Imagine the questionnaire from the ins co: "How fast were you going when you saw the metre high standing water?" Not a chance of a payout I don't think!
@@asphalthedgehog6580 It isn't but if u do a full insurance you can basically insure your own incompetence. Which would fit in this case, just like if you "accidentally forget" to brake your car and drive into something. You'll get your cars worth back at the time of damage in the used car market.
@@asphalthedgehog6580 , It's fraud if you have full insurance and you are completely honest with your insurer? I'm not sure you understand what fraud is. Or insurance.
But bud, the water is up to the rocker panels on a 25-50k car, just don't. Even if you can avoid ingesting water or have an EV, you're risking taking on water and permanently water damaging the whole car.
Yeah he basically push the water, reduce speed so the water can go out of the front/intake once the water was low, he accelerated and repeat the process, very smart
Hydro-planing and Aqua planing are the terms for going into an uncontrollable skid at high speed on a wet road Hydro-locked is the correct term for getting water into a running engine and ruining it.
That BMW at the start was actually hydro-planing, but only because they were lucky enough for the water just to reach no higher than the front air-dam/spoiler, which lifted the front up most of the way through! Could say dam-lucky!?!
Hydroplaning is controllable if you know your tyres and exact speed they start to lift from grip. Huge stretch used to flood near me every year and dad used to hit this longest puddle at well over a 100 most surreal/scary feeling 😅
@@owenlangley3480 Exactly! In fact there's a group of racers in Iceland who drive powerful buggies across the top of shallow lakes when the weather is calm! The rest of the time they climb steep hill-sides in the same vehicles!
The correct term is aquaplaning, although hydroplaning does tecnically mean the same thing, it is not commonly (never) used with regards to cars, it's normally used for boats. fun fact, aqua is Latin and hydro is Greek 😊
All the hate towards rhe lady with the bmw lady who approached the water slowly but no comment for the lady who literally gave her mini a top down bath 😂😂😂
Car is still in drive, and the engine is hydrolocked. You cam hear from her trying to start it later on that its fully siezed. Theres a tiny bit of play in the rear differential /driveline so the rear left that had a bit more traction which makes the rear right rotate backwards a tiny bit due to how an open differential works
For the car owners that don't bother to learn how cars work and what not to do with cars. Your engine sucks in air usually near the front grille, mixes the air with a mist of fuel and then compresses it before burning the mixture to turn the engine which turns the wheels and the burnt mixture then gets pushed out the exhaust. Gases are compressible but water isn't so if you suck in water into the engine through the front grille, when the engine tries to compress it, it usually results in catastrophic damage to the internal components of the engine that are responsible for the compression. In most cases, you will need a whole new engine if this happens but if you are lucky then a very expensive repair of the engine. Watching that Mini driver turn the starter after the engine died was painful since that turned from possibly an expensive repair to engine replacement.
Im convinced that 90% of car owners have no idea that their car's engine requires oxygen to facilitate combustion nor are they aware that if the water is up to headlights, the car will ingest water. The lady in the Cooper is so clueless that she kept trying to start that car after it clearly hydrolocked!
The car wasn't hydrolocked. She probably has water I the intake which I preventing proper ignition of the fuel. If it was hydrolocked the car would not crank at all.
@@M4mba98 Well the logic is if you rev it high enough it will be suck more air + (water) to the intake, in this case his tryin to not flooded the exhaust so he slippin the clutch
That generation of automatic BMW won't let the gearbox come out of park without the engine running, without disassembling the centre console and using a screwdriver to manually unlock the selector for the purposes of towing.
@@peanuts2105 who said they arent lol obviously you think theyre nicer than average if you are shitting on them when nobody said anything lol stay poor
Because its actually the best way to cross it. It keeps the water in front of the car and causes a cavity of air near the air intake. Going slow or stopping is the worst thing you can do
@@brucetec6597 Then why do they keep getting hydro locked when they do it? Because that's bullshit a speeding through water will not cause a cavity of air to form in front of your intake. All that water going up over the hood, it's gonna get sucked in. The intake is going to eat that cavity of air because it need to breathe or the engine will shut down. That's why off road vehicle have mods like snorkels. You need to keep moving, but you need to drive slowly and steadily, around 3 or 4 mph.
