Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Needs metal flake and gold Daytons...

I guess fording rivers is not on the driving test yet. @christianSpaceman, also I understand keeping revs really high (as you move slow) will prevent water from finding an opportunity to work it's way up the exhaust. Easy with a low-range box but you often have to slip the clutch if you're not in a 4x4.

I'm not obsessive, I've only watched about 15-20x of these videos. But it looks like it's a normal day out at Rufford ford involves taking the kids out to watch the fun. There's a lot of 4x4 owners who clearly just drive through repeatedly to try and cover the bystanders in water. This results in woops of elation from the kids.

It is a good idea to know you air intake height.

I guess fording rivers is not on the driving test yet.

High risk manoeuvre for the driving test... there's be bunches of steaming L-plates along the side of the test route...

On a 4x4?

But it looks like it's a normal day out at Rufford ford involves taking the kids out to watch the fun

It looks like part of the fun is moving the Road Closed sign out of the way.

LOL at the floating Sprinter. Should have approached with WAY more welly, killed engine just before entry and fucking prayed the momentum floated them to the other side. That would have been my technique. :)

Bit of a prick for not warning but I guess you could be stood there all day warning folk. Personally I would have found another way around. Fuck doing that in front of witnesses!

So what is the technique for this? Could the GLE or Kuga have made it through that ford with the right tekkerz?

When I was looking for my E63 there was an E63-S advertised that had dipped it's nose in a ford, snorted in a good lungful and bent some rods. Cat-C because of the engine rebuild, and I didn't think it was cheap enough, given that. Someone else bought it pretty fast mind.

Just being silly about the hydraulics, not sure the 4x4 even has them.

My dad got a BX around the time i fell in love with Ice Cube's Impala in Boyz n the Hood. Sadly the school run was not as cool as Crenshaw Avenue.

Bitd I had a Renault 19 16V* as a company car, and the job had been transferred from Acton
to Milton Keynes*. I typically drove home from a desultory day in the office by the back roads.
Stewkley, Wing, towards Aylesbury then A413 back into outer north west London.

One day it had rained heavily enough, somewhere, that the Grand Union canal was breaching its banks onto some of these byways. Other cars were getting through.
Who knew the air intake for the 16v engine was located down by the nearside front wheel behnd the spoiler?

Don't blame me for these *.
Restricted company car list, and the early '90s recession meant any employment was worthwhile.

Crenshaw Boulevard/Watts Avenue?

I was a Boy n the Hood before the movie

I do like metal fleck paint, the one from the 70-80s alfa romeo with different size flakes in the paint then the clearcoat on top.

Looked at the idea of altering the citroen system to make the car hop or raise a corner...it can be done but cheaper and easier to have the aeroplane hydraulics set up for the old school cool.

Crenshaw Boulevard

Yep think that's the one. I visited a friend in South Central whose dad was a minister in Crenshaw. I wanted to go check it out but he laughed in my face and advised against it.

Are you from that part of town?

Are you from that part of town?

Shouldn't that be hood?

then the clearcoat over a lace fabric on top to get silly patterns

BITD i wanted the Rayvern kit you could get for about £500 through Street Machine. Sadly i never found a MK2 Granada to put them on.

Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

:)

I think modification would have been necessary. It reminds my of Hyperdrive. Who has watched that on Netflix? It's amazing.

We used to go down here on our bikes as kids, can’t believe how quickly people are driving through it. Love the green Micra’s attempt.

5* content

Can anyone recommend a good BMW garage (preferable in SE London) that they trust? Our 318i has started bogging at around 1500rpm, and from what I have read, it doesn't seem like an easy diagnosis. (Also skint and don't want to have to take it to a main dealer.)

@Fixedwheelnut should be able to provide a recommendation

If it is BMW fixedwheelnut is ya man.

Have seen that effect on a pimp my ride type program. Believe it suits a usian landbarge better than a mk2 granada maybe a mk3 cortina.

Have a lowrider chain steering wheel, doubt it is useable as real steering wheel but looks good on my wall.

Sad news about Sabine. What a legend, RIP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308

Bmsport, Bexleyheath are a FWN recommendation and I have used them for servicing without complaint.