freebie2disco
Member Since: 01 Jan 2007
Location: wantage
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there is one thing that is beginning to bug me. As you all know we have had a drought down here in the south. Hose pipe bans, drought orders etc, so all the rain we have had for the last 3 months has been completely fictitious. This has on occasions collected into completely fictitious deep puddles on the side of our well maintained, well drained roads. I have had the D3 for 4 days but have now twice been unable to see because at 30 mph it has a really annoying habit of throwing this imaginary water on to the screen in great sheets. At 20 mph its fine and 40mph its fine but at 30 it is rubbish. I didn't order mud flaps but does anyone know if these improve this bad habit or makes it worse. Love the car but it scared me to death when could not see a bl**dy thing for 2 or 3 seconds till the wipers got there act together.
Chris
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 8th Jan 2007 7:02 am |
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Doctor Diesel
Member Since: 23 Sep 2006
Location: Driving the kids around as usual
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I've got mudflaps and it does exactly the same
quirk of the design methinks......auto wipers sort it though 2007 HSE Java Black.....sold
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| 8th Jan 2007 8:27 am |
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Ken
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Here
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Nope my mudflaps dont make any dif, (Oh wait a min they were ripped off in the desert) 
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| 8th Jan 2007 8:54 am |
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DiscoDad
Member Since: 06 Nov 2006
Location: Beautiful Teesdale
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I don't understand your problem freebie. Go through the puddles at 40 then, or even 50. If the local plod have a problem with it you can tell them you were doing it for safety reasons. Back in the game!
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| 8th Jan 2007 9:12 am |
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freebie2disco
Member Since: 01 Jan 2007
Location: wantage
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ahh well, will just have to drive through them there puddles faster then, throwing the water back on to those well drained fields or into those regularly cleaned out ditches we have in Oxfordshire. Still when Thames water floods the entire of Oxfordshire under their new reservoir to supply water to London so red Ken can wash his Bendy buses, there wont be any roads for puddles to form on.
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| 8th Jan 2007 9:39 am |
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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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freebie2disco, i have the similar problem (if you can call it that) with my wifes Grand Cherokee 
and my 90. It must just be the shape,tyres etc. It does help to clean the mud off the roof though  Duncan
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| 8th Jan 2007 9:58 am |
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dgrr
Member Since: 04 Apr 2006
Location: York
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Having recently fitted a full set after 9 mths without, I can say that mud flaps are good at limiting the amount of dirt the wheels throw up at each flank & the boot area, but make no difference to the Invisible Man throwing his bucket of water straight at the windscreen whenever you hit a puddle. As I know the same thing happens in a XC90 (& presumably all other 4x4s), I would guess that it's caused by the water escaping through the much larger gap between top of the tyre & wheel arch that is common to 4x4 design. I would say fit some mud flaps, UNLESS you plan to do lots of off-roading, as they'll get torn off. DGRR
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| 8th Jan 2007 10:45 am |
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croyde
Member Since: 17 Aug 2005
Location: SE England
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My auto wipers seem to work the split second it gets splashed. I go out of my way for that big splash
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| 8th Jan 2007 10:48 am |
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freebie2disco
Member Since: 01 Jan 2007
Location: wantage
Posts: 334
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The wipers were running the whole time and on full speed. The problem was the puddle was 20 yards long on a bend and the reason i was right on the edge of the road was because a bl**dy great lorry who had decided that the middle of the narrow B road was his by might. The water was also really good and brown so I reckon I could not see properly for about 3 seconds. Scared me enough that trousers were almost the same colour as the water. Many years ago I used to rally ford escorts with high pressure water pumps running clean water jets mounted on directly on the wiper arms but I dont reckon even this would have coped.
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| 8th Jan 2007 11:18 am |
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DG
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Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
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Therefore driving without due care and attention  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 8th Jan 2007 11:23 am |
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freebie2disco
Member Since: 01 Jan 2007
Location: wantage
Posts: 334
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That would be the councils due care and attention to the pot holes, blocked drains and filled drainage ditches then Who needs to go off road any more, with current road maintance everyone will have to have a proper car soon.
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| 8th Jan 2007 11:40 am |
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DG
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No ...you are driving the motor ...it is up to you to drive with care and attention to the prevailing conditions whatever they may be
However, I was refering to you soiling your underpants whilst driving 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 8th Jan 2007 12:36 pm |
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randalls
Member Since: 02 Mar 2006
Location: aberdeenshire
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I have had 3 different 4x4's & they alll do this, must be an aerodynamic thing about the large frontal area & height. Any lying water is magically dumped onto the screen. In its defence out of the 3 models I have found the D3 to be the least prone to do this - and keeping the wipers on auto is the thing to do to avoid any suprises.   2007 TDV6 HSE 'Silver Lady'. With 'free' privacy glass LOL.
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| 8th Jan 2007 1:05 pm |
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freebie2disco
Member Since: 01 Jan 2007
Location: wantage
Posts: 334
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So I get forced into a gutter on the side of a road by a lorry coming round a blind corner partly on my side of the road. The gutter is full of water cause the council don't clean the ditches out and the water is very deep in places because of potholes, which I cant see as they are full of water. I am doing 30mph on de-restricted (60mph) road because its raining heavily and the designer of the car did not take into account the wave of water that comes over the bonnet and obscures my view. After all this you think I was driving without due care and attention, I don't think so. 
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| 8th Jan 2007 1:07 pm |
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
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Yes freebie2disco, this happens to me also (with mudguards) and is happening quite often now that we are enjoying the wettest drought on record down here.
My Volvo V70 used to eject the water at about 45degrees to the side and front of the car so would leave the windscreen clear and the pedestrians unable to view my numberplate , but the Disco seems able to get a curl on the water to bring it down on the roof/windscreen instead.
Has anyboddy fitted modified (flared/wider) wheelarches who can comment on whether this would help direct the water away from the windscreen? Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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| 8th Jan 2007 1:07 pm |
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