Spotted this and it made me chuckle - fairly sure it's a FL2.

Sorry if it's been posted already!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-21...began.html 2008 FL2 TD4 XS Zermatt Silver, Manual
2010 Jaguar XF

Safe wading, not if it is tax payers money.

Disco 4. Got to create a bow wave

Disco 4's safe wading depth is 700mm/70cm. That's way over 700mm and, without a snorkel, he's risking catastrophic engine damage, even with the bow wave.

If you were looking from his direction I bet it's not over the air intake. The wave this side is making it look bigger

The wave does mean that it will be clearing the air intake and (provided that he can absolutely guarantee that it won't get any deeper, that he doesn't have to stop for any reason and that the bow wave doesn't ride up over the bonnet and down over the air intake) he'll be fine. Somehow I doubt he's got into the water with his waders first to check first!

I wouldn't like to be him when he has to explain the bill for a compression locked V6 to his Sargent....

There will be lots of written off cars being put back onto the meerkat that have been flooded out in the past few weeks I'll bet, sold on, then give the new owners electrical nightmares for years to come as they never come to realise its been sunk?

ChrisSoutham wrote:

Spotted this and it made me chuckle - fairly sure it's a FL2.

Sorry if it's been posted already!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-21...began.html

I would say hes being pretty irresponsible driving on the pavement there.

Good clips off disco

 Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

Mona Geeza wrote:

There will be lots of written off cars being put back onto the meerkat that have been flooded out in the past few weeks I'll bet, sold on, then give the new owners electrical nightmares for years to come as they never come to realise its been sunk?

If the insurance are not involved, the unlucky buyer may never know that it was flooded.
If the insurance company are involved it will be invariably written off and would have to be sold as such.
Not sure what the write off criteria would be though.

Most likely end up being Cat d, possibly C. Both mean that the car is written off by the insurance company, but can legally be repaired for road use. AFAIK the V5 then states this. Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
Family's: 2009 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Auto, Stornoway

Yorkshire - God's County

Quite a tame picture one I saw in the paper earlier showed the water right over the bonnet

Guessing they teach fast driving not wading at police school

If you look at the actual water depth, you'll see it's not even to the top of the parked vehicle's wheels, and is therefore nowhere near the D4's maximum wading depth. In fact a skilled driver could have quite easily driven through there in a F2, without causing any damage.

The photographer has simply caught the photo from the best angle, showing the bow wave, to give it it's maximum effect. Hence the media bought the image....

My son likes to buy damaged cars for "him" to repair. He recently bought a very nice Audi A4 well two actually, one had been in a nasty rear end shunt and was cat C (spares or repair), the other was immaculate and a cat B (spares only) that had been in a river.

We spent a lot of time transfering chassis. Just as well, the apparently immaculate drowned car was cat B as the water had got into every electrical unit and plug.
Think about it, not just the seats and carpets, but engine management, airbags, ABS, immobiliser, every plug, wiring loom and lamp/connection, was either ruined or full of contaminates that would in a short time cause intermittant faults. Not good in airbags!
Just hope the Insurance companies policy is to list all drowned vehicles as cat B.

Categories are - I believe
A = must be crushed ..... ie car has been used in an incident causing a death.
B = spares only - serious damage, cannot be safely put back on the road.
C = spares or repair - damaged but uneconomic to repair, ie £23k car that needs a new chassis (50% of value).
D = spares or repair - light damage uneconomic to repair ie 10 year old car worth £1000 needs new body coloured bumper at £300, plus £300 paint/fitting, Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner