Floods & the Zed!

[Dave]

Just been watching the pics of floods on the news and thought maybe a few owners might not realise how vulnerable the TT is when they are negotiating a small amount of water!

 

A whiule ago I bought an immaculate TT from a guy who had been gingerly negotiating a puddle a few inches deep when a lorry coming the other way caused wash.

 

The water was drawn in and ended up hydraulicing the engine, breaking a conrod and writing engine off.

 

I've still got all the bits and it certainly did make a mess!- just bear in mind!

 

Regards to All

 

Dave

[Clarkey]

cone filter and vented nose panel on that one then?

[Uno]

IIRC jeff at zedworld posted up some pics of a car which had @ 6 inches of mud in the bottom of it...it looked like it had been in a river or biblical flood

[Z32dave]

The water was drawn in and ended up hydraulicing the engine, breaking a conrod and writing engine off.

 

Dave

 

I recently (this July) had the same experience with my Mondeo diesel estate. The water was sucked up into the engine due to the very low air intake and the engine locked up and was damaged beyond economical repair. I was negotiating for a second-hand replacement engine when my son suggested I contact my insurance company. I did so and to my great surprise they paid for a brand new ex-factory engine to be fitted (it cost them over three grand total).

 

Cheers - Dave

[mtl]

LOL yes floods do kill a zed, do a search for my name lol i learnt that the hard way :P

[Funkysi]

I never even take mine out in the wet, so no problems for me.

[Ossian]

I never even take mine out in the wet, so no problems for me.

 

:bow: So you really are a GOD then :bow: and can fore-tell the weather, cause even the BBC cant do that properly!!!!

 

ffs this is the UK, blink and a cloud forms 2 seconds later and its pissing down!. no matter what the weather forecast was.

 

Or do you mean you keep the Z in the garage at all times and never take it out, just in case!!!!!

[Funkysi]

No, I drove it loads in the summer. I am in the Southern part of the UK and generally, the weather's not too bad down here. I don't use it in the winter and check the weatherforecast in the summer. Infact we had a great summer down here this year. Hardly any rain at all from early May through to August.

 

So far, seeing nice sunny warm days forecast in the summer months, rarely means the onset of floods.

[Ossian]

Ahh forgot you were down near the tropics :)

[Ossian]

but dont you get monsoons that far down ?

[Funkysi]

You'd make a poor comedian mate.

[MikeGroves]

ask MTL :eek:

[Gio]

ask MTL :eek:

recursive: n see recursive

:tongue: hallo mike ;)

[MikeGroves]

recursive: n see recursive

:tongue: hallo mike ;)

 

hey mike :D

 

my time is so precious you see i just respond without reading ;o)