Holy Snorkels!

[TheIntrepid]

No text is needed, just this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6Z29wHGLw

Holy crap!

It's a Toyota Land Cruiser if I'm not mistaken.

[CJ]

Toyota Hi-Lux Turbo Diesel.

[TheIntrepid]

That's right.

[SJ_GTI]

Did you guys read through the commentary by the driver?

Its impressive that it got through that without being washed away (and clearly it was built specifically to ford water), but overall it was still in pretty bad shape afterwards. Its defintely not something you would want to do on a regular basis.

[CMan]

All I can say is...

[Raghavan]

Wow

[MidnightDave]

Great post, thanks!

I once had water over the hood going through a "puddle" too fast four wheeling in the North GA mountains in the Taco and fried the alternator. When the dealer opened the hood they said, "this one time, under warranty, after this, you're on your own". I thought that was more than fair.

The worst was the smell! That mud got into every nook and cranny and smelled for weeks!

[TheIntrepid]

Great post, thanks!

[hounddog]

That is what you call a "dumb ass."   If he had gotten stuck there, we would have seen the daring rescue of this poor innocent victim traveler who had been somehow percariously  caught in this predicament on TV news for weeks.  Guys like that piss me off, because it is us who have to go and then risk our lives to rescue them.

Thankful he made it.  Sorry about the rant.

[pommes-t]

Damn. Tomorrow I'll order a snorkel for my Polo!!!

[Tave]

Damn. Tomorrow I'll order a snorkel for my Polo!!!

You better. Sometimes rain puddles can get pretty treacherous.

[Raghavan]

That is what you call a "dumb ass."   If he had gotten stuck there, we would have seen the daring rescue of this poor innocent victim traveler who had been somehow percariously  caught in this predicament on TV news for weeks.  Guys like that piss me off, because it is us who have to go and then risk our lives to rescue them.

Thankful he made it.  Sorry about the rant.

You don't even know the whole story. What if he's done it before and is sure he can do it?

[CMan]

Did you guys read his commentary? It was supposed to be half that deep.

[giant_mtb]

That is what you call a "dumb ass."   If he had gotten stuck there, we would have seen the daring rescue of this poor innocent victim traveler who had been somehow percariously  caught in this predicament on TV news for weeks.  Guys like that piss me off, because it is us who have to go and then risk our lives to rescue them.

Thankful he made it.  Sorry about the rant.

He said there was a sign on the sign of the road that said the water height was .6 M, when it was actually 1.2 M...how was he supposed to know until it was too late? 

[Soup DeVille]

He said there was a sign on the sign of the road that said the water height was .6 M, when it was actually 1.2 M...how was he supposed to know until it was too late??

When I used to be semi-active in a 4 wheeler club (Michigan Mudhogs), the general practice was to actually walk the crossing to check the depth first- in faster moving water we would tie the guy off.

[Panama_Chopster]

Been in a similar situation. We were going to the supermarket in the Terrano and we see that the drains have clogged, as before we thought it'd be slightly deep (say up to the running boards), when we notice the water was up to the bottom of the windows... ...gladly we made it thru though we didn't have a snorkel, also it helps it was a quite short drive thru the water.

[Tave]

Been in a similar situation. We were going to the supermarket in the Terrano and we see that the drains have clogged, as before we thought it'd be slightly deep (say up to the running boards), when we notice the water was up to the bottom of the windows... ...gladly we made it thru though we didn't have a snorkel, also it helps it was a quite short drive thru the water.

Sometimes you can build up enough speed that the car's wake lowers the water level immediately surrounding the car enough to get by.

I had to do that in monsoon season in AZ. The Aveo made it through fine, but my roomate's Sebring didn't: he took his foot off the go-pedal.

[93JC]

Sometimes you can build up enough speed that the car's wake lowers the water level immediately surrounding the car enough to get by.

I had to do that in monsoon season in AZ. The Aveo made it through fine, but my roomate's Sebring didn't: he took his foot off the go-pedal.

In my mind going fast is one of the worst things you could do, giving water an opportunity to squeeze into nooks and crannies it wouldn't have if you took it very slow.

I mean, I guess if you have no choice and you know your ignition system will be submerged if you go slow, by all means give it a try. But if you're in a properly prepped truck going fast is just about the last thing you should do...

[SVT666]

But if you're in a properly prepped truck going fast is just about the last thing you should do...

Exactly right.

[Tave]

In my mind going fast is one of the worst things you could do, giving water an opportunity to squeeze into nooks and crannies it wouldn't have if you took it very slow.

I mean, I guess if you have no choice and you know your ignition system will be submerged if you go slow, by all means give it a try. But if you're in a properly prepped truck going fast is just about the last thing you should do...

Yeah, I meant in a pinch. I took my 4runner across some shit but never got too crazy.

It was in the Aveo that I had no choice; damn those PHX streets aren't designed to move much water.

[heelntoe]

In my mind going fast is one of the worst things you could do, giving water an opportunity to squeeze into nooks and crannies it wouldn't have if you took it very slow.

I mean, I guess if you have no choice and you know your ignition system will be submerged if you go slow, by all means give it a try. But if you're in a properly prepped truck going fast is just about the last thing you should do...

in normal cars, if you go slow or keep the revs low, the water can enter through the exhaust and hydrolock the piston.

[TheIntrepid]

It's monsoon season here, and the area I'm in (Santacruz East) tends to flood. I'm royally fucked if it floods that badly.

[Panama_Chopster]

Get yourself an old Hilux or Land Cruiser. Those are the vehicles I mostly see on the news when the bad flooding season comes over here.

[Soup DeVille]

in normal cars, if you go slow or keep the revs low, the water can enter through the exhaust and hydrolock the piston.

No, just keeping the motor running provides more than enough pressure to keep the water out.

Tailpipe snorkels are pretty much useless unless you stall.

[565]

I kept hearing that you don't want to go too fast because you don't want to overtake your bow wave... or something like that.

[the Teuton]

I've had some experience with my friend.

[heelntoe]

i remember something similar. did you post about this on C&D?

[Rupert]

Took, like, three days to get out, right?

[Secret Chimp]

Took like three weeks for you to find this thread :P

[omicron]

That month, the whole country got a drowning. It was thought that the drought had broken - it hadn't.