For sure a bad idea to drive if you see them recording. Are none of the people giving warning to help prevent them from driving through? It’s like people taking out their phones to record a mugging instead of trying to help in the first place.
@@beerleagueeverything8030yeah that’s one thing I feel it’s a bit sad to see, fair enough some people are a bit special to decide to drive through that but the people just standing there recording instead of warning them not to come this way just seems like a bit of a dick move. I wonder if this is the case or genuinely these people just decide to plow through without listening.
@@Lightsoul1987 hang in there fellow friend. When we come across those BMW's who drive with care, and pride in their own BMW, its a sight to behold. Those are an extremely rare breed though. o7
Why do people with cars vote green? Why did people wear masks and get the death jibbly and stay at home and do as they were told questioning nothing? Why do most people not know how their car breathes or not bother finding out? Why do most people not know that water cannot be compressed like air? Listen to the conversations most people have when you are out and about in town. That's why.
For real the reason I sold bmw and bought Mercedes since I was 24 is because of these lunatics, I’m 30 now and every time I see a bmw on the road I just know there is a man child driving it
@@steves186 nah don’t let anyone drive your car, ppl typically don’t care too much about stuff they didn’t work for. Because if someone messes up your car they’ll continue on with their life, while you’re stucc dealing with the damages. Thats why you shouldn’t let anyone drive your car. That way if you mess up your car you have no one to blame but yourself.
“Bmw drivers” no it’s just the driver this is a comp of bmws getting hydro locked. So many worse dodge and mustang drivers who aim for crowds. Depends on the brain cells not the brand and I can see you have very few.
I worked insurance claims in Houston during a number of flood events. Way back then, BMWs had air intakes low down to draw cool air into the engine and so were particularly susceptible to high water. We used to say that their drivers assumed that since they could walk on water, they could drive on it…
@@hairynames9704 Low enough. Many cars had it higher, especially back in the 80s when those round filters were still around. But water is always risky without snorkel.
@1:23 before he even said anything my thought was "is this dude really worried about a paint scratch when he's probably looking at replacing the engine." Lol.
Because it is actually possible to get through the ford in the first few clips. You do what the M3 driver did, in slow up to a point and then floor it. There was no excuse for the last one, though. That was a flooded road. They should have told her.
@Al-ok1lj where I live, I do encounter lots of flooding. I usually go in first gear (so you can't go too fast) but keep the revs high to keep any water out of the exhaust. It usually works fine. I would never attempt to cross anything over 2 feet of water however. Turn around and find a diversion. After going through any floods I try and dry my breaks out before carrying on.
It doesnt help if pick up for air i take is low, whcih it is in case of BMWs. Subarus are example of cars that all have very high mounted air inlet and airbox. They wouldnt suffer the same fate unless youblet water wash over the edgr of the hood. Which in case of Outback or Forester is nigh-impossible.
People should slow down, or get out of the car and survey the situation. As soon as the water enters the front grill, it’s game over and the engine is toast?
I'm kind of on the fence of what to think about this situation. As a driver, you're a fool to risk driving through that. However, instead of all those people making an event out of others misfortune, why not try to warn folks before they attempt it? How about making some kind of sign or place safety cones to deter people? It's kind of bizarre...
Damn, this part of England must really hate those BMW's. Driving it through lakes and when towing it scratching it against a wall and at the end without water, scratching it in the bushes, like why not 😂
I dont understand why people are tyring to drive fast this is something u wuld expect 10yr child to do water splashing in front air intake is the worst thing u can do
Someone could make a mint offering a towing service through the water as an option to driving through it, as opposed to a towing service after the car has its engine destroyed. Top tip for anyone that hasn’t figured out why these car engines are damaged - an air and fuel mixture can be compressed by the motion of the piston in the cylinder. Water doesn’t compress so easily (!), so something has to give (ie break)
Clearly plenty of money in this area. Here’s a thought, why don’t they build a bloody bridge over this? There’s already a foot bridge! Makes no sense to me.
