Floods and car insurance

Not so much this one mind-

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When I was about 17 my wife to be was driving her dads car. Don't think that she had driven it before I think she had not long passed her test and would have been 18. She was driving, with me in the car, along some country roads. I said to her that she had best slow down as there was likely to be floods around the next bend. Told her twice! Did she take her foot of? No. 

The car was an Austin 1100. She hit the predicted flood at speed and car surfed nicely as far as the middle of the deepest section and then seemed to sink down into the water. I got out in bare feet and trousers rolled taking care not to splash the water lapping just below the door. I pushed the car to where it was only mid shin deep. I opened up the distributor and dried it, took plug leads off plugs to make sure that they were dried, wiped plugs and put the leads back. As I was putting the final leads back I stupidly said 'When I say you can try and start'. As I got a belt from the coil all the way to my jaw my next words were 'No fear when I say'. 

😂 we have had a few 1100’s and 1300’s. Now they would go again.....😁

I think if she had driven 20 mile an hour faster we might have surfed across with that flat floor panel

Ah, but the rust would have got you at a later date.....😂

One of the upsides of owning a 4x4 is the fact they’re designed to go thru water to a degree more than std vehicles. Knowing of the bow wave effect helps too👍🏻😊

I have seen a numpty in a discovery fail in a depth of about half way up his tyre. No idea what the wading depth is but thought that it was above tyre height. Well if you drive fast enough in water you will definitely stop.

Yup. I took on a very large puddle on Friday. I waited until my exit was clear (didn’t want to get caught behind a numpty), told Mum to hang on, and got that lovely shove you give water up front. We had no problems......those in the other lane however.......😂

All that practice in the fords on NY Moors down the years helped. My OH taught me all about 4x4 driving as soon as I passed my test.