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Posts: 4,178 Thanks: 80 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Fiat 500 Off Roading! Hello to all you "off-road" Fiat 500 enthusiasts. I was wondering; how deep can the water that you drive on be before there might be problems? I think i went into 20 cm deep water with the Fiat and it seems ok! Would the radiator run into any problems if muddy water got into it?
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![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! Hello to all you "off-road" Fiat 500 enthusiasts. I was wondering; how deep can the water that you drive on be before there might be problems? I think i went into 20 cm deep water with the Fiat and it seems ok! Would the radiator run into any problems if muddy water got into it? As to 20cm deep, doesn't sound like it should be a problem. but depends on how it's driven through...
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Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Athens, Greece
Posts: 4,178 Thanks: 80 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! Thank you for the feedback and the pictures! After looking at them, I am confident that the Fiat 500's "wet" abilities are quite good and there is no problem with 20 cm of muddy water!
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Posts: 298 Thanks: 9 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading!
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Banned ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! Not as deep, but a few from me too! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Expect steam from exhaust, brakes, rads etc. Fan belt may also slip a little making a "squeak" noise with temporary power loss (i think that's what it is?)
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Posts: 23,752 Thanks: 851 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! Bah! You people call that a splash! ![]() Mine's bigger! ![]()
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![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! done about 4-5ft in a friends landrover the lights were partially underwater ![]()
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Posts: 4,519 Thanks: 150 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! The trouble with deep wading, especially in mud is what carp is getting into the rad cooling area. The last offroading I did with the truck I had tide marks halfway up the door frames, however I also had a magic trick where my rad became a brick - seizing at 70 in the outside lane of the A303 is not to be reccomended ! |
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Posts: 2,454 Thanks: 212 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! Now i don't wanna come across as a party pooper, but would everyone be expecting Fiat to pay for repairs caused by damage from driving through that amount of water at the speed that seems evident in that first batch of photos? Im all for having fun but that just seems careless to me.
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Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: The Welsh Riviera
Posts: 23,752 Thanks: 851 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! Now i don't wanna come across as a party pooper, but would everyone be expecting Fiat to pay for repairs caused by damage from driving through that amount of water at the speed that seems evident in that first batch of photos? Im all for having fun but that just seems careless to me. ![]()
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![]() | Re: Fiat 500 Off Roading! I think it is called a double dip procession. ![]()
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