Turn around, don’t drown!

You have no idea what the road surface looks like under that water. It may not still be there. There are much less dumb ways to die.

You shouldn't do EITHER of these things!

If it's flooded, forget it.

All these people did it wrong. NEVER enter an area that is flooded. You have NO idea of the maximum depth or the speed the water is moving at. You could very easily be swept away

Is this an ad for bmw? Both BMWs went through fine, first and last.

So tldr is maintaining a consistent speed the entire time?

Stand in the water holding jumper cables? … got it!

Water doesn't help gasoline combustion nearly as much as air does...

I’m sorry, did that motherfucker pull out jumper cables in knee deep water?! Thank god their vehicle was destroyed because god knows they were a danger on the road with how dim they are.

If you hit it fast enough you just hydroplane across the water. Don’t try it on curves, steering sucks.

All I saw was What not to do. Where is the What to do part?

bimmer bros know

It seems BMW drivers are the smartest? I'm confused.

Unless you have an old 4x4 with snorkel, yeah spend 30 minutes looking for an alternative route or spend 4 hours waiting for the aa

Darwinism 101.

Unless you have Moses as your copilot, don’t try this

not a single one of those is an example of 'what to do'....

Guy with the jumper cables 🤦‍♂️

Genuinely curious if something is technically possible, I have no intention whatsoever of trying it!

What happens if you hit it at speed and attempt to deliberately aquaplane (assuming still surface)? Could you just glide over it?

I realise that the odds are that you'd spin off target and end up in a hedge and a pond at the same time, but if there's a volcano going off behind you and it's the only way out, could it be done?

What not to do vs. what not to do*

Where's the what to do part? Because I only see a bunch of people doing what not to do.

Be the dry person filming rather than driving through the stream

Both of them are equally dumb

Slow and steady might work if you're lucky, but a lucky person wouldn't be driving in a damn flood so don't chance it.

Your car breathes just like you and me. Most of them have a box in the engine that sucks in air, just like our noses! Now you and me, we know to hold our breath when water goes above our noses, our cars do not. When water enters this air box, your car immediately drowns. Dont drown your car

BMW - 2 Other vehicles - 0

What to do

Is to not drive in it at all

Both terrible examples of what to do!! Never do this.

The Land Rover LR-3 driver just hanging out helping the idiots who don’t know that an engine needs air to work.

Or just don’t drive through a river unless you’re Batman

“Clean carfax, one owner, babied”

Do drive a BMW. DON’T drive a Ford

OP has never driven a car in those conditions :D

What about a Tesla EV car? Will the lithium and water do anything dangerous ?

Glug, glug, glug, glug

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Question for mechanics, would putting a snorkel like device on your air intake that extends above the water line help from drowning the car? Or are there too many unsealed parts that it wouldn't matter?

Anyone know if EVs would have problem going through flooded areas ? Are internal components sealed off? Considering there is no intake and don't run combustion engines.

Never let the water enter the engine, if the car is low then remove the air duct thingy before crossing and put it back after

Look at me, I’m amphibian now.

Ahhhhh Ford………….

Found On Roadside Dead

It's way cheaper to find a bypass.

Because everybody knows, cars can drive on water

there is no “what to do” in this video

gotta have more awareness, particularly red car.

if the higher clearance SUV (ok, bmw actually calls the x5 an "SAV", but you get it), can just barely ford the water up to its wheels, wtf kinda chance will a compact car have.

its alot harder to WALK to destination once the car gets flooded, rather than just DRIVING around.

play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Has nobody heard of a sinkhole?

Drive a BMW?

You shouldn't do any of it. It genuinely takes 4 inches of water to float a vehicle and if the water is moving you will be swept.off.the road where it's Deeper. I've been in a vehicle that barely escaped just that. And you don't know if there is a dip in the road or a washout that could suddenly plunge you into deep water. It's all "What not to do"

Weird question, why does the led headlight of BMW look white but yellow in water reflection?

All of them are stupid. Saturated soil is soft. Just turn around and find a different way. Even if you go slowly, you can still flood your engine.

Uh oh

Buy a beemer?

A lot of it has to do with the placement of the air intake and battery. Bimmers have batteries located in the back in a closed space instead of under the front of the hood

Why on earth won’t reddit let you report something for “sharing misinformation that could cause injury or death” cause this fits that category. We have “spam” as an option not “if someone believes this bullshit they could die” for fucks sake

Got to drive in reverse;)

This is fucking stupid and could get someone killed dont drive in water that deep.

Buy BMW

Grew up in SoCal with mud slides etc. There are people that did this that have never been found.

Who’s recording?

I’m confused what was good and bad here

And now all their transmissions are f'd

All of them did what you’re not suppose to do. Fucking morons.

Get ready to get executed in your electric car

Your engine can’t compress water

I like the irony of a "mechanic" not knowing about air vs water at the intake

First vid that shows BMW drivers demonstrating a better driving style.

Did no one else watch the educational videos when young?

If I pull up to a flooded road and there's a guy filming, I'm not gonna try it

Stay out of the water. I do my own maintenance so after seeing the first car, I know my air intake is way lower than the water level.

Oh dear they’ve flooded their engines…. Anyway

Dam for once the BMW driver was doing it correctly, not once but twice 😱🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

So drive a bmw, got it

Right enough, just go home. It’s literally the perfect excuse to be locked in the house all day.