You’re welcome to join us filming watching drivers driving through. Road closed signs and cones to then wave at them and try to stop them. They often get hostile 😂 😂 so sit back, pour a cold one and enjoy the channel 😎
You could see the water depth on the submerged fence. I can't understand why anyone would basically drive their car into a river. I've heard that cows can drown themselves because they will keep walking into the water trying to get out the other side. What we are seeing is the same "thinking" process.
@@handofsutekh wtf are you smoking, you're seriously telling me you were taught specifically how to cross flooded roads on your driving test? You realise not everywhere in the UK floods for the situation to even come up to teach, been driving 10+ years, never wrecked a car or crashed and I was never taught the correct way to drive through water
@MrRawrgers you gonna be alright mate? 😆 I learned to drive in a rural area, I'm just telling you what I know... there is a bridge that floods like this by me every year and if you drive at it in 2nd and keep it steady, it somehow doesn't let water in. I really can't argue it at all, all I can say is that's what I was taught, and I use it every winter a few times, car has never died. Maybe I just am lucky - honestly I am not putting forward a dog for a fight here 😆 it's just my lived experience or whatever they call it
This almost happened to me in the US, FL. There was a flash flood from rain at night, couldn't see anything and ended up in knee high water. My dodge charger ended up getting me through and survived with no issues. Air intake must be in a different location
Worked with a guy that went through a puddle with his wife's 2 week old BMW and it buggered the engine, BMW admitted there was a design flaw with that engine but only offered him a reconditioned engine when as I said the car was 2 weeks old. Needless to say he and his wife no longer buy BMW's.
The last one is definitely the best. “Bye car, was nice knowing you”… Absolutely dead inside. The lights are on, but everybody left a long long time ago.
When we had our first 4wd Club instruction day the question was asked. :When you are faced with a flooded river crossing what is the first thing you do?" There were many answers but the correct one was "Find the nearest bridge" A 4wd is not a boat nor is it a submarine...... Even a 4wd needs to have all the fluids drained and replaced after a deep river crossing... the hot diffs and gearboxes (when they get drowned in deep water) cool instantly and the air in them also contracts sucking water into all the seals/bearings/fluids Find a bridge and use it (from a river crossing 4wd club member that has been in a river deep enough to reach the door handles on the upriver side...and lucky enough to get out with the engine still running ...as it did for years after....)
Uh, l agree the safest thing to do is use a bridge, but if a diff or engine draws water through its gaskets, there's something wrong with the gaskets, period.
@kwaynr1301 agreed; classic example - the Alvis Stalwart 6 wheeled amphibious lorry used a few years back by the British army. 6 wheel drive + 2 propellers. There's video's of these being driven straight off a bank into a river (no ramp). Totally waterproof and no problem with any of the drive systems.
Some of these could have made it if they didn’t make a wave come through the front grill 😂 and soak literally everything suck all that water straight through the air intake 😂
“Why would you go through?!” At no point in this video did I see you or anyone else filming actively discouraging drivers to continue through given what you have been filming all day. Typical clowns just profiteering off people’s poor judgement instead of trying to be a decent human being and avoiding all of this damage!
It is, modern electrical connections are IP rated against water for a certain time and depth. The bumper level air intake is the main problem causing hydrolock scrapping the engine. Internally in the cabine the water leaks in from a number of places, from the driving controls to the cabin air intake but this is much slower.
BMWs tend to have air intakes that are very low in the engine bay. My 5-series has it's air intake below the headlights, I wouldn't try and ford it through a large puddle let alone these small lakes.
IMO it's because they believe the myth of superior German engineering in relation to cars. The customer reliability surveys show that it's a myth. And putting lots of chrome on a car and making the car overpriced doesn't make it superior.
BMWs are cheaply made but it doesn't mean they were designed to go through deep water. Just some cars are if they get snorkel option. People bashed communist cars for bad hangling back in the day, but they had lifted suspensions, skidplates, high intakes etc. to deal with terrible road conditions. Car design is always a tradeoff. If it's good on motorway it won't be good on destroyed road and vice versa.
Luckily i was in this situation in Albuquerque two months ago in my bmw x3 and my car lives and still runs good today but there was a monsoon downtown and i saw easily 50+ dead cars, and tons more getting pushed, water up to windows on some cars. It was like a movie and im from central fl (20+ year resident)
Just remember everyone, THESE are the people we share the roads with.
