Hahahhaahha right?!?! I'm literally hooked on watching these for the past week right before bed. And I'm seriously starting to wonder how the residents of that area for as long as these videos have been being made over a year can still not know how to properly cross water or to at least not do it at all. Does this area have new residence shipped in Daily who've never drove there? LOL
I'm from Ohio. I don't know how I got to this part of UA-cam but, I appreciate every minute of it. These videos make me wish we had a water crossing by the bar down the street
If you're close to the Cleveland/Akron area, there are a few water crossings through the Cuyahoga Valley park... but they never get anywhere near this deep!
@@john1703 It's insanely dumb, a clusterfeck of bad car design, lack of warning/education, and opportunist voyeurism, which is strangely entertaining. You try to stop but you just can't!
The high speed approach gives you the best chance of hydrolocking as it forces a lot of volume of water up high over the hood and into the engine bay and possibly into the intake. It only takes one cylinder ingesting enough water and presto, you're facing a huge repair bill. That's ignoring the damage to electronics.
The problem is not the water over the hood. It is the water entering with pressure from the front side air intakes located in the grill and the bumpers. It is then sucked into the engine cylinders by the engine air intake located in the engine bay. The higher this intake is located in the engine bay, the better as it is more difficult for the water to reach it. As you said, a high speed approach is a signature for disaster.
@@matrinezkevin11492 true to a degree, when you enter the water you create a wave, back off for just a second and follow the wave through, it lowers the water level at the front of the vehicle and removes the force, most of these plumb heads seem to be trying to jam as much water into the engine compartment as possible 😆
A bit of a Mercedes Love in on this one. It's absolute madness to try and drive through in any car. I would rather lose 10 minutes driving around the long way
I’d drive through it in my transit or pickup wouldn’t go in my lowered caddy though. As long as you go less than 2-3mph you’d make it through in anything. The issue is when the water gets in your air intake which is usually and the back top of the engine bay.
I think some drivers don’t know that a ford usually goes down to where the riverbed is, basically. When the water level is high, from the road at either side it looks deceiving because you imagine the road to be fairly level so the ford looks like a giant puddle. It’s only when you have gone too far that you realise how deeply the road dips under the water. We have a similar thing happens under a bridge near where I live. Looks like a giant puddle when it floods but locals know there’s a fatal dip in the middle. There’s always some idiots though who ignore warning signs and even people telling them they can’t get through. That’s what makes for great entertainment 😂 thank you to the Rufford Ford You Tubers ❤️
@@stuinNorway they aren’t going to look at that when they ignore all the warning signs - but I completely agree with you, some absolute idiots just don’t see what’s in front of them!
Tough question: drive through the water and risk hydrolocking your engine, or at most a 9-minute drive that takes you to the exact same spot on the other side of the stream?
I was always taught to drive very slowly in, letting the water settle, build a bow wave ahead of the car and then drive moderately slowly but steadily making sure the bow wave is in front of you and water is not sloshing over the bonnet.
Well If Engine is still running. Usually the Valves would be Bent Or Rocker Arms are Broken.(Tappy Rattle/Misfiring) None Running= Junk if Key is Turned like Man in Van with High Vis Jacket 👍
These are people who don't even know their car has an engine in it aren't they Also that TD5 engine never ceases to amaze me with how good it sounds. It's an agricultural old 5 cylinder diesel and it sounds like a Dodge viper!
@@MontagnaD exactly lol that's what I'm saying, why would people go from a route which will take them fairly longer time to reach their destination 🤦🏻♂️
Have you noticed that the ones who make it through are usually the ones that create a bow wave and the ones that don’t are those that plough through as fast as they can? I believe that part of a drivers teaching should include crossing water and driving in adverse weather. Would save so many incidents from occurring.
So looking on the map, if you were in Wellow and you wanted to get onto the main road quickly, it'd take you through the ford and you'd have a journey of like 2.2 miles, 5 mins. Avoiding the Ford and reaching the same point is 3.3 miles and 7 mins (potentially quicker routes, but that's the most straightforward).... There seems to be no real reason to go there... Yeh, I'd avoid...
Intake* Doesn't matter if gets in exhaust as gasses should have enough pressure to keep it out. Water in intake can get into the cylinders and lock engine (not just inhibit explosions)... Either way it's crazy to see people just sending it into this!
