Having driven through standing water yesterday, there started a noise coming from underneath sounding like a plastic panel had come loose and was touching a wheel.

The noise was worse when backing off the throttle and was worst when reversing, so I was thinking it might be something touching a prop or driveshaft.

Anyway, got it up on the ramps to have a look and discovered that the cause was one of the heat-shields fitted between the exhaust and the underside of the vehicle. It had ripped on one side and the loose shielding had been forced up and was fouling the prop. A couple of minutes prising it away from the prop shaft cured the problem.

So if you don't wish the same to happen to you, tell one's driver to be a little cautious when approaching potentially deep standing water on the roads.

See photos taken after repair (taken from underneath standing roughly where the front seats are, looking backwards).

how fast were you going and how deep was the water? Discovery 4 HSE
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RRUK wrote:

how fast were you going and how deep was the water?

40-50 through water

Good luck with the claim

hitting standing water at that speed is like hitting a brick wall - I would expect at that speed it would also rip off body pannels... lucky thats the only damage it did - didn't you see it??