@@brucetec6597Wrong, speed is not your friend with water crossings. Basically you should enter it slowly and create a bow wave to push the water away, if you go to quick it simply goes in the air induction system. Perfect example, first Mini estate = too fast, second one, perfect.
Doubtful - It's likely to be stuck in gear, fancy German cars in particular REALLY don't like their complex electrics being mixed with water whilst in a live state.
You need to have the engine running to disengage park, if it won't start, put your foot on the brake, hit the start button, let the engine attempt to start. The car then will flash up a warning and put the car into neutral automatically so it can be towed.
@@aidan1585 i'm just not going to get a car without a full lever handbrake next time. nothing wrong with modern tech in cars. it just needlessly makes the easy hard, dangerous, annoying and expensive.
This channel is surprisingly very interesting. Every car that crossed was a brand new test. BTW, I bet that 90% of the subscribers are men. We love this stuff
@@BenBieb "too dumb to find the workshop settings"... its called shift-lock release and almost nobody knows how to unlock it cause you have to pull out the gear-lever casing/pannel... YOU dont know if its locked in gear cause it depends on the moment it got locked, if SHE turned it off it would be locked on park if the car turned off itself by a malfunction would be locked on the last gear it was... And just for you to know, towtrucks ignore the shift-lock release and pull the car without using it, it does NOT hurt the transmission...
@@jameswrp 9 times out of 10 there is a simple switch under the boot of the gearstick, disengages the locking solenoid and allows the car to be put in N. no need to get under the car
What would the intake be then and for what? I would expect most of these people have no idea what goes on under the bonnet of a car. This is the UK where people swell with pride telling you they do knot know these things as it demonstrates their high status. They have others to cope with such mundane boring necessities of life. I have experienced this attitude so many times socially and in the work place over the years.
I guarantee you wouldn’t have a clue how to get it out of park in that situation. You can’t disengage park with the engine off in BMW cars (safety reasons) You have to try and ‘start’ the engine, then when it refuses (because it’s siezed), the car will place itself into neutral gear 👍
You can’t disengage park with the engine off in BMW cars (safety reasons) You have to try and ‘start’ the engine, then when it refuses (because it’s siezed), the car will place itself into neutral gear 👍
@@cooldaddyslick6869 if the engine won't start in any Audi A6, A8, q7 made in the last ten years, you're stuck as well. Same with jaguar, most Volkswagen's. So no, your wrong. Fortunately with BMW's, you have to attempt to start the engine, and when it won't start (obviously), the car realises it needs to be towed and if you held the shifter in neutral while trying to start. It's bing bong and then pop into neutral. Actually easier to do than an Audi, JLR and VW/Skoda. You have to start removing chunks of the cupholders to access an emergency release in them. Even with the ignition on
Fords ain’t like roundabouts .. they aren’t everywhere, and most of the time it’s an alternative route that you don’t have to drive through because there’s another way without a ford that’s barely a 5 minute detour
How stupid are these people? At the very least water will ingress into the transmission splines and start those rusting. At worst a destroyed motor. Why?
@@aidan1585 lmao, of course you can. In BMW you click quickly 3 times start button without pressing brake pedal and then switch to neutral. Every car brand has his own „procedure to do it”. Car needs a bit of electricity do switch to neutral and that’s it.
@jaworq but how many people know this unnecessary procedure or would think to read the manual in such a stressful situation? I wouldn't call _her_ stupid for that, it's the engineers that designed it this way! I thought automatic transmissions were supposed to be EASIER to use than manuals! 🤨🤯🤦♂️
Insurance will not pay for this it’s avoidable. Insurer’s look at every conceivable way to avoid paying even the smallest of claims. I was refused an insurance claim because my terms said I needed to notify my insurance company within 24 hours of any potential incident. Because I was honest & told them it was a few days before & I hadn’t gotten around to it they flat out refused my claim under the terms that I’d broken my terms & conditions with them. What chances have these people got when they say to their insurance companies they drove through a river @ 20mph causing a bow wave Poseidon himself would be proud of.
