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POINTYED
Member Since: 22 Mar 2008
Location: BURY,LANCS
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hi
if ent is around
is this the same crossing we used when we were coming back from cumbria that weekend?
sounds like it
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CFB
Member Since: 02 Dec 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 4834
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CG - you got a link to the topic on the DOC forum??
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| Thu Dec 17 2009 11:02pm |
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CG
Member Since: 13 Nov 2007
Location: In the middle somewhere
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more pic here as well.
http://www.discoveryownersclub.org/phpBB3/...mp;t=27064 Formerly shiny moose
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| Thu Dec 17 2009 11:09pm |
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MikeT
Member Since: 31 Aug 2008
Location: Lancs
Posts: 241
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POINTYED - No, its not the same one. That was Garstang ford on the river Wyre, this one is Hoghton bottoms on the river Darwin
Last edited by MikeT on Sun Dec 20 2009 11:43pm. Edited 2 times in total
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| Thu Dec 17 2009 11:15pm |
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MikeT
Member Since: 31 Aug 2008
Location: Lancs
Posts: 241
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can't see those ones either CG 
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| Thu Dec 17 2009 11:16pm |
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CG
Member Since: 13 Nov 2007
Location: In the middle somewhere
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Andy asked for the link.
There are a couple more photos, of it on it's side plus the one below, and some details, none which say where it is from what I can see.
there is a big debate on should the chap have driven the river based on the apparent quick flow of the river and lack of snorkel give the air intake is up stream. Formerly shiny moose
Silver TDV6 S with sat nav, PTI, Mantec, Traxide and Moosed up a bit
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| Thu Dec 17 2009 11:34pm |
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MikeT
Member Since: 31 Aug 2008
Location: Lancs
Posts: 241
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With the engine air vent being on the upstream side, it makes you wonder if the engine stalled. Then allowing the current to take hold without the forward momentum. I know the crossing, and its normally very easy. Its only the increased water volume on this instance that has had effect
nothing like massive assumptions! 
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| Thu Dec 17 2009 11:42pm |
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fast but dim
Member Since: 12 Aug 2009
Location: NW
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fording is great fun, but he's way out of his depth there! what was he thinking?
is it really this ford:
http://www.wetroads.co.uk/dp.php?Hoghton%2...Bottoms1mo
there looks to be a good flow on the pics in the thread. surely with that much water in the river you'd decide against the crossing. i bet as soon as he got the back wheels in he knew he was in trouble.
i could understand if he'd gone in at wyre lane garstang, that's a scary ford! 05 D3 tdv6 gone!!!
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| Sun Dec 20 2009 7:37pm |
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caverD3
Member Since: 03 Jul 2006
Location: Sydney
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Got a scare in the same situation. High flow rate and the front right wheel dropped into a hole.
Engine went into limp mode, engine fault in info centre and very slowly idled out the other side (in low range). I now have a removable snorkel.  "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both- and deserve neither"
Thomas Jefferson.
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