Hit standing water

[m4rkw]

Driving tired in a place I'm not usually at to walk the dogs and accidentally hit standing water at about 35mph. No immediate problems but there's always the worry about the transmission, hopefully the RX is resilient to such things

[b4u2]

Did you drive through the water or until hit it ?

[Initial P]

Should be fine on a non-hybrid car.

[m4rkw]

17 minutes ago, b4u2 said:

Did you drive through the water or until hit it ?

Shot through it, it was enough to spray out sideways from the car and a little bit came up but didn't swamp the windscreen.  I should have braked but it was dark and I just didn't react quickly enough.

[PCM]

I think... it'll be ok.

[m4rkw]

19 minutes ago, PCM said:

I think... it'll be ok.

Yeah probably, i’ll find out in a bit!

[Bluemarlin]

How deep was  it? You've probably just given the underside a good rinse.

[m4rkw]

Few inches at most. Car still runs so probably ok

[Spock66]

Whenever you are driving in heavy rain water and spray will be continually soaking the underside of the car, I think nothing to worry about.

[Bluemarlin]

10 hours ago, m4rkw said:

Few inches at most. Car still runs so probably ok

In which case I wouldn't give it a second thought, car's are designed to handle it. In fact yesterday I had a lawn sprinkler blasting water along the underside of mine, to rinse off any dirt and salt.

[m4rkw]

Underneath I agree is fine, it's when you hit it hard enough to cause it to shoot up over the bonnet that's concerning

 

[Mjo]

Hello,

"In fact yesterday I had a lawn sprinkler blasting water along the underside of mine, to rinse off any dirt and salt."

Very good idea, it's better than crawling under the car with a water spray ...

[Initial P]

I'm sure when they develop cars they drive them deeper waters than puddles.

[GSLV6]

I've waded through stream fords in mine with water to the sills and no adverse effects at all.  They're fine with the underside getting a soaking.  I clean mine off periodically and liberally spray and brush in Lanoguard.  It's kept the worst of the winter road salt at bay and is highly recommended.  One one litre bottle is about £60 but enough for three good treatments so good for 4 or 5 years.

[PUKU]

My Gen 1 year 2000 RX300 is used to water. Where we live roads are always flooded to a foot or two some times and never a problem. Cant be bothered to slow unless there is another car or pedestrian near, then I crawl by!

[scudney]

Apart from anything else not doing your car anything good though

[Las Palmas]

I have been crossing rivers in Africa with Renault 4, Mercedes 350SE, Peugeot 604 and a couple of other cars with water up to the bottom of the car and nothing ever happened, so why should a Lexus not be able to handle such?

[scudney]

Think about? do electrics and water go together? answer is NO they don't. The Electronics on modern cars these days are the most expensive parts of a car(numerous ecu's, wiring looms etc etc) Your Renault 4, Mercedes 350SE, Peugeot 604 and others were 90% mechanical, so no ecu's for this that and the other, or miles and miles of wiring looms. 

[Las Palmas]

3 hours ago, scudney said:

Think about? do electrics and water go together? answer is NO they don't. The Electronics on modern cars these days are the most expensive parts of a car(numerous ecu's, wiring looms etc etc) Your Renault 4, Mercedes 350SE, Peugeot 604 and others were 90% mechanical, so no ecu's for this that and the other, or miles and miles of wiring looms. 

I am pretty sure the people constructing the cars are aware of that fact and make sure that the parts that need to be kept dry are just that.

[scudney]

You know best, however a word is enough for the wise