Disco 3 or Disco duck Duck river crossing fail

[NavyDiver]

ok to might have been a error to try, get over it and enjoy it, whingers not welcome thanks:D

Traveling down from a nice snow covered mount Skene. Cut four big trees to come down the track to a ford over the Goulbourn River. Wheel deep until very close to the other side. Choose to back out as soon as it got deep. I know "only up the the wheel hubs" and am sharing for your enjoyment not for a whinge session. My Disco duck easily reversed back into the shallow water and backed out and ran perfectly in water far deeper than we would mean to put our discos. Glad that they are part duck:D

Reverse = Discretion and get out of a deep whole. (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/Reverse%20=%20Discretion%20and%20get%20out%20of%20 a%20deep%20whole.)

Discovery 3 - Goulburn river crossing fail with fun - YouTube

[Tombie]

Am I missing something? Or does the link re-open Aulro?

[Tombie]

Btw - your post spent a lot of time whining about having a whinge! :wasntme:

[THE BOOGER]

yep link not opening properly:(

[NavyDiver]

yep link not opening properly:(

sorry fixed it

Discovery 3 - Goulburn river crossing fail with fun - YouTube

[DiscoWeb]

Weakestlink,

That was deep, i assume you have snorkel as it would have easily been over the air intake ?

Passenger did not sound impressed !!.

Glad to hear it ran well after it swim.

George

[Disco4SE]

Thats a fair dunking considering the flow of the river as well.

You forgot to add "Please dont try this at home".

Cheers, Craig.

BTW: Do you have a snorkel??

[NavyDiver]

Weakestlink,

That was deep, i assume you have snorkel as it would have easily been over the air intake ?

Passenger did not sound impressed !!.

Glad to hear it ran well after it swim.

George

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS.:eek:
A sealed safari snorkle not raised air intake thankfully. everyone was a little suppised when the shallow crossing fellinto a deep hole. The back of the car was a lot higher and shallow water down river would have made a total float recoverable if it occured. just no exit point down the river. DOH

It was clearly my mistake- just one showing the engine and self recovery in reverse the two foot back from the hole. A few nice people arrived on the exit point offering to help the last bit with a strap but I felt a nice long drive a much better idea now I knew how deep it was. Nice offer.

[101RRS]

But you had already driven through the deepest bit (the bonnet was coming out of the water) - why not continue on.

I know easy to say when you are not there :o

[NavyDiver]

But you had already driven through the deepest bit (the bonnet was coming out of the water) - why not continue on.

I know easy to say when you are not there :o

I couldn' get any traction to go forward. I think it was at a float point with any forward movement lifting the weight of the wheels. I did try to drive out as we were very close to the edge. The only traction was in reverse backing out which seemed a very good idea at that point. It was very close to being a success. I guess if I (was silly) and tried a little faster I might have pushed into shallower water close to the edge or of course, just floated which was not on my wish list for the weekend:D. It was possible if prepared to take more risk than I had already put myself and others into. We had looked at driving up the river a little but given some larger rocks thought a hang up or under car damage might result. It was a very good weekend inspite of my error which the disco happily covered for me as it tends to do.

[discotwinturbo]

So what terrain setting do you select for over the bonnet water crossings ?

I would be thinking maximum traction being mud/ruts or rock crawl ?

Was everything ok with the disco later.....no failures with any electronics ?

Brett......

[Tombie]

After seeing the video...

A wise choice was made :cool:

[TerryO]

After seeing the video...

A wise choice was made :cool:


Agreed, its easy for people to tell others that they should have kept going when they weren't there and its not their car that was at risk.

cheers,
Terry

[oldsalt]

The wise man backs out to drive another day - the fool drives on and floats away never to be seen again.
You made the right choice in my opinion.

[Piddler]

just looking at it I thought the river was flowing to fast? :)

[NavyDiver]

So what terrain setting do you select for over the bonnet water crossings ?

I would be thinking maximum traction being mud/ruts or rock crawl ?

Was everything ok with the disco later.....no failures with any electronics ?

Brett......

Good question Brett

Every thing worked after and during, a dribble of water got inside but my window was down during the knee deep 40metre part of the crossing :D. My car was great as usual. A parking brake fault report cleared on a restart the next day.

LLAMS was in super extended mode- LLams was on max and the car did the extra bit when the water gets up to the doors. Low range of course in 2nd.

Traction mode is a interesting question. I had it in sand mud... but found half way back up the mountain that it was in normal mode. Not sure if this was me before or after the swim. I had been in that mode for a few days and was a little surprised to find it back to road mode. I think I saw a "Dont PANIC" button on the traction control sellector on another post. I am not certain now if I had checked my Panic mode this but I usually would so I assume but cannot be possative it was in sand/mud at the time I went in.

[oldsalt]

Here 'tis ....
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[Col.Coleman]

Have a look at these 2 for driving into holes:D

No carpets here to worry about though I suppose:p

defender 90 in river - YouTube

Drumclog Water Run - YouTube

And Series Land Rover Style

Billing April 2007 Dad in VERY Deep Water In Lightweight!! - YouTube

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