FWIW, hydrolocking an engine isn't game over if the revs are near idle. Happened to me about 10 years ago . Got recovered home, emptied everything, pulled injectors and span the engine to pump out the cylinders. Still running well about 100,000 miles later (now at 276k!) BMW 320d.
It isn’t necessarily game over for the engine, but it does cost a pretty penny when you take the car to a garage, where they remove all the water from cylinders, intake manifold, intercooler etc. most people wouldn’t know how to do it themselves.
It's still russian roulette with the engine, if you get enough water into the cylinder it can even bend or break piston rods. You can have luck, or not.
@@simonm1447 Depends on the engine configuration and revs. Long intake tract (intercooler, etc) and revs at idle and the engine can simply splutter to a standstill without any undue stresses. Of course, insurance companies and mechanics don't know how it happened so tend to assume worst case scenario
The Police could have a "Field Day" looking through all those plates. Now who should we ticket first? We'll surprise them with a ticket in the mail for driving with only 1 plate.
This is totally unbelievable I grew up in the southern United States and we had to forge water daily and I have never seen so many damage to vehicles or water stalled vehicle‘s in my life we would drive through water much deeper than this regularly that’s insane
Going hard and fast through these floodwaters is the absolute worst thing you can do. One of THE quickest ways to destroy your engine. Some of these drivers don't know the road but for the rest that do know the road and/or have heard all the stories about this spot, that power on through at high speed with the water coming up over the bonnet I can't believe you'd be so stupid! Looks great fun for 5 seconds but then it sucks thereafter. Getting the car towed then paying the insurance excess and then being stung with a higher insurance excess thereafter for years to follow. Many insurance companies won't pay out a claim when an act of stupidity or negligence is involved. So that might mean you paying 20 or 30k for a new engine!
That water is getting pretty deep now. Safest way through is to creep through if you don't want to lose parts of your undertray or license plate, it would seem.
I ve noticed the really nice and expensive models make it through and almost to the top of the hill before expiring just like the rest. I ve noticed engines making noises I m not familiar with but I never seen engines expiring from shallow water blackout and drowning.
There most be loads of tow trucks picking up vehicles down there 😂 also what people don’t relise that most cars airbox feed is most likely in the tire well… once you get the air filter wet your car is gonna be dead esp if the engine sucks up water… if in doubt just turn around and find another way.. or wait it out…
Autotrader needs another option on it, to enable you to de-select cars which have been through Rufford Ford.
LMAO 😂
Like "minor water damage"?
Slightly bent conrods.
Улыбнулся
Hahahahaha im explode
These videos are my new way to unwind after a difficult day at work.
Hahahhaahha right?!?! I'm literally hooked on watching these for the past week right before bed. And I'm seriously starting to wonder how the residents of that area for as long as these videos have been being made over a year can still not know how to properly cross water or to at least not do it at all. Does this area have new residence shipped in Daily who've never drove there? LOL
@@ronaldrrootiii6040 the majority aren’t locals
@@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066 well that makes me feel better LOL
I'm from Ohio. I don't know how I got to this part of UA-cam but, I appreciate every minute of it. These videos make me wish we had a water crossing by the bar down the street
Here is where men of culture meet…otherwise we meet in the comments of various women sport videos 😊
If you're close to the Cleveland/Akron area, there are a few water crossings through the Cuyahoga Valley park... but they never get anywhere near this deep!
@@peteyification I am close to Akron! Sand run is lame compared to this one! It's fun with grandpa when you are little though!
Welcome. Am a Brit but family from Ohio also👍
It’s not a water crossing, A car wash. Bloke with sponge in pub.
I will be ever grateful for Tom for making this channel. I never get tired of it and it always puts me in a good mood!
I must stop watching. It makes me sad that people can be so stupid and ruin nice cars.
@@john1703 It's insanely dumb, a clusterfeck of bad car design, lack of warning/education, and opportunist voyeurism, which is strangely entertaining. You try to stop but you just can't!
It’s called Schadenfreude 😂
Love seeing the DRLs flicker before the inevitable hydro lock. Like the final flicker of life from the car 😭
The “Help please save me” flicker ?
Like the terminator's eye fading out.
DRL?
@@bartoni79 Daytime Running Lights
@@iambinksy nice
The high speed approach gives you the best chance of hydrolocking as it forces a lot of volume of water up high over the hood and into the engine bay and possibly into the intake. It only takes one cylinder ingesting enough water and presto, you're facing a huge repair bill. That's ignoring the damage to electronics.
