This is so wholesome, the crowd having fun, the drivers going along with it, the wedding in the back, the people helping when the engines fail Not what I ever imagined the English countryside to be, but I certainly want to be there.
"Hmmmm, it didn't quite hydrolock. Better force crank it a few times while the airbox is full of water to make sure it gets a good buggering." - 90% of those drivers
@@gofuckyourselfNicely its hydrolocking/hydrolocked. when referring to an engine that has injested any type of liquid to lock the cylinder during a cycle causing damage
Its amazing that there is a sign that shows the water level and people still choose to drive thru it with a small vehicle. That guy in the mini was tempting fate
Amazing how you would not only risk the engine breaking, but also flooding the entire compartment to the ankles, I am pretty sure a lot of these cars, like the Mini, even though they got through, they have water under the carpets, very nice, that. Especially the mold that quickly grows and starts to smell so nicely all year round.
Minis are made by BMW and BMW puts a lot of expensive computers in the foot wells. Not sure if mini does that too, but all I'm just saying that if it was my bimmer it would be seriously expensive even if the engine made it.
@@mutetovsugraanin7047 Yes, these sedans are particularly vulnerable to water as alot of the electronics are low in the cabin. Who'd do this? I'd not run one of those fast in four-inch water!
absolutely hilarious that these people voluntarily rack up thousands in repair bills for you to share these videos with us and ultimately collect ad rev, good job my hustler wish i could full send my touareg through there!
Yeah the strange gurggling and thumpy sounds along with the white smoke from under the hoods and mufflers can't be a good day on the other side of that pond of water!
I love how Britain taxes all its subjects to death and can't fix a road that has a pond in the middle of it. Having said that, the Mini Cooper absolutely wins the Best Ford of the Day award and also Best Sound of the Day for the bubbling exhaust. Bravo!
@Shep Raynham Einstein said something to the effect of 'only two things are infinite, human stupidity and the Universe, though I'm entirely sure about the Universe'.
I mean you can literally watch people destroy their engines ^^ That's just people wasting money for fun, I like to see how many wanna just how many people acutally do it for fun and how many just fail to use common sence ^^
Keeping the revs high is what kills the motors. Airbox fills up with water high revs create suction water gets sucked into engine. Simply idling and burbling through at very low rpm is the best way to cross
@@edknight5888 if any water, regardless of revs, gets into the airbox the motor’s likely to stop. If it does, just take out the spark plugs and turn it over to eject the water, then back in and off you go. Simples. However, if it ingests water and stops, and you’ve got a good battery and starter motor, then they will turn the hydro-locked engine over, bending your Con rods. Then off to the engine builder you go.
@@Marcke-tb1hb airboxes have drains. They are NOT 100% sealed pre-filter. This is a design feature to allow things like…water to drain out. Notice how cars that creep then floor it suddenly ingest water even though they have already crossed? Idle/low rpm, the system will drain. You comment is absolutely false. The only way the motor will stall/hydrolock is if a large amount of water makes it past the throttle body and sits in the intake manifold waiting for the driver to floor it and ingest it. This is why low engine speed is key. It allows to air box to drain after crossing too. You can’t just floor it as soon as you cross. The rods are already bent. Remember, these clowns are flooring it. It is possible to hydrolock without bending anything.
Even if you do manage to get through is it really worth it, there could still be water damage that you might not notice straight away. Better off turning around and taking the long way round. I wouldn't risk it unless in a 4X4.
I learned that hard way with my old vehicle. Can cause major damage after the car stall if some how you managed to get the car started it can totally ruin the engine. luckily my old car didn't start until the water got removed which gived me an extra year or two.
I've always downshifted & revved the water out mine. The cadillacs I owned were most resilliant. The1978 was carbeurated & water was halfway up the windshield it kept right on firing past all the ford angers & explorers!
TomSunderland and BenGregers are the main 2 channels for it- th-cam.com/video/e4lvkiuioEs/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TomSunderland th-cam.com/video/O4SzZWsRjCM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BENGREGERS
"He's got a bit of sense". Great line. The Audi at 7:00 is nice. Adam, I NEVER thought I would enjoy a video like this. It was great. I laughed, I cried, I kissed my car good bye. That was very entertaining. Thanks bro.
You've got to love how that right pedal gets slammed down flat once the driver gets the car through - sort of a victory cheer from the driver to hear the engine at full revs just in case it may have died without him knowing.
@@ratbag359 Never been anything wrong with holding that pedal flat and giving the engine a good hard and long red-line bouncing. Just in case it has any ideas of wanting to die or start missing. Very reassuring for the driver too knowing his shit box is not planning on dying and leaving him stranded on the side of the road. Redline for a good time!
