I was out in the beast in that horrific storm on Sunday night.

I have never in my life seen water sheeting across the road as it was while I was driving down pennant hills road, let alone the MASSIVE pools of water that we drove through. I was restricted to about 15 km/h to be safe, but could hardle see in front of me even at that speed.

That was hairy!!

The beast performed very well though - electronic ignition is the best money I've ever spent I reckon

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In 'the old days' I used to carry a cut piece of plastic to fit over most of the clubman grill if it even remotely looked like raining.
Not glamorous, but it did the job usually and I stayed dry.
But some mornings it just would NOT start if it had been out in the rain overnight.

You just gotta love 'em don't ya?

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Pocket_rokcet - I do that with my roundie. With the piece of plastic to cover the grill.

Since when has "And they say Minis don't like the wet weather!!" been around?
Minis were well known for their abilities in the wet for as long as I can remember. With their great handling and skinny tyres they can find grip when other cars are sliding off the road. As long as the ignition system is in good condition you should have no problems.

I guess you haven't lived unless you've been in a downpour and a splash of water on the distributor brings things suddenly to a halt.
That's why they invented WD40

I had 2 of the little darlings and an Austin 1800 years ago and they all suffered.
Though, there was definately a correlation between how important it was to get somewhere and how much trouble it would cause!

And yet, sometimes there'd be no problem.

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half a 2l coke bottle works well as a dizzy cover

Don't think they had them back in the 1970's though
Rubber/surgical gloves were used by some drivers too.
There were proper covers available as well but I never got round to fitting one ... I just came to rely on my trusty piece of plastic.

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i used to have a clubman that i could drive through a river. here's the trick. stop trying to KEEP the water out and focus on LETTING the water out.

All the waterproofing in the world won't keep the water out. But it will keep it in.

what i did was removed the rubber grommet, and ran a wire straight in through the gaping 10mm hole in the side of the dizzy. never had a problem from that day.

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