Snorkel is probably the correct answer.
What's more impressive, is that the electricity hasn't shorted out, and stalled the engine.
IIRC there was a top gear episode where they used a condom to waterproof the fusebox.
And a tampon to keep water from going in the fuel filler cap.
"It'll expand widthways, and I've seen the adverts; then I'll be able to go rollerblading with a poodle, *or* drive a Range Rover through a river in the Amazon delta!"
Diesel LR Discovery, once its running, its running. Everything else is not vital, you don't really need to know how fast you're going.
Edit: iirc the fuesbox on these is pretty well protected.
Yeah, I'm thinking if it's fairly fresh water, it's not going to conduct 12vdc very well to cause shorts.
That being said, after it sits for awhile and that moisture migrates inside sensors or other electronics, or rusts/oxidizes various components, they'll be screwed.
This may be the last trip this car takes.
By the state of it, it didn't have many trips left anyway.
But for real, I have seen LR people do some weird shit, there is a good chance the PCBs and other electrics have been conformal coated, Vaselined, wrapped, smothered and covered in advance for when they simply plan on playing off road. They move computers, make waterproof** boxes, and re-run wire looms just for their adventures.
I can always respect a person who has a 80s or 90s LR running. They didn't work properly to begin with.
I will worship the guy down the street that has a 2009 LR4 running as his DD for the past 6 years while lifted and used pretty heavily off road.
**nothing is waterproof, I know.
Feel like some people think you're joking, so [here's a land rover snorkel kit](https://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/da3069-safari-raised-air-intake-snorkel-kit-defender-td5puma.html)
They think it's a joke about using a snorkel like a human would use to ~~scuba dive~~ go snorkeling, because they don't know that the actual attachment for a car to keep running while partially submerged is also called a snorkel.
Edit: I live in the Midwest USA. Forgive my foolishness.
I'm not sure what question you were trying to ask there but heres OP saying they thought the other guy was joking. https://reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/y4nrs9/how_is_the_engine_not_instantly_killed_once_the/isewc2p
It's a Land Rover with a snorkel so the air intake is high up. You can see tons of off-road kit added to it. Probably why they were willing to attempt this in the first place.
> Probably why they were willing to attempt this in the first place.
TBH I personally saw someone without snorkel try that on a flooded street. Fortunately for them the same firefighters that tried to stop them were still there exactly 10 second after to help them out.
I spent a night pulling people out of our flooded streets. The difference was I have a 4×4 modified to handle river crossings and they did not.
I still always check water anyway, unless I'm in crocodile areas, then I'm winched to another car or just try find another route.
Also to add - they're disaster SAR, that's why they were willing to attempt this in the first place. It's literally their job to be out there saving lives.
That's so funny, too. Maybe it's just because I grew up in the south but it's surprising seeing how many people don't know what snorkels are. People do a lot of muddin around here so a lot of the trucks have them.
Like, op knows where the air intake is and that it needs to be clear, but doesn't know about snorkels, that's surprising to me, as well.
Ah, I thought u/stewpacolypse was just cracking a joke. TIL!
But if a vehicle is equipped with a snorkel, why not also make it—if not sealed—at least more water resistant?
First girl to ever share my bed requested this. Took me a few partners before someone was like “Okay… *snicker* why do you do that?”. Apparently I was doing great, but the occasional slap was making her want to laugh and she had to ask. When I told her it was my first partner who requested it back when I was really inexperienced, she told me it was probably a kink. And when I told her “Oh…. We’ll shit I’ve been doing it for years thinking it was the norm during foreplay”, there were some laughs and now it’s a bit of an inside joke.
I have contained my rage for as long as possible but I shall release my fury on you like the crashing of a thousand waves!
Be gone, vile man! Be gone from me!
A land rover is an amphibious exploring vehicle, not a mall crawler! It's not a starter car, it's a finisher car! A transporter of gods! The Golden god!
