How deep have you gone?

Me and J999PRE were having a discussion last night about how deep you could drive in water with a snorkel and how far. (snorkels are coming)

Be interesting to see what people's experience is.

Has anyone had the bonnet under and driven out? At what point does it start to float? When do you get wet?

Nick

Jimny's seem to start floating when you're about up to door handle deep in the water.

And when your a$$ starts to get wet depends on how water proof the body is. If you have good seals in the doors, and all the holes are plugged in the floor and firewall etc, you might not get wet at all. Unless you start getting water in through the air vents, but then you would have to be windshield deep which might happen because the truck gets front heavy in the water...

There are a few good videos on youtube to give you an idea.

Here you can see how the truck starts to float some.

Paul4x4 wrote: Jimny's seem to start floating when you're about up to door handle deep in the water.

And when your a$$ starts to get wet depends on how water proof the body is. If you have good seals in the doors, and all the holes are plugged in the floor and firewall etc, you might not get wet at all. Unless you start getting water in through the air vents, but then you would have to be windshield deep which might happen because the truck gets front heavy in the water...

There are a few good videos on youtube to give you an idea.

Here you can see how the truck starts to float some.

I bet he was praying at some point in that vid :lol:

Had water over the bonnet without a snorkel in V8 rangy, Not overly wise but survived!

Conversely had a all singing disco 1 with a snorkel underbody protection the lot. Water from a very small puddle sucked in through a split in a hose near the turbo. Result- knackered.

Lesson- Snorkel or not check hoses!

Also all the fleet disco 4's at work have snorkels but they're not connected! Having said that LR wading depth is only the top of the wheel with snorkel or without, presumably to protect the many ecu's etc

I had water just over the top of the front tyres then it cut out and wouldn't restart. Water had got into the electrics somewhere stopping it from sparking, I got it home ripped the engine out and am putting a diesel in instead.

In the floods up north a couple of weeks back I had to wade through some flood water that came up to the top of the arches. Apparently this is a big No No if you don't have breather pipes fitted to the axles.