Got a Sprinter base vehicle (or BMW) ? Some interesting water wading experiments

[MR. FUSION]

 

[buttons]

This is why off road vehicles have an extension on their engine air intake. I think many drivers need to go back to basics with how an engine works. Twats!
Would be interesting to see how an EV performs in water, could have shocking results.

 

[Googlebot]

That channel is great!

Some of the muppets he films is hilarious. Delivery vans with thousands of pounds worth of goods who think 2 feet of water at 20mph will work.

Some very nice motors indeed like brand new Mercs have been written off there.

 

[dazandandrea]

Glad im not the only one that liles watching the muppets

 

[Lenny HB]

Idots a few wrecked engines there, surely everyone knows on most cars/vans the air intakes are behind the front bumpers these days. Most 60's/70's car would have made it through.

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[Rapido925M]

I imagine that most drivers don’t know what an air intake is, let alone where it is!

Gordon

 

[dazandandrea]

Air what ??

 

[Itsmcb]

As usual, it's not what you drive, it's how you drive it. Just like when it snows

 

[1ten]

I have to drive through 2 fords on my way to work every day so always check where the air in take is on a new vehicle. Some manufactures really put them in stupid places.
One of the fords looks very deep but very rarely is and only has a depth gauge on one side, you frequently see very posh 4x4 turn around while I'll drive an Audi estate straight through much to their amazement. On the flip side when it is high and fast we get at least 5 cars in each winter washed down the small river! The best has to be the van driver who got half way across panicked and tried to do a 3 point turn in the ford! He fell of the edge of the road way, got suck and effectively dammed the river until the water built up and washed him off the other side!

We also have thsi one very close to us, interesting when normal cars try to drive down it in the summer, let alone winter.

Firefighters rescue driver stranded in 'stream' along country lane

Crews from Bishop's Stortford were called to Furneux Pelham on sunny Sunday evening to free a motorist from his car.

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[Despicable]

A few years back I had a Renault Safrane, it was like an armchair on wheels. Anyway, I came across a bit of a flooded road that cars were happily negotiating, so I wasn't concerned as I'd successfully been through such scenarios many times before, but not in the Safrane. Slowly entered the big puddle and then, halfway through, everything stopped. Did you know that the Safrane's management computer is under the front passenger's seat, and uses air sucked in from a vent in the floor? Or in my case flood water! It took a week or so to dry the computer's innards, and it still never worked 100%.

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[MR. FUSION]

I have to drive through 2 fords on my way to work every day so always check where the air in take is on a new vehicle. Some manufactures really put them in stupid places.
One of the fords looks very deep but very rarely is and only has a depth gauge on one side, you frequently see very posh 4x4 turn around while I'll drive an Audi estate straight through much to their amazement. On the flip side when it is high and fast we get at least 5 cars in each winter washed down the small river! The best has to be the van driver who got half way across panicked and tried to do a 3 point turn in the ford! He fell of the edge of the road way, got suck and effectively dammed the river until the water built up and washed him off the other side!

We also have thsi one very close to us, interesting when normal cars try to drive down it in the summer, let alone winter.

Firefighters rescue driver stranded in 'stream' along country lane

Crews from Bishop's Stortford were called to Furneux Pelham on sunny Sunday evening to free a motorist from his car.

www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk

That seems more like sailing

 

[MR. FUSION]

A few years back I had a Renault Safrane, it was like an armchair on wheels. Anyway, I came across a bit of a flooded road that cars were happily negotiating, so I wasn't concerned as I'd successfully been through such scenarios many times before, but not in the Safrane. Slowly entered the big puddle and then, halfway through, everything stopped. Did you know that the Safrane's management computer is under the front passenger's seat, and uses air sucked in from a vent in the floor? Or in my case flood water! It took a week or so to dry the computer's innards, and it still never worked 100%.

Rufford is a similar experimental experience, some cars get through, that I would have thought would not, others stop dead. But of course a lot of it is driving technique. I imagine a lot of the damage is unseen until later, like belting into that water could well damage air con/ cooling matrixes & electronics eventually, some cars have little cooling fan hacks like the BMW Mini, which probably won't take kindly to being dunked underwater.

 

[ChrisL]

From personal experience offroading, muddy water does nothing for the long term health of your radiator and alternator and blocked radiators sometimes lead to cracked heads

 

[Spriddler]

It may be an urban myth but I've read that rapidly cooling a hot cat converter when driving into water can shatter the internal (ceramic?) coating, thus rendering it useless.