Depends on the insurer but a lot will pay out these fuckwits, especially if there is a finance company involved, the corporations are all hand in glove with
@@Matty12333 Depends on the car most new cars are either fleet, finance or leased so it’s not like they’re rich enough to by an engine. If it’s a company fleet car you could also lose your job I knew one guy who didn’t check his oil & the engine seized that lost his job & another for missing a service interval & the engine failed he also lost his job. It’s way more than people think it’s just an engine. Engines for new cars are crazy money even fitting used engines can be crazy money.
I suppose this is why in Arizona and other places where flooding is common, it's very common to hear, "turn around, don't drown" and there is a "Stupid Motorists Law" that makes you financially liable for your own rescue if you choose to ignore warnings and drive through deep water. Even those who make it through the flood but had water flowing over their hoods most likely caused damage to their cars, although it may not show up until months or years later in the form of transmission problems or electrical issues.
Here in Oz, a land of droughts and floods, we live and sometimes die with this situation. ON NO ACCOUNT DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED DIP. what happens is ... the flowing water can excavate a hole or cave at the bottom of the dip. A hole big enough to swallow a car, usually bonnet first and vertically. No escape.😢. These people are evidently deeply misinformed.
@@torresthemonsterIt stops the water from being pushed higher and reduces (but does not eliminate) the chance of water being sucked into the air filter and then into the engine. But, even if water is below the air intake, there is still danger to oil seals and other miscellaneous components (e.g. hydraulic lines, dip sticks, electrics) for as long as the vehicle is submerged. Which is why you should never buy a car that has been flood damaged; even if that car was never actually driven through floodwaters.
idk their reasoning but from inside driving their brain would instantly think that passing the water fast would get them away from it the best which is literally the opposite
You couldn’t put it in neutral either. You can see she tried to put it in neutral but nobody knows or either told her that it doesn’t go into neutral with the engine off
Why even ONE car would even THINK about going through there is beyond my understanding. Why 20 cars went though there is beyond belief and just absolute stupidity
We have something similar to where I live in Birmingham. Earlier this year a woman and a young child were trapped in the water. Fortunately, both were saved by passersby with no injuries; this was the main story reported. Yet nobody blamed the mother's recklessness for driving through similar water as in the video (were they both called Karen?) with a young child in the back seat.
Never get water in the air intake. Eyery driver should know that. In case you drive slowly and the engine suffers hydro lock - you should be able to rescue it. In case of hiogher speeds, a hydro lock will most likely ruin the engine irrevocably..
Hope everyone realises that these people add to all of our insurance costs.
Imagine the questionnaire from the ins co: "How fast were you going when you saw the metre high standing water?" Not a chance of a payout I don't think!
Engine damage is not insured.
@@asphalthedgehog6580 It isn't but if u do a full insurance you can basically insure your own incompetence. Which would fit in this case, just like if you "accidentally forget" to brake your car and drive into something. You'll get your cars worth back at the time of damage in the used car market.
@@evilcrash5413 ok. That's fraud, but possible.
@@asphalthedgehog6580 , It's fraud if you have full insurance and you are completely honest with your insurer? I'm not sure you understand what fraud is. Or insurance.
If i see water that deep with a camera guy im turning back lmao
exactly
There should be another way somewhere, right? Are some locals here? Is this the only road in the area?
Rufford Lane ford watcher?
Even without a camera guy, it's just dumb. Cars don't run on fuel-water mixture.
@@bami2 depends some cars as u see in the video can clear it. Always know your car.
4:14 OMG she left it in park/gear WHILE BEING TOWED
most of the others in this video were pretty dumb already but she just takes the cake wtf man
woman moment
I might be wrong but she didn't leave it in park. The car was in gear thus the wheels couldn't rotate
@@sailyui well, there's a neutral "gear" for a reason
Or engine hydro locked... then bye bye engine
@@Mega-tl8vv Being in gear and park mode is not the same and if it was in neutral "gear" then the wheels would most certainly rotate
"I didn't realise how deep" yet the water level sign says 1'......that's what happens when you lie to your wife about what is 12 inches looks like 😂
😂😂😂
I was about to write the same comment but you saved me the job. Ditto!
That grey e90 3-series is the only one that knows what to do
Did you see how they slowed down just a touch to ensure the level would stay low just in front of the intake?
