I have a 1999 Discovery TD5 auto. A few years ago when we had some quite bad flooding I was taking some people home and went through some flood water about 2 feet deep and the engine just died. I managed to push it out to dry land and after a few minutes it restarted no problem. It's been fine ever since. We're having more flooding currently so I don't want to have this problem again. Can anyone suggest what happened and what I could do to prevent ti happening again. Many thanks in advance.
TD5 cut out whilst wading
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Did you stall it ?
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Two foot is about the max for D2 before water will come in through the doors. But even a completely standard D2 should be able to wade at this depth.
Take it nice and steady. Id use low range, second gear revs around 1500.
If you start flying about in any depth water your asking for trouble.
I do this kind of depth regularly with no problems at all.
Take it nice and steady. Id use low range, second gear revs around 1500.
If you start flying about in any depth water your asking for trouble.
I do this kind of depth regularly with no problems at all.
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Sounds more like water on the ECU if it started up as soon as it was dry ish without removing injectors/glow plugs and cranking over to force water out the block………
Would be smoking a lot too and sounding rough etc if he had flooded the engine ?
But yeah fit a snorkel if you're wading…….
Would be smoking a lot too and sounding rough etc if he had flooded the engine ?
But yeah fit a snorkel if you're wading…….
erm thats 2ft so its 5%deeper than your 600mm guess..or there abouts...
ok, if were being pedantic..2ft deep is 624mm
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500 mm is the hieght of the door seal. The air intake is closer to a meter high of the ground.
Apart from soaking the inside, a manual td5 disco will keep going utill water goes in the air intake or the ecu.
Anything over the 500 mm for an auto will comebinside the csr and fry the autobox ecu under the seat.
If I keep a steady wave I can wade to 2 foot without water coming in or cutting out.
Cheers.
obviously LR got it wrong and waisted all that development money,
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car that stops in water and will then restart is usually water flung round the engine by crank pulley and belts.. shots out summit electrical ... after the engine heat has dried it out it restarts
on a petrol its probably the coil /dizzy/ plug leads.... or it was when i last had a petrol.
now it could be any of the underbonnet electrickery
if it was water down the air intake it wouldnt restart minutes later.
on a petrol its probably the coil /dizzy/ plug leads.... or it was when i last had a petrol.
now it could be any of the underbonnet electrickery
if it was water down the air intake it wouldnt restart minutes later.
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Think lr are quite conservative with it. Been bonnet deep in me v8 and that kept going. Also had it caughing after going too fast through six inches of water.
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Im sure they more than aware of the type of person that was going to be driving the D2, and therefore set the wading depth to the lowest part of the door seal.
If you stop in anything more than 500 mm in a D2, you'll have a wer interior.
Cheers.
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Sounds more like the OP stalled it due to incorrect gear choice. Be interested to know what gear he was in.
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Get a 300 Tdi, problem solved
sure ratty and a few more on here will vouch for me when i say that i did some seriously deep wading in my 56 plate td5 90 and never missed a beat
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sure ratty and a few more on here will vouch for me when i say that i did some seriously deep wading in my 56 plate td5 90 and never missed a beat
Don't you mean yer 80 Td5?
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seen you have'nt lost or improved yer sense a humour
I's suprised yer know wot one looks like
