Hi, Just wondered if a snorkel is available for the Freelander 2 yet?

My work is surronded by a river and a canal and you guessed it, it was flooded yesterday.

The road there floods all the time, usually upto 2 ft max, which ive driven througn a couple of times in the old TDV6 RRS, but yesterday it was about 3ft deep, Too deep for a standard Freelander 2, (incidently, a L200 pick up and an old S1 discovery got stuck in it. I went in but reversed out once the water was above the top of the front tire, just in time i think!!!!  Freelander2 2.2 TD4 HSE, All Black, Full Sports body kit, Black side bars, Shadow Chrome 19"'s, Shadow Chrome Mirror Covers, F & R Lamp Guards, Privacy glass.

uh ... sorry for the bad weather there ...

instead of a snorkel what about buying a complete staff for diving? I may tech your car the PADI basic rules for a good dive ...

Hope things will get better ... I LOVE my FL2

Come on Rooleeds, you should 've gone for it! Imagine if you had crossed it, you would make a pleasant and very big thread on the forum. If not, someone would help from this fellow-feeling forum.

Yeh Rooleeds and imagine the photos on the forum when you got your sorry arse stuck . I have a river in our village which normally goes up to about 400-500mm above road level which I can naviagte wonderfully, but we have the marker gauges at the side of the road to check the depth. I would not dare go for it not knowing the depth.....so as every Landy should know safety first....we dont want to see you on the news as another person swept away, albeit in a Freelander 2

Its all well and good having a snorkel, but you'd need axle breathers and to waterproof the electrics. Added to that all the crap that clogs up your radiator, just not worth it. D4 HSE Lux for me
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Official wading depth for a Freelander 2 is 500mm or to the top of the wheel.

Currently no-one does a raised air intake for the FL2.

To go wading - as opposed to wanting cleaner air in dustier environments, the sections from the air box to the wing will need some work, they appear to be made from recycled pop bottles, and the joints are far from water tight.

A proper wading kit will need the parts inside the wing to be replaced, so it's looking like a fairly involved job to manufacture, and install. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
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pelyma wrote:

Its all well and good having a snorkel, but you'd need axle breathers and to waterproof the electrics. Added to that all the crap that clogs up your radiator, just not worth it.

Don't metion the crap in the radiator to SWMBO just spent the weekend with the front off the car - it doesn't matter how much water you spay you will never get it clean without a stripdown.
Take front sump guard off
Take sump tray off
Take lamp guards and headlamps off
Take the front "bumper / fender" off
Take the intercooler off
Take the radiator support frame off
Undo the supports for the AirCon radiator and swing it out of the way - support as nessesary
Then you can flush out the main radiator - and only then from one side.

Use lots of soap and warm water if possible - the intercooler is quite deep and difficult to flush through.

Drill out broken studs and replace with bolts.
Then rebuild

I know it still beats shopping around the Trafford Center (local shopping hell hole) but she can spend enough without my help

Must remember to put polythene sheet over radiator BEFORE going wading next time.  Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
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The reason why the official wading depth is only 500mm, even though you can actually wade to wheel-top height, is that if lightly laden it'll start to float above 500mm. Follow that logic through and I suspect that even a heavily laden freely will start to float if you try going much above wheel-top height. Hence a snorkel would be redundant - maybe better off putting an outboard on the back  Brian

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