The guy @3:14 😎🤌
And the guy at 5:42
But bud, the water is up to the rocker panels on a 25-50k car, just don't. Even if you can avoid ingesting water or have an EV, you're risking taking on water and permanently water damaging the whole car.
@@hechter80sped moment? almost like the guy at 3:14 is the grey e90
Interesting how the BMW 320 driver had the most brains...
notice his steering wheel is 90 degrees to the left while driving straight 🤣
@@busterscrugs Was not. Bet he has active steering
A BMW driver with brains. That’s not something you often see in the same sentence 😂
Yeah he basically push the water, reduce speed so the water can go out of the front/intake once the water was low, he accelerated and repeat the process, very smart
erm achewlly it was a 330e
Hydro-planing and Aqua planing are the terms for going into an uncontrollable skid at high speed on a wet road
Hydro-locked is the correct term for getting water into a running engine and ruining it.
That BMW at the start was actually hydro-planing, but only because they were lucky enough for the water just to reach no higher than the front air-dam/spoiler, which lifted the front up most of the way through! Could say dam-lucky!?!
Hydroplaning is controllable if you know your tyres and exact speed they start to lift from grip. Huge stretch used to flood near me every year and dad used to hit this longest puddle at well over a 100 most surreal/scary feeling 😅
@@owenlangley3480 Exactly! In fact there's a group of racers in Iceland who drive powerful buggies across the top of shallow lakes when the weather is calm! The rest of the time they climb steep hill-sides in the same vehicles!
@@MrWombatty it has an active shutter in the grills so water probably couldn't get in due to that.
The correct term is aquaplaning, although hydroplaning does tecnically mean the same thing, it is not commonly (never) used with regards to cars, it's normally used for boats.
fun fact, aqua is Latin and hydro is Greek 😊
Mini was not happy about that swim 😂
That water isn’t excessively deep, baffles me how so many people are unable to navigate a ford properly.
exactly! Understand that you have an air intake under the hood and try to go slow enough to prevent pushing the water into that..
It seemed to be an elderly lady who didn't know how to cross. She also had her side window down and definitely had some water inside.
@@mrb2349 my comment isn’t specifically about one driver. This video and the 100’s if not 1000’s of others prove my original point.
white smoke = dead engine ?
@@lematou61 could be steam from the water hitting a hot exhaust
Why do people do stuff like this. Like ok if you enjoy off-roading and have a car built for that but why would you do that to a normal car?
When you've stolen it!?!
@@MrWombattyyh yh true
The water isn’t that deep and as you can see some people know exactly what to do. The others are idiots.
Some people aren’t the brightest….
Evens says these people all
Voted for Brexit
All the hate towards rhe lady with the bmw lady who approached the water slowly but no comment for the lady who literally gave her mini a top down bath 😂😂😂
Bath of death
4:02 new achievement unlocked: SINGLE
4:10 this hurts to watch 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
There goes the rear diff RIP
@@sabni8668 is the car in park? whats going on with the rear wheels
@@FrostByteAirsoft I think she has it in reverse...
Car is still in drive, and the engine is hydrolocked. You cam hear from her trying to start it later on that its fully siezed. Theres a tiny bit of play in the rear differential /driveline so the rear left that had a bit more traction which makes the rear right rotate backwards a tiny bit due to how an open differential works
@@maestroadam Nope - It's an automatic gearbox so it'll be stuck in gear and obviously the engine won't turn due to being hydrolocked
I dont know why are people complaining. Its good for people to learn to be acountable and have some basic knowledge.
People like these raises everybody’s insurance rates. Think.
Nah, it's people like you who are OK with paying more, that causes the increase in insurance rates. The original rates already factored this stuff in.
@@abelsimpsonjr.5473 no they don't.
@@renatolaranja52 I work in insurance. Please STFU
@@user-zu5do6ri6r I work in insurance please be quiet.
For the car owners that don't bother to learn how cars work and what not to do with cars. Your engine sucks in air usually near the front grille, mixes the air with a mist of fuel and then compresses it before burning the mixture to turn the engine which turns the wheels and the burnt mixture then gets pushed out the exhaust. Gases are compressible but water isn't so if you suck in water into the engine through the front grille, when the engine tries to compress it, it usually results in catastrophic damage to the internal components of the engine that are responsible for the compression. In most cases, you will need a whole new engine if this happens but if you are lucky then a very expensive repair of the engine. Watching that Mini driver turn the starter after the engine died was painful since that turned from possibly an expensive repair to engine replacement.