I think If you fully rev the engine the risk of a engine death is smaller. As long the engine keeps running the water just boils away. But to much water - > the RPM Drops until the engine is off.. The water is still in the engine cant boil because its to much to still have a flammable mixture and the engine dies due the water -> rust. Or?
@@therealheroxx Yup, I agree. There might be a small amount of water that got in somewhere, and a good hard and long rev will fix that quickly. I do it every time it rained or had to go through water and never had any problems.
I'm a proud owner of an Isuzu MU-X LS! I must say that the company is somewhat underrated, but they manufacture exceptional vehicles, especially for off-road adventures. Both the DMAX and MU-X have an impressive wading depth of 800 mm (2.62 ft). Recently, we took our SUV to an earthquake-affected mountain range, and it performed remarkably well, effortlessly navigating through the challenging terrain and worn down roads. (and they can last for a long time)
@@johntate5050 If you bought an SUV and you can't take it offroad then what was the F'in point of buying it? Just about any SUV can make it through that water, the problem was those dunces didn't go slow.
Crazy how many people don’t understand how their cars work considering they’ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars on them. Edit: oh no.. I’ve outed myself as an American spy. The “blokes” are angry.
Man, I had something somewhat similar. We lived on a 4-way stop but two or three of the stops had fun little dips that would fill with ice, and they’d make people get stuck extremely often. We called it the Pit of Despair
Watching that DS3 conquer the water reminds me of mine, that thing was incredible! Was brilliant during the beast from the east snow a few years back to
Man that gen 1 Fiesta was SO GORGEOUS so well rebuilt and painted. If the owner reads this, total hat off to you my man, that is so gorgeous, take care of that and good on you for not going in with the idiots XD
The alternator isn't waterproof on any car. Some months down the line the cable looms will rot. Only fools drive through if deeper than 6 inches. Check out the reg numbers 6 months later of the ones that grind to a halt. Quite a few have been scrapped 🤣
I think I saw a snorkel pipe air intake sticking up above the windshield on one of the LR products. A Datsun 4 x 4 I used to own had vents on the transfer and final drive units attached to pipes that extended up high on the firewall and then turned down in a sort of gooseneck in an attempt to keep water out. Also even if the water level is lower than your airbox intake,wave action at certain speeds could cause water to splash up into the airbox and kill the engine. Possibly in some poorly designed cases hitting as little as a few inches of puddle at high speed like 70 mph or 90 km/hr could cause a fatal hydrolock by throwing water up into the airbox.
It's not about keeping your revs high, it's about making sure your car doesn't take a big gulp of water down the intake. If you're giving it the beans as you go through, the car is going to suck even more of the water in that goes into the intake. Speed is the enemy when it comes to crossing a Ford. As can be seen with all the cars that take it too fast, the front bumper creates a bow wave that completely engulfs the grille - behind which most cars have their intake. The deeper the water, the slower you should approach - or, even pay attention to the markings on that yellow depth indicator stick.
One can’t help but chuckle at the sight of some folks, bless 'em, completely ignoring the massive caution sign right in front of 'em. They're like, "Who needs U-turns or alternate routes, old chap? Let's plough straight ahead into the water!" Quite the head-scratcher, really, and it's all happening with that sign there, as clear as day, saying, "Oi, don't be daft!" But what can you do, eh? Some folks just have a special talent for defying common sense! 😂😂😂
I have something like this near me and it is so cool to see cars, vans, and trucks go through. Lorries always speed through. Once had two Discoveries go through around 10 times just because there were some kids. -It made them really happy!
I am curious, if you draped a tarp over the front of their vehicles grills before they started, would it protect from water entering the system(Air Intake)? I mean, if they can't slow TF down to a crawl, maybe they'll allow that. I'd like to see if that would work.
A tarp does go some way in protecting the ECU and other electronics but you would likely need a snorkel intake as airflow is massively restricted. Australians often use tarps
@@tomhill3907 We do, even with a snorkel fitted and for quite long and deeper crossings (think over a 4WD bonnet). Restricted air flow to the radiator is not an issue in the short term, it's more an issue of not having the water pushing the fan into the radiator and causing damage.
Have been there, done that. In my local area I got taken in by someone successfully negotiating the other way and giving me reassurances. The flooded area was long and not totally visible from the starting point. In a 5 series BMW I set off and it was a lot deeper than I had given it credit for, a lot deeper. My headlights were under water and the level was nearing the glass at my shoulder. I thought the car would float never mind stop. I did negotiate the flooded area and my carpets were not even wet afterwards (well done BMW), a 4X4 stopped at the other end of the flood and said his was going to try until he saw me and then thought better of it. Not a situation I ever intend to get into again.
