So Close And Yet So Far

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• micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How stupid does someone have to be to see a car stuck in deep water and think “yeah, I’ll try that too”

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  • Gerblat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not just that, they see an SUV/Crossover stuck, then try to cross with their sedan 😅

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The first car I give the benefit of the doubt. The second saw what happened. But they’re a BMW driver.

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    • notgold@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cars have been getting stuck in deep water there for decades. They never learn

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, they do own a BMW…

    That is pretty stupid.

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• nbsp@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  congratulations 🎉 an ses volunteer gets to crawl through storm water overflow bc you’re a fucking idiot that just wrore off their car 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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• Cherry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And I am betting this same thing happens every storm.

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  • MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Melbourne local here - you would be 100% correct. News crews sometimes go down there during a big storm because someone’s gonna try it lol

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That wasn’t even close. They’re out of their depth at half that depth.

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• 18107@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m so glad there was large text in the middle of the screen so I wouldn’t have to see the subject of the video.

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• Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what exactly stalls out when you try this with a car? Battery shorts out? Air intake flooded?

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the worst case - Water doesn’t compress. Engine is a pump. Water gets sucked into the intake, into the engine, and the connecting rods bend. Catastrophic failure. The air intake usually is either high (level with the hood) or has a relief at that height to avoid this, but you obviously can’t fix this level of stupid.

    It might be electrical, because it’s quite deep for those cars, but I’m not sure that’s the case.

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  • micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the engine can hydrolock

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a Jeep thing.

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• tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet the suv could have made it if they had gone low and slow. They tried to power through it and made a massive wake that splashed over the hood; going slower would have prevented that and could have probably crept through. The sedan had zero chance

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• indig0@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only they could have known how deep the water was… Like, if there’d been some sort of indicator to show the depth on the road that was subject to flooding.

  Oh well, guess they had no choice but to wing it!

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well that’s going to be $3400 for an engine replacement including labor, likely more for the BMW. Water and pistons don’t mix.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Question, if you put it in reverse - got up some steam, hit the puddle then turned off the engine… Rolled and floated to the other side, then started it…

  ?

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was this yesterday? Didn’t notice any flooding there today.

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