driving through deep puddles

[stuartturrell]

Anyone have experience of how deep you can drive a clio through a puddle.

Where i live (isle of wight) there tends to be floods around 2 feet deep and jsut wondering how much the clios can handle.

My rover 416 handled the floods ok, as long as rpms were kept up.

 

[JAY172]

on new clios the air feed is quite high up so you will be ok. it was old clios and 172s/182s that have a low feed pipe just behind the bumper.

 

[jongsr4]

also u want to make sure u keep a steady throttle, just so that you keep the gasses flowing out of the exhaust, the last thing you want is for water to be sucked back through towards your engine

 

[stuartturrell]

thats cool! will make sure i do that then!

The clio i am getting is a standard 1.4 dynamquie, so not lowered or anything, how deep you reckon it could go in a puddle / stream, best to know a rough estimate as i see some interesting forecasts for this winter!

 

[Ali]

Never a Good idea!!! Simple!

 

[Maxx]

I wouldnt do anything more than 1ft of water. And if I did it would be at low speed to stope water splashing up. Went thorugh 2ft water in my R5 once and it would start for 2 days lol

 

[badinvincible]

not a good idea, best try to avoid it rather than drive through it