BMW, dry carpets, a working engine and water that deep doesn't add up. Cars are extremely buoyant when sealed. The full weight of your car and then some will have been completely displaced in less than 18 inches of water, that's true for even super heavy Teslas. Over the footprint of a 5 Series water that deep would probably weigh over 2'000kg, maybe even over 2'500kg, so you should definitely have been floating in water deeper than that where the body of the car is 12 inches below the water line. You saw the fiesta floating here at a shallower point in the ford to where the depth sign is measuring, so even with the wave peak it was probably barely 2 foot deep there. The intake of BMWs of most more recent models are all extremely low from what I understand and therefore would have been underwater even in standing water of a depth nearing door handles, nevermind the wave from pushing through. If you're recalling those details accurately, it was a miracle you got through and even more of a reason to not repeat it that you maybe even realise.
@@markwright3161 The headlights effectively going out because they were underwater, with water coming over the bonnet, and the water level approach the height of my drivers side window are vivid in my memory even now. As I said the car remained completely dry. The car floating was very much at the forefront of my mind and perhaps it did a some point though I was never conscious of that. Something I left out was there was a turn in my route that prevented me to see my exit on entering the water and on that turn was a farm gate in the Cornish hedgerow. That was the source of the water and it was flowing through there like a river, and I mean by that it had flow and it had depth, that frightened the life out of me realising I would need to pass by it. The possibility to stop, or go back given the depth I was encountering at that moment, did not seem open to me.
@@Roskellan The weight of water on the bonnet could have reduced the buoyancy, but I didn't imagine it was possible for a BMW to make it through water that deep. You had to have someone looking out for you or something, whatever saying fits your beliefs, because flowing water as well is almost always fatal for the vehicle and sometimes also its occupants. I'll stick by calling it a miracle myself. :)
The passenger in the Audi was just along for the ride the look on her face she couldn’t give a damn whether the car survived or not and Adam said the water feature for the Audi only cost 5K add extra 2K and you could get yourself The dolphin water feature lol
Why would you WANT to subject your own car to that abuse ? These motorists seem to have no mechanical sympathy and even the 4wd and land rover owners if they bothered to look in their owners manuals may find a paragraph which recommends having the fluid replaced in the axels and drive units after traversing deep water.
Some cars have it incredibly low, my old 1990 Celica had intake piping go to the bottom of the bumper. Almost had her die in a flooded street once. She did start after a while and was fine tho. Its was mostly becuase of a moron making a wave from opposite side tho.
Also you can see most drivers splashing the water hard, which depending on air intake position can choke even a high car. It is also important to drive on low gear with high revs. Otherwise exhaust gets clogged. Additionally automatic transmissions and 4x4 electronic hubs need oil change after being submerged in water. A lot of things to consider.
I'm not from the UK but I love Rufford Ford, but I have no idea what it looks like other than at the bridge, I don't know what the road looks like beyond either bend, or the area where the crowds were or anything, a short tour of the area would be nice.
Not brave, I'd say idiots with no respect for cars, sadly it's people like that some unlucky people end up buying second hand cars from and regretting it, one careful owner, lovely car, low mileage😂😂😂
I always have major respect for anyone that turns around. Takes a bit of self confidence to just say 'Nope' when you have a crowd egging you on
Hmm.....
Just common sense really
i dont, its common sense to deny a bunch of screaming chimps hoping you'll destroy your engine. if you do thy garenteed wont help you at all.
F..k the crowd!
@Will Harris he probably wasn’t full of himself tbf, I reckon he’s just never driven through a ford (like me) but now I know go slow as f*ck😂
Engine rebuilders in this area must love this place.
😁
DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really ?
They might even go and refill it here and there when the water level starts to get low
@@garykoukal8682 aye
@@BrandonStarkLordofWinterfell LOL
Asking a crowd next to the flood : "is it possible?" is always very smart
@Scorpio 131 Using the brain before crossing? 😁
@Scorpio 131 You lose:
800 bullets
2 wagon tongues
Fart (drowned)
It depends on the car.
@@tomsmith6513 nope..
It depends on the driver to know about the abilities of the car or goddam to read the instruction.
@@kuntakinte4333 which means....it does depend on the car
major respect for anyone that turns around
This is so wholesome, the crowd having fun, the drivers going along with it, the wedding in the back, the people helping when the engines fail
Not what I ever imagined the English countryside to be, but I certainly want to be there.