Their votes are also worth the same as mine too, that's what really scares me.
🤣🤣🤣
If you are prosecuted for a crime you didn't commit, they could be on the jury.
ehh, i am going to extend your comment. THESE are the people that make our breakdown insurance premiums go up....
and rivers too 🤷🏼♀️
You know it’s bad idea to drive your car through a puddle when it’s so bad that there are multiple people sitting there recording
For sure a bad idea to drive if you see them recording. Are none of the people giving warning to help prevent them from driving through? It’s like people taking out their phones to record a mugging instead of trying to help in the first place.
@@beerleagueeverything8030yeah that’s one thing I feel it’s a bit sad to see, fair enough some people are a bit special to decide to drive through that but the people just standing there recording instead of warning them not to come this way just seems like a bit of a dick move. I wonder if this is the case or genuinely these people just decide to plow through without listening.
And there is a depth gauge on the side of the road. If I see a depth gauge I am not going anywhere close to that road.
These are truly morons with too much money
@@beerleagueeverything8030no. You get taught in driving school what to do at puddles.
Recovery truck drivers in that town must all be driving Ferraris 😂
Not through the ford, though 😏
@@Dauccowhy not? Most ferraris have a rear engine. And they have their airintake on the side or top
@@InstarentnerKnowledge is power
no, fords.
@@Instarentner because your car isnt a boat lmao. I dont want to see the state of the car a few years after driving through that
When you see a big ass "puddle" and a buncha blokes standing next to it filming your approach, you might wanna consider going another way. 😂
Nope not these idiots 😂😂😂
BMW = Bavarian Marine Works 😂
Britains Most watered 😅
@@ingolingnau yup, specifically GB vehicles, can’t say the same floaters for Aussie or American BMWs 😂
@@Lightsoul1987 hang in there fellow friend. When we come across those BMW's who drive with care, and pride in their own BMW, its a sight to behold. Those are an extremely rare breed though. o7
It just doesn't make any sense. Why do people think their car is waterproof.⁉️😖🙄
Why do people with cars vote green? Why did people wear masks and get the death jibbly and stay at home and do as they were told questioning nothing? Why do most people not know how their car breathes or not bother finding out? Why do most people not know that water cannot be compressed like air?
Listen to the conversations most people have when you are out and about in town. That's why.
It starts off dry on the inside 😂
Ego
Because they can be driven in the rain
I don't think it's that. I think they read or heard about bow waves. Not realising where the air intake is in their car.
That’s one less BMW to be tailgating up and down the M6. Bravo.
@@Chris-f7s2y if you’re being tailgated pull over or go faster 😂
If you ain’t first, you’re last… shake & bake 😝
For real the reason I sold bmw and bought Mercedes since I was 24 is because of these lunatics, I’m 30 now and every time I see a bmw on the road I just know there is a man child driving it
Learn how to use a motorway and you won’t be tailgated. Bravo.
DID THEY SELL THIER BRAINS TO BUY THE CARS???????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
No. they sold their souls.
Need to have brain first
Yes and that because Brian Means Weight (BMW)
@@manikyum not to by a car mate
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂hahahaha
'Its not my car' - dumbest words ever after doing that..
Thats why u never let anyone drive your car ever.
@@KededianExcept mum, cause mum is the best. 😅❤
@@KededianOr you could just have responsible friends.
@@steves186 nah don’t let anyone drive your car, ppl typically don’t care too much about stuff they didn’t work for. Because if someone messes up your car they’ll continue on with their life, while you’re stucc dealing with the damages.
Thats why you shouldn’t let anyone drive your car. That way if you mess up your car you have no one to blame but yourself.
That first one was brutal! Always encourage them to keep trying to start their hydrolocked engine lol
Did you see the end one? 😱
BMW drivers are never going to beat the allegations
“Bmw drivers” no it’s just the driver this is a comp of bmws getting hydro locked. So many worse dodge and mustang drivers who aim for crowds. Depends on the brain cells not the brand and I can see you have very few.
i come back to these videos year after year and people are still stupid to drive thru?😂
@@lyrical96 Have you seen the Alaska ones on the channel yet?
