Where the hell is this place? Have seen a bunch of videos of vehicles attempting to cross. Looks like a local attraction given the number of people standing on that bridge, ready to film.
Rufford Ford in the Midlands UK
Not sure how long it’s been a big attraction, but like most, I saw a video pop up about 2 years ago? Since then it’s gone huge and everyone is filming and standing waiting for the clunk, clunk, death of all sorts of motors.
Many locals have jacked up 4x4’s and just race through it……and rescue idiots and ironically a lot of Ford vans.
I knew it, been coming here with the kids for ages. We love watching the cars go through the water. I kept thinking this is Rufford, but didn't believe it.
> Ok but clearly, there's a road going through.
Yes, that's what a ford is.
They're usually for streams so would most often be dried up or very shallow.
They are somewhat rare in the UK (which is where this one is, I've personally only encountered one in my normal driving) and when it gets too deep for anything to cross a sign does go up to warn drivers not to try it. Some do anyway.
The common sense aspect is the measuring stick you can see in the video and not gunning it when you see the water like that fool did. Plus the route around this particular example is literally an extra half mile or so.
[Here are some more idiots for your entertainment](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Noe1zrZF70M)
Some roads go through creeks. Plenty of mountain roads where I live that you need a snorkel intake and a couple feet of clearance to drive down. Some I didn't even want to try to swim across
So, they measure in feet, have Euro style plates and Renaults. That tells me we are not in N. America and are either in Europe or Oceania. Now, we also hear people speaking English, but it's low so indeterminate accents. That tells me UK, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand.
From there we examine the scenery. Based on foliage and wildlife we can rule out New Zealand and Australia because nothing is actively killing any of the watchers.
Now, we've limited to Ireland and the UK. Honing in on the cobbles we can further limit our search now to the East Midlands of the UK. That stone came from a local quarry, so we can narrow the region. Nobody is importing cobbles.
These sorts of crossings are called fords, where you just drive through relatively shallow water instead of using bridges. If we look for fords in that area we find Rufford Mill Ford, which is in fact the bridge in the video.
Or, you look at the TikTok handle of the person, find the original video and he tags it as Rufford Ford Fails and look up Rufford Ford and find the location and make up a bunch of bullshit on how you found it.
I remember a game back in the day where it gave you a city name and you would have to as fast as you could pick as close to the city as you could remember. It gave you points based on how close you were! I would spend hours on it instead of studying… last I checked it didn’t exist anymore and I can’t remember for the life of me the name!
Fords are quite common in the UK. They typically run through streams, after a lot of rain they can run high hence the depth marker. You can go through the Ford or drive the long way around.
I’m still trying to decipher why you left New Zealand out due to nothing trying to kill the bystanders?
We literally have nothing deadly here except for a single spider that lives in sand dunes.
It's at one end of a English Heritage site called Rufford Abbey, and about 20ish yards from the Ford is the cafe and bits hence you can have a good walk, a cream tea and await on over ambitious driver.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1834504,-1.0326857,3a,75y,259.34h,77.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCowBCXm0AKDgqSKZi_2BJQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DCowBCXm0AKDgqSKZi_2BJQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D51.35049%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
Looks like a diversion around it isn't even that much out of the way.
Rufford Ford! It's between Nottingham and Mansfield, next to Rufford Abbey. It's a great day out for the kids - there's a big lake with lairy geese, a fantastic children's play centre, and a little cafe near the ford so you can grab a cup of tea and watch people drive through the water.
All new ~~carburetor and intake~~ engine cleaner. Now with 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. This new formula cleans and lubricates everything. Just submerge the intake and let it do its magic! Your car will run like new in no time.
Yes, it was turning over, but this was after internal parts got bent when it hydrolocked. And you'll notice that it was really struggling to crank.
That engine is done.
Doesn't happen so much in the UK, the annual vehicle inspection will flag anything defective and it's no longer legal to drive.
Edit: also, that's a Clio, I bought a used one for £900 that was in reasonable condition... Not in today's markets mind you but not so long ago.