"Hmmmm, it didn't quite hydrolock. Better force crank it a few times while the airbox is full of water to make sure it gets a good buggering." - 90% of those drivers
I gave your mom a good buggering
Sorry it was too tempting
Oh it hurt me when they kept cranking it! Drowning their engines 🤦♀️😂
I bet most of them don't know what happenen and what they're doing to the engine.
It's NOT 'hydro-locking.
It's 'hydraulicking'.
Learn about Pascal's Law and you'll find out how it applies to any incompressible liquid.
@@gofuckyourselfNicely its hydrolocking/hydrolocked. when referring to an engine that has injested any type of liquid to lock the cylinder during a cycle causing damage
Its amazing that there is a sign that shows the water level and people still choose to drive thru it with a small vehicle. That guy in the mini was tempting fate
his technique was good unlike many of the other larger vehicles
@@oscarzt1652 true. Still a pretty low vehicle tho.
all cars cars should pass if you do it good 2 feet is not deep
great video that demonstrates the idiocy of human beings. No matter how much warnings they get, they still punish themselves.
@@philippepetit3105 As long as your air filter is not under the water you should be fine
Amazing how you would not only risk the engine breaking, but also flooding the entire compartment to the ankles, I am pretty sure a lot of these cars, like the Mini, even though they got through, they have water under the carpets, very nice, that.
Especially the mold that quickly grows and starts to smell so nicely all year round.
You will get additionally a lot of issues from moisture in electronic components of the car, e.g. ignition failures, door not locking etc.
good chance of totaling a car within 2 seconds
Minis are made by BMW and BMW puts a lot of expensive computers in the foot wells. Not sure if mini does that too, but all I'm just saying that if it was my bimmer it would be seriously expensive even if the engine made it.
Most of these people probably don't even know what a air intake is or where it is and what it does
@@volundrfrey896 That year mini has electronic throttle by wire, lol. That being said, the door seals were really good on my R53 so who knows.
This should honestly be a sport on national television
agree
We would all rather watch this than Olympic breakdancing that's for sure
Honestly more interesting than most sports
I agree, it should be a sport but not at the expense of beautiful sports cars. It should be a 4x4 challenge 😊
@@drummersnare6276it really isn't mate
13:43 "They are wed now!" .. a lad standing by "Idiots mate.."
its crazy that everytime u see a car stop its like at least 6k worth of damage
@@mutetovsugraanin7047 Yes, these sedans are particularly vulnerable to water as alot of the electronics are low in the cabin. Who'd do this? I'd not run one of those fast in four-inch water!
6k sounds high
@@chambersr1176Sounds low. Water inside the car is the worst. You never get it dried out completely.
@@chambersr1176 Engine replacement is not cheap, a new engine and labor cost is high.
@@Zacharias3 This is not electronics. They sucked water and got hydrolock, which warrants engine replacement.
i was in the mini‼️‼️‼️❤️❤️❤️
Blub blub blub blub blub 👍🏻👍🏻
Sounded good when you accelerated away!
Correct Ford method!
What idiots who think that they can pass
@@Speedflyer2000 we did?
absolutely hilarious that these people voluntarily rack up thousands in repair bills for you to share these videos with us and ultimately collect ad rev, good job my hustler
wish i could full send my touareg through there!
It’s always the non car people
They’ll all be written off I reckon…
Yeah the strange gurggling and thumpy sounds along with the white smoke from under the hoods and mufflers can't be a good day on the other side of that pond of water!
@@jimcowan6472 Insurance does NOT cover this!
Good presenter! Enjoyed it!
I love how Britain taxes all its subjects to death and can't fix a road that has a pond in the middle of it. Having said that, the Mini Cooper absolutely wins the Best Ford of the Day award and also Best Sound of the Day for the bubbling exhaust. Bravo!
You don’t really understand the concept of a ford do you?
I just can't believe this happens often enough for entire crowds to gather.
Man I love your twist on the demise of idiocy driving through that Ford, the commentary is pure genius, let’s have more of this Adam 👍👌👏💪
Some people are really dumb.... Get a Chargehanger insteed
@Shep Raynham Einstein said something to the effect of 'only two things are infinite, human stupidity and the Universe, though I'm entirely sure about the Universe'.
These videos somehow don’t get old, I feel like the live commentary keeps it fresh
I said the same about your mom
@@cleanishmk5853 it’s amusing you think my mom’s standards are low enough to do the dirty dance with the likes of a Volkswagen owner
i could watch these forever lol
@@f-bodygarage you got him so good he deleted his comment! golden mate
This is a nice change of pace from the usual loud brave cars circulating the same roundabout! Definitely enjoying it.
Yep. Nothing more boring than a bunch of Midland Bankers leaving a car meet.