Stupidity is eternal! 🤷🏻♀️
Fuel & air, good. Fuel & water, bad!
Piston and incompressible fluid - very bad.
Which makes them insist on going through
I worked insurance claims in Houston during a number of flood events. Way back then, BMWs had air intakes low down to draw cool air into the engine and so were particularly susceptible to high water. We used to say that their drivers assumed that since they could walk on water, they could drive on it…
Give me an example of a bmw with the air intake down low. I'm waiting...
@@kwaynr1301I’m here with ya with my hand on my chin waiting
@kwaynr1301 E chassis bmws had ducting behind kidney grill routed to the airbox. Not that low.
@@hairynames9704 Low enough. Many cars had it higher, especially back in the 80s when those round filters were still around. But water is always risky without snorkel.
@piotrmalewski8178 how much higher t han the kidneys can it get? Above the hood?
2:00 You could hear the Rods were having a party 🤣
fr, they were having a whole rave on pure mdma
Stupidity costs money but these people will claim it was bad luck or the car’s fault
Will they? Did you ask ‘these people’?
@@danielirving1585I drove through a puddle.
Legend has it the second you buy a BMW your brain automatically turns into mush and you've ruined whatever piece of crap vehicle you bought
What the Hell are These guys at 7:50 doing with the poor car? If its not totalled yet, then it will be after their,,rescue,,
Like WTF
This is painful to watch.
Agreed
Haha thanks for supporting the German car … ah sorry boot industry 😂
Driver - what do I do now? Hmmm think about the choices you made to get this point that you have a car submerged and are asking that question. 😜
😂
Swim 😂
Gold! We need the 'wasted' sound effect again!
It shall return 😎
@@midlifecrisis101x Yeesss!
@@LiquidAudio check out the latest short 😁
@@midlifecrisis101x Absolute gold! 🤣
Why isn't this road closed off for Christ sake, absolutely ridiculous
Well my Shogun is certified to 70cm of ‘Wade’ - this is a mere puddle !!
Pretty sure it is closed off, think Rufford Ford has been closed since December 2022 and has a renewed closure of 18 months from June this year
It's a natural ford, been used for centuries. The depth of the water is written before you enter.....why can't people read?
Because it's a 4 mile detour otherwise, which most see as an inconvienience cause their lives are so busy. 🙄
@@motleydude73 better than a 4 grand write off otherwise
@1:23 before he even said anything my thought was "is this dude really worried about a paint scratch when he's probably looking at replacing the engine." Lol.
I didn't know BMW made boats
Not good ones, they all knock AND smoke.....
🚪 🤛 🚬
A decent human being would try to approach and warn those drivers of what they just witnessed
That’s the problem no decency left in anyone. Everyone turning to animals
Views and likes are more important in today’s world
That's all I could think of, too. There is no decendency left
Because it is actually possible to get through the ford in the first few clips. You do what the M3 driver did, in slow up to a point and then floor it.
There was no excuse for the last one, though. That was a flooded road. They should have told her.
A decent human being should have enough perception not to drive through a complete submerged street.
The road signs should read “BMW’s Do Not Enter” 🛑 LOL 🤣🤣
No car with a low air intake should enter.
@@EMB1199 But numb nuts drivers would not know where there air intake is.
@@RodSwansmad”It’s an expensive car. Surely it’s in the one place it needs to be to survive this dumb thing I’m amount to do!”
Serves them right,absolutely pathetic.
6:31 what a wasteful society 😔 I couldn’t do this to my car how ever old it may be
It's only like 5-6 years old, how can one live in debt and be so cool about that?
She say part ways or part waves 😮
@@DawidWujcikWhy would u live in debt just because your car is new ?
Just safe up the Money and buy your car cash
Because most people don't because most people have dogshit financial literacy @@Pavel-palavel
@@Pavel-palavel somebody who handles their car like this doesn’t know anything about money.
A peace of advice, If you ever had to go through a water pool on the road drive slowly so the water won’t go forcefully through the air intake.
That makes sense.
How about the exhaust? If water enters there would it also stall? Or can i just floor it to push all the water out?