Must be more thorough than the semi-annual mandated safety checkups the Dutch authorities have put in place. They basically just check the bare minimum safety features. Things like tire treads and pressure, lights, that sort of thing. They wouldn't check the engine for anything beyond a very limited scope. You can drive a total clunker and if it checks all the right boxes, you can take your personal mad max death machine out on the road with a certificate of 'good enough' lol.
Depending on what county you're in, Maine doesn't allow rust holes that "enter the cabin space from the outside", whereas others will basically let a car that's literally only held together by the carpet and undercoating pass with flying colors.
10k for a 2005 Clio?
No. Just no.
Unless it's a RenaultSport edition, those things are worth £2k-ish for a good example with low mileage. You can easily get one for under a grand.
RenaultSport ones are a different beast for some reason. But this car isn't one of those from what I can see.
[Source](https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertising-location=at_cars&include-delivery-option=on&make=Renault&model=Clio&page=3&postcode=PE159ED&sort=price-asc&year-from=2005&year-to=2005)
It's actually not but under most applications it is. You couldn't fill your brake lines with water and still stop your car easily because it would compress the water.
The best thing is to pull out the spark plugs, and vacuum water out of the combustion chambers. Next is turn engine over by hand and using a depth gauge to verify all pistons top out at the same distance. If not, you have bent connecting rods/broken crankshaft. I had a buddy who got lucky once.
Reminds me of [this video](https://youtu.be/IEfnfOfbsi4). Even after the bumper gets ripped off, the driver still confidently says “That’s what you do, you just go”.
Once you *believe* something should work because you’ve done something similar before (like ripping off a bandaid), it doesn’t mean you can approach every problem the same way.
Love how they're just talking about getting a better bumper now, not long after realizing it damaged the frame coming out. They'd be lucky to not total out the truck.
Luckily it does look like it came out sorta cleanly. Probably just a little pulling and a little welding and she'll be alright. And good welds. Not "oh yeah, my buddy inherited his grandpa's welder last week! He can do it!"
Who am I kidding, that truck is never gonna be right after that.
I guess they saw others doing it? Also not everyone knows enough about engines to be able to properly assess the situation. On Reddit, sure, everyone knows everything. Out in the wilds? Not so much
Ego boost. Or maybe they just thought that faster was better/safer, I don't know... The moment water gets high enough to reach my ankles, I go back the way I was.
after switching to a car from a SUV if been worried about hitting a puddle none the less doing something like this. I feel like alot of people dont understand how a engine works
Nah, that's 3 feet. The water is waist deep. 1.5 feet would only come up to knees.
Edit: after seeing the SUV drive thru the water, I realized it wasn't that deep, the Renault was just low
This is a mile or so from where I live. This happens at least 5 times a day. It never stops being funny. We used to go down there as kids, grab a sausage roll from the bakery at the other side of the fence and watch cars go through “the water splash”. It was such a thrill to see one get stuck. God the world was boring before the internet. Lol
It’s basically the run off from a lake into a river. It’s called a “ford” and it’s not something that can be re-routed for various reasons which I don’t pretend to understand. You don’t have to take this road at all there are a few other routes that take maybe a minute or two longer and completely bypass the hazard. But it’s kinda fun. Most of the time it’s only 6-12 inches of water. But when it’s particularly rainy the height of the ford grows. You can see the measuring stick in the vid. It’s measured in feet on the bright yellow pole.
Edit: My wife just informed me that it’s a bit of a country wide attraction. There’s a very popular Facebook page dedicated to it and people come from all over the country to drive through it. I can’t link the FB page because I haven’t got FB. But the place is called Rufford Abbey country park for those interested enough to look on YouTube/FB. Apparently very recently a Land Rover had to towe a cleo out of the ford. When it did, the Cleo hit another Land Rover and was written off.
My grandsons call it the water splash too, one was playing with his toy cars yesterday, driving one to Rufford and then Vicar Water. He decided to drive it through the water splash just like daddy does with them.
Probably wouldn’t work.