This needs to be a TV show. It's got Humor, drama, suspense, advertising and great narration.
The local mechanics should be out there egging people on, what an excellent business opportunity!
I don’t know why it’s so fun to watch people go too fast and hydro lock…
I know why it is so fun...😆
I mean you can literally watch people destroy their engines ^^ That's just people wasting money for fun, I like to see how many wanna just how many people acutally do it for fun and how many just fail to use common sence ^^
I think it's funnier when these idiots try to restart their engines.
@@knobrush and that puff of white smoke and rod knock right after 😂
Schadenfreude? Very common, in fact.
This river is a mechanic's dream, just a unlimited money glitch
fake
he need big parys
@@closetisdarkhuh
Keeping the revs high is what kills the motors. Airbox fills up with water high revs create suction water gets sucked into engine. Simply idling and burbling through at very low rpm is the best way to cross
Yeah I was gonna say! Surely the higher revs causes the airbox to suck more air in
@@edknight5888 if any water, regardless of revs, gets into the airbox the motor’s likely to stop. If it does, just take out the spark plugs and turn it over to eject the water, then back in and off you go. Simples. However, if it ingests water and stops, and you’ve got a good battery and starter motor, then they will turn the hydro-locked engine over, bending your Con rods. Then off to the engine builder you go.
@@edknight5888 amen.
@@Marcke-tb1hb airboxes have drains. They are NOT 100% sealed pre-filter. This is a design feature to allow things like…water to drain out. Notice how cars that creep then floor it suddenly ingest water even though they have already crossed? Idle/low rpm, the system will drain. You comment is absolutely false. The only way the motor will stall/hydrolock is if a large amount of water makes it past the throttle body and sits in the intake manifold waiting for the driver to floor it and ingest it. This is why low engine speed is key. It allows to air box to drain after crossing too. You can’t just floor it as soon as you cross.
The rods are already bent. Remember, these clowns are flooring it. It is possible to hydrolock without bending anything.
less chance of back pressure on the exhaust which will suck water up towards the exhaust valves and bend them or kill the turbo turbine as well
Thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks for showing the "Road Ahead Closed" sign in the begining! That puts everything into perspective.
Your commentary makes this stand head and shoulders above all the other cars-dying-in-ford videos I've watched today.
Even if you do manage to get through is it really worth it, there could still be water damage that you might not notice straight away. Better off turning around and taking the long way round. I wouldn't risk it unless in a 4X4.
I learned that hard way with my old vehicle. Can cause major damage after the car stall if some how you managed to get the car started it can totally ruin the engine. luckily my old car didn't start until the water got removed which gived me an extra year or two.
I've always downshifted & revved the water out mine. The cadillacs I owned were most resilliant. The1978 was carbeurated & water was halfway up the windshield it kept right on firing past all the ford angers & explorers!
It's not even a long way round, it's like 2 miles extra, maximum 😂
We need more of these splash videos
I enjoy them very much
TomSunderland and BenGregers are the main 2 channels for it- th-cam.com/video/e4lvkiuioEs/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TomSunderland th-cam.com/video/O4SzZWsRjCM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BENGREGERS
You little kid🥴
I like how they can make it through by going slow but they decide to make a big wave that just pours water into there intake 😂
"He's got a bit of sense". Great line. The Audi at 7:00 is nice. Adam, I NEVER thought I would enjoy a video like this. It was great. I laughed, I cried, I kissed my car good bye. That was very entertaining. Thanks bro.
You've got to love how that right pedal gets slammed down flat once the driver gets the car through - sort of a victory cheer from the driver to hear the engine at full revs just in case it may have died without him knowing.
as we seen with two of them the airbox was full and when the accelerated the engine pulled the water in
@@ratbag359 Never been anything wrong with holding that pedal flat and giving the engine a good hard and long red-line bouncing. Just in case it has any ideas of wanting to die or start missing. Very reassuring for the driver too knowing his shit box is not planning on dying and leaving him stranded on the side of the road. Redline for a good time!
I think If you fully rev the engine the risk of a engine death is smaller. As long the engine keeps running the water just boils away. But to much water - > the RPM Drops until the engine is off.. The water is still in the engine cant boil because its to much to still have a flammable mixture and the engine dies due the water -> rust. Or?
@@therealheroxx Yup, I agree. There might be a small amount of water that got in somewhere, and a good hard and long rev will fix that quickly. I do it every time it rained or had to go through water and never had any problems.
that mini cooper sounded unhealthy when it left at the end
Good vibes and free content from mother nature.
