Today's weather

On the way in to work this morning it was chucking it down and blowing
a gale. There were 4-Tracks driving very carefully round huge puddles
in the road. (Why do they do that?)

What a great ride in I enjoyed every fucking minute.

 

My favourite bit - riding through puddles and seeing how far the water
goes up the side of cars coming the other way.

 

A few years ago I was riding through a rather deep puddle, well actually it
was more like a mini flood. About half way through this lorry driver decided
to have some fun and he came blasting through with a huge grin on his face.
It was like a tidal wave and completely covered me.

 

Beats me. I drive my 4WD through as many puddles as I can, to wash the
mud off the inside of the wheel arches. Works a treat until you find one
that's a bit deeper than you expected...

 

*ding*

 

Wossa 4-Track? Not a Fourtrak I presume?

 

Something big and ugly.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mo

*Waves*

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Whereas I'm just ugly.

 

I was walking into work last Sun (IIRC) and the drains had clogged
up on Cleveland Road so there was a huge puddle stretching out across
about 1/4 of the street. Mr White Van Man came speeding past and swerved
in to the kerb to drench me, when he could have avoided the puddle
altogether as there was no-one coming the other way. Sorry, pal, that's
an offence; fortunately for him I was too busy giving him both fingers
to write down his registration mark.

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Doesn't really narrow it down.

The reason I asked is because if you meant a Fourtrak then the reason
that it's not a good idea to drive them *fast* through big puddles is
because the water flies up in a blinding great sheet over the front of
the bonnet, which can be exciting especially as the steering will be
pulling all over the place.

 

I drove my pathetic Fiat Scudo through a medium sized puddle on Monday
evening and ripped off lumps from under the engine. Unfortunately one
of those lumps was a rather important oil cooler.

Luckily I decided that the ensuing noise was a bit much to carry on
driving and once I'd pulled over and had a quick look to see what was
hanging off I decided the AA needed to get involved.

 

Andy Bonwick wrote

You wanna get a Mongvan you do, good old Toyota engineering. I met a
rock while traversing a ford hard enough to put a hole in the gearbox
sump on mine I did. A bit of puddin' and some ginger DNA and it has
been as right as rain since.

 

Andy Bonwick says...

Ask SteveH what van he'd buy you if he was your manager and he valued
you.