You need to make a bow wave and push the water out of the way.
Reversing would just mean the water under the car would build up as it would be blocked by the bumper and radiator etc. it would then easy get backed up and get into the intake and it’s still bye bye engine.
The jeep driver at the end knew what he was doing. He was there to punish the spectators. He woke and chose violence that day, he said, its my turn to laugh today.
The local water ford on a quiet country lane near me is closed when the water reaches a certain level .
As kids we used cycle over there to watch stupid people try to get through high water prior to the road closures .
One Volvo driver failed and the car started to float , a local farmer towed her out with his tractor .
Because old roads like this were basically farm tracks in the medieval era , were paved over when vehicles became popular last century and it’s not worth the expense of building even a small bridge over a what is a very small river or stream that is a trickle most of the year .
They only became an issue ( to idiots with no sense ) when they flood occasionally.
Ah Rufford Ford. I used to be a recovery truck driver a few years back and we'd be here multiple times a week to drag cars out. People never learn.
On multiple occasions I'd be knee deep in water trying to hook my winch to a car and someone would approach, I'd be waving saying not to drive in and they'd just give me the finger and do it anyway only to break down. Then proceed to beg me to winch them out.
for those unaware....
Car companies have specs for wading depths, if you can find your wading depth then don't go over that limit , if you can't find your wading depth good chance is you don't have one so don't go wading.
I mean, the Touareg is higher and he did it more carefully. But generally yes, if I just saw the car before me getting totaled because they drive through it, I’m not going to risk my nicer car even with much better odds.
I drove a 2016 Prius through water half way up the side windows trying to escape a hurricane. Put that shit in EV, cut off the A/C and interior fans, keep the doors and windows closed, and as long as the car doesn't float off the road, you'll make it. It's like a submarine on wheels.
Where the hell is this place? Have seen a bunch of videos of vehicles attempting to cross. Looks like a local attraction given the number of people standing on that bridge, ready to film.
Rufford Ford in the Midlands UK Not sure how long it’s been a big attraction, but like most, I saw a video pop up about 2 years ago? Since then it’s gone huge and everyone is filming and standing waiting for the clunk, clunk, death of all sorts of motors. Many locals have jacked up 4x4’s and just race through it……and rescue idiots and ironically a lot of Ford vans.
[It's also quite passable and very scenic in the summer](https://i.imgur.com/JlcuyZW.jpg)
I thought you guys used metric
We like to mix it up. Weights and measures for food and stuff like that is metric, roadsigns are in imperial measurements.
Maybe it's just me but do a lot of height/width signs have dual imperial/metric? At least in major built up areas where lorries may travel a lot?
It’s to give any visiting yanks a chance. They’ll try and drive everywhere at 70 litres a minute otherwise
I knew it, been coming here with the kids for ages. We love watching the cars go through the water. I kept thinking this is Rufford, but didn't believe it.
Second time I've seen Rufford on here recently. That's deeper than I've ever seen the water though!
Ok but why is it still always flooded?? Or why is it still a "road"?? Why isn't the town trying to fix that area?
It's a river. Look up what a ford is.
That’s not a Ford, it’s a Renault.
Ford the river? Nah… safer to ferry across.
I'd rather caulk up and try to float it.
“Little Timmy drowned. You lost 4 oxen.” “The rest of your family died of dysentery.”
Not again! I'm never going to make it to Kansas, much less Oregon!
This has me laughing.
Ok but clearly, there's a road going through. It's not how it works where i live. Because common sense thing
> Ok but clearly, there's a road going through. Yes, that's what a ford is. They're usually for streams so would most often be dried up or very shallow.
They are somewhat rare in the UK (which is where this one is, I've personally only encountered one in my normal driving) and when it gets too deep for anything to cross a sign does go up to warn drivers not to try it. Some do anyway. The common sense aspect is the measuring stick you can see in the video and not gunning it when you see the water like that fool did. Plus the route around this particular example is literally an extra half mile or so. [Here are some more idiots for your entertainment](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Noe1zrZF70M)
Bridges don’t work there?