Im convinced that 90% of car owners have no idea that their car's engine requires oxygen to facilitate combustion nor are they aware that if the water is up to headlights, the car will ingest water. The lady in the Cooper is so clueless that she kept trying to start that car after it clearly hydrolocked!
The car wasn't hydrolocked. She probably has water I the intake which I preventing proper ignition of the fuel. If it was hydrolocked the car would not crank at all.
@@brucetec6597What happens when water gets in the supercharger intake?
Legend has it that she's still on her way home, starting her car after moving 2 meters.
fuel air good fuel water bad!
03:07 Perfect crossing
Sounds like he was constantly slipping the clutch? not good.
@@bobroberts6155 no he did it right so it doesn't flood the exhaust.
@@mrb2349 intake, not exhaust
@@M4mba98 I know what I wrote. If you don't rev it, water may run into the exhaust.
@@M4mba98 Well the logic is if you rev it high enough it will be suck more air + (water) to the intake, in this case his tryin to not flooded the exhaust so he slippin the clutch
Lock gearbox and to pull car😢 bmv is crying
They are common as muck mate. Not prestigious brand nowadays
she might’ve left it in park, while being towed.
That generation of automatic BMW won't let the gearbox come out of park without the engine running, without disassembling the centre console and using a screwdriver to manually unlock the selector for the purposes of towing.
@@SerenaBluee The comment I was looking for
@@peanuts2105 who said they arent lol obviously you think theyre nicer than average if you are shitting on them when nobody said anything lol stay poor
The Mini Clubman thing that died first, sounds like some water got in and killed at least one or two of the pistons.
I lived in a flooded area. The secret to driving the flood is slow, but don't loose power. Steady apply of gas is the secret as water can't get in.
Get in where? Exhaust? Even at low revs any engine has enough exhaust pressure to stop water getting in. The engine sucks water in via the inlet.
Why do so many people try to fly through the water so quickly? It's one of the fastest way to get hydro locked
Because they find deep water scary…..
Because its actually the best way to cross it. It keeps the water in front of the car and causes a cavity of air near the air intake. Going slow or stopping is the worst thing you can do
@@brucetec6597 Then why do they keep getting hydro locked when they do it? Because that's bullshit a speeding through water will not cause a cavity of air to form in front of your intake. All that water going up over the hood, it's gonna get sucked in. The intake is going to eat that cavity of air because it need to breathe or the engine will shut down. That's why off road vehicle have mods like snorkels. You need to keep moving, but you need to drive slowly and steadily, around 3 or 4 mph.
@@brucetec6597Wrong, speed is not your friend with water crossings. Basically you should enter it slowly and create a bow wave to push the water away, if you go to quick it simply goes in the air induction system.
Perfect example, first Mini estate = too fast, second one, perfect.
@@brucetec6597that’s the biggest bullshit I have ever read in my whole life lol
Its the air filter thats wet. Umm the inside of the engine is soaked and your bmw is almost certainly totaled lol
It's the air filter is it?
😂
Yes love, a new one and you'll be good to go. Lol.
@@trd8749you didn't understand the comment, if the air filter is wet the engine Will be too (if it's on)
Not true. Depending on the design, an air filter could easily be choked with water without letting sufficient water through to hydro lock the engine.
@@Dalesmanable how though?
@@Justgreen89925 Because the air filter is choked! Don’t be lazy; do an internet search.
4:12: Uh, you can take it out of PARK anytime, lady. . .
Doubtful - It's likely to be stuck in gear, fancy German cars in particular REALLY don't like their complex electrics being mixed with water whilst in a live state.
You need to have the engine running to disengage park, if it won't start, put your foot on the brake, hit the start button, let the engine attempt to start. The car then will flash up a warning and put the car into neutral automatically so it can be towed.
“You can’t park there m8!” 😂
@@aidan1585 i'm just not going to get a car without a full lever handbrake next time. nothing wrong with modern tech in cars. it just needlessly makes the easy hard, dangerous, annoying and expensive.
