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Title: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: Alex on 24 July 2011, 18:50:38

Car parked in the driveway during 3 days of (very) heavy rain.  When I came to use it I saw that I had about 3 inches of water sloshing about in the rear nearside footwell.  It turned out that the drainage pipe in front of the heater intake in the engine bay was blocked and the intake had about 5 inches of water in it.  I know it's not the easiest place to check, but be aware it can happen - although how all the gunge got down there is beyond me,

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: vauxsull on 24 July 2011, 18:54:39

Ah haaaa the blocked scuttle drain full of leaf debris then? school boy error not checking that bad boy..

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: aaronjb on 24 July 2011, 18:57:37

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1167524083

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: Stallion on 25 July 2011, 00:52:51

although have checked it (not recently) thanks for the reminder  :y

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: tango on 25 July 2011, 00:59:45

well if you dont know then you dont know

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: Bionic on 25 July 2011, 06:41:15

I got rid of the slit obstruction at the bottom of the drain pipe by cutting it off and extending the tube a bit and now even the largest of leaves do not obstruct the water draining away. I still check it each time open the bonnet though, especially after heavy rain is forecast cos you never know..... :y
And yep, it was schoolboy error  ;D considering the amount of times this has been brought up before.
Lesson learned I hope. Try using a Shamcloth by JML, they are brill for soaking up water. :y

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: Abiton on 25 July 2011, 08:01:18

Alex - bad luck, thanks for posting in an attempt to help others avoid the problem.

To those who crowed " haha schoolboy error" etc. did you not notice that this member has only 16 posts to his name?  Hardly likely to have seen reference to the dodgy scuttle drain in that time?
Bit of sympathy/courtesy wouldn't go amiss.
 :-?

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: dbug on 25 July 2011, 10:06:49

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Alex - bad luck, thanks for posting in an attempt to help others avoid the problem.

To those who crowed " haha schoolboy error" etc. did you not notice that this member has only 16 posts to his name?  Hardly likely to have seen reference to the dodgy scuttle drain in that time?
Bit of sympathy/courtesy wouldn't go amiss. :-?

 :y :y

Title: Re: Car flooded - a cautionary tale
Post by: Shackeng on 25 July 2011, 10:42:24

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Ah haaaa the blocked scuttle drain full of leaf debris then? school boy error not checking that bad boy..

Well done that man, never made an error. 8-) 8-) 8-) ::) ::) ::) :y

Thanks very much Alex for reminding us. :y :y :y