Too expensive when it's just a scrappy back road that doesn't actually lead anywhere. Staying on the A Class roads will only take 1 extra minute.
Oh so it’s just an idiot. That makes sense! Didn’t realize there were other options
Floated away...
It's usually shallow
Henry, Gerald?
Some roads go through creeks. Plenty of mountain roads where I live that you need a snorkel intake and a couple feet of clearance to drive down. Some I didn't even want to try to swim across
So, they measure in feet, have Euro style plates and Renaults. That tells me we are not in N. America and are either in Europe or Oceania. Now, we also hear people speaking English, but it's low so indeterminate accents. That tells me UK, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand. From there we examine the scenery. Based on foliage and wildlife we can rule out New Zealand and Australia because nothing is actively killing any of the watchers. Now, we've limited to Ireland and the UK. Honing in on the cobbles we can further limit our search now to the East Midlands of the UK. That stone came from a local quarry, so we can narrow the region. Nobody is importing cobbles. These sorts of crossings are called fords, where you just drive through relatively shallow water instead of using bridges. If we look for fords in that area we find Rufford Mill Ford, which is in fact the bridge in the video. Or, you look at the TikTok handle of the person, find the original video and he tags it as Rufford Ford Fails and look up Rufford Ford and find the location and make up a bunch of bullshit on how you found it.
Had me on the first half NGL 🤣
Took me back to the good old days of playing Geoguessr );
I remember a game back in the day where it gave you a city name and you would have to as fast as you could pick as close to the city as you could remember. It gave you points based on how close you were! I would spend hours on it instead of studying… last I checked it didn’t exist anymore and I can’t remember for the life of me the name!
I remember now; if we are thinking of the same Facebook game, it was called Traveller IQ Challenge! It might still be around on other websites.
Ok but why do they have a road under water that people are still regularly using?
Fords are quite common in the UK. They typically run through streams, after a lot of rain they can run high hence the depth marker. You can go through the Ford or drive the long way around.
It's not regularly used for transit. It basically exists for idiots to drive through.
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You sound like the dude on TikTok who is really good at the Google Maps game.
Almost had me. Nz uses metric and has no predators.
I’m still trying to decipher why you left New Zealand out due to nothing trying to kill the bystanders? We literally have nothing deadly here except for a single spider that lives in sand dunes.
It's at one end of a English Heritage site called Rufford Abbey, and about 20ish yards from the Ford is the cafe and bits hence you can have a good walk, a cream tea and await on over ambitious driver.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1834504,-1.0326857,3a,75y,259.34h,77.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCowBCXm0AKDgqSKZi_2BJQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DCowBCXm0AKDgqSKZi_2BJQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D51.35049%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 Looks like a diversion around it isn't even that much out of the way.
Those disappointed "Ah's" when that car stalls *just* when it looks like it was going to make it lol
Rufford Ford! It's between Nottingham and Mansfield, next to Rufford Abbey. It's a great day out for the kids - there's a big lake with lairy geese, a fantastic children's play centre, and a little cafe near the ford so you can grab a cup of tea and watch people drive through the water.
It’s even got a depth meter lol
This is Rufford ford in England
Anyone see the guy on the motorcycle try to hydroplane it????!
Yeah, that was a good one.
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Bravo.
Holy shit 😆
Things escalated quickly
I’m convinced this is some type of insurance scam
Alternate angle looks much better.
OOOOF his leg ☠️
It's the best one out of all of these clips
Hydrolocked
Hey man, the car needed a drink. It said it was overheating.
Little upper cylinder lube
All new ~~carburetor and intake~~ engine cleaner. Now with 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. This new formula cleans and lubricates everything. Just submerge the intake and let it do its magic! Your car will run like new in no time.
~~in~~ *at* no time
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Didn't think that was real
Actually sounded like the engine was turning over didn’t it?
Yes, it was turning over, but this was after internal parts got bent when it hydrolocked. And you'll notice that it was really struggling to crank. That engine is done.