Lovin the diversity in content, keep it up
親愛なるイギリスの皆様。東京以外でこのようなドリフトを見れて幸せです😊❤ いつかそこに行きたいです。日本人より友情を込めて🇯🇵
Hello ime from Britain and am looking forward to going to Japan at some point, hope you get to come to Britain!
I'm a proud owner of an Isuzu MU-X LS! I must say that the company is somewhat underrated, but they manufacture exceptional vehicles, especially for off-road adventures. Both the DMAX and MU-X have an impressive wading depth of 800 mm (2.62 ft). Recently, we took our SUV to an earthquake-affected mountain range, and it performed remarkably well, effortlessly navigating through the challenging terrain and worn down roads. (and they can last for a long time)
This is ridiculous, day after day so many cars being written off.
These morons are just adding to our our insurance premiums!
I'd be surprised if they can claim, given how failure was avoidable. With video evidence I'd imagine many a claim will get denied.
@@TheM5Dog Plus the sign saying the road is closed, they technically were ignoring clear road signage
@@vladuk = Or Girls that "went down" on their driving-instructor !
Insurance doesn’t cover someone intentionally driving a car into a creek.
The commentary had me crying😂😂"the Audi comes with water features, it's an extra 5000" 😅😅😂
Lol embarrassing when SUV's break down in the water 😂😂
Just because your car is designed to look like an offroader, that doesn't make it off road capable.
You think SUVs are designed to go through deep water? That just shows how marketing brainwashes the masses.
@@DjDolHaus86 The Mitsubishi had everything to make it through the driver was just a bellend
@@johntate5050
If you bought an SUV and you can't take it offroad then what was the F'in point of buying it? Just about any SUV can make it through that water, the problem was those dunces didn't go slow.
10:39 what an absolute Toby. He got mugged right off 🤣🤣🤣
What a fun video! British humour and people don’t pull out guns when they fail. This was so pleasant to watch!
I could watch this all day, your commentary really makes it fun Adam
''they are wed''
''idiots mate''
20000% true 😂😂
Crazy how many people don’t understand how their cars work considering they’ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars on them.
Edit: oh no.. I’ve outed myself as an American spy. The “blokes” are angry.
80%of people nowadays can't change a flat wheel if they have. Spare
Pounds good sir, Great British Pounds.
There's no dollars round this neck of the woods just pounds my American brother.
Only pounds in the United Kingdom, it’s not the 51st state of America 😂
hi Mr Seven7.. I'm pretty sure it's called a flat tyre..
I love it how helpful the owners of big cars are offering to tow out the drowned ones!
I would love to spend evening w boys, sipping beer and car spotting with great sportsmanship like this!
Always notice how it's the older cars and Landy's that go through it without a problem.
It could be that the air filters on the old cars are so clogged with oil and muck that water can't get in...
@@bmpowellicio then also air couldn't, so they wouldn't work..
@@izoyt Air filters on older cars were near the back and much higher up.
@jemimallah no
New defenders' bumpers come off if you go too fast... Top gear bloke with offroad caravan did it
I'm addicted to watching these videos but I find myself shaking my head all the way through em 🤯🤣
Man, I had something somewhat similar. We lived on a 4-way stop but two or three of the stops had fun little dips that would fill with ice, and they’d make people get stuck extremely often. We called it the Pit of Despair
Something about an Englishman doing some wholesome commentary of people hyrdolocking their engines makes your morning better. ☀️
Having been recovered from a shallow crossing (it wasn't shallow btw) the stenk from inside never goes away.
that's because of the sewage in the water
Watching that DS3 conquer the water reminds me of mine, that thing was incredible! Was brilliant during the beast from the east snow a few years back to
Another brilliant video,enjoying these ones too,great British humour at its best👍🏼🇬🇧
Exactly😀👍🏼
Man that gen 1 Fiesta was SO GORGEOUS so well rebuilt and painted. If the owner reads this, total hat off to you my man, that is so gorgeous, take care of that and good on you for not going in with the idiots XD
I could smell it through my phone, the smell of my childhood in the 90s
do your number plates have quick release tabs? i’ve never seen so many come off so easily. where I live in the US number plates are screwed on
Some are stuck with just adhesive. Or the mounting screws are rusted
This guys commentary is just class 😂
a thing of beauty to watch 😂 cheers to all the daring drivers
Going slow is the technique and if you have an idea of the height of your car's air filter you'll make it!
what about turbo intake etc?
The alternator isn't waterproof on any car.
Some months down the line the cable looms will rot.
Only fools drive through if deeper than 6 inches.
Check out the reg numbers 6 months later of the ones that grind to a halt.
