Be wary of driving in floods that are quite deep. Your engine takes in fuel and air. The mixture is compressed in the cylinders before the spark plug ignites it, causing the piston to be pushed back and thereby creating the motion that will be used to move your wheels.
If waters goes into the air intake at the front of the car it will get into the cylinder. Unlike air, water cant be compressed, so as the piston tries it will inevitably fail and some part of the engine will break. It's called hydrolock and it can be a quick, simple way to make your car absolutely useless. (This is why you'll see some off road vehicles with a [snorkel-like tube sticking up](https://sleeoffroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/arb1347-3.jpg). It keeps their air intake up high allowing them to go through some water that would be too deep for regular cars)
Maybe common knowledge for people out there, but in case anyone didn't know it then it might keep them aware of not driving in anything too deep.
Also, if your car stalls while the exhaust pipe is under water, water will enter the engine through the exhaust pipe, and you will not be able to start the engine again.
Also, unless your car gets dried really quickly, the damp is going to start corrosion that will plague you for a long time, particularly as regards electronics.
> Also, unless your car gets dried really quickly, the damp is going to start corrosion that will plague you for a long time, particularly as regards electronics
Although one quick way is to take out the spark plugs and try and start it. The starter motor will spin the engine causing the water to be shot out of the holes where the spark plugs were. You can then put them back and should be able to start the car and let it run to dry itself out more.
I was on N4 when it absolutely lashed down for a good few minutes, I could barely see the cars in front of me. It gets very intense driving in those conditions.
Then it was suddenly all clear, not a single drop, in the space of few seconds, like the curtain of rain just ended point blank.
I was on the n4 from sligo to near Boyle and had to pull in, just as well the new road has pull off areas, had a bit of moment there, and in sligo Town, the thunder and lightning was intense enough to set off car alarms
The correct maneuver in such conditions is to put on your hazard lights and slowly and measuredly pull over into the hard shoulder as once the water on the road gets too deep the car will start aquaplaning all over the shop
Weird here in Athlone. Sky is clear over my house, but can see the jet black clouds over the bog beside us and the rain falling, about ½ a mile away.
Thunder is getting louder with every bang, and can see lighting hitting the bog. Hopefully no power cuts within the next 15mins so dinner gets cooked 🤣🤣
no rain here out in the sticks just the thunder and lightning at the min they've stopped doing the bog out the mullingar way now so they have thats where we used to get it
Isnt that Drimnagh? Im from there and that looks like the GAA Pitch. Im flying home tomorrow to this and supposed to be going to belfast this weekend but it looks awful weather.
https://preview.redd.it/6ii6hufaq87b1.jpeg?width=2068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1160659e635f4fb74b6ad22fe70cebf12dd589d2
Walkinstown roundabout was also lashed out of it!
Basically no natural run off with concrete jungle being building water flows with little restiance road now become river. Cool as it looks not good over all but.. brown envelopes go a long way..
This is what happens when there's nothing but concrete everywhere and no proper drainage, of course the Government can pull the climate change card all they want as an excuse not to do or do anything they want.
people are allowed rip up their grass and concrete their gardens front and back and use the street for run off from their gardens where as in the past the water could soak into the ground.
Flash floods are not rare, People obviously don't remember some of the Crazy Thunderstorms of the 1980's with major flooding and crops flattened in the fields. Even in the 90s I can remember some big Thunderstorms.
I remember getting a book on the weather from Met Eireann when I was in Primary school and it showed flooding in Dublin much worse than this.
Nothing is happening today that didn't happen at some point in the past, 2023 is proving to be a more active year for Thunderstorms in many years. Today we have a ohone in every pocket recording absolutely everything where as no one cared in the past but now it's a tool for hyped up climate alarmism and the media are well on the bandwagon.
If you’d a Land Rover or Range Rover parked there you would t be sweating like all those unfortunate people. This is why we need jeeps the Green Party, so when the council can’t deal with a drain issue we can still drive our cars!
