Ouch!!!!

[stuarte]

Spotted this in the Metro paper this morning:

http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/29/james-bond-style-ast...

[H6CJF]

Be a bit expensive if that has hydraulic locked!

[andyps]

Looks like the wheels are black on that - unusual choice for a DB5.

It will need some work but easily salvageable with the value of the cars now, insurance should fund it but I don't know how they view someone missing a warning sign as the article indicates.

[SV8Predator]

H6CJF said:

Be a bit expensive if that has hydraulic locked!

Why would that happen? The water looks less than a foot deep.

[H6CJF]

That's what I said when my old 530d inhaled some of the wet stuff and scrapped the engine!
To this day I don't understand how it happened, water the same depth as in the pic more or less, the intake is at grille level and I certainly wasnt going fast enough to create a bow wave that high. Probably just unlucky. It really doesn't take much water to cause it to bend a 'rod

Fortunately, in my case, the insurance coughed up the 7.5k bill!

[CAPP0]

There's an X5 in a local salvage yard at present with a hydro-locked engine. You'd have thought that model would at least have a bit extra water clearance!

[HustleRussell]

It'll be dried out and repaired. I can't see that the engine could've ingested any water through the inlet so presumably the car stopped when the electronics went kapput or the driver bottled it.

[Evoluzione]

There are a lot of water damaged cars going through the salvage auctions at the moment.

[chr15b]

Not too many electrics, surely it could be rebuilt carefully

[Captain Cadillac]

Look how wavy the sides of that thing are...

Insurance job methinks?

[austin]

If it was mine I would just leave it in a barn for a few years, let it get dirty and then sell it as a barn find, sold as seen...

[medieval]

You could well be right Captain Cadillac - not a few persons have tried such a ruse when confronted with the opportunity to hide an underlying and costly issue in the engine department by "flooding it"

I wouldn't have tried it in a company car and we all know how indestructible they are.. ahem.

[deltashad]

Wasn't it the Esprit that could do that and not get stuck?

[Stinkfoot]

H6CJF said:

Be a bit expensive if that has hydraulic locked!

I thought that only really happened to diesel engines due to their much higher cylinder compression ?

[The Surveyor]

it'll come up for auctuion as a hugely over-priced 'Tarn Find'...

[stuarte]

The Surveyor said:

it'll come up for auctuion as a hugely over-priced 'Tarn Find'...

Good work sir!

[Major Fallout]

Is it just me or does it have black wheels?

[dazco]

Major Fallout said:

Is it just me or does it have black wheels?

You have black wheels?

[A9XXC]

Stinkfoot said:

H6CJF said:

Be a bit expensive if that has hydraulic locked!

I thought that only really happened to diesel engines due to their much higher cylinder compression ?

C/R doesnt come in to it, any engine will be seriously damaged on a diet of water!

[XJ13]

A9XXC said:

Stinkfoot said:

H6CJF said:

Be a bit expensive if that has hydraulic locked!

I thought that only really happened to diesel engines due to their much higher cylinder compression ?

C/R doesnt come in to it, any engine will be seriously damaged on a diet of water!

One of the old petrol Rover 420i's will ingest water and bend its con-rods if driven through as little as 6-12" of water in a hidden dip (as me how I know ...)