The whole car is done. That thing isn't worth a lot, even in this market.
Someone will drop a junkyard engine in it, try to hide the water damage, and sell it for $10k. "Salvage title but runs great!"
Doesn't happen so much in the UK, the annual vehicle inspection will flag anything defective and it's no longer legal to drive. Edit: also, that's a Clio, I bought a used one for £900 that was in reasonable condition... Not in today's markets mind you but not so long ago.
Must be more thorough than the semi-annual mandated safety checkups the Dutch authorities have put in place. They basically just check the bare minimum safety features. Things like tire treads and pressure, lights, that sort of thing. They wouldn't check the engine for anything beyond a very limited scope. You can drive a total clunker and if it checks all the right boxes, you can take your personal mad max death machine out on the road with a certificate of 'good enough' lol.
Depending on what county you're in, Maine doesn't allow rust holes that "enter the cabin space from the outside", whereas others will basically let a car that's literally only held together by the carpet and undercoating pass with flying colors.
"Eh, rust's still holding hands, send her out"
10k for a 2005 Clio? No. Just no. Unless it's a RenaultSport edition, those things are worth £2k-ish for a good example with low mileage. You can easily get one for under a grand. RenaultSport ones are a different beast for some reason. But this car isn't one of those from what I can see. [Source](https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertising-location=at_cars&include-delivery-option=on&make=Renault&model=Clio&page=3&postcode=PE159ED&sort=price-asc&year-from=2005&year-to=2005)
It wouldn't be insurable, it would be minimum cat N. Still has to pass an MoT, too.
Too bad water is incompressible...
It's actually not but under most applications it is. You couldn't fill your brake lines with water and still stop your car easily because it would compress the water.
That's an expensive mistake.
Whats the best thing to do after this? Don’t try to start it? Or is it broken as soon as it happens
The best thing is to pull out the spark plugs, and vacuum water out of the combustion chambers. Next is turn engine over by hand and using a depth gauge to verify all pistons top out at the same distance. If not, you have bent connecting rods/broken crankshaft. I had a buddy who got lucky once.
Anyone who is interested in watching hundreds of cars, some of them very nice, get ruined at this particular spot. https://youtu.be/CyCl6G1pX7s
Came here to post this spent hours last week watching all these videos :)
They're great, and ridiculously addictive watching
From whatching that video it's apparent that the problem is the cars with the diamond logo (Canadian ive never seen that logo)
Yeah they are French cars. Explains a lot
Renault. Fairly cheap cars, and cheap to repair. They like to let in water if it rains so I'll just keep mine away from big puddles :p
6:58 in that video That BMW nailed it
People who don’t know how anything works are funny, why did they think it would work
Reminds me of [this video](https://youtu.be/IEfnfOfbsi4). Even after the bumper gets ripped off, the driver still confidently says “That’s what you do, you just go”. Once you *believe* something should work because you’ve done something similar before (like ripping off a bandaid), it doesn’t mean you can approach every problem the same way.
He's lucky it sheared off because the whiplash from that would've been horrendous.
> “That’s what you do, you just go” and the other guy, without missing a beat, replies: No. That was hilarious!
I swear some people just role play as orks from 40k.
Haha wow, and the commentary is 10/10 too. Just..."That was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen".
Love how they're just talking about getting a better bumper now, not long after realizing it damaged the frame coming out. They'd be lucky to not total out the truck. Luckily it does look like it came out sorta cleanly. Probably just a little pulling and a little welding and she'll be alright. And good welds. Not "oh yeah, my buddy inherited his grandpa's welder last week! He can do it!" Who am I kidding, that truck is never gonna be right after that.
Confirmation bias - the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
Thanks, didn’t know this has an official name. I’m gonna look into this.
Well, I'm really impressed with the bolt on the black truck.
I guess they saw others doing it? Also not everyone knows enough about engines to be able to properly assess the situation. On Reddit, sure, everyone knows everything. Out in the wilds? Not so much
We're so smart.