The problem is not the water over the hood. It is the water entering with pressure from the front side air intakes located in the grill and the bumpers. It is then sucked into the engine cylinders by the engine air intake located in the engine bay. The higher this intake is located in the engine bay, the better as it is more difficult for the water to reach it. As you said, a high speed approach is a signature for disaster.
@@radiocontrolled9181 yeah best chance you have is to go slowly if you absolutely must ford water
@@matrinezkevin11492 true to a degree, when you enter the water you create a wave, back off for just a second and follow the wave through, it lowers the water level at the front of the vehicle and removes the force, most of these plumb heads seem to be trying to jam as much water into the engine compartment as possible 😆
Collecting a nice selection of plates and parts. There'll never be a day when people learn to stop sending it so the water doesn't go over the hood.
I like how the learner made one of the most textbook crossings....
started off well but went too fast before the end, should have kept behind the bow wave.
@@satunnainenkatselija4478 lmao
@@satunnainenkatselija4478 true, but if you have to then there's a right way and a wrong way
In the cost-benefit analysis, it was decided that the long-term financial impact on UA-camrs would be too great to justify building a bridge.
Best comment ever! Us brits do need some kind of release! 😊
These videos are great, thanks to whoever records them....and to everyone who had a ruined day.
A bit of a Mercedes Love in on this one. It's absolute madness to try and drive through in any car. I would rather lose 10 minutes driving around the long way
Cannot understand people anymore...they are like sheep !.... big money to repair these engines !
It’s not even ten minutes. Drive an EV and you’ll be fine
@@JohnR31415 drive an ice vehicle properly and they would be fine too.
@@JohnR31415 what happens to an EV in flood water? 50++kw and lots of water can't be a good combo😬
I’d drive through it in my transit or pickup wouldn’t go in my lowered caddy though. As long as you go less than 2-3mph you’d make it through in anything. The issue is when the water gets in your air intake which is usually and the back top of the engine bay.
Amazing the learning driver at 3:30 has the most sense.
Он просто достал чтобы проветрить из заднего места
If I lived near that floored zone of road, I would definitely be driving the big red tractor to work. No doubt!
I think some drivers don’t know that a ford usually goes down to where the riverbed is, basically. When the water level is high, from the road at either side it looks deceiving because you imagine the road to be fairly level so the ford looks like a giant puddle. It’s only when you have gone too far that you realise how deeply the road dips under the water. We have a similar thing happens under a bridge near where I live. Looks like a giant puddle when it floods but locals know there’s a fatal dip in the middle. There’s always some idiots though who ignore warning signs and even people telling them they can’t get through. That’s what makes for great entertainment 😂 thank you to the Rufford Ford You Tubers ❤️
You mean apart from the big yellow sign at the side of the road showing you EXACTLY how dep the water is.
@@stuinNorway they aren’t going to look at that when they ignore all the warning signs - but I completely agree with you, some absolute idiots just don’t see what’s in front of them!
Rufford Ford and the corner of embarrassment (when they manage to limp around the bend to die 😂)
3:40, showing us his new nail polish 😘😘😂
Tough question: drive through the water and risk hydrolocking your engine, or at most a 9-minute drive that takes you to the exact same spot on the other side of the stream?
Not tough for me, i am taking the 9 minute detour every time
9 minute drive for sure. I'm not writing off my car I worked too damn hard for
In the words of Clarkson
POWWWWWERRRRRRRR!
Taking the detour every time. 9 minutes or £ks worth of damage that your insurance won't cover.
@@thewaywardgrape3838 I've already been wondering if the two guys filming are being paid by insurance companies 😂
That mini driver was having none of it... 😂, Well done him/her
I was always taught to drive very slowly in, letting the water settle, build a bow wave ahead of the car and then drive moderately slowly but steadily making sure the bow wave is in front of you and water is not sloshing over the bonnet.
If only people knew their engine uses Air…
"why's he filming me crossing this puddle?"
*Dashboard lights up like a Christmas tree*
"Oh that's why"
It's sheer schadenfreude seeing so much expensive metal being crippled!
Happy to read my fellow huns contributed a couple of helpful words to the world's vocabulary.
