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Old 30-11-2018, 02:26 PM   #31
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Your post read like a telegram, how friggin old are you
Seventy one ?
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Old 30-11-2018, 03:32 PM   #32
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It’s ****ing stupid, I’ll give you that, but sacked on the spot hmmm hardly
No- the driver just needs a bit of TLC- send him to the local Saudi Embassy.
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Old 30-11-2018, 03:38 PM   #33
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If only he had taken it steady he would have been okay.. Oh well!
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Old 30-11-2018, 10:52 PM   #34
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I had an XB Wagon one time that was able to drive through high creeks. After that had an XC Sedan that was hopeless at it. Go figure.
What happens is the dizzy gets wet mainly and the fan tosses it over the dizzy, you may of has a shroud around the radiator.

Back in the 70's were I lived we had a lot of flooding on the back roads for miles just stagnate crap about a FT deep mainly and I had a HG Premier V8 and they have all have tin plate under the engine stoping water getting in and it had air-con so it had a shroud on the radiator and that thing would never miss a beat, I could drive as fast as I could for miles with angle wings 10FT high, but when I got the HX 308 she was good but you had to watch out at times and slow down in some spots or she would run on 4cyl or so.

But a mate with a V8 WB 1 tonne and he had a snorkel setup and he just sprayed the dizzy and plugs and we went through creeks that I had to lift the some gear up off the tray so it did not get wet and water was well over the tray and over the bonnet and it never missed a beat. I could not believe it.
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Old 30-11-2018, 10:57 PM   #35
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Are we really equating dumb****s driving through floods with police doing official duties and coming unstuck?
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Where's that video of that SES truck driving though flood water up over the windscreen?
Pretty sure the driver got the flick, even though it made it through fine.
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Where's that video of that SES truck driving though flood water up over the windscreen?
Pretty sure the driver got the flick, even though it made it through fine.
I think this is the footage your referring too

https://youtu.be/3h3_IZWhX0g

Pretty bloody stupid if you ask me & I’ll think you’ll find it was CFA and even if it was SES they’re volunteers so you can’t be sacked, reprimanded, sure, have your driving re assessed sure, even be instructed not to drive, but wouldn’t be “flicked”
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