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Vehicle: Octavia RS162 Steel Gray Wagon, Tow Bar, 18" Black Pack & Tech Pack
Order placed: 31/03/15, Orignal Delivery: 18/09/15, Current ETA - Dock Port Kembla 17/07/15
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Love the presentation. When I went to pick up my first Skoda, I saw a car under wraps and asked what it was. Colin said it was just a "new model" but then when I signed on the dotted line he pulled the covers off with a flourish and voila! there was my new car!
Oh I got gipped! All I got on delivery was some ribbon!
Got a question - those of you in Brisbane would know the weather was fantastic today, and of course I had to drive in it. For a solid ~15m or so I had to drive through water which was maybe 5-10cm above the bottom edge of the car body (only found out how deep it was once I was in there as it was night time...). Are there any symptoms I should look out for or anything I should do?
I hope not. I drove through about 500mm of water last night - would have been close to top of wheels. Car is perfect today, no water anywhere everything works fine. I wouldn't recommend doing it regularly, but at a pinch it's possible. (Water wasn't rapid). I've done water crossings in a 4wd before, do just used the same approach (get a bow wave happening). The only thing I would do different is turn traction control off before trying it.
2014 Skoda Ambition Plus 103TSI candy white wagon, 6sp Manual, Tech pack, Panoramic Sunroof, 18's, Colour Maxidot, Comfort BT
Ordered 07 May 14 (Wk 15), Built Wk 37, Loaded 27/9 (wk 39), Docked 12/11 (wk 46), DELIVERED! 12/12 (end of wk 50 - 7 months + 1 week).
Shouldn't be an issue, the car is pretty water tight. I always invisioned doing something like this when crossing some water haha https://youtu.be/HdcIhqO6G9Y?t=5m
Maybe they've changed the air inlet for the engine but on Mk2 Octavia / Golfs / Passats the air intake is a water gobbler. I personally know 3 people (2 golfs & a Passat) that have had their car written off driving through water. The engine sucks it in & hydro-locks.
It might be smart to try and fashion some sort of shield for all this floody weather we are copping
carandimage The place where Off-Topic is On-Topic I used to think I was anal-retentive until I started getting involved in car forums
Well it's reassuring to hear your opinions. That's brave GTR! If that were me I'd probably have turned around I hope your car is okay too. I don't think I was driving in Brisbane in the 2011 floods but I haven't seen so many cars strewn around before yesterday. There was a bit of steam coming out of the front grille last night and it does look a bit like (on an RS) the radiator(?) hangs kind of low but I don't think that would be an issue. Car seemed fine today, I just get concerned at how most car manuals (including this one) say to avoid driving through water higher than the bottom edge of the car - I hope that is just conservative advice!
I drove from Brisbane to Sydney yesterday and would have had the wipers going, no exaggeration, for at least 8 hours solid. Just continuous rain. At one point, I pulled over near Ballina as it was coming down so hard conditions on the highway were just too dangerous. Could not take Bluetooth phone calls as the rain coming on the roof was too noisy. Got home and the car interior completely dry, the car ran faultlessly throughout the most severe rainstorm you could encounter. But I did not cross through any big floods.
Well it's reassuring to hear your opinions. That's brave GTR! If that were me I'd probably have turned around I hope your car is okay too. I don't think I was driving in Brisbane in the 2011 floods but I haven't seen so many cars strewn around before yesterday. There was a bit of steam coming out of the front grille last night and it does look a bit like (on an RS) the radiator(?) hangs kind of low but I don't think that would be an issue. Car seemed fine today, I just get concerned at how most car manuals (including this one) say to avoid driving through water higher than the bottom edge of the car - I hope that is just conservative advice!
Manufacturers have to be conservative, because idiots always push boundaries. However, happy to say no ill effects (aside from foggy inside of a single fog light.) Door seals must be good too, because I'm positive it was up over the sills in height.
I wouldnt normally cross water in a car, however 2hrs to drive home, our other car is on loan to the FIL, and wife was stuck at train station for 45 mins in the rain, as well as kids at kindy. Lucky kindy, train station and home were all on the other side of the water, so one crossing only was required (wouldnt risk it with wife/kids in car). A soggy, angry wife is much more fearful than a waterlogged car. At least I can replace the car!
2014 Skoda Ambition Plus 103TSI candy white wagon, 6sp Manual, Tech pack, Panoramic Sunroof, 18's, Colour Maxidot, Comfort BT
Ordered 07 May 14 (Wk 15), Built Wk 37, Loaded 27/9 (wk 39), Docked 12/11 (wk 46), DELIVERED! 12/12 (end of wk 50 - 7 months + 1 week).
Yeah I asked about lead times as that production thing was about but the dealer last month said it knocked about a month off the typical times, and orders placed in April still had Nov ETAs.
I hope your car is okay too. I don't think I was driving in Brisbane in the 2011 floods but I haven't seen so many cars strewn around before yesterday. There was a bit of steam coming out of the front grille last night and it does look a bit like (on an RS) the radiator(?) hangs kind of low but I don't think that would be an issue. Car seemed fine today, I just get concerned at how most car manuals (including this one) say to avoid driving through water higher than the bottom edge of the car - I hope that is just conservative advice! 
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