@Al-ok1lj where I live, I do encounter lots of flooding. I usually go in first gear (so you can't go too fast) but keep the revs high to keep any water out of the exhaust. It usually works fine.
I would never attempt to cross anything over 2 feet of water however. Turn around and find a diversion.
After going through any floods I try and dry my breaks out before carrying on.
It doesnt help if pick up for air i take is low, whcih it is in case of BMWs. Subarus are example of cars that all have very high mounted air inlet and airbox. They wouldnt suffer the same fate unless youblet water wash over the edgr of the hood. Which in case of Outback or Forester is nigh-impossible.
That recvery truck operation is why I dont trust any car service
Most of BMW are caught because of low positioned air intake
People should slow down, or get out of the car and survey the situation. As soon as the water enters the front grill, it’s game over and the engine is toast?
Water enters through the air filter and then gets sucked into the engine.
Perhaps the last girl, on her own, didn't fancy getting out of her car with a load of strange blokes standing around filming her?
@macman975 Yeah, much safer to drive through the river, get stuck, and have to be rescued by those blokes. Lol
Nothing stopping her from just backing up and turning around if that was the case.
5:32 skinny jeans and tinted sunglasses on top of the bald head 😂 typical poser bmw driver 😂
I'm kind of on the fence of what to think about this situation. As a driver, you're a fool to risk driving through that. However, instead of all those people making an event out of others misfortune, why not try to warn folks before they attempt it? How about making some kind of sign or place safety cones to deter people? It's kind of bizarre...
There are signs! Including a massive measuring stick indicating exactly how much you’re about to fuck your car up!
😂😂😂
cos they are there to film it, put it on YT and make money off it!
These are BMW owners, they don’t stop for shit and we all wanna see when it catches up with them
I have seen from other videos there are signs saying flood road closed but people just drive through anyway.
Fekkin hell mate... There is a BODY of water ahead of you. What do you need a warning for? Does it come on the telly first???
What do I do now classic 😂😂😂
Paddle! 😊
Damn, this part of England must really hate those BMW's. Driving it through lakes and when towing it scratching it against a wall and at the end without water, scratching it in the bushes, like why not 😂
I mean the insurance company would write it off anyway, it would be a constant liability having been 2ft underwater.
Fat lad in the skinny jeans trying to put his bumper back on is the best 😂
I dont understand why people are tyring to drive fast this is something u wuld expect 10yr child to do water splashing in front air intake is the worst thing u can do
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe they think if they go really fast they can get across before the water notices them?
People are stupid. Most have no clue what is going on under the bonnet.
@@ChronicViperLol
When the "ego" comes first then brains 😅
It's the equivalent of trying to sail a boat on a motorway... What's wrong with folk
Someone could make a mint offering a towing service through the water as an option to driving through it, as opposed to a towing service after the car has its engine destroyed. Top tip for anyone that hasn’t figured out why these car engines are damaged - an air and fuel mixture can be compressed by the motion of the piston in the cylinder. Water doesn’t compress so easily (!), so something has to give (ie break)
The non ultimate driving machine.
Clearly plenty of money in this area. Here’s a thought, why don’t they build a bloody bridge over this? There’s already a foot bridge! Makes no sense to me.
Too busy building migrant centers
most of these bmws are 10+ yo
Turn an internal combustion engine into a steam engine.
These drivers have no idea... you need more speed people 😂😂😂
@@foragingadventuresYou have no idea, it's sarcasm...
Speed and power as Jeremy Clarkson says 😂@@foragingadventures
So many bell ends that think water is compressible.
Do any of the "Spectators" actually try warning the drivers not to go through the flood or do they just enjoy seeing cars gettig wrecked?
You’re welcome to join us filming watching drivers driving through. Road closed signs and cones to then wave at them and try to stop them. They often get hostile 😂 😂 so sit back, pour a cold one and enjoy the channel 😎
It boggles my mind that we share the world with people like this
Any insurance should refuse to pay for this level of stupidity.
What's wrong with these people?
Nothing, only bmw driver
@@TheDiger32 There has to be something more behind it. Maybe they are japped? A normal human beeing wouldn't be that stup!d, not even a woman.