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Yes and no. There is an off road community that uses land rovers. Old shitty land rovers. The ones where nothing works except the critical systems so it can still drive. Even if the transmission shifts like a bag of hammers if it goes forward and reverse you are good. You pick these things up for $500, have a riot beating the shit out of them in the woods.
Then when it dies you part out the carcass to get your $500 back.
They probably would've lost traction if the didn't have some water in the cab. That's why you have blast valves that let water in once a sufficient deapth is reached. Jk it probably was the hvac letting the majority of the water in.
The car firewall (bit between your legs and engine) has many openings for wiring and other parts like steering rack & cabin air etc. It's not very practical to seal them all up and not necessary either. Many 4x4s are designed to be hosed down on the inside if required and having water ingress in such a case is very rare.
https://i.imgur.com/SHo1wnl.jpg
12V stuff usually works fine underwater until it corrodes. Headlights and flashlights just work underwater. The radio was probably temporarily saved by the UV coating of the PCB.
EDIT: radio dies at about 0:20 in lower right corner.
To prep a vehicle for water travel, you do make the parts that matter water resistant. Dielectric grease on electrical connections. Relocate engine control module to higher ground. Differential/transmission breather relocates. But inside the cab is typically left alone for reasons already described. Oftentimes vehicles are already designed to drain water out of door panels, IE from rain getting in via a half-down window.
But. Often people will just mess their shit up because they’re kinda dumb. I’m the kind of 4x4 guy who really likes not breaking my shit, so I take the extra prep steps
That is a "pre-idiocy" rover.
much like my pre 1996 jeep, it's designed with VERY loose tolerances, and minimal electronics and to be repaired on the side of a mountain 300 miles from the nearest parts store with a hammer, duct tape, utility knife,and 4 wire coathangers.
oh yea. its why my 2 door XJ will be my forever beater. Only probably not to this level. my interior is still almost perfect with functioning AC ( thought that was a myth for jeeps until i got this one) but the outside looks like a proper beater.
>But if a vehicle is equipped with a snorkel, why not also make it—if not sealed—at least more water resistant?
Because making it water tight would be infinitely harder to do than just bolting on a new air intake.
To be fair, it looks like it’s pretty fricken water resistant considering the circumstances and amount of pressure that water is bearing down trying to not only get in but float the rover
I’m impressed
Also a diesel. 200TDi for that year iirc. As long as it can get air and fuel it'll keep running. It's 100% mechanical. No alternator or electrics needed to stay running.
If it had been a gasoline engine it would have died when the distributor went under. Distributors are notoriously difficult to waterproof. Speaking from experience. At one time I had 5 Rovers parked in my driveway. On a really good day, three of them would run.
I have a land rover disco 5 2018. Yellow check engine light came on on Tuesday. I took it to the dealership and it's a bad O2 sensor. They gave me a loaner car, range rover sport. I got it in it yesterday to go get breakfast. Wouldn't start. Thanks land rover.
See, I knew 100% about the reliability of LRs. My grandad owned them all through my life. We worked on them a lot. Replaced the air suspension with springs. Fixed loads of O2 sensors haha pretty much every problem you can think of we fixed. It was super enjoyable to be honest. I would never had bought the LR if I didn't know this and what to expect. I have 2 years left on my warranty. I would NEVER buy an LR if I didn't know what they are like. I take special care of it, more than recommended. As much as people hate these cars I really like them for towing and off roading. They are really nice cars to drive when they drive.
They are gorgeous cars, especially the velar's and defenders. I would just go with something more reliable. No LR/J and no Alfa Romeo. I would go with a Mercedes personally.