Quite a few have been scrapped 🤣
If you have oil/transmission/diff leaks water will get into those places also.
@@izoyt well that is another topic bc you added another factor to a 1+1 equation.
@@julesviolin the alternator on the car I drive has the same height as the intake.
I think I saw a snorkel pipe air intake sticking up above the windshield on one of the LR products.
A Datsun 4 x 4 I used to own had vents on the transfer and final drive units attached to pipes that extended up high on the firewall and then turned down in a sort of gooseneck in an attempt to keep water out.
Also even if the water level is lower than your airbox intake,wave action at certain speeds could cause water to splash up into the airbox and kill the engine. Possibly in some poorly designed cases hitting as little as a few inches of puddle at high speed like 70 mph or 90 km/hr could cause a fatal hydrolock by throwing water up into the airbox.
🤣🤣this videos always keeps me smiling, the bubbling mini though 😂
Mayne I didn't expect to enjoy this video that much 😂😂😂. Was even cheering with the crowd 🤣🤣.
I was the lad in the back of the landy hooking up to the Honda. Wasn’t easy could barely see through the muddy water 😂😂
11:51 With an engine snorkel, he lives his best day of his life.
As long as his axle and gearbox vents are in good condition, he will be running a mixture of oil and water in them otherwise.
I'm personally enjoying these videos. Just the cliffhangers, of will they or will they not make it. Keep up the great content.
This is amazing. If we had this in my town I'd hang out here all day too lol.
The mini knows the rules, nice and steady, very low gear, very high and consistent revs.
all cities would need crossings like this, golden for people not knowing to slow down
Some high beam using, tailgating pickup truck would still run through that at full speed lool
It's not about keeping your revs high, it's about making sure your car doesn't take a big gulp of water down the intake. If you're giving it the beans as you go through, the car is going to suck even more of the water in that goes into the intake. Speed is the enemy when it comes to crossing a Ford. As can be seen with all the cars that take it too fast, the front bumper creates a bow wave that completely engulfs the grille - behind which most cars have their intake. The deeper the water, the slower you should approach - or, even pay attention to the markings on that yellow depth indicator stick.
The fact that city is making a tourist attraction of this instead of fixing it is mindblowing, biggest middle finger to community
They’ve since closed the ford to all traffic, specifically to stop people drowning their cars in it.
One can’t help but chuckle at the sight of some folks, bless 'em, completely ignoring the massive caution sign right in front of 'em. They're like, "Who needs U-turns or alternate routes, old chap? Let's plough straight ahead into the water!" Quite the head-scratcher, really, and it's all happening with that sign there, as clear as day, saying, "Oi, don't be daft!" But what can you do, eh? Some folks just have a special talent for defying common sense! 😂😂😂
"Knock Knock."
"Who's there?"
"Engine."
"Engine wh-"
**BANG**
I have something like this near me and it is so cool to see cars, vans, and trucks go through. Lorries always speed through. Once had two Discoveries go through around 10 times just because there were some kids. -It made them really happy!
I am curious, if you draped a tarp over the front of their vehicles grills before they started, would it protect from water entering the system(Air Intake)? I mean, if they can't slow TF down to a crawl, maybe they'll allow that. I'd like to see if that would work.
It would need to be tight enough to seal it from any water but I imagine that would also prevent any air going in and air is a non negotiable with ICE
A tarp does go some way in protecting the ECU and other electronics but you would likely need a snorkel intake as airflow is massively restricted. Australians often use tarps
@@tomhill3907 We do, even with a snorkel fitted and for quite long and deeper crossings (think over a 4WD bonnet). Restricted air flow to the radiator is not an issue in the short term, it's more an issue of not having the water pushing the fan into the radiator and causing damage.
@@captainfrank01 they’re definitely worth using, they’re just very rarely used in the UK for some reason but it makes total sense to use one
If they’re not smart enough to slow down and create a bow wave they’re not smart enough to use a tarp 😂
More rufford ford? Yay
Have been there, done that. In my local area I got taken in by someone successfully negotiating the other way and giving me reassurances. The flooded area was long and not totally visible from the starting point. In a 5 series BMW I set off and it was a lot deeper than I had given it credit for, a lot deeper. My headlights were under water and the level was nearing the glass at my shoulder. I thought the car would float never mind stop. I did negotiate the flooded area and my carpets were not even wet afterwards (well done BMW), a 4X4 stopped at the other end of the flood and said his was going to try until he saw me and then thought better of it. Not a situation I ever intend to get into again.