@@TheDiger32eh?
Plenty of things. They're driving bmws is the first sign something is wrong
The fact that the locals come out to watch is a gold plated warning sign
The one that started floating: What the hell was she thinking? 😁 Bet there's quite a bit of damage, perhaps even a write off.
She didn't care (if that was her speaking). Easy, just go through insurance or just get mummy and daddy to buy a new one.
Does insurance even cover that? That's considered impudence.
You could see the water depth on the submerged fence. I can't understand why anyone would basically drive their car into a river. I've heard that cows can drown themselves because they will keep walking into the water trying to get out the other side. What we are seeing is the same "thinking" process.
@@SloverOfTeuth cows know how to swim 🤡
Interestinly Fiat Panda type 169 (discontinued) can float without wrecking the engine, the intake is so high the car floats first.
2:55 the sound of all your bent valves and rods
BMW-Britains most famous Hydrogen fuel car. 😂
I love how everyone is stood there filming 😂😂😂
They are stupid, but maybe you could warn them and save them a lot of trouble and money, instead of profiting from their mistakes..?
scummy people just want to see other people suffer
Everyone gets taught to bang it in 2nd in this situation
What makes you think they'll listen a second time
@@handofsutekh wtf are you smoking, you're seriously telling me you were taught specifically how to cross flooded roads on your driving test? You realise not everywhere in the UK floods for the situation to even come up to teach, been driving 10+ years, never wrecked a car or crashed and I was never taught the correct way to drive through water
@MrRawrgers you gonna be alright mate? 😆 I learned to drive in a rural area, I'm just telling you what I know... there is a bridge that floods like this by me every year and if you drive at it in 2nd and keep it steady, it somehow doesn't let water in.
I really can't argue it at all, all I can say is that's what I was taught, and I use it every winter a few times, car has never died. Maybe I just am lucky - honestly I am not putting forward a dog for a fight here 😆 it's just my lived experience or whatever they call it
People standing on the sides with their phone filming is the best warning there is
And these people are allowed to vote. Shocking!
Never ever underestimate the predictability of stupidity
Bullet-tooth Tony 👍🏻
Love the way the first beemer driver is more worried about a ten quid number plate, when's the idiot has just hydrolocked his engine!
Because he's a muppet that probably thinks a mobile mechanic can come out and fix it for £50 he doesn't know yet.
The B in BMW does not stand for Boat.
Nice Boat at the end ! 😃😄
Funny thing is that taking it slowly with a high pick up for intake as Subarus have for example would be piss easy and without may damage.
5:14 cracked rear end right there 😂
Dont these guys ever pull their pants up? Ffs
Sorry was distracted by the mouth breather
This almost happened to me in the US, FL. There was a flash flood from rain at night, couldn't see anything and ended up in knee high water. My dodge charger ended up getting me through and survived with no issues. Air intake must be in a different location
How ironic that a Toyota towed out the BMW.
6:00 Looks like a canal - I know let's drive the beemer down there!
My nephew drove his 5 series 3.0 se through water about a foot deep, it was a write off!
Worked with a guy that went through a puddle with his wife's 2 week old BMW and it buggered the engine, BMW admitted there was a design flaw with that engine but only offered him a reconditioned engine when as I said the car was 2 weeks old. Needless to say he and his wife no longer buy BMW's.
Some people are just plain stupid. There’s gotta be another way around this even if it takes longer…
Don't worry, its only a BMW.
The last one is definitely the best.
“Bye car, was nice knowing you”…
Absolutely dead inside. The lights are on, but everybody left a long long time ago.
If I was a mechanic or a tow truck driver I’d camp out there every year! 😂
Words fail me 😱. Why are drivers so dumb that they think they can drive fast through water & not have consequences 🤷🏼♀️
Checking online it seems many of these cars are no longer taxed.
Bent rods for everyone. 😅😅
The cars went to Jim will fix it garage and are gud as new
I love how drivers try start their cars after it cuts out, only to destroy the engine even more
Poor M3 😢
Bro really drove that m3 in the water, what a twat
I love that the recovery vehicle is a no-nonsense Toyota with a snorkel.
some of these are just bonkers 😳😭😂
The rods on that second beemer were celebrating their death with all the noise they were making.
