Wading issues.

[DiscofeverLangport]

Hi everyone.

I have a 2003 Discovery TD5 which I have owned for a few months. In that time I have taken it off road quite a bit but have found that when driving through water of maybe no more than 8 inches or so at fairly low speed the engine seems to splutter afterwards when you put your foot hard down if pulling away from a junction for example. Its the same sort of thing you get when a petrol engine car gets a wet distributor and starts spluttering. It clears after a while but I'm sure a vehicle like this shouldn't suffer from going through fairly shallow water. I am going to put a snorkel on the disco but I dont know that this will definately solve the problem. If water was getting to the air intake surely the problem would be more serious than spluttering for a while. What does anyone think?

[Wolfie69]

I also had issues with water although I went a bit deeper (the back wave washed over my bonnet),the problem is the ecu getting wet I would check to see if you are getting any water up through the inner wing under the ecu.

[M&S]

I have the same problem. Check your airfilter, I'll bet it's wet. I don't know why but mine sucks water in from a puddle

[DiscofeverLangport]

Hi, I have been deeper, over the bonnet stuff which resulted in the same problem but what worried me was that it was spluttering after wading fairly shallow stuff, for a disco at least!!

[DiscofeverLangport]

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Hi, Thanks for the advise, I will check the air filter and look at where the ECU is to see if its gettng wet.