3:10, 5:15, & 6:40, they are the only smart drivers
Smart?.....🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️
Those VWs look like they're going for nice pleasant swims
@@FattyPok Mind voicing why you disagree with the statement?
@@Fentskii I think he/she means that a smart driver wont drive throu that at all
This channel is surprisingly very interesting. Every car that crossed was a brand new test. BTW, I bet that 90% of the subscribers are men. We love this stuff
2:25 nice sound
No chickens were involved in that scene 🐤
BMW engine = trash
Sound of love
I think it's steam powered now
BMW and Mini drivers. 😂
Fwiw, both are from the BMW Group.
smh… that lady that ruined the F54.
Did she even know how to put it in neutral?
It's locked in P can't be in N
No, its locked in gear Not in P. And if they're too dumb to find the Workshop Settings you need a tow truck with Auto gearbox
@@BenBieb "too dumb to find the workshop settings"... its called shift-lock release and almost nobody knows how to unlock it cause you have to pull out the gear-lever casing/pannel... YOU dont know if its locked in gear cause it depends on the moment it got locked, if SHE turned it off it would be locked on park if the car turned off itself by a malfunction would be locked on the last gear it was... And just for you to know, towtrucks ignore the shift-lock release and pull the car without using it, it does NOT hurt the transmission...
@@BenBiebunfortunately when loss of power such as engine off gearbox locks into Park. Only way to neutral is to get under the car
@@jameswrp 9 times out of 10 there is a simple switch under the boot of the gearstick, disengages the locking solenoid and allows the car to be put in N. no need to get under the car
the key is to drive slow to avoid engine flooding
1:20 bye bye number plate lol
number plate is a little problem 😛
range rover drivers are complete bellends.
The sheer amount of people who don't know where there intake is on their cars then send it into the water in this video is insane
What would the intake be then and for what? I would expect most of these people have no idea what goes on under the bonnet of a car. This is the UK where people swell with pride telling you they do knot know these things as it demonstrates their high status. They have others to cope with such mundane boring necessities of life. I have experienced this attitude so many times socially and in the work place over the years.
Someone should open an auto shop around
Omg 4:38 it being in park is killing me it's making me cringe so hard PLEASEE
I guarantee you wouldn’t have a clue how to get it out of park in that situation. You can’t disengage park with the engine off in BMW cars (safety reasons)
You have to try and ‘start’ the engine, then when it refuses (because it’s siezed), the car will place itself into neutral gear 👍
You can’t disengage park with the engine off in BMW cars (safety reasons)
You have to try and ‘start’ the engine, then when it refuses (because it’s siezed), the car will place itself into neutral gear 👍
@@aidan1585 So you can't just turn the ignition on and place it in neutral, like every other car in existence?
@@cooldaddyslick6869 if the engine won't start in any Audi A6, A8, q7 made in the last ten years, you're stuck as well. Same with jaguar, most Volkswagen's. So no, your wrong.
Fortunately with BMW's, you have to attempt to start the engine, and when it won't start (obviously), the car realises it needs to be towed and if you held the shifter in neutral while trying to start. It's bing bong and then pop into neutral. Actually easier to do than an Audi, JLR and VW/Skoda. You have to start removing chunks of the cupholders to access an emergency release in them. Even with the ignition on
Got to love the sound of those con rods bending 😂😂😂
Did the Tesla catch fire a week later?
no , it is perfectly fine...
Because of this woman, they prob ruined the sharan
nothing wrong with the sharan
@@mrk2938 sharan is not made for towing vehicles with spinning wheels, let alone a series 3 BMW using the engine as a brake
@@branca0907 the clutch probably got a bit of abuse, but nothing else major was done wrong to it.
@@branca09074 series. Also it isn’t her fault, you can’t disengage park with the engine off by using the shifter
Sharan was made in 2001, it's obviously well proven if it's lasted that long
Slow or fast, this high of a water is not meant to be crossed by non-specialized vehicles.
"You probably want to give your husband a ring about his car."
"What should I tell him?"
"Tell him it's fucked, yeah."
😂
Kinda stupidly designed roads in the UK gotta say.
To the Bri'i'ish, this is just anotha Chewsday
Fords ain’t like roundabouts .. they aren’t everywhere, and most of the time it’s an alternative route that you don’t have to drive through because there’s another way without a ford that’s barely a 5 minute detour
Driving though a ford is risky
Rather than warming people of the danger, these people film their misfortune. Horrible human beings.