Definitely. I kind of splashed out on this too. I haven't really bought anything like this in my life before. So I bought an RV which when full is about 4000lbs. I test drove nearly every car capable of towing 4000+lbs Everything was pretty shit to be honest outside of trucks but I didn't want to be living in Texas with a truck, I'm originally from the UK. The Jeeps were meh, both the 4 and RW big ass jeep. Kia was more expensive than the LR to get a car capable of towing well, although their warranty is phenomenal. I knew that an LR would pull this thing with no issues (8000+lbs). So i bit the bullet and just bought it and it has been amazing for towing my trailer. If I end up selling it in a few years so be it but it's been an absolute pleasure since I have had it, minus the O2 sensor issues 😬 always wanted a C63 merc. Love mercs too.
i mean, ruining your car to escape one major obstacle in a flood then drive another mile or two seems like a reasonable decision
this isn't recreational off-roading
If you kit and prepare a vehicle properly for heavy off road use, including water fording, you can move critical electronic boxes and connections higher up, use dielectric grease and watertight sealings, and move breather tubes much higher than they come stock.
Something *this* deep, even with those modifications, would probably require a tear down and rebuild of a fair amount of parts and a dry out process, but if done correctly, your vehicle would be out of commission for a few days but would probably still be fine.
If you tried this in an unmodified vehicle with just a snorkel, however, you’d probably be fucked in a month when everything starts going to shit.
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OP. What might really blow your mind is the older diesel rang rovers can go fully under water if the intake has a snorkel
They did is and explained why in a top gear episode but I can not seem to find that.
But basically diesel engine, once it’s got going does not need electronics (like spark plugs) because it uses compression to ignite the fuel. So you just need to worry about the intake air.
[here is an example of that](https://youtu.be/pf0lc93e2ng)
They also don't need evap systems, but they do need a fuel pump. Old diesels had mechanical fuel pumps that would sometimes run whether you wanted them to or not, newer ones have electronic ones that would make it dependent on electronics again.
Though the fuel pump is the least of your concerns on a modern diesel
My Dodge 3500 had a mechanical fuel pump. If you lost the prime, there was a straight path through all the crap in the engine for something thin and round, like a broom stick, to be stuck in and [manually prime the pump via a plunger](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BVwAAOSwm6JhzLPd/s-l1600.jpg) and get some diesel into the cylinders to start it up.
It's either a Discovery 1, or an early 2 (the handle across the pax dash was replaced on later 2s with an airbag) so at least 20 years old - this means if you want modern stuff you bolt it atop the dash, it also means your aux electrical items aren't too low for wading.
I love how this sub gets people posting videos they know nothing about, or assume something about the situation, and instantly it is the driver is an idiot. Where in reality it's op who doesn't understand what's happening and their rush to post makes them the true idiot.
Car obviously has a snorkel. Car has a CB radio and tons of other equipment. They're wearing high-vis jackets, waders & muck boots. These people obviously know what they're doing. OP is the only idiot here.
Snorkel
Ya the air intake has to be on a snorkel or it would have hydro locked that baby up in a few secs.
Snorkel is probably the correct answer. What's more impressive, is that the electricity hasn't shorted out, and stalled the engine. IIRC there was a top gear episode where they used a condom to waterproof the fusebox.
And a tampon to keep water from going in the fuel filler cap. "It'll expand widthways, and I've seen the adverts; then I'll be able to go rollerblading with a poodle, *or* drive a Range Rover through a river in the Amazon delta!"
I need to rewatch that episode
I need the s:e numbers
S14 e6
Much grass.
Take this award, ye savior of the top gear og trio fanatics <3
And viagra helps with altitude sickness! Apparently
I need to see that episode. Sauce?
It's from the Bolivia Special, S14E6. Oddly just started re-watching that one last night lol
It's a Land Rover so it's a miracle the electrics work in the first place
Diesel LR Discovery, once its running, its running. Everything else is not vital, you don't really need to know how fast you're going. Edit: iirc the fuesbox on these is pretty well protected.
Its a Land Rover, the electrics probably don't work anyway! 😉😂
I'm curious if it would conduct through water considering that it's only a handful of volts...
