Learning to ride through puddles. Tips for the driver.

The city passed rains or thaw - and you have a car like a boat without a sail drive. What to do, how to behave if the water gets to the threshold, and even higher? When driving through a deep puddle move to the lowest possible rate. If you spray to get into the electrical components of your engine, it stall and you'll be like Robinson Crusoe on his island. The most unstable to the water element of your engine - timer. You can do as athletes in the Soviet rally - to put on his latex surgical glove and each finger to stretch one wire. If the fan drive your car - a belt, in front of a deep puddle it clear that the fan is not spinning, or spray water under the hood. If the puddle too deep, it is better not to risk it and wait until the water level drops. As a result, you will lose less time and will not be forced to walk on their knees in water around his car. If the car still stalled, immediately open the hood - the engine is hot, let dry. Can you help him with a dry cloth - wipe the wires, plug the dimple cover timer inside and outside, high-voltage coil. Get into the engine water from a puddle is not easy, but possible - through a hole under the dipstick, if the filler is loose, not completely, through the crankcase ventilation hose, if it stands, without clamp. When you have it still be got, after all this, let him prochihatsya, warm, damp and remove the dipstick. If it is not transparent oil, as usual, (even dark), and the whitish muddy type of suspension, the engine is still exposed to water. Do not panic, let the engine at idle until until the water evaporated and the oil will not take its usual color. The water in the muffler is not scary, it spilled itself, you do nothing. Worse, if it fell into the gearbox. Check out this easy enough to unscrew the drain plug and drain the water - it will always be under oil as a liquid with different densities. With a body harder - in the floor and the luggage compartment under the steering wheel, there are drain rubber plugs, which should be removed to allow water to drain. But in today, even domestic machines to remove the upholstery is not easy, but still you have to do it, otherwise it does not dries out. Leaving puddles, remember that you have no brakes. Be sure to dry them by pressing on the brake and gas simultaneously. One last thing: if a huge puddle of rain caused damage to your insured car, to compensate it, the insurance company will require confirmation that this was caused by the disaster. In this case we call the traffic police, or have at least two witnesses to this same element, although better than both.