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Ford (the watery kind)
Someone needs to pop along in a D3 to show them how it's done.
19th May 2021 12:05 pm
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
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It's surprising how little water causes issues for some cars ! Especially blue BMW's I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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19th May 2021 12:22 pm
Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
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Some were hitting the water at around 30 mph, one even took off like a skimming stone!
Utter madness
There are a few good examples of slow entry, then steady driving creating a bow wave at the head of the vehicle
BWW's didn't do well at all 0Iggy/Ieuan
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19th May 2021 12:33 pm
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Great spectator sport. Tractor driver showed how to do it, in a tractor. 90 didn’t even slow down!
19th May 2021 12:44 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
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There are loads of Rufford Ford Youtube Videos
the most hilarious ones are similar to this - a eurosh*tbox / japsh*tbox owner thinks they can go wading and end up killing their cars...
sadly their are also plenty of nobs in pickups and tricked up 4x4's who boom through drenching everyone and everything too!Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
19th May 2021 1:10 pm
RogB
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Had to watch that all the way through to make sure i wasnt on there
People stand on the viewing platforms specifically to watch and if they stand on the bridge part they will get soaked, most know this and do it for fun.
Ive been through plenty of times in various LR ive had, and even drowned my XYZ switch in my old D2 in there
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19th May 2021 1:13 pm
SN
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And that's a baby ford by the way - a few years ago a few of us did this one...
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19th May 2021 1:18 pm
carbore
Member Since: 06 Apr 2016
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Iv watched a lot of those, Merc Sprinters are also a firm favourite there. Various LR products making a good show of it, plus the odd idiot making us look bad.Disco 3: Lotus Elise S1: Ferguson T20: Audi A2
20th May 2021 7:34 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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@SN, is that Ken’s car in front of yours?
20th May 2021 7:37 am
Minemapper
Member Since: 28 Apr 2021
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SN wrote:
And that's a baby ford by the way - a few years ago a few of us did this one...
That's not a ford, it's a canal...
20th May 2021 9:17 am
RRSTDV8
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Most of those would have got through if they'd just gone through really slowly. The water depth on the gauge is about a foot. A number of the BMWs were drowned in water that only got cill deep. If they'd trickled through the bow wave wouldn't have got high enough to get to the air intake. But they just went too fast.
Loved the guy in the silver Peugeot that got through one way and looked up to see it was being filmed and then went back again. And killed it on the return trip.
I used to go through a ford near Newbury. Bucklebury Ford. Most of the time it's dry or has a few inches of water in it. I did see it with 500mm of water once and took a FL2 I had on loan through it - after checking to make sure the FL2 could do 500mm, of course. I pulled a Saab out of the water there with my RRS once. And the water that time wasn't much more than a foot deep.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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20th May 2021 9:40 am
SN
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DSL wrote:
@SN, is that Ken’s car in front of yours?
Yep - Stu had organised a little nosey round Dagenham in the morning and we went off for a wade.
Minemapper wrote:
SN wrote:
And that's a baby ford by the way - a few years ago a few of us did this one...
That's not a ford, it's a canal...
Its actually the River Ash - happens to coexist with Violets Lane for about three quarters of a mile
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Violets+...d0.0896342
Note this video was shot over 12 years ago so I have NO idea what it's like nowSteve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
20th May 2021 1:13 pm
Pimpintgepidge
Member Since: 17 Sep 2019
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Seen these videos on you tube and just get addicted and can’t stop watching, there is something satisfying watching someone speed into the water thinking they know what there doing to them get 20 yards up the road broke down 😂2015 D4 HSE Loire Blue
20th May 2021 6:36 pm
Nyrad
Member Since: 29 Dec 2019
Location: Essex
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The local recovery company there must be rolling in it! Zambezi Silver '05 SE, loved work truck and family outings *Sold, Nooooo*
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21st May 2021 3:44 pm
Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 06 Mar 2013
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We live near a very picturesque ford in Eynsford Kent and have to travel through it most days as our livery is the other side... it’s the only way we can get our Mercedes horsebox out of the village .... which is a mare during the winter...you”ll be absolutely amazed how many lorries and delivery vans get stuck there and often we can’t pass through due to some idiot has decided to drive their saloon car through 3ft of water!
Mildly amusing to start with but doubly frustrating whilst you sit there with a grumpy horse in the back of the lorry!
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