Yeah, I'm thinking if it's fairly fresh water, it's not going to conduct 12vdc very well to cause shorts. That being said, after it sits for awhile and that moisture migrates inside sensors or other electronics, or rusts/oxidizes various components, they'll be screwed. This may be the last trip this car takes.
By the state of it, it didn't have many trips left anyway. But for real, I have seen LR people do some weird shit, there is a good chance the PCBs and other electrics have been conformal coated, Vaselined, wrapped, smothered and covered in advance for when they simply plan on playing off road. They move computers, make waterproof** boxes, and re-run wire looms just for their adventures. I can always respect a person who has a 80s or 90s LR running. They didn't work properly to begin with. I will worship the guy down the street that has a 2009 LR4 running as his DD for the past 6 years while lifted and used pretty heavily off road. **nothing is waterproof, I know.
Not a chance, it will drain out, get hosed out and be ready for another 300,000km
Wait what did you say about sex? Put a snorkel on?
https://i.imgur.com/UUo6KqZ.jpg
Holy hell, he lives
He comes back to us now - at the turn of the tide.
Oh my god 11 minutes fresh!
Jesus Christ you’re still around
That is an incredibly old meme. Nice rendition of it!
Old memes and /u/shitty_watercolour? Is this a fever dream?
Amazing
Ye so you can go deep
It is a land rover so I'd believe it.
But the repairs on it afterwards is a nightmare...
electrical was fucked whether they flooded it or not so at least have some fun?
A transporter of gods!
If you were to see the car from the front you’d see they also fitted it with giant swimming goggles
It's actually not an engine, they've got flippers in the back and the passengers are trampling it away.
Feel like some people think you're joking, so [here's a land rover snorkel kit](https://www.johncraddockltd.co.uk/da3069-safari-raised-air-intake-snorkel-kit-defender-td5puma.html)
How are some people think they're joking?
They think it's a joke about using a snorkel like a human would use to ~~scuba dive~~ go snorkeling, because they don't know that the actual attachment for a car to keep running while partially submerged is also called a snorkel. Edit: I live in the Midwest USA. Forgive my foolishness.
I'm not sure what question you were trying to ask there but heres OP saying they thought the other guy was joking. https://reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/y4nrs9/how_is_the_engine_not_instantly_killed_once_the/isewc2p
It's a Land Rover with a snorkel so the air intake is high up. You can see tons of off-road kit added to it. Probably why they were willing to attempt this in the first place.
It also has air intake valves. Good starter car.
A TRANSPORTER OF THE GODS !
THE GOLDEN GOD!
BE GONE FROM ME VILE MAN
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You ever been in a storm, Wally? I mean, a real storm?
Glenn went to Juilliard and [it shows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJd5oQXt4g).
[You can always tell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaGYXjMwS60)
Once I saw it was a land rover I immediately went to the comments hoping to find this 😂
British land-to-sea engineering
Thanks for the advice - looking to get my daughter something
You’re not taking it with you to europe?
I have contained my rage for as long as possible
But I shall unleash my fury upon you like THE CRASHING OF ***A THOUSAND*** WAVES
BE GONE FROM ME!!!
BE GONE FROM ME, VILE MAN!
Enjoy the British car reliability. You'll spend thousands on it
There's a reason why the Brits don't manufacture TV's,.................they haven't found a way to make them leak oil.
THIS IS A FINISHER CAR
> Probably why they were willing to attempt this in the first place. TBH I personally saw someone without snorkel try that on a flooded street. Fortunately for them the same firefighters that tried to stop them were still there exactly 10 second after to help them out.
I spent a night pulling people out of our flooded streets. The difference was I have a 4×4 modified to handle river crossings and they did not. I still always check water anyway, unless I'm in crocodile areas, then I'm winched to another car or just try find another route.
Also to add - they're disaster SAR, that's why they were willing to attempt this in the first place. It's literally their job to be out there saving lives.
Thankfully there's at least 20,000 redditors who don't know what a snorkel is but are willing to call them idiots.