Instead of warning them he films for content and then asks 'Why would you go through that?!". What a hypocrite.
The warning is the flood that they chose to ignore. Nobody else to blame sweetie.
First block was about to ask "is that bad" when the recovery man said its hydrolocked. 😂 He was the biggest muppet of the lot.
This the famous Ford that was closed off ?
Proof that evolution, unlike your car, can actually go into reverse.
Amazed at the amount of people that don’t realise that a car engine can’t compress water.😂
"I think if it just dries out it will be OK, don't you?" Erm... no how stupid are these people, they have no idea how an engine works.
When we had our first 4wd Club instruction day the question was asked.
:When you are faced with a flooded river crossing what is the first thing you do?"
There were many answers but the correct one was
"Find the nearest bridge"
A 4wd is not a boat nor is it a submarine......
Even a 4wd needs to have all the fluids drained and replaced after a deep river crossing...
the hot diffs and gearboxes (when they get drowned in deep water) cool instantly
and the air in them also contracts sucking water into all the seals/bearings/fluids
Find a bridge and use it
(from a river crossing 4wd club member that has been in a river deep enough to reach the door handles on the upriver side...and lucky enough to get out with the engine still running ...as it did for years after....)
Uh, l agree the safest thing to do is use a bridge, but if a diff or engine draws water through its gaskets, there's something wrong with the gaskets, period.
@kwaynr1301 agreed; classic example - the Alvis Stalwart 6 wheeled amphibious lorry used a few years back by the British army. 6 wheel drive + 2 propellers. There's video's of these being driven straight off a bank into a river (no ramp). Totally waterproof and no problem with any of the drive systems.
All can say is thick as two short planks, comedy gold
Some of these could have made it if they didn’t make a wave come through the front grill 😂 and soak literally everything suck all that water straight through the air intake 😂
An easy way to bend connecting rods without opening the engine ! 😬😬😬
Stop trying to turn it over after stalling out in water. Pull the spark plugs out first or you will likely make it worse.
Go bold, go fast!
“Why would you go through?!” At no point in this video did I see you or anyone else filming actively discouraging drivers to continue through given what you have been filming all day. Typical clowns just profiteering off people’s poor judgement instead of trying to be a decent human being and avoiding all of this damage!
People should be concerned of that poor judgment in the first place. 0 brain when driving through that
I wouldnt warn them aswell, if they are braindead theres no point
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Yep
It is, modern electrical connections are IP rated against water for a certain time and depth. The bumper level air intake is the main problem causing hydrolock scrapping the engine. Internally in the cabine the water leaks in from a number of places, from the driving controls to the cabin air intake but this is much slower.
BMWs tend to have air intakes that are very low in the engine bay. My 5-series has it's air intake below the headlights, I wouldn't try and ford it through a large puddle let alone these small lakes.
If u go fast enough I can skip the water😅
6:02 WTF was you thinking 🤣🤣🤣🤣
There's stupid then there's stupid........
Let's hope insurance didn't pay out
IMO it's because they believe the myth of superior German engineering in relation to cars. The customer reliability surveys show that it's a myth. And putting lots of chrome on a car and making the car overpriced doesn't make it superior.
Indeed. That’s the same reason they come flying by in fog, sleet, snow etc.
BMWs are cheaply made but it doesn't mean they were designed to go through deep water. Just some cars are if they get snorkel option. People bashed communist cars for bad hangling back in the day, but they had lifted suspensions, skidplates, high intakes etc. to deal with terrible road conditions. Car design is always a tradeoff. If it's good on motorway it won't be good on destroyed road and vice versa.
@piotrmalewski8178 Old Soviet Skoda have rear engine and air intake at the highest point. The car can fill with water but still it will drive.
Never seen so many hydro locked totaled engines in one video.
Luckily i was in this situation in Albuquerque two months ago in my bmw x3 and my car lives and still runs good today but there was a monsoon downtown and i saw easily 50+ dead cars, and tons more getting pushed, water up to windows on some cars. It was like a movie and im from central fl (20+ year resident)