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Can't stop watching videos of cars attempting to cross a flooded road in UK

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    I've watched load of them myself. You'd think they'd sort that out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,833 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Yea I’ve seen this videos- it’s unbelievable how many people risk it and end up doing presumably severe damage to the engine- all to save a few miles I assume. No way I’d chance water that deep



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,861 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    Yes been following the idiots in and out of the water and when its deep OMG .

    Poor people on the path get soaked with the waves of water thrown up .

    + loads of spare parts collected from some cars.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,833 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Some really nice cars too. Think the locals use it as a spectator sport really



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,489 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I wonder are their insurance companies looking at those videos?



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  • Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Even Ashley has been down there and chickened out, I'd have loved to have seen him wreck his Tesla on it 😅




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Keep watching to see the lad in the snorkelled Vitara showing just how easy it it if you know what you're going.


    And have a snorkel on your Vitara...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    It's become a big thing on TikTok .

    Some locals are up in arms, what used to be a quiet rarely used road, is now a popular spot for spectators and idiots wrecking their cars.


    Personally.. let them at it. Idiots deserve what they get.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,331 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    My 13 year old LOVES these. We surf on a beach that has a similar tidal situation that floods and there's always a question if it's passable or not. It's unbelievable what vehicles make it through, the defenders always make it but we've seen a myriad of unlikely cars making it including a smart car roadster, a 90's Renault Clio and a Citroen 2CV that waded through with water up to the windscreen and drove off happily.

    Unfortunately we've seen lots of very very expensive Audis and BMW's plough though and end up with flashing lights and obvious problems. Landrovers do well, particularly the little Freelander and the Suzuki Jimney, they just ploughed through and sometimes ended up towing embarrassed owners of high end cars out or the mire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,580 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    These videos are big on Tiktok.

    Sometimes the police are lying in wait for people who speed through it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Sir Galahad


    Nothing to sort out. It’s a River Ford. It’s where you cross a river without a boat, usually at a shallow point. (Dictionary description)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭inajock


    The best reality show in ages just needs a good narrator



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,941 ✭✭✭jmreire


    They all seem to take the same driving attitude.....pedal to the metal, and using brute force, bulldoze their way through. Best way (INMHO) is 1st gear, high revs (this keeps the pressure high in the exhaust and prevents water ingress, which is essential to the plan) then slowly slowly, creep your way forward using the clutch , creating as small as possible "bow-wave" to reduce water ingress in the engine compartment electrics. This works fine, but only with water level's up to a certain height,,,if its too high, don't even think about trying to cross it, unless you are driving something like a Toyota Landcruiser, which are designed to move through water up to the bonnet level.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,297 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Locals should pool money for tractor and tow failed sailors while charging them like 100 quid per. Good samaritan who dropped his phone running help to push should do the same :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,677 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Hooked on these too, I'd estimate there's over £1million a month in damage caused between cars flooded internally with water leading to write-off and those that do get mostly through before engine hydrolocks and so needs major rebuild.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,966 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Are there any ford type river crossings in Ireland? I've read that there are over 2000 in the UK, but I've never encountered one here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,833 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    They tend to be on more private lane ways but are still rare. They are obviously dangerous. Wasn’t there an accident a few years back in mayo and a couple of guys drowned late at night in a 4*4 crossing one in a flood?

    A lot of our small bridges were built in public works in the past two centuries so even the smallest roads are bridged



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭Timfy


    When we lived in the UK, we used to take our car to the local ford every Sunday as it was really handy to give it a wash! It was shallower than Rufford and, as it was on a very quiet country road, it was also a popular place to take your kids for a paddle!

    No trees were harmed in the posting of this message, however a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,966 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    I thought what happened was that they had decided to drive up the river. The route was normally drivable but that night was in flood.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    The best way to deal with that ford is to take the alternative route that doesn't involve destroying your car. There's rarely a reason to drive a road vehicle into a flooded river.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,430 ✭✭✭User1998


    Teslas regularly make it through, they are air tight and practically waterproof



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,244 ✭✭✭kirving


    Well, not having an air intake for the engine is the big difference really. Not sure I'd be as confident in the door seals though 😄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭Cordell


    I discovered it a couple of weeks ago and since then I watch it occasionally. It's absolutely unbelievable to see people seeing other cars stranded there and still thinking yes it's not a bad idea to drive through. And then the clank and jolt which signifies a new engine will be needed.


