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Driving through floods

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  • #52
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    teednab-el wrote: »
    What would I have noticed? Engine noise?


    Water is considered a non-compressible fluid, so it's equivalent to a solid lump of steel if it gets sucked into the cylinders, so yeah I suppose engine noise would be one clue. I'll be the noise of your engine self-destructing and it won't be a nice noise either :(.


  • #53
    Rev. BlueJeans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Rev. BlueJeans


    A lady waved frantically at me today from the other side of about a two feet depth of water in a dip in the road at Carrigtohill. Her brand new focus mpv was sitting forlornly at the the other side.

    She watched in horror as I drove through in first and came to a halt behind her (two day old 4wd transit with a raised air intake).

    Turned out hubby was driving, and the car had simply stopped (turned out to be an electrical problem initially which was bad enough).

    I stood by his window for about two seconds while he stared at the dash while cycling the key. Suddenly the display came back on, and I rapped at the window to stop him doing the obvious. He mouthed "it's ok" and what did the fool do only turn the key.

    Thing is it actually started, pissed water vapour out the exhaust for about a second.

    Then.

    Clunk.

    Plonker.

    I felt sorry for the missus though, apparently she warned him.


  • #54
    Omcd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Omcd


    Recession must be over then, seems almost everyone in this thread is driving/drowning brand new wheels :pac:


  • #55
    Rev. BlueJeans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Rev. BlueJeans


    If only :)

    Mine belongs to the company, (better than the Bank of Scotland, I guess).


  • #56
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    gurgle :pac:


    or burple-ato, burple-ato..?? :D

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    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #57
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Rev. BlueJeans wrote: »
    I felt sorry for the missus though, apparently she warned him.

    she probably told him to drive into it :P


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