Pajero goes for a dunking
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)I wonder whether having those big swampers on it actually contributed to it floating away.
He's qoted as saying he stopped and tried to reverse, at which point it had lost contact with the road. Assuming most sane people would do that roughly when the water gets to breaching the bonnet, that's not beyond the realms of escapability assuming the engine is still running.
Would the extra buoyancy from the bigger tyres have actually compromised his wading depth?
He's qoted as saying he stopped and tried to reverse, at which point it had lost contact with the road. Assuming most sane people would do that roughly when the water gets to breaching the bonnet, that's not beyond the realms of escapability assuming the engine is still running.
Would the extra buoyancy from the bigger tyres have actually compromised his wading depth?
agent006 said:
I wonder whether having those big swampers on it actually contributed to it floating away.
He's qoted as saying he stopped and tried to reverse, at which point it had lost contact with the road. Assuming most sane people would do that roughly when the water gets to breaching the bonnet, that's not beyond the realms of escapability assuming the engine is still running.
Would the extra buoyancy from the bigger tyres have actually compromised his wading depth?
Yep.He's qoted as saying he stopped and tried to reverse, at which point it had lost contact with the road. Assuming most sane people would do that roughly when the water gets to breaching the bonnet, that's not beyond the realms of escapability assuming the engine is still running.
Would the extra buoyancy from the bigger tyres have actually compromised his wading depth?
One of my toys is this:
When fording, the 35 inch tyres do start to float - you can feel the car getting light and it is disconcerting...you have to be careful in deep water as sometimes it struggles to reach the ground underneath
It's also lethal for aquaplaning too. I found this out once, and only once...after it was converted, it rained heavily, and one evening I cam up to a local roundabout that had a HUGE puddle covering both lanes halfway round.
'Wheee' thinks I...'won't it be great fun to plough through this water and create a huge wave...?'
Until when I hit the water, the car lifted up terrifyingly, and basically floated across the roundabout to end up in the outside lane, as if I had sailed a boat there
I'm more careful now
agent006 said:
I wonder whether having those big swampers on it actually contributed to it floating away.
He's qoted as saying he stopped and tried to reverse, at which point it had lost contact with the road. Assuming most sane people would do that roughly when the water gets to breaching the bonnet, that's not beyond the realms of escapability assuming the engine is still running.
Would the extra buoyancy from the bigger tyres have actually compromised his wading depth?
Somewhere on VHS I've got a film about the Bigfoot truck, shot in the mid/late 1980's. On the vid they cross a river or lake due to the buoyancy of the tyres.He's qoted as saying he stopped and tried to reverse, at which point it had lost contact with the road. Assuming most sane people would do that roughly when the water gets to breaching the bonnet, that's not beyond the realms of escapability assuming the engine is still running.
Would the extra buoyancy from the bigger tyres have actually compromised his wading depth?
Edited by 300bhp/ton on Wednesday 28th August 17:22
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