Yay another puddle!!

[Ham_and_Jam]

A massive downpour this afternoon caused flash flooding and quite deep puddles on a lot of roads locally to me.

I was really surprised how many drivers were driving straight through these deep puddles when it took little effort to drive around / to the side of them.

They weren t big utilitarian 4x4s, but boggo standard family / small hatchbacks with regular alloys etc.

I was just taken aback at how they had no idea what was lying beneath the water, be it an obstacle or big pot hole.

I just thought the risk of damaging your car wheels or associated suspension gubbings wasnt worth the excitement of seeing a big whoosh of water being squirted from the car.

Is it just me that doesn t do this?

[DJC76]

Driving through puddles is the adult equivalent of jumping in them with your wellies on as a kid. One day I’ll knacker my car and join your school of thought but 22 years in that’s not happened yet.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Apologies for the missing apostrophes, well known PH issue-

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[SkodaIan]

You're assuming that the drivers of these cars have looked up long enough from their phones to see the puddle before they drive into it.

For a lot of drivers, the first they know of a deep puddle is when it makes a whooshing noise and (if its really deep) the steering goes a bit funny and water comes over the top of the bonnet.

They then drive straight through the next deep puddle too because they didn't notice that one either whilst posting a video on Thicktock saying how they nearly died and it was all the council's fault because their job is making sure the road was free of puddles at all times.......

[Inbox]

DJC76 said:

Driving through puddles is the adult equivalent of jumping in them with your wellies on as a kid. One day I ll knacker my car and join your school of thought but 22 years in that s not happened yet.

This, there was one particular road that would fill with water after the rain when walking to school back in the day and if you had your wellies on was worth jumping in.

Doing that in a car these days so long as no pedestrians or other cars are around has a cost a couple of undertrays but...

[Mr Tidy]

Given the state of roads these days I seem to always be trying to avoid potholes - probably looks like I'm pissed at times!

But I'll make an extra effort to avoid puddles because you just don't know what they are hiding.

[dreamcracker]

I have never understood why people avoid two or three inches of water puddles which happen locally every time we have heavy rain.

I always drive through them as it washes the underside of the car. It's a free car wash!

Do people really believe their car is going to fall down a hole, or flood the engine in two inches of water?

[daqinggregg]

Oh what fun we had!

[blueg33]

dreamcracker said:

I have never understood why people avoid two or three inches of water puddles which happen locally every time we have heavy rain.

I always drive through them as it washes the underside of the car. It's a free car wash!

Do people really believe their car is going to fall down a hole, or flood the engine in two inches of water?

It’s filthy water full of crap. Why would you wash your car with that?

I’d rather avoid the puddles and keep my car clean.

[cliffords]

blueg33 said:

dreamcracker said:

I have never understood why people avoid two or three inches of water puddles which happen locally every time we have heavy rain.

I always drive through them as it washes the underside of the car. It's a free car wash!

Do people really believe their car is going to fall down a hole, or flood the engine in two inches of water?

It s filthy water full of crap. Why would you wash your car with that?

I d rather avoid the puddles and keep my car clean.

Unfortunately it is most likely literally full of crap.

[g3org3y]

Mr Tidy said:

Given the state of roads these days I seem to always be trying to avoid potholes - probably looks like I'm pissed at times!

But I'll make an extra effort to avoid puddles because you just don't know what they are hiding.

This.

[LimaDelta]

It depends. A few of our local roads regularly flood. I can drive them feeling 99.9% certain that they are not hiding anything damaging. On a road I don't know, then perhaps I'd be a little more cautious, but not much. I don't run chariot-spec wheels on my cars, and a good splash helps to clean off the mud.

[blueg33]

g3org3y said:

Mr Tidy said:

Given the state of roads these days I seem to always be trying to avoid potholes - probably looks like I'm pissed at times!

But I'll make an extra effort to avoid puddles because you just don't know what they are hiding.

This.

I have to avoid so many potholes around here, my car thinks I am tired and bongs at me to take a break!

[POIDH]

Meh, having lived on edge of Highlands and worked across rural Scotland for so many years, I just tend to avoid where I can but not really take too much notice or I would never get anywhere!
That said, proper long or deeper than kerb gets a proper slow down or drive around if I can.

[MustangGT]

dreamcracker said:

I have never understood why people avoid two or three inches of water puddles which happen locally every time we have heavy rain.

I always drive through them as it washes the underside of the car. It's a free car wash!

Do people really believe their car is going to fall down a hole, or flood the engine in two inches of water?

You do not appear to have considered what may be hidden by the water, a lump of brick will do a lot of damage.

[Supersam83]

For me it's just reliving the nostalgia of WRC rallying back in the day, watching the cars drive through the water splash sections.

For that 3 seconds as I drive thru it, I feel like I'm prime Colin McRae in the Subaru Impreza 555.

[Simon_GH]

Supersam83 said:

For me it's just reliving the nostalgia of WRC rallying back in the day, watching the cars drive through the water splash sections.

For that 3 seconds as I drive thru it, I feel like I'm prime Colin McRae in the Subaru Impreza 555.

Then the next 3 hours you’re waiting for your rotor cap to dry out!

[Supersam83]

Simon_GH said:

Supersam83 said:

For me it's just reliving the nostalgia of WRC rallying back in the day, watching the cars drive through the water splash sections.

For that 3 seconds as I drive thru it, I feel like I'm prime Colin McRae in the Subaru Impreza 555.

Then the next 3 hours you re waiting for your rotor cap to dry out!

Well I avoid the really deep puddles. It's just the small ones I go thru

[DaveCWK]

Puddles mean water collects there.
Water repeatedly freezing is what breaks up the road surface and forms potholes.
I think it's just one of those things that you eventually learn the hard way.

I once saw a transit go through a flooded verge pothole on a country lane Y type merge, it looked like it bounced maybe 2ft in the air & set the air bags off.