I remember where I used to live there was a country drive to work and one road would regularly flood - but I'd plow through it in whatever diesel I had at the time while all the people with modern cars would tiptoe about the edges.
Anyway, I got myself a Rover 400 diesel with stuck turbo, which I drove about for a couple of weeks - then one day on the way to work the flooded road was a little deeper than usual but no problem for a diesel car. There were a few people waiting so I drove around them and dived on in.
Got halfway through and CLONK followed by silence. Nothing but the lapping of water against the sills. And a gentle trickle noise, as water found its way in. Not so good. I thought I'd drive it out on the starter but my brain hadn't registered "hydrolock" so it just clunked uselessly at the ring gear.
I opened the door to take a lookie at what was going on, as water was just below sill level. Of course, at that time a 4x4 decided to charge through and the wave crested the sill...
Eventually I got a tow out from a passing Landy and recovered home. It was funny watching the water drain out of it as it tipped up on the recovery truck (this car had only cost me £250 so not too bothered). I took the the injectors out and cranked the water out. Refitted them and got it running again after a few false starts and lots of oily water kicked out of the exhaust - remarkably nothing broken, though it did stink for weeks afterwards.
Little did I know at the time but where the air intake pipe looped in a big U between the air pickup and the filter, the bottom had rotted out - perfect for dangling in floodwater!
The entertaining bit of all this is that the slug of water it ingested freed up the turbo, so it ran better than before.