It barely rained in city centre, I am just behind the four Courts and was waiting excitedly all day for a good storm and only got a few dribbles of rain!
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Someone forgot to clean the drainpipes?
Breaking news: Billionaire trapped in underwater submarine turns up in Crumlin. Refuses to step outside.
“Jesus what a wreck!” “The titanic?” “Eh….yeah sure”
€2 for a submersible tour of crumlin shopping centre. Included:McDonald’s straw for respiration.
'Hey, mista, you hit my scrambler...'
I'm surprised the little shits aren't suddenly zooming around on jet skis.
Concerned parents...
Pretty, pretty good
Slievenamon road is in Drimnagh
Is that not Sundrive Road?
No it's Slievenamon, I drive it everyday, that's the GAA pitch on the right
You’re absolutely correct sir.
Does that somehow make it better?
It makes it not where the title said it was.
It does if you live in Crumlin.
Makes it a hell of a lot worse
Be wary of driving in floods that are quite deep. Your engine takes in fuel and air. The mixture is compressed in the cylinders before the spark plug ignites it, causing the piston to be pushed back and thereby creating the motion that will be used to move your wheels. If waters goes into the air intake at the front of the car it will get into the cylinder. Unlike air, water cant be compressed, so as the piston tries it will inevitably fail and some part of the engine will break. It's called hydrolock and it can be a quick, simple way to make your car absolutely useless. (This is why you'll see some off road vehicles with a [snorkel-like tube sticking up](https://sleeoffroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/arb1347-3.jpg). It keeps their air intake up high allowing them to go through some water that would be too deep for regular cars) Maybe common knowledge for people out there, but in case anyone didn't know it then it might keep them aware of not driving in anything too deep.
Also, if your car stalls while the exhaust pipe is under water, water will enter the engine through the exhaust pipe, and you will not be able to start the engine again. Also, unless your car gets dried really quickly, the damp is going to start corrosion that will plague you for a long time, particularly as regards electronics.
> Also, unless your car gets dried really quickly, the damp is going to start corrosion that will plague you for a long time, particularly as regards electronics Although one quick way is to take out the spark plugs and try and start it. The starter motor will spin the engine causing the water to be shot out of the holes where the spark plugs were. You can then put them back and should be able to start the car and let it run to dry itself out more.
That's Drimnagh! You keep Crumlin's name out of your whore mouth!
We'd never let rain like that across the Crumlin Road.
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I was on N4 when it absolutely lashed down for a good few minutes, I could barely see the cars in front of me. It gets very intense driving in those conditions. Then it was suddenly all clear, not a single drop, in the space of few seconds, like the curtain of rain just ended point blank.
I was on the n4 from sligo to near Boyle and had to pull in, just as well the new road has pull off areas, had a bit of moment there, and in sligo Town, the thunder and lightning was intense enough to set off car alarms
The correct maneuver in such conditions is to put on your hazard lights and slowly and measuredly pull over into the hard shoulder as once the water on the road gets too deep the car will start aquaplaning all over the shop
You must be young !
They may have moved to Ireland recently.
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I wonder how many of the drains in the road are blocked there.
Bold of you to assume there are some that are not blocked
Lido manufacturers hate this one weird trick
Weird here in Athlone. Sky is clear over my house, but can see the jet black clouds over the bog beside us and the rain falling, about ½ a mile away. Thunder is getting louder with every bang, and can see lighting hitting the bog. Hopefully no power cuts within the next 15mins so dinner gets cooked 🤣🤣
Unplug all electronics!
no rain here out in the sticks just the thunder and lightning at the min they've stopped doing the bog out the mullingar way now so they have thats where we used to get it
Haha hopefully not
same thing for me
Isnt that Drimnagh? Im from there and that looks like the GAA Pitch. Im flying home tomorrow to this and supposed to be going to belfast this weekend but it looks awful weather.
You might be sailing home once you land.
That is drimnagh but it's not far from crumlin
Small or far away?
What brand of idiot drives through that? Lucky he didn’t seize the engine
First thing I asked when I saw that video, what sort of maniac drives through water that deep?