Classic psychopaths
@Matty12333 in this day and age , I'd bet if one was on fire, rather than putting it out, people probably film it rather than call emergency services.
The 3-series at 3:07 is the only car to transit this correctly. And that VW Bus at 6:38 is beautiful. Too bad we don't have them in the USA.
The puddle wasn't that deep for the 3 series actually.
yeah, I was about to write he was the first one with any sense 🙄
I see the local garage have booked there summer holidays again 3 months in Barbados 😅
How stupid are these people? At the very least water will ingress into the transmission splines and start those rusting. At worst a destroyed motor. Why?
Is there not a key next to the gear lever that puts it in neutral?
No you have to attempt to start the engine (even if it won’t start), and only then the car allows you to put it into neutral.
@@aidan1585 "allows you" is the problem i'm seeing over and over these days.
@@ZeerakImran once you don't drive your car into a swimming pool like seen in this video. You'll be fine. Take a detour
4:00 "I didn't realise it was as deep as it is..."
Just casually ignoring the huge sign that shows you how deep the water is long before you drive in.
I would never drive my car through this water.
2:21 it’s a “mini squirrel” now!😅
4:20 - hahahah, wtf. Its so difficult to think and put it in Neutral? xD
You can’t put the gearbox into neutral with the engine off
@@aidan1585 lmao, of course you can. In BMW you click quickly 3 times start button without pressing brake pedal and then switch to neutral. Every car brand has his own „procedure to do it”. Car needs a bit of electricity do switch to neutral and that’s it.
@jaworq but how many people know this unnecessary procedure or would think to read the manual in such a stressful situation? I wouldn't call _her_ stupid for that, it's the engineers that designed it this way! I thought automatic transmissions were supposed to be EASIER to use than manuals! 🤨🤯🤦♂️
@@LRM12o8 im not calling her stupid. Some ppl just like to know their cars and some just treat it as a tool to use and not care about it too much.
You sitting outside a BMW shop?
Who here will shed a tear for these fools.
ladies and gents, what we've determined from this video is that cars and water do not mix 😂
Some people don't deserve cars if they can't show basic care. Puts you off buying second hand cars.
Don’t know if they’re trying to test their car or proving their stupidity 😆
Oh yeah the air intake is probably good but those alternators and electronics just _LOVVVEEE_ to get submerged!!
"If I pass fast enough, my air filter won't turn into slush"
Attempting to compress water is an expensive mistake
If you see a group of people with cameras next to a flooded street, it probably isn't the best idea to drive through.
VW van driver is the only sensible person here. Slow and steady wins the race.
So many drivers seem to think that cars are powered by magic,
So many just don’t know how to drive throw water. That old mini shows you it was perfect safe for most vehicles.
The Mini Clubman was really uined after the water, with a flooded intake and pushing the throttle by the Trottel.
how did the 4 series get hydrolocked so easy? where is the intake on that damn thing
Literally above the fog light. It’s surprisingly an unknown fact about them. You’d be better reversing 😂
BMW don't like water
That minis engine is totally done!
Them blokes are knacked !! 😂
I won't even drive my M2 through a deep puddle, there is no way I'd go through that ffs, just go round.
No wonder the insurance over there is crazy 😂😂
Insurance will not pay for this it’s avoidable. Insurer’s look at every conceivable way to avoid paying even the smallest of claims. I was refused an insurance claim because my terms said I needed to notify my insurance company within 24 hours of any potential incident. Because I was honest & told them it was a few days before & I hadn’t gotten around to it they flat out refused my claim under the terms that I’d broken my terms & conditions with them. What chances have these people got when they say to their insurance companies they drove through a river @ 20mph causing a bow wave Poseidon himself would be proud of.
Depends on the insurer but a lot will pay out these fuckwits, especially if there is a finance company involved, the corporations are all hand in glove with
Am sure these people can afford new engines or cars.
@@Matty12333 Depends on the car most new cars are either fleet, finance or leased so it’s not like they’re rich enough to by an engine. If it’s a company fleet car you could also lose your job I knew one guy who didn’t check his oil & the engine seized that lost his job & another for missing a service interval & the engine failed he also lost his job. It’s way more than people think it’s just an engine. Engines for new cars are crazy money even fitting used engines can be crazy money.
