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you left the Porsche at home

A week ago I had to go to a meeting in Hawes, North Yorks. I was planning on giving the 3.2 a good run as there are some great roads out there.
In the as it was raining and I went in the Freelander

Porsches can deal with puddles too you know

Yeh but his is an aircooled one so doesn't do water
Damn lucky actually I know several people who've badly damaged engines in deep water 7K on a new Merc E Class as well as Poprock (Tony) last year.

Yep … 944s don’t like deep water at all. Especially 944 Turbos. Forced induction of air from an intake very low to the ground quickly becomes forced induction of water!

My job is flood management - one of the things we often remind clients such as developers is that a car will float in half a metre of water. It's a virtually air-tight box with a rubber ring at each corner....

floated my s2 a few years ago coming back from a prom at duxford started raining and never stopped went over a roundabout and did not see the water as it was pssing down and pitch black country road hit it at speed and felt the car floating just reved the car and kept spinning the wheels and after want seemed an eternity it grip the road and off i whent kept drying the brakes as i drove along and all was well ,not like the driver coming the other way he had not only gone in the water but hit a fallen tree,lucky eh!!

There were several roads closed on the way there, one car was half way up the doors in water, and even the roads used for the diversion were flooded

You tend to find with a 993 that the waves part for you in respect. Either that or you end up in a pile of steam.

Yes, Clive but surely to drive through water you must take it out in the rain

I'm glad I left my car at my mate's when I went with him from Leicester to Shoeburyness in Southend on Sea (don't ask). Besides my car suffering from a seized piston at the time and sounding as if something was going to escape from the engine the rear handbrake shoe spring popped off literally a mile from my mate's house causing a very embarrassing squealing. I did drive it from Warwick to Leicester mind you.

I did 600 miles over the NEC weekend on the charity drives. THe weather was foul.... gave it the beans, got stopped by the police (a warning only as we were doing the charity gig) and its just come back from the body shop ! Now thats what I call taking it out in the rain and using it !

You have to drive them hard as well ....

Mine goes into RPM today for its yearly garage holiday, its the only time, apart from parking it at airports that its inside