Brian WH
MB Enthusiast
A brief report to start off, more details and photos to follow.
Basically going to a party at a Country House in the Brecon Hills on Friday. Set out at 13.30 and Sat-Nav started diverting me off the M42 and M5 on all the A roads alongside the motorways. It did me a turn except the A roads in places were rivers running across and along them the A38 near Evesham and south was a nightmare. Up to 2ft of water in the road on junctions. Managed to keep going until the M50 where at junction 2 we came to a grinding halt as the motorway under the junction was a river two feet plus deep and rising. Started by being up to just below the top of the central barriers and gradually rising till the barrier was underwater and the motorway a lake.
The problem was I was stuck trying to get off the motorway up the slip-road and was stationary in 2ft of water but OK until a motorway Traffic Officer and his 4x4 went by to direct traffic and his side bow-wave flooded me. Water came in the back doors and my wife's door, mine was OK. The engine changed note and the electrics started playing up. Battery light came on and all the auxiliaries kept going on and off. A nightmare. Eventually managed to drive up the slope out off the water and stop. A BMW floated past me as I stood there, Oh dear.
The junction was an Island with all exits flooded. We stayed there for 5hrs with me trying desperately to keep the engine from failing and dry out the electrics as much as I could. I even lost drive at one time. After 5hrs they took a section of the motorway out ahead of us and we crawled through the water the wrong way down the motorway and across to the right direction and away to the hotel. This was another 40 miles, with the electrics flashing and going on and off, the headlights worked but kept flashing main beam. The interior lights were flashing on and off, as was the sat-nav and air-com.
Anyway we made the hotel at 01.30 after 12hrs on the road which should have been 2.5hrs.
Mobilo collected my car the next day and arranged a hire car, a new E220CDI for 5 days free. The car was taken to Cardiff Main Dealer and now awaits assessment and discussion with my Insurers. I'm back home thank goodness as some were much worse off than us.
More to follow, what a journey.
Basically going to a party at a Country House in the Brecon Hills on Friday. Set out at 13.30 and Sat-Nav started diverting me off the M42 and M5 on all the A roads alongside the motorways. It did me a turn except the A roads in places were rivers running across and along them the A38 near Evesham and south was a nightmare. Up to 2ft of water in the road on junctions. Managed to keep going until the M50 where at junction 2 we came to a grinding halt as the motorway under the junction was a river two feet plus deep and rising. Started by being up to just below the top of the central barriers and gradually rising till the barrier was underwater and the motorway a lake.
The problem was I was stuck trying to get off the motorway up the slip-road and was stationary in 2ft of water but OK until a motorway Traffic Officer and his 4x4 went by to direct traffic and his side bow-wave flooded me. Water came in the back doors and my wife's door, mine was OK. The engine changed note and the electrics started playing up. Battery light came on and all the auxiliaries kept going on and off. A nightmare. Eventually managed to drive up the slope out off the water and stop. A BMW floated past me as I stood there, Oh dear.
The junction was an Island with all exits flooded. We stayed there for 5hrs with me trying desperately to keep the engine from failing and dry out the electrics as much as I could. I even lost drive at one time. After 5hrs they took a section of the motorway out ahead of us and we crawled through the water the wrong way down the motorway and across to the right direction and away to the hotel. This was another 40 miles, with the electrics flashing and going on and off, the headlights worked but kept flashing main beam. The interior lights were flashing on and off, as was the sat-nav and air-com.
Anyway we made the hotel at 01.30 after 12hrs on the road which should have been 2.5hrs.
Mobilo collected my car the next day and arranged a hire car, a new E220CDI for 5 days free. The car was taken to Cardiff Main Dealer and now awaits assessment and discussion with my Insurers. I'm back home thank goodness as some were much worse off than us.
More to follow, what a journey.