Kindergarten, Rucksack, Schadenfreude ;-)
Love how majority of cars park up (or are forced to stop) around the corner just out of sight 😅
The local garage must make a fortune! Being on a bike I'd turn around
The bikes are ridden over the pedestrians bridge!
love the man in the silver van giving them the finger.. true hero
As someone who’s popped a passenger drive shaft on a 7th Gen Accord, I feel his pain. They are famously bad for that on the 2.4
Why does the passenger need a driveshaft?
@@pipandbenji front wheel drive. One shaft per wheel.
@@pipandbenji good one george
Did the water break the driveshaft ?
@@Pure-Luck447 guessing it spun in the water and then caught traction breaking it.
I love watching the plates pop off.
A lot of these drivers think they are driving a submarine not a car 😅
Lol
I feel like there needs to be a follow up on the cars that conk out. I need to know what damage was done and if it was even repairable.
No, it the short answer. “Hydrolocked” engines = bent piston con rods, bent valves etc
@@newblackdog7827 F.U.B.A.R.!
New engine time
Well
If Engine is still running.
Usually the Valves would be Bent Or Rocker Arms are Broken.(Tappy Rattle/Misfiring)
None Running= Junk if Key is Turned like Man in Van with High Vis Jacket 👍
Friend did it to his new 5 series. Multiple £1000's to repair. New engine, basically. Depends if the ford is in spate or not..
“Wreck your perfectly good car here for free”
6:14 is like that scene from Saving Private Ryan when they're looking at the paratrooper dog-tags.
5:20 is one of the best I've seen yet.
The collection of car parts proper made me laugh!
These are people who don't even know their car has an engine in it aren't they
Also that TD5 engine never ceases to amaze me with how good it sounds. It's an agricultural old 5 cylinder diesel and it sounds like a Dodge viper!
That red mini mugged them all off 🤣🤣
The pan to the parts' graveyard made me snort Earl Grey down my nose.
This may be the most satisfying video I have ever seen
A ray of hope in all that darkness. 👍🇦🇺
Looking at the number of Mercs, confirms the old adage, “Money can’t buy you sense” 😂
I just can't understand those people why they drive through
Cos they gotta go somewhere?
@@crazyhaller they have another route alternative (according to some local comment)
@@iwan5a no how did they get a license doing something so stupid
@@iwan5a the other route is about 5 miles longer than this
@@MontagnaD exactly lol that's what I'm saying, why would people go from a route which will take them fairly longer time to reach their destination 🤦🏻♂️
I don't know what is this video even productive to me but I have been watching for a long time
Have you noticed that the ones who make it through are usually the ones that create a bow wave and the ones that don’t are those that plough through as fast as they can?
I believe that part of a drivers teaching should include crossing water and driving in adverse weather. Would save so many incidents from occurring.
Learner driver did that like a pro 👏🏽
3:16
So looking on the map, if you were in Wellow and you wanted to get onto the main road quickly, it'd take you through the ford and you'd have a journey of like 2.2 miles, 5 mins. Avoiding the Ford and reaching the same point is 3.3 miles and 7 mins (potentially quicker routes, but that's the most straightforward)....
There seems to be no real reason to go there...
Yeh, I'd avoid...
I just watch Tom...... to catch a glimpse of Ben!!! Lol
time for free fuel with those plates
😄
Loving the display of numberplates and broken bits.
That Accord in the dark has been in a video before, he doesn't have much luck!
The logic of driving slowly through the water and then flooring it before you’re out of the water 😢😂
I was always surprised that so much traffic uses this route until I looked at the map.
That Mini impressed me!
The license plate and broken parts piles 😂
I love the grass patch of shame.
It's unbelievable this it should be called the clown crossing...they are like lemmings 😂
Водила на тракторе красава, перед речкой поддал газку, лойс.....
The Honda was doing so well too
He had the right technique.
This is endless. Incredible.
Everybody's Gangsta until steam starts pouring out your exhaust.
Lots of Mercedes going through - must be the U-Boat heritage!
Thanks for pulling all the debris back out after there numpties have been through it.
Here's to a wet winter for endless entertainment
Red mini…almost a submarine !!
Most of these people think they own submarines
4:32 That pile was the highlight of the video haha
The sound of engine failure, music to my ears, lol
03:17 Textbook fording - proceed slowly in 1st gear, create a small bow wave and enough revs to keep the water out of the exhaust.
Intake*
Doesn't matter if gets in exhaust as gasses should have enough pressure to keep it out.
Water in intake can get into the cylinders and lock engine (not just inhibit explosions)...
Either way it's crazy to see people just sending it into this!