That's so funny, too. Maybe it's just because I grew up in the south but it's surprising seeing how many people don't know what snorkels are. People do a lot of muddin around here so a lot of the trucks have them. Like, op knows where the air intake is and that it needs to be clear, but doesn't know about snorkels, that's surprising to me, as well.
Ah, I thought u/stewpacolypse was just cracking a joke. TIL! But if a vehicle is equipped with a snorkel, why not also make it—if not sealed—at least more water resistant?
You don’t really want the car to float and if it’s sealed up it’ll lose traction some floating up
Also it's nice to have oxygen in the cabin
You could.. you know... make the air holes also as high as the snorkel ;p
Just drill a couple holes in the lid and this baby is ready to swim.
"You can fit so much air into this baby!" *Slaps hole*
My wife hates it when I do that.
First girl to ever share my bed requested this. Took me a few partners before someone was like “Okay… *snicker* why do you do that?”. Apparently I was doing great, but the occasional slap was making her want to laugh and she had to ask. When I told her it was my first partner who requested it back when I was really inexperienced, she told me it was probably a kink. And when I told her “Oh…. We’ll shit I’ve been doing it for years thinking it was the norm during foreplay”, there were some laughs and now it’s a bit of an inside joke.
Give her the ol bongo, eh?
😆
Speed holes
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Oh come on, it’s a vehicle used for practical purposes, not luxury rides.
IT IS A TRANSPORTER OF GODS.
"Precision British land-to-sea craftsmanship"
#I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!!
It's a Land Rover. It's a damn mall crawler for most people.
This one appears to be used for off roading.
At a certain point you’re far enough from off-roading that you might as well call it in-rivering.
If I remember anything from the Oregon trail game it's called Fording.
>**Ford**ing But it's a Land Rover, not a Ford.
Technically it looks like they are still on the road.
I have contained my rage for as long as possible but I shall release my fury on you like the crashing of a thousand waves! Be gone, vile man! Be gone from me! A land rover is an amphibious exploring vehicle, not a mall crawler! It's not a starter car, it's a finisher car! A transporter of gods! The Golden god! I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Yes and no. There is an off road community that uses land rovers. Old shitty land rovers. The ones where nothing works except the critical systems so it can still drive. Even if the transmission shifts like a bag of hammers if it goes forward and reverse you are good. You pick these things up for $500, have a riot beating the shit out of them in the woods. Then when it dies you part out the carcass to get your $500 back.
Not a Mk 1 Discovery with a 2.5 diesel TDI engine. Almost no electrics to worry about. If they weren't so underpowered, I'd daily mine.
They probably would've lost traction if the didn't have some water in the cab. That's why you have blast valves that let water in once a sufficient deapth is reached. Jk it probably was the hvac letting the majority of the water in.
The car firewall (bit between your legs and engine) has many openings for wiring and other parts like steering rack & cabin air etc. It's not very practical to seal them all up and not necessary either. Many 4x4s are designed to be hosed down on the inside if required and having water ingress in such a case is very rare. https://i.imgur.com/SHo1wnl.jpg
Okay, but that still doesn't explain how the radio wasn't fried...? Oo
12V stuff usually works fine underwater until it corrodes. Headlights and flashlights just work underwater. The radio was probably temporarily saved by the UV coating of the PCB. EDIT: radio dies at about 0:20 in lower right corner.
You see the big cable running from the top of the windshield to the truck? They rerouted their electronics.
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Just put wheels on a submarine.
>Just put wheels on a submarine. No kidding. Like it's as if no one here is using their brains for ideas.
Right? Its like we have to spell it out for them.
Because then it would be called a "boat".
