Maximum wading depth

The maximum wading depth is one of the important indicators for evaluating the off-roadability of automobiles. It refers to the deepest waters that automobiles can pass and is also the depth of safety.

For example, the Hummer H2 can safely drive in water 1.5 meters deep at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, or at a speed of 8 kilometers/hour, wading through streams as deep as 0.5 meters.

Defender with its depth of wading 500 mm, can safely pass through in large currents. It fully reflects the passability of a pure SUV. Because you can reach more difficult waters, let off-roaders have more endless sense of conquest.

The following are the things that wading must pay attention to:

If you are going to cross a stream, pond or flood area, you should be sure that you know how to drive your car into the water. If you don't know how deep the water is, you should go hiking first. It is also better to wet the body when measuring depth than to climb out of a car that is out of flames or in the stream. It is also impossible for water to flow through a stream that is difficult to safely travel through. The turbulent water flow may drive heavy vehicles into the deep water downstream, and the car will turn off or overturn in the water. Be sure that the bottom of the stream is hard enough to withstand the weight of the car, and there are no steep craters or craters on the bottom of the water to pass through. Search for the bottom of the water to make sure that there are no big stones that can throw the car into the water and extinguish it. The river with the more acute stream will be harder because of the turbulent currents that carry the mud; slower streams will allow the viscous material to settle on the river bed, especially when the rushing and shallow streams reach the wider and deeper river bed. Even more so. If you can cross the river from a fast-flowing stream, the stream will be shallow and the river bed will be harder.

When driving through a stream or river that runs deeper than the lower edge of the door, don't forget that you lose adhesion because the body floats in the water and the effective weight of the car that presses on the river bed to create adhesion becomes smaller. If you have to drive the car to the wet bank opposite, there will be great trouble; if you expect to have trouble driving the car to the other shore, then you should first prepare the winch.