    They won't cover any damage resulting from this.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,489 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    The mind boggles if all these idiots that get stuck in the river ford just get the flood damaged cars towed away and foot the repair bill themselves. Do insurance companies cover genuine flood damaged cars? What's to stop some of these idiots falsifying a flood damage claim? Plenty of chancers out there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Insurance companies won't cover internal engine damage. I guess they can falsely claim flood damage for the rest of the damage like soaked interior but it's going to be difficult. They will need to find a place that was actually flooded and claim their car was parked there. And hope they were not featured on that channel...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    The Mk4 R32 video has to be the best of the bunch. 😅



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,689 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    all depends where your air intake is basically did the 1st gear no bow wave once when stream flooded. like someone said should have gone round.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    I’d love to know how they are gaming the YouTube algorithm, I was getting those suggested for weeks last year. I had to keep selecting ‘don’t recommend again’ until I got all the channels.

    If you could figure out what they are doing and copy it, you’d have a very successful channel.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,510 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Remember seeing one where it was someone is a little fiat or something like that, and they cut out right at the end but managed to get up the hill a bit at a time using just the starter motor. Doubt they knew what the starter even was but it never occured to me what would happen if you were in gear and the engine didn't start if you stupidly kept at the ignition, as normally it'd start but die straight away with a clunk and you'd not have the key turned constantly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭Cordell


    I think the second best approach I've seen is reversing through - the best approach being turning around.



  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There’s a white Tesla in one of the videos posted in the OP- about 5 min 50 seconds in



  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,251 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    The sense of unease I have watching them is awful. How much this is going to cost them? Has to be in the thousands, right?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭Cordell


    The ones which stop with a clank and jolt almost surely will need a new engine or an engine rebuild.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    Yes. Once there is white smoke coming out from the exhaust that means there's water in the engine. A petrol may stand a chance, but a diesel engine is most likely done. And they're adding more damage by trying to start it. Taking out an air filter like they do in those of those clips will do nothing.

    Besides that though, they're getting the whole interior wet. Unless you strip the whole car apart, you're not getting rid of the dampness and mold. All of that will need to be replaced.

    And if you get the interior wet, then most likely there is electrical damage too. You can see it with some of the BMWs in those videos when their lights start flashing.

    Most of those cars are a write off.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,744 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    you have to wonder about the psychology of people who proceed to drive through.

    if you handed someone 10 or 30 thousand quid, and gave them a choice; wait half an hour and the money is safe, or save them the half an hour wait, but with a say 25% chance of losing the money, they'd look at you like you were nuts if you suggested the latter option to them.

    yet it's a similar calculation that a lot of those drivers are making.



  • Posts: 420 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The end of this one has to be my favourite. Honestly. What was the guy on the bike thinking I do sort of feel sorry for him. I think I remember reading. He ended up breaking one or both of his legs turns out your knee doesn't like being bent backwards.

    From another angle.


    And I think at the end of the video it sounds like one of the kids. Shouts the word. "Clown" which makes it more hilarious.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,510 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    You can see him stopped at the other side for the jeep before him, so he waited and then did a u turn to have some distance to speed up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,680 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    That video of the motorcyclist is different from the others.

    It shows someone being seriously injured and there is nothing entertaining in it.



  • Posts: 420 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He must have known what might happen when he sped through a river. Honestly, in the circumstances it's hard to feel sorry for the guy.



  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    @OP ya feicer ya, I’m hooked now 😜

    A few trucks caught in this series as the water levels very high- also a delicious Range Rover gets towed- saw an S Class fail in another video




  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A blue Tesla goes through at ease @3.24 in this video





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭KLF


    You have to laugh at Chelsea tractor and "off road" jeep drivers thinking it's their time to shine and justify buying such a big vehicle just **** it up as soon as water goes in the air intake. Unless you have a snorkel kit going into something that deep is lunacy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Even with a snorkel it's still a bad idea, it can be a stinky mistake if the interior or cabin air filter gets soaked and there may be other kind of damage like warped brake discs or electrical components.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,857 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    recently discovered rufford also, whats the craic with so many chancing it!



  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is that a 202 Cork reg focus at 5 mins 53 seconds?


    Edit- it is indeed- wonder what might come up on a car check website for it

    Make & ModelFORD FOCUSDescriptionST-LINE 5DR 1.5 TD 120 S6.2 M6 4DREngine Capacity1499



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,857 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,802 ✭✭✭cml387


    One thing that's not entirely clear is if there are any additional warning signs when the relatively benign little stream you see on streetview becomes a one meter plus flood.



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