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Teaching Omegas to Swim
« on: 01 August 2007, 19:47:23 »
On Friday 20th, I was confronted with a flooded road. Other vehicles were getting through the water so why shoudn't I?
Problem was that I wanted to turn left in the middle of the water & unknown to me the road dipped at that point & the water was deeper!
I entered the flood but did not emerge & came to rest in the middle
Water began to seep under the doors until there was about 3" in all 4 footwells
By waving my arms about I attracted the attention of a passing Discovery who pushed me out onto higher gound (caused a dent in tailgate though)
AA eventually arrived & diagnosed Hydrolock with a 9 hour wait for a recovery truck, luckily my son-in-law who is a Copper & his mate with a Landrover came out & towed me back through the water & into a nearby car-park
Insurance immediately said 'Write-off' because of it's age & on Monday morning I saw a 2.0 Petrol CD in a local car-lot & bought it!
Then I mentioned my problem to the Mechanic who maintains the TD. He  said I should get it trailered to him & he would see if it could be recovered. It was delivered to him at 17:00 Monday evening & at noon next day he called me to come & collect it!
No bent rods, no bent valves but an enormous amount of water in the pots that sprayed everywhere once he had removed the injectors & turned it over!
A drain of the Intercooler & Turbo & a quick oil change, a bill for £175 & I now have 2 Omega Estates!!
The question which do I keep - the 96 TD GLS with 130K or the 95 2.0 CD with 98K on the clock????

What would you do?

I have dried out the carpets with the aid of a powerful industrial vacuum cleaner & a few hot days & the little amount of smell is masked by some deodorant from Messrs Halfords

Moral of the episode is Omegas have a low level air intake & cannot  swim (has anyone any suggestions for an air intake further of the ground?

I guess the low speed at the time & the auto-box possibly absorbing some of the shock saved the BMW lump from the scrap yard
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #1 on: 01 August 2007, 19:51:06 »
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Moral of the episode is Omegas have a low level air intake & cannot  swim (has anyone any suggestions for an air intake further of the ground?
I seem to recall it is particularly low on the TD...
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #2 on: 01 August 2007, 19:58:13 »
I would keep both just incase we get some more floods in the future  ;D ;D at least you would have something to get around in or you could convert the 2.0 cd omega in to a boat for next time  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #3 on: 01 August 2007, 19:59:43 »
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has anyone any suggestions for an air intake further of the ground?  ......

Would it not just be easier to avoid flooded roads??  ;) ::)
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #4 on: 01 August 2007, 20:02:53 »
If you can get rid of the smell and do enough miles to make on the TD keep it - if not keep the CD and enjoy having a "new" car  ;)
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #5 on: 01 August 2007, 20:23:21 »
hMM Thats strange during the recent floods i had to negotiate flooded  roads on five occasions one to rescue a td omega!!
but the point is the floods came to the centre of the wheels but by leaving the car on tickover in first gear she creatd a small bow wave and went through all of them fine, much to the disgust of the 11 marooned cars who were totally flooded on one particular road ;D and the only damage to mine was rear exhaust rubber hangers ripped off by the force of the water and  front wheel bearings were full of rusty greasy water and complaing vociferously!!! so at 35 pounds a time i changed the both of them cleaned the brake sliders and regreased them, then couldnt work ut why i had a slght power loss, upon investigation my 2 week old airfilter had got damp and dried out and gone hard!! so it wasnt able to pass enough air!!!
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #6 on: 01 August 2007, 20:30:19 »
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has anyone any suggestions for an air intake further of the ground?  ......

Would it not just be easier to avoid flooded roads??  ;) ::)

Why did I not think of that???
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #7 on: 01 August 2007, 20:48:59 »
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has anyone any suggestions for an air intake further of the ground?  ......

Would it not just be easier to avoid flooded roads??  ;) ::)

Why did I not think of that???
;D  ;D  :y
Many years ago I 'injured' my 2.2CD Carlton by driving through high tide water. I had a caravan on the back, so was difficult to turn it all around, so when the Lada bit the bullet & drove through the rest of the queue had to go for to save face! ;D Just after that various things went wrong, and then a month or 2 later one of the black boxes under the bonnet bit the dust ..... I don't think it was a coincidence. :(
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #8 on: 02 August 2007, 08:56:19 »
Diesels should be run through floods on tickover as you often avoid hydroloc if water is ingested.

The air intake isnt low, its much higher than the level of water you should sensibly negotiate.

As for the advice, keep the diesel.....you know it much better.
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #9 on: 02 August 2007, 16:44:52 »
Keep the diesel.....punt the other.  :y
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Re: Teaching Omegas to Swim
« Reply #10 on: 02 August 2007, 18:09:32 »
And to digress, it's what I seem to do best!

We drive diseasle Vivaro's at work, we've had a high number of their engines flooded beyond repair... they have a low intake, situated underneath a wheel arch liner..  the drivers of these vehicles only took them through about 9" depth and slow too...   Poor design I'm inclined to think::)

Pleased to hear you're all sorted now..  :)

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