 

[tacr2man]

What a lot of people don't realise is the long term damage that be caused by fording , is not with the immediately apparent (eg drowning engine , but to other parts of drivetrain , vast majority are fitted with seals to keep lubricants in , not water out especially when warm components are subjected to rapid cooling which literally cause sucking of water into the component and leads to its demise before normal life, this includes most 4x4 vehicles. Even amphibious vehicles need enhanced maintenance schedules when used in water .

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[MR. FUSION]

What a lot of people don't realise is the long term damage that be caused by fording , is not with the immediately apparent (eg drowning engine , but to other parts of drivetrain , vast majority are fitted with seals to keep lubricants in , not water out especially when warm components are subjected to rapid cooling which literally cause sucking of water into the component and leads to its demise before normal life, this includes most 4x4 vehicles. Even amphibious vehicles need enhanced maintenance schedules when used in water .

Well the BMW driver at the start of this one did not have to wait, I assume from the noise & the oil slick, he put a con rod through the engine wall.....

 

[ambulancekidd]

We've been known to have the correct vehicle, but still I wouldn't have driven through a flood at the speed some of these twats did.
Then they'd claim on their insurance, well I wouldn't have paid out.

 

[Themselves]

There is a ford near my old home in Moseley in Birmingham.
Saw a bloke hit the water at colossal speed and his car just stopped dead. He scrambled out and we had a merry time watching his processions floating about inside as the water was almost up to the roof. Mr Recovery guy turns up and the car driver started yelling at him that it was his, the recovery man’s, fault for the damage as he had taken too long to get there. Recovery Guy climbed back into the cab and threaten to drive away unless he received an apology. Never seen anyone grovel so abjectly before or since. At the time the water depth sign was about 3 ft.

 

[jockaneezer]

Think some of these must have learnt to drive on the Log Flume at Blackpool Pleasure Beach ?

 

[Dutch 68]

Imagine living near such entertainment, free too, you wouldn’t get in front of the telly eh

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[MR. FUSION]

We've been known to have the correct vehicle, but still I wouldn't have driven through a flood at the speed some of these twats did.
Then they'd claim on their insurance, well I wouldn't have paid out.
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Sometimes there is a road closed sign there, which I believe invalidates your insurance anyway if you choose to go on the closed road

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

What a bunch of total idiots......good entertainment though.

 

[mofurt]

Been watching that for a while. The ones that I really have no sympathy are the those who ignore the crowds lined up filming them, and the broken down vehicles with hazards on, and still try to get through.

 

[mitzimad]

weve all heard that hydralicing an engine due to water ingress can bend a conrod. i always thought it would just bend a little .I was working at a hyundrai dealers and on his desk was a piston with the conrod folded s shaped and stuffed in to the cavity

 

[Guigsy]

A lot of cars, especially German cars, seem to have very low intakes. Air is cooler low down, so they get a mild performance benefit... provided they aren't fording a stream.

Quite a lot of this is down to technique though, it's it? My understanding is that you want to go in at a fast walking pace so the wave stays infront of the car. And do not panic and floor it as you'll overtake the wave and flood the water in through your grills and drown anything

For most Ducatos, I think the air intake is pretty high up, just below the bonnet line? For my a-class, I need to take another look. There's certainly some pipework that intakes near the bottom of the engine, but I'm not sure if that's engine or cab air...

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[Crazylegs]

They just aren’t hitting the water fast enough.

 

[nicholsong]

How much further is the diversion for that ford?

 

[Landy Andy]

I have to drive through 2 fords on my way to work every day so always check where the air in take is on a new vehicle. Some manufactures really put them in stupid places.
One of the fords looks very deep but very rarely is and only has a depth gauge on one side, you frequently see very posh 4x4 turn around while I'll drive an Audi estate straight through much to their amazement. On the flip side when it is high and fast we get at least 5 cars in each winter washed down the small river! The best has to be the van driver who got half way across panicked and tried to do a 3 point turn in the ford! He fell of the edge of the road way, got suck and effectively dammed the river until the water built up and washed him off the other side!

We also have thsi one very close to us, interesting when normal cars try to drive down it in the summer, let alone winter.

Firefighters rescue driver stranded in 'stream' along country lane

Crews from Bishop's Stortford were called to Furneux Pelham on sunny Sunday evening to free a motorist from his car.

www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk

You must be very near me then. Talking about Barwick Ford, and Furneux Pelham. I’ve recovered many a vehicle from both and also Standon ford.

 

[Landy Andy]

Another Ford near me that I’ve recovered vehicles from.

 

[Jackd]

This is why off road vehicles have an extension on their engine air intake. I think many drivers need to go back to basics with how an engine works. Twats!
Would be interesting to see how an EV performs in water, could have shocking results.

That would be Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow turned into Suck, Squeeze………

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