Wading depth
- Thread starter John Wick
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About this much:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z1vuQhOGkSQ?feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z1vuQhOGkSQ?feature=share
Technically; the distance from the floor to the air intake.
Sensibility; the distance from the floor to the bottom of the air intake box or roughly no more than 1/2 the height of the wheels.
If the water level is even deeper than that, maybe approx. up to 3/4 wheel height is the absolute max ( I'd guess on the Formentor - just because it's raised a little ) you should be crawling forward, driving at a slow consistent speed behind the bow wave.
The key point is even if the water level isn't that high, driving at a speed whereby the water rushes over the top of the bonnet is a hydro-locking death sentence for most cars.
Sensibility; the distance from the floor to the bottom of the air intake box or roughly no more than 1/2 the height of the wheels.
If the water level is even deeper than that, maybe approx. up to 3/4 wheel height is the absolute max ( I'd guess on the Formentor - just because it's raised a little ) you should be crawling forward, driving at a slow consistent speed behind the bow wave.
The key point is even if the water level isn't that high, driving at a speed whereby the water rushes over the top of the bonnet is a hydro-locking death sentence for most cars.
And hope no one coming the other way too fast does not create a wave which the floods your car, like happened to my mate a few years back.
Drive through the middle of the flood, tends to prevent folk coming at you?
Would be amazing to hear of the reason why this question came up? I would have thought of wading depth was a question, the formentor was not the answer.
Your right, I would be thinking of a Land Rover with a snorkel on intake & exhaust for that.
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