and when the second bout hit i had my v reg 1.9td xantia hatch
Full hieght, tuen the airbox thru 180' and the low intake then took air from the hieght of the bonnet edge great for fording upto about 2+ foot!! not sure i'd do it again but the TD survived other than the odd wheel bearing issue as they aren't sealed bearings on the Xantia
I live in doncaster so had to cope with very bad floods a few years back, and then i had a fiat coupe and when the second bout hit i had my v reg 1.9td xantia hatch
Full hieght, tuen the airbox thru 180' and the low intake then took air from the hieght of the bonnet edge
great for fording upto about 2+ foot!! not sure i'd do it again but the TD survived other than the odd wheel bearing issue as they aren't sealed bearings on the Xantia -
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I'm in the camp who say our documented weather in these areas has been exceptionally wet for much of the record-keeping period. Sadly we (historically) made agricultural commitments and cemented our expectations on that circumstance.
Problems arise when all the water comes very quickly!
Many of the soils are immature, shallow, clayey. They just don't cope well. Once rainfall has exceeded the amount required to fill gullies, creeks, runnels and the rest - it sheets over large, quite flat areas. To put some perspective on it, my place down south (2½ acres) has less than six inches of fall from the highest point to the lowest...
Not my place, but similar topography. You can see how fine and clay-rich the soil is, and how flat:
Nearside suspensions cop a pounding here, too - for the reasons Steve outlines.
Problems arise when all the water comes very quickly!
Many of the soils are immature, shallow, clayey. They just don't cope well. Once rainfall has exceeded the amount required to fill gullies, creeks, runnels and the rest - it sheets over large, quite flat areas. To put some perspective on it, my place down south (2½ acres) has less than six inches of fall from the highest point to the lowest...Not my place, but similar topography. You can see how fine and clay-rich the soil is, and how flat:
Nearside suspensions cop a pounding here, too - for the reasons Steve outlines.