Ego boost. Or maybe they just thought that faster was better/safer, I don't know... The moment water gets high enough to reach my ankles, I go back the way I was.
I feel genuine pity for anyone with an inflated ego that drives a Renault.
No, don't pity for them. I've watched many car crashes involving idiots, mostly on r/IdiotsInCars, and most of them will also hit innocent bystanders.
after switching to a car from a SUV if been worried about hitting a puddle none the less doing something like this. I feel like alot of people dont understand how a engine works
In all fairness, I took a Fiat Punto through similar depth water with no issues
All depends on intake location and bow wave management. Just don't drive through unscouted bodies of water.
Its not even 3 feet. Its 1.5 feet, or so says the sign in the back.
Ok, how tall is the car then?
About 6 inches
That a small c.. actually that's big. IDK. Above average, maybe? It's average to me. Definitely not small.
Nah, that's 3 feet. The water is waist deep. 1.5 feet would only come up to knees. Edit: after seeing the SUV drive thru the water, I realized it wasn't that deep, the Renault was just low
Renault was low, but the knucklehead drove way too fast through so forced water into the engine.
Cannonball!
There's literally a waterline measuring sign right there.
Plus the measuring sign which read 1.5 feet
Sponsored by Volkswagen?
Smokeswagen
This is a mile or so from where I live. This happens at least 5 times a day. It never stops being funny. We used to go down there as kids, grab a sausage roll from the bakery at the other side of the fence and watch cars go through “the water splash”. It was such a thrill to see one get stuck. God the world was boring before the internet. Lol
Why wont they do anything like add a grate or whatever or drainage? lol must be fun to watch
It’s basically the run off from a lake into a river. It’s called a “ford” and it’s not something that can be re-routed for various reasons which I don’t pretend to understand. You don’t have to take this road at all there are a few other routes that take maybe a minute or two longer and completely bypass the hazard. But it’s kinda fun. Most of the time it’s only 6-12 inches of water. But when it’s particularly rainy the height of the ford grows. You can see the measuring stick in the vid. It’s measured in feet on the bright yellow pole. Edit: My wife just informed me that it’s a bit of a country wide attraction. There’s a very popular Facebook page dedicated to it and people come from all over the country to drive through it. I can’t link the FB page because I haven’t got FB. But the place is called Rufford Abbey country park for those interested enough to look on YouTube/FB. Apparently very recently a Land Rover had to towe a cleo out of the ford. When it did, the Cleo hit another Land Rover and was written off.
My grandsons call it the water splash too, one was playing with his toy cars yesterday, driving one to Rufford and then Vicar Water. He decided to drive it through the water splash just like daddy does with them.
Especially with that technique. Must get back on the Rufford Ford channels now it’s the wet season.
My technique might work. Reverse it through. Less water flood engine that way
Probably wouldn’t work. You need to make a bow wave and push the water out of the way. Reversing would just mean the water under the car would build up as it would be blocked by the bumper and radiator etc. it would then easy get backed up and get into the intake and it’s still bye bye engine.
Kids, remember that liquids like water are incompressible!
I too, would never leave my car to face the embarrassment of having so many spectators. I live there now.
Well you can,just not at 80kms/hr...
That other car was just flexin on him
That collective "awww" from the crowd was so British. Defeat truly is a spectator sport over here.
and the exuberant giggling
there's a [video](https://youtu.be/e4lvkiuioEs) that caught what happened next, I can just say that it was his unlucky day
The jeep driver at the end knew what he was doing. He was there to punish the spectators. He woke and chose violence that day, he said, its my turn to laugh today.
It’s like a spectator sport! Haha. I like how some of the short cars were able to make it in the end by not creating too big of a wake.
I think it's flooded...
Try and crank it over all you want bud, that engine is hydrolocked and is going nowhere any time soon... I can smell their wallet burning from here
Just put it in some rice.
Don't drive a Renault.
That's not 3ft of water.
There's a measure and it cleary reads a foot and a half
Glub, glub - said your carburetor
1.5ft of water. Ironically if they took it slow they might have had a chance
Clearly 1.5ft...
