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Wading depth with snorkel
So whats the deepest anyone has been with a snorkel? I'm curious, the battery box isn't watertight, so how deep can you go before you knacker something important? How well do the door seals hold up?Jaguar Land Rover: "Building great cars, badly."
5th Dec 2017 3:58 pm
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You will float away
5th Dec 2017 4:09 pm
LT
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You can't really answer that accurately. If you create a good bow wave you can go pretty deep. I've done that a few times over the years. It's gone wrong a couple of times, and the water's been over the top of the bonnet, only for a second or so and it was fine (luckily).
Sorry, should have added that that's without a snorkel or RAI. Door seals are good. As DG says, you'll likely to float away.2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
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5th Dec 2017 4:40 pm
galwaygreen
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you didn't buy a submarime...go try LRE Solihull...that will show you
5th Dec 2017 6:14 pm
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U can wade this deep.
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5th Dec 2017 6:17 pm
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There’s a clip on YouTube somewhere of Andrews taking his D3 through a swollen river in Wales, and just getting away with it. He nearly floated away. Car kept running though. Can’t find it just now.
5th Dec 2017 6:45 pm
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That's a waffle board to help DiscoDunc cross little streams. He didn't need it here though.
5th Dec 2017 6:45 pm
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Gareth wrote:
There’s a clip on YouTube somewhere of Andrews taking his D3 through a swollen river in Wales, and just getting away with it. He nearly floated away. Car kept running though. Can’t find it just now.
I had Dark Bluie start to float crossing a river near Salisbury Plain. It's scary when, in off road height, she says she's going into extended mode. Means she's starting to float.
5th Dec 2017 6:47 pm
Jubbly
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I saw a d4 in Russia on youtube that started leaking inside and filled with water, thats my biggest fear.
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Door seals are watertight unless damaged ....only case of water ingress I've seen otherwise was the spare wheel winch rubber left off in the boot which made for a written off RRS ..VA ISTR
5th Dec 2017 8:48 pm
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VA? I thought he just sold up to cut the fuel bill. There was a member here who's D3 floated away and was written off a good few years ago.
PS crwoody from searching but I can't find the original thread.
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5th Dec 2017 8:51 pm
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saw this one the other week , near the end it goes swimming
5th Dec 2017 8:56 pm
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DSL wrote:
VA?
Can't remember who it was tbh ...though I'm sure he was involved somehow
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There was a member here who's D3 floated away and was written off a good few years ago. 
