{"id":7660,"date":"2016-03-28T18:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/mit-dem-gelaendewagen-durchs-wasser\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:21:40","slug":"water-crossing-by-offroad-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/water-crossing-by-offroad-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Water crossing by offroad vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Water crossing by offroad vehicle<\/h2>\n<p>In Offroad terrain it often leads to complications, for example, by water crossing with an 4&#215;4 vehicle. But what is to be done if\u00a0 you have to drive with your offroad vehicle through water?\u00a0When a river , water hole or a river crosses the road? Because there are some things to consider. First you have to go through the technical condition of your 4&#215;4 vehicle in thought. Is the car regarding to the fording adequately equipped?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>You start to ask yourself before you cross water?<\/h3>\n<h4>Vehicle Technic \/ in deeper waters than 60 cm water depth<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Snorkel \/ modify air intake<\/li>\n<li>Is the engine control protected or waterproofed?<\/li>\n<li>Are the headlights waterproofed?<\/li>\n<li>Are there other electrical instruments which will damaged by water<\/li>\n<li>Are axle- &amp; gearbox ventilation systems proberly on the snorkel installed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To a certain extent, you can estimate the depth of water well. Often the visual indicator of the surface (water surface ) is indicated in low water unless a flow is present. It is safest if you previously checked yourself how deep the water is and whether the water no hidden obstructions such as rocks or similar.<br \/>\nVery careful one should be in water splashes with a powerful flow. It often happened that the vehicle is driven off or even tipping over.<\/p>\n<h3>What do I have to take into account when driving water crossings?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The best is to avoid the passage of strong currents, when all else fails, then you cross the river at the best angle and goes with the flow to the other side.<\/li>\n<li>With an uncertain depth absolutely before crossing water crossings on foot.<\/li>\n<li>Important &#8211; never stop with your 4&#215;4 vehicle in the water, the water has so the opportunity to flow into the enginge and in all electrical instruments.\u00a0 Therefore steadily drive, the vehicle has 100 % differential locks switch this before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In failed water crossings occur frequently in engine damage (water hammer), a defect motor control units, axle- &amp;\u00a0 gearbox damages and much more. Always keep this in mind and drive very carefully through water.<\/p>\n<p>Also note: the Environment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bei Wasserdurchfahrten mit dem Gel\u00e4ndewagen ist gr\u00f6\u00dfte Vorsicht geboten. Nicht selten kommt es zu Sch\u00e4den die mehrere tausend Euro kosten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[267,268,255],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land-rover-allgemein-en","tag-off-road-fahrschule-en","tag-wasserdurchfahrten-en","tag-wasserdurchfahrten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4ward4x4.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}