The unbelievable part is that the driver is a woman !!!!!
I love the collection of car debris.
I know that engines are rated in horse power, but those horses are not that thirsty :))
In this instance should it be sea horse power?
So many Mercs getting absolutely swamped. That's Das Auto
Awesome the red mini got through it no worries.
Hi,
It was very nice to watch again!👍
Greetings Seven🖖
The BERKS in MERCS were coming " THICK" and fast weren't they 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
A really cool collection that u have got
FWIW, hydrolocking an engine isn't game over if the revs are near idle. Happened to me about 10 years ago . Got recovered home, emptied everything, pulled injectors and span the engine to pump out the cylinders. Still running well about 100,000 miles later (now at 276k!) BMW 320d.
It isn’t necessarily game over for the engine, but it does cost a pretty penny when you take the car to a garage, where they remove all the water from cylinders, intake manifold, intercooler etc. most people wouldn’t know how to do it themselves.
It's still russian roulette with the engine, if you get enough water into the cylinder it can even bend or break piston rods. You can have luck, or not.
@@simonm1447 Depends on the engine configuration and revs. Long intake tract (intercooler, etc) and revs at idle and the engine can simply splutter to a standstill without any undue stresses.
Of course, insurance companies and mechanics don't know how it happened so tend to assume worst case scenario
Liking the number plater and plastic trim graveyard there at the side of the road.
The Police could have a "Field Day" looking through all those plates. Now who should we ticket first? We'll surprise them with a ticket in the mail for driving with only 1 plate.
"Yeah, I made it through! Wait, what's that knocking sound and steam coming out the exhaust?"
The incompetence is staggering, considering there is a depth level clearly visible
how the heck did that mini survive?
This is totally unbelievable I grew up in the southern United States and we had to forge water daily and I have never seen so many damage to vehicles or water stalled vehicle‘s in my life we would drive through water much deeper than this regularly that’s insane
Cars have changed since you were a kid. But that was a nice story, grandpa!
@@JetFire9 lol 😂 my son
One thing is for sure, that crossing claims a lot of engines!
That learner did it to perfection.
You should do a £ value of the cars destroyed at the end of the video 😂
I'm amazed at how many people there are that have no idea what a "air intake" is.... lol
Going hard and fast through these floodwaters is the absolute worst thing you can do. One of THE quickest ways to destroy your engine. Some of these drivers don't know the road but for the rest that do know the road and/or have heard all the stories about this spot, that power on through at high speed with the water coming up over the bonnet I can't believe you'd be so stupid! Looks great fun for 5 seconds but then it sucks thereafter. Getting the car towed then paying the insurance excess and then being stung with a higher insurance excess thereafter for years to follow. Many insurance companies won't pay out a claim when an act of stupidity or negligence is involved. So that might mean you paying 20 or 30k for a new engine!
The mini😵 but how?
Later on, no way could it survive that!!!
Monthly hydrolocker meeting 🤝
That water is getting pretty deep now. Safest way through is to creep through if you don't want to lose parts of your undertray or license plate, it would seem.
Or go on the alternative route
00:25 fantastic magic trick of making their number plate disappear in a few seconds!
Honda driver: Goes through the ford carefully
Rufford Ford: "So you have chosen death." *eats his driveshaft*
Isn't it funny how the Learner Driver is the only one to approach with care.
Your videos become always better and better👍
I like how the silver grey Benz thought he could get away lol. Most of these people just dont care. Its a "if he dies he dies" kind of mentality.
YES KEEP THEM COMING
Bet town tow trucker or tow truck company are living their best lives with all these collections!🙈
Water steaming off the exhaust. Big whoop
3:36 what a polite driver...
Congratulations to the driving instructor. He knows what to do.
What ford says Mr Tractor driver?
4:31 That made me laugh 😂 the parts bin.
I ve noticed the really nice and expensive models make it through and almost to the top of the hill before expiring just like the rest. I ve noticed engines making noises I m not familiar with but I never seen engines expiring from shallow water blackout and drowning.
There most be loads of tow trucks picking up vehicles down there 😂 also what people don’t relise that most cars airbox feed is most likely in the tire well… once you get the air filter wet your car is gonna be dead esp if the engine sucks up water… if in doubt just turn around and find another way.. or wait it out…
I wonder what has happened to the black Honda Accord? Engine was still running, but it seems it had a gearbox fail or something?