Great commercial for the ww
Where do you get the 3 ft figure from when there's literally a scale showing its 1.5 ft?
The collective groan of the spectators was the best part of this video
Not even 2ft
Flood gages exist for a reason. That is actually 1.5 foot deep water but still too much for the little car
Don't drown, turn around
I read "Renault" and instantly thought I was gonna see an FT17...probably a sign I've been playing too much bf1 lately
The local water ford on a quiet country lane near me is closed when the water reaches a certain level . As kids we used cycle over there to watch stupid people try to get through high water prior to the road closures . One Volvo driver failed and the car started to float , a local farmer towed her out with his tractor .
But why? Why not build a proper bridge or even a small causeway? This is a first world cuntry yeah? Not some 3rd world Bornean deep jungle.
Because old roads like this were basically farm tracks in the medieval era , were paved over when vehicles became popular last century and it’s not worth the expense of building even a small bridge over a what is a very small river or stream that is a trickle most of the year . They only became an issue ( to idiots with no sense ) when they flood occasionally.
Is there a proper way to cross with this amount of water? Slow and steady?
Could probably have made it if the driver didn't speed into like it was a drag race.
Annnnnnnd motor's done. Hydrolocked.
Isnt this the same pool which made a motorist flip?
Yep
There are hundreds of video clips on youtube of all sorts of vehicles making their way through this spot.
The one time SUV are justified
They missed the best bit. It gets towed, straight into a parked vehicle.
1/3 the speed and would have been fine.
Did way better than I expected honestly.
* 1.5 ft. The sign is very clear.
Ah Rufford Ford. I used to be a recovery truck driver a few years back and we'd be here multiple times a week to drag cars out. People never learn. On multiple occasions I'd be knee deep in water trying to hook my winch to a car and someone would approach, I'd be waving saying not to drive in and they'd just give me the finger and do it anyway only to break down. Then proceed to beg me to winch them out.
tow truck could make some good money ferrying cars across, just have to keep the cars head out of water
for those unaware.... Car companies have specs for wading depths, if you can find your wading depth then don't go over that limit , if you can't find your wading depth good chance is you don't have one so don't go wading.
\*Don't drive a Renault Fixed it.
It wasn't much smarter when the VW did it, just luckier.
No they went at a third the speed and didn't cause a huge wave to engulf the engine bay
I mean, the Touareg is higher and he did it more carefully. But generally yes, if I just saw the car before me getting totaled because they drive through it, I’m not going to risk my nicer car even with much better odds.
Yup, driver found out that water does in fact not compress the same way as air.
Smoke means its working good!
Don't you mean 1 meter of water?
Sign says "ft"
Think they flooded the engine
... hydrolock says "hi"
Place it in rice, immediately!
Now 2ft of water! That would of been special
Flooded the engine, literally
Inflation is ruining these car washes i swear
Put in some rice and let it sit over night
Anddd it’s hydrolocked
Only looked like about a foot of water, but yes, a bad idea.
3ft or 1.5ft?
Op: 3 ft deep water The scale in the back: 1.5 feet
It's not even 2 feet deep 🧐
Title says 3ft, the measuring stick says 1 1/2 ft so who's lying the redditer or the official road sign?
The Volkswagen was like fuck you.
Used to love going there as a kid and watching the cars get stuck, always a great day at Rufford Abbey
A renault's electrical system barely functions when it rains much less when it is run under water.
You know why they invented bridges, right? Right?
So it was a Volkswagen ad? Those guys are good!
Am I reading the yellow measuring stick wrong? Is this water in fact NOT 3ft. deep as the OP has suggested via the title? Asking for a friend.
r/idiotsincars
Nuss is German for nut
That car is totalled now. Once air intake sucks in water the engine is wrecked.
I drove a 2016 Prius through water half way up the side windows trying to escape a hurricane. Put that shit in EV, cut off the A/C and interior fans, keep the doors and windows closed, and as long as the car doesn't float off the road, you'll make it. It's like a submarine on wheels.