Hitting deep puddles at high speed.

Landie_Man · Nov 12, 2009

Why is it, that a modern car will do this, but in a series, it will violently snatch hard to either the left or right, its ok if you hit a puddle with both front wheels, but one side and its like it tries to fling you into oncoming traffic, yet brand new mondeos sail through the water effortlessley?

Old steering perhaps?

Paul D · Nov 12, 2009

Yup.

My Disco is fine ...

If it gets pulled violently then I'd look at track-rod ends, suspension bushes, wheel bearings but mostly swivel pre-load. My Series 3 used to pull a little, but only about what you'd expect and certainly not much worse than the concurrent car we had, a Renault Laguna 1.9 Dti brand-new company car.

lerk · Nov 12, 2009

Hold the steering wheel tighter!

Any car will pull as there's a hell've a lot a resistance in water... oh, and knock your wipers onto fast BEFORE you hit the puddle too!

landybird · Nov 12, 2009

lerk said:
... oh, and knock your wipers onto fast BEFORE you hit the puddle too!

haha, series wipers are either on or off, we don't have none of this fast or slow business

nathan5346 · Nov 12, 2009

why not just slow down a little?

landybird · Nov 12, 2009

nathan5346 said:
why not just slow down a little?

now wheres the fun in that, just cos you been on your naughty boy speeding course don't come over all sensible on us

nathan5346 · Nov 12, 2009

landybird said:
now wheres the fun in that, just cos you been on your naughty boy speeding course don't come over all sensible on us

:Bugger: lol

carpy · Nov 12, 2009

landybird said:
haha, series wipers are either on or off, we don't have none of this fast or slow business

pahaha mine are either on or off, or if the electricity is deciding to be a bit iffy then you just do it manually! tend to do it manually coz i like the windscreen down so take the wires out of the motors

thats proper motoring! manually wiping the winders!

goonarmy · Nov 14, 2009

Puddles is hard when ya hit em fast.Im a bit scared of em any way cos of the v8!

landybird · Nov 14, 2009

plenty of puddles to play in today

everyone else is moaning to the farmer about the state of the track and i'm saying yeeehaaaaa look at the HUGE puddles

goonarmy · Nov 14, 2009

not so much fun in the 2 feistas ill have the privilege of driving today

Cossie David · Nov 14, 2009

A deep puddle will pull 44 ton to one side

ratty · Nov 14, 2009

I was driving my truck in bad rain a few years back and hit a deep puddle on the road behind stone henge. I was very close to doing a Garfield impersonation on my windscreen. I musta dropped from 50mph to 10mph in a split seconed.

Ryder · Nov 15, 2009

Maybe the difference has something to do with the presence of power steering. I'm no expert but I guess a pull to one side might be more serious if you have no PAS.

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