Is the bmw fleeing from a bank robbery or something?
The clowns looking n the clowns driving through the water hard to know who's the worst 😅
Amazing the sedans make it through!
I suppose this is why in Arizona and other places where flooding is common, it's very common to hear, "turn around, don't drown" and there is a "Stupid Motorists Law" that makes you financially liable for your own rescue if you choose to ignore warnings and drive through deep water. Even those who make it through the flood but had water flowing over their hoods most likely caused damage to their cars, although it may not show up until months or years later in the form of transmission problems or electrical issues.
@3:54 Imagine telling her, “You can’t park there m8!” 😂
No surprise the range rovers made it through easily. They are amphibious exploring vehicles with precision air intake valves after all
I would expect them to be good or I would want my money back!
Lady in that bmw doesn't even deserve a car like that.
Here in Oz, a land of droughts and floods, we live and sometimes die with this situation. ON NO ACCOUNT DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED DIP. what happens is ... the flowing water can excavate a hole or cave at the bottom of the dip. A hole big enough to swallow a car, usually bonnet first and vertically. No escape.😢. These people are evidently deeply misinformed.
Progressive adjuster here just wanted to say hi 👋
2 mins in, "Your gonna start, I will keep trying until you break !"
That's not hydroplaning! That's partial submarining. Big difference.
Moronic. 99% of them would make it if they went super slow like the VW at 5:19... How do these people have licenses
Why does speed make a difference?
@@torresthemonsterIt stops the water from being pushed higher and reduces (but does not eliminate) the chance of water being sucked into the air filter and then into the engine. But, even if water is below the air intake, there is still danger to oil seals and other miscellaneous components (e.g. hydraulic lines, dip sticks, electrics) for as long as the vehicle is submerged. Which is why you should never buy a car that has been flood damaged; even if that car was never actually driven through floodwaters.
That Mini is toast
The camera man standing beside a questionable body of water is generally what the FBI calls a "clue".
Is there any reason to go fast through this? Wouldn’t walking pace give you
The highest chance of success?
idk their reasoning but from inside driving their brain would instantly think that passing the water fast would get them away from it the best which is literally the opposite
Having a really horrible day so im watching this
the gran coupe 4 series was on park!!!!
always with the blonds
You couldn’t put it in neutral either. You can see she tried to put it in neutral but nobody knows or either told her that it doesn’t go into neutral with the engine off
The only thing she knows how to operate is that thing in her bedside table that use batteries 😂😅🤣😅😆
They built a nice sturdy walking bridge over the water but no bridge for vehicles.? Now that's classic British entertainment...
Apparently, BMW stands for "Boat motor works" in the mind of some people...
8:05 I would not be standing there man bun with the red shirt.
people & cameras: check
failed cars other side: check
owner: send it
why did the old lady with the mini leave her window down lmao so dumb
That Tesla driver has voided his warranty.
Funny. We have these things in our country called bridges, they allow vehicles to go over the water...
Why even ONE car would even THINK about going through there is beyond my understanding. Why 20 cars went though there is beyond belief and just absolute stupidity
Many people seemed to have learned how to drive their cars in such a situation ^^
It’s a good job Ben Gregers wasn’t there because hardly any of them would have made it through.
The people with the old land rovers literally wait around all day for someone to ruin there car.
It's funny how a vw touran that's probably worth 1k, tows a 30k+ BMW out of a flooded road 😂
basically this is where all insurance scammers meet?😂
We have something similar to where I live in Birmingham. Earlier this year a woman and a young child were trapped in the water. Fortunately, both were saved by passersby with no injuries; this was the main story reported. Yet nobody blamed the mother's recklessness for driving through similar water as in the video (were they both called Karen?) with a young child in the back seat.
2:37 him coming back slower this time hahahaha
Different car
@@yaboybert_2077 Oh shoot you're right
Never get water in the air intake. Eyery driver should know that. In case you drive slowly and the engine suffers hydro lock - you should be able to rescue it. In case of hiogher speeds, a hydro lock will most likely ruin the engine irrevocably..