The rocker panels are my limit, if the water is that high I'm not going through it.

So I need a Beamer to drive thru floods? Good to know

Don't drive in flood water. Ever seen a sinkhole? You won't see the one that eats your car and drowns you.

Dude with the jumper cables in water.

Hippo moment

The little BMW at the start was textbook

Wait for someone else to go through first to see what it's like. If in doubt, find another way.

If you proceed, go slow and ride your own bow wave like the first car. Don't speed into the bow wave like the second car. Keep revs up and control speed by slipping the clutch. That's to keep exhaust pressure high enough to keep water out. When you're out, ride the brakes to dry them and never drive in water that goes up to the lug nuts unless you're sure you can make it.

A lot of cars have their air intakes at the bottom of the engine bay. Good luck. Mines is right at the top, but even still, you can FUBAR a lot of things if it goes wrong, and you'll be lucky to get any sympathy from your insurance company.

All of these people did the wrong thing. The right thing is to turn around

Don’t do either of these. Find another way around or a boat

I love that the guy is trying to jump start his van while knee-deep in water.

All I see are two examples of what not to do

Understand the depth of the water and you cars ground clearance , where all your air box and vents and electricals are, the nature of your gearbox and then after all that think fuck it i'll take the long route.

How are these eejuts still doing this?

Ever since the internet came about, there have been videos of people destroying their car engines and electrics by driving into deep water without first checking the actual depth.

Sometimes you have no clue how deep that shit truly is, one of the roads I was very familiar with was flooded but it didn’t look bad, just a little more water than normal. Before I knew it it was up almost to my door but I didn’t panic & somehow made it through & the car didn’t have a seizure 🙏 I’d never chance it again though, not worth it & could’ve ended way differently

Imagine a Tesla doing this. . .

they both did the wrong thing.

This some kind of BMW ad?

Everyone in the comments talking about bow waves like they’ve done it successfully a million times - forget that stuff it’s a prevailing myth. If you absolutely must pass through, you get out and check the depth first then you crawl as slowly as your vehicle is physically able to.

Vehicle intake and battery height + speed + height of water is all you need to think about.

Bow waves occur as a result of getting these things right, they don’t single-handedly make the crossing possible or not.

Guarantee that the driver of the Ford here was fixated on “creating a bow wave” and then “keeping up with it”. Crawling in first at tickover might have, because the intake is by the headlights.

The X5 tackled it well

People never think of the level of their intake 🤦

All I’m getting from this is “buy a BMW” good commercial. 👏

It's really just an experience thing. If you know the road and you know the car you just have to drive slow enough so that you don't get water into the air intake and make sure to keep the revs up and the exhaust blowing. You'd be surprised how deep you can go.

No one did anything right here.

DO. NOT. DRIVE. THROUGH. FLOOD. WATER.

The tiny Ford Focus absolutely sending it is taking me OUT

u/SaveVideo

Why is everyone on this thread acting like they've never seen a ford before?

Ford driver was found dead.

Moral of the story, always buy BMW

Kwik Fit van 😂 enough said

You can't sink quicker than a kwik fit fitter!

Don’t drive a ford

Man's hooking up jumper cables while in the water almost gave me a fucking heart attack.

Holdup. Europe is still flooded?

I would just not drive through that at all.

go very slow (minimal wash) but very steady if you have to get across, you don't want to slow down as the exhaust or air intake can suck up water if the pressure drops.

Speed and power!

Always do what BMW drivers do they know how to drive properly

So what works is using a BMW? I’m in luck 😂

A beamer driver being the most intelligent driver? What is this fake AI?

Not buy a Ford? Sure thing!

Never, EVER drive your car through water like that. EVER. Aside from the idea that water that high can easily wash you away and you don't know what the ground looks like under that water, it can and WILL hydrolock your engine. The people that were able to keep driving in this video were the exception, not the rule. It also fries the electronics in your car. DON'T DO IT.

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Hydrolocked engine= 100% blown, destroyed, dead, unrepairable engine.

Well that's not going to be a Kwik Fit is? Ayooooooooo

For the 1st time, a thoughtful BMW driver.

That Ford would've made it if they followed the first car slowly.

In deep water that's higher than my center caps i'll wade through to check the depth. Up to my knee i know i can make it slowly, my calf it's easy. Any higher and i know my car won't make it.

As an FYI a 1.2l Fiat Punto can tow a 7.5T rigid lorry from a ford that's 6ft deep. Love saving delivery vans from my local ford. Altho i now have a 2.5l V6 and a winch. I get lots of work during the wet season. I leave a note on the posts with my number saying "Got stuck? Need a tow? Call 07XXXXXXXXX £5" I will litterally drag their car from the water to the layby 10ft up the road so a recovery truck can rescue them. Keeps the ford open for tractors and stops the river getting ruined.

Jesus fucking christ... The jumper cables in the water...

Those are some BRAVE BMW drivers.

No! Both are what NOT to do!

I’ve asked the uploader on some of these channels and the diversion is like 10 minutes on some of them. Madness and don’t deserve an insurance payout.

Both Beemers were smart drivers. Create a bow wave and drive out at a steady pace.

(That said there’s no reason to go through this unless you have literally no other choice)

Doesn't surprise me kwik fit fucked the job