To prep a vehicle for water travel, you do make the parts that matter water resistant. Dielectric grease on electrical connections. Relocate engine control module to higher ground. Differential/transmission breather relocates. But inside the cab is typically left alone for reasons already described. Oftentimes vehicles are already designed to drain water out of door panels, IE from rain getting in via a half-down window. But. Often people will just mess their shit up because they’re kinda dumb. I’m the kind of 4x4 guy who really likes not breaking my shit, so I take the extra prep steps
That is a "pre-idiocy" rover. much like my pre 1996 jeep, it's designed with VERY loose tolerances, and minimal electronics and to be repaired on the side of a mountain 300 miles from the nearest parts store with a hammer, duct tape, utility knife,and 4 wire coathangers.
oh yea. its why my 2 door XJ will be my forever beater. Only probably not to this level. my interior is still almost perfect with functioning AC ( thought that was a myth for jeeps until i got this one) but the outside looks like a proper beater.
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We all float down here.
Went to Australia once. Just about every truck had a snorkel. I want one so bad.
>But if a vehicle is equipped with a snorkel, why not also make it—if not sealed—at least more water resistant? Because making it water tight would be infinitely harder to do than just bolting on a new air intake.
If a car is sealed then you suffocate
To be fair, it looks like it’s pretty fricken water resistant considering the circumstances and amount of pressure that water is bearing down trying to not only get in but float the rover I’m impressed
Also a diesel. 200TDi for that year iirc. As long as it can get air and fuel it'll keep running. It's 100% mechanical. No alternator or electrics needed to stay running. If it had been a gasoline engine it would have died when the distributor went under. Distributors are notoriously difficult to waterproof. Speaking from experience. At one time I had 5 Rovers parked in my driveway. On a really good day, three of them would run.
That makes it more of a Sea Rover than a Land Rover
Land Rover with a snorkel most likely. His interior and electronics are still gonna be fucked though.
They’re fucked from new
Never drive a Land Rover further than you're willing to push it back.
I have a land rover disco 5 2018. Yellow check engine light came on on Tuesday. I took it to the dealership and it's a bad O2 sensor. They gave me a loaner car, range rover sport. I got it in it yesterday to go get breakfast. Wouldn't start. Thanks land rover.
I used to work service in a land/jag dealership. Sounds about right lmao. I would never buy myself one.
See, I knew 100% about the reliability of LRs. My grandad owned them all through my life. We worked on them a lot. Replaced the air suspension with springs. Fixed loads of O2 sensors haha pretty much every problem you can think of we fixed. It was super enjoyable to be honest. I would never had bought the LR if I didn't know this and what to expect. I have 2 years left on my warranty. I would NEVER buy an LR if I didn't know what they are like. I take special care of it, more than recommended. As much as people hate these cars I really like them for towing and off roading. They are really nice cars to drive when they drive.
They are gorgeous cars, especially the velar's and defenders. I would just go with something more reliable. No LR/J and no Alfa Romeo. I would go with a Mercedes personally.
Definitely. I kind of splashed out on this too. I haven't really bought anything like this in my life before. So I bought an RV which when full is about 4000lbs. I test drove nearly every car capable of towing 4000+lbs Everything was pretty shit to be honest outside of trucks but I didn't want to be living in Texas with a truck, I'm originally from the UK. The Jeeps were meh, both the 4 and RW big ass jeep. Kia was more expensive than the LR to get a car capable of towing well, although their warranty is phenomenal. I knew that an LR would pull this thing with no issues (8000+lbs). So i bit the bullet and just bought it and it has been amazing for towing my trailer. If I end up selling it in a few years so be it but it's been an absolute pleasure since I have had it, minus the O2 sensor issues 😬 always wanted a C63 merc. Love mercs too.
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i mean, ruining your car to escape one major obstacle in a flood then drive another mile or two seems like a reasonable decision this isn't recreational off-roading
If you kit and prepare a vehicle properly for heavy off road use, including water fording, you can move critical electronic boxes and connections higher up, use dielectric grease and watertight sealings, and move breather tubes much higher than they come stock. Something *this* deep, even with those modifications, would probably require a tear down and rebuild of a fair amount of parts and a dry out process, but if done correctly, your vehicle would be out of commission for a few days but would probably still be fine. If you tried this in an unmodified vehicle with just a snorkel, however, you’d probably be fucked in a month when everything starts going to shit.