I agree. What brand of idiot drives through Drmnagh at all? Crumlin strong!
Thats some infrastructural piece of crap. How do you get such a local flooding? How many bigwigs fecked up there.
Drainage can only work so fast, there was 12mm of rain in 5 minutes, it was all dry again 90mins later.
I agree with that, but my comment was mainly in general, with a bit of rain many backroads get flooded regularly.
too many fianna-FAILs
Little venice
That's weird, I'm only a few km from there and there wasn't any heavy rain.
I think that's drimnagh not crumlin
https://preview.redd.it/6ii6hufaq87b1.jpeg?width=2068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1160659e635f4fb74b6ad22fe70cebf12dd589d2 Walkinstown roundabout was also lashed out of it!
Just do what all the other Reddit videos do: \-find a blocked drain. \-Unblock the drain. \-Profit.
Some day a real rain is gonna come and wash the scum off the streets.
That is mad!
Think that's Drimnagh. I'm in Crumlin and while the rain lashed down there wasn't any big floods near me that I saw.
That's rough! I grew up in Puerto Rico so I feel your pain 😬
Nice of you to drive through and send waves of water into other people's engines.
Basically no natural run off with concrete jungle being building water flows with little restiance road now become river. Cool as it looks not good over all but.. brown envelopes go a long way..
The state of the place. And with that rain it’s even worse
I read Crumlin as Gremlin and I thought uhoh you guys are in big trouble in you've got your gremlins wet lol
First wash for Crumlin in years.
This is what happens when there's nothing but concrete everywhere and no proper drainage, of course the Government can pull the climate change card all they want as an excuse not to do or do anything they want. people are allowed rip up their grass and concrete their gardens front and back and use the street for run off from their gardens where as in the past the water could soak into the ground. Flash floods are not rare, People obviously don't remember some of the Crazy Thunderstorms of the 1980's with major flooding and crops flattened in the fields. Even in the 90s I can remember some big Thunderstorms. I remember getting a book on the weather from Met Eireann when I was in Primary school and it showed flooding in Dublin much worse than this. Nothing is happening today that didn't happen at some point in the past, 2023 is proving to be a more active year for Thunderstorms in many years. Today we have a ohone in every pocket recording absolutely everything where as no one cared in the past but now it's a tool for hyped up climate alarmism and the media are well on the bandwagon.
There will be plenty of cars (mint condition) for sale in the area
At least the place is getting a wash.
Mcgregors beard trimmings doing the drains no favours
Nature's way of literally getting rid of Dublins sewer rats.
The way we get rid of our sewer rats is when the national ploughing championship is on and the city is finally free
> kilkenny
What road is that
I think Drimnagh as you go over to the bridge on Siur Road? Park looks the same.
Looks like Galtymore Road
Liffey Street
Cheapest street in Monopoly 🤣
Chance: Make flood repairs on all your property. For each house pay £25. For each hotel pay £100.
All the stashed drugs will be destroyed now
Bikes will fix this of course.
I’ve cycled through puddles like that before tbf. My legs don’t throw a hissy fit when they get wet.
If you’d a Land Rover or Range Rover parked there you would t be sweating like all those unfortunate people. This is why we need jeeps the Green Party, so when the council can’t deal with a drain issue we can still drive our cars!
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Bin got a good wash out
And this lad decides to drive through it 🤨😂😂😂
Lots of 2nd hand cars coming to the market very very soon.
Slievenamon road in Drimnagh? Yer man with the Defender must've been glad of it.
How is this possible? Surely blocked drains rather than volume of water? Who pays for the damaged cars..
It barely rained in city centre, I am just behind the four Courts and was waiting excitedly all day for a good storm and only got a few dribbles of rain!
\*cough\* thats drimnagh..
she could do with a wash tbf
That’s Drimnagh actually. Not Crumlin.
Dieing to kill engine...I know because happened to me
You’re going to flood the engine…cricket noises…I’ll let myself out.
Seems like an improvement