BMW, dry carpets, a working engine and water that deep doesn't add up. Cars are extremely buoyant when sealed. The full weight of your car and then some will have been completely displaced in less than 18 inches of water, that's true for even super heavy Teslas. Over the footprint of a 5 Series water that deep would probably weigh over 2'000kg, maybe even over 2'500kg, so you should definitely have been floating in water deeper than that where the body of the car is 12 inches below the water line. You saw the fiesta floating here at a shallower point in the ford to where the depth sign is measuring, so even with the wave peak it was probably barely 2 foot deep there. The intake of BMWs of most more recent models are all extremely low from what I understand and therefore would have been underwater even in standing water of a depth nearing door handles, nevermind the wave from pushing through. If you're recalling those details accurately, it was a miracle you got through and even more of a reason to not repeat it that you maybe even realise.
@@markwright3161 The headlights effectively going out because they were underwater, with water coming over the bonnet, and the water level approach the height of my drivers side window are vivid in my memory even now. As I said the car remained completely dry. The car floating was very much at the forefront of my mind and perhaps it did a some point though I was never conscious of that. Something I left out was there was a turn in my route that prevented me to see my exit on entering the water and on that turn was a farm gate in the Cornish hedgerow. That was the source of the water and it was flowing through there like a river, and I mean by that it had flow and it had depth, that frightened the life out of me realising I would need to pass by it. The possibility to stop, or go back given the depth I was encountering at that moment, did not seem open to me.
@@Roskellan The weight of water on the bonnet could have reduced the buoyancy, but I didn't imagine it was possible for a BMW to make it through water that deep. You had to have someone looking out for you or something, whatever saying fits your beliefs, because flowing water as well is almost always fatal for the vehicle and sometimes also its occupants. I'll stick by calling it a miracle myself. :)
This is so good to watch.. Live testing of all sort of car against "flood".
10:47 "that was an expensive bath" 😂😂
10:14 British humor at its best
The passenger in the Audi was just along for the ride the look on her face she couldn’t give a damn whether the car survived or not and Adam said the water feature for the Audi only cost 5K add extra 2K and you could get yourself The dolphin water feature lol
Why would you WANT to subject your own car to that abuse ? These motorists seem to have no mechanical sympathy and even the 4wd and land rover owners if they bothered to look in their owners manuals may find a paragraph which recommends having the fluid replaced in the axels and drive units after traversing deep water.
*SUV*
Breakdown ❌️
Free carwash ✅️
Best vid i've seen this year, so much fun!
3:02, he'll have a nice brake shudder after this - rapid cooling is bound to warp the discs.
My thoughts exactly
7:43 I now have faith in the way Mazdas intake is designed because it definitely got water in it
it depends on how high is the air intake, above the water line (good), preferably go slow
Some cars have it incredibly low, my old 1990 Celica had intake piping go to the bottom of the bumper. Almost had her die in a flooded street once. She did start after a while and was fine tho. Its was mostly becuase of a moron making a wave from opposite side tho.
Also you can see most drivers splashing the water hard, which depending on air intake position can choke even a high car. It is also important to drive on low gear with high revs. Otherwise exhaust gets clogged. Additionally automatic transmissions and 4x4 electronic hubs need oil change after being submerged in water. A lot of things to consider.
Great fun, nice to see one of these video's with some humorous banter over the top - others take note!
11:20 the facepalm of his wife was pure gold.
dzięki ludziom podejmującym ryzyko jest ciekawy materiał :) pozdrowienia z Polski.
I'm not from the UK but I love Rufford Ford, but I have no idea what it looks like other than at the bridge, I don't know what the road looks like beyond either bend, or the area where the crowds were or anything, a short tour of the area would be nice.
Google maps and streetview will show you around
This is Robin Hood land Sherwood forest and all that.
Glad the Mk1 Fiesta didn’t attempt it 😅
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I love the commentary!! Very entertaining!! ❤
"Oh, there you go. He's now moist". LOL.
Great video, enjoy watching those brave drivers risking it thru. More videos like this please!! 👍
Not brave, I'd say idiots with no respect for cars, sadly it's people like that some unlucky people end up buying second hand cars from and regretting it, one careful owner, lovely car, low mileage😂😂😂
In the words of Jeremy Clarkson: "Hammond you idiot, you haven't been brave you've been stupid"
Was this event planned or did random people just start hanging around?
I wonder id it would be possible to pass in reverse to avoid entering water in the air intake
This is so funny, like watching the world cup with the host keep talking 😂
Must be awesome living here after heavy rain. A whole day of free entertainment! 😂
I quite like these vids
Not a chance in life id put my GTI Clubsport through this flooding of Terror! 👍
This video will increase suv sales
Everyone had a great time. You had me laughing, thanks alot.
The commentary is brilliant 😂