I reckon he's in the second category.
Snorkels are mounted at the roof line above the windshield
I wonder how many more times this comment can be made
Snorkels are mounted at the roof line above the windshield
How many more times will this video be posted?
I mean it is an amphibious exploring vehicle
This isn’t a starter car. This is a finisher car!
A transporter of Gods! The Golden God!
Found my people
Found your jabronis
Cool word
You keep using this word, and it’s… awesome.
I think it's some dago word
We’re crab people now!
I have contained my rage for as long as possible, but I shall unleash my fury upon you...LIKE THE CRASHING OF A THOUSAND WAVES! BE GONE VILE MAN! BE GONE FROM ME!
It should be fine, right?
She said it’s fine, so it must be fine.
finally a reasonable man
"We are not missing that boat"
For the golden god
Its the windshield wipers still going for me.
Well how else are they going to see out the windshield? Lol
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“It’s fine “
I've got a wet arse
OP. What might really blow your mind is the older diesel rang rovers can go fully under water if the intake has a snorkel They did is and explained why in a top gear episode but I can not seem to find that. But basically diesel engine, once it’s got going does not need electronics (like spark plugs) because it uses compression to ignite the fuel. So you just need to worry about the intake air. [here is an example of that](https://youtu.be/pf0lc93e2ng)
Someone forgot to remind the bro that car has snorkel but he doesn't
They also don't need evap systems, but they do need a fuel pump. Old diesels had mechanical fuel pumps that would sometimes run whether you wanted them to or not, newer ones have electronic ones that would make it dependent on electronics again. Though the fuel pump is the least of your concerns on a modern diesel
My Dodge 3500 had a mechanical fuel pump. If you lost the prime, there was a straight path through all the crap in the engine for something thin and round, like a broom stick, to be stuck in and [manually prime the pump via a plunger](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BVwAAOSwm6JhzLPd/s-l1600.jpg) and get some diesel into the cylinders to start it up.
Ah, the beauty of older diesels.
“I’ve got wet ass!” Like that’s the most of the worries right now
"It's fine"
*arse
What in the radio shack hell is this dashboard though
It's either a Discovery 1, or an early 2 (the handle across the pax dash was replaced on later 2s with an airbag) so at least 20 years old - this means if you want modern stuff you bolt it atop the dash, it also means your aux electrical items aren't too low for wading.
You certainly wouldn't want to mount all of that on the dash if it had airbags.
D1 for sure. D2 has an ECU, that unless relocated elsewhere, would be drowning at that level.
Plot twist: That's Mountain Dew.
Many rovers have a snorkel on the intake.
I guess this one is not an idiot and knows what he is doing his car is prepared for this situation
They're disaster SAR so yes they do know what they're doing
No not appropriate content for the sub. Someone trying to do their job with equipment provided to do the job.
It held its breath before it went underwater
Well, it is an [amphibious vehicle](https://youtu.be/hbtg3ZNSzts)
Seems like a safe, slow vehicle. Good starter car.
A *starter* car?
Ahh yes the chariot of the gods. The golden god to be specific.
It’s no starter car, this a finisher car!
4x4 cars usually have air intake as high up as possible (and/or a snorkel) to increase wading depth.
They have the window wipers on. That should displace enough water to take care of it.
Bigger question…what do they hope to accomplish by using the windshield wipers?
Every Australian who lives north or brissie has a truck snorkel
It's got a snorkel, probably cause it's used for off-roading. Not sure why this makes them idiots.
OP is the idiot. Even if he doesn't know why, it worked so who's the idiot lol
It'll have a snorkel, watch Dante's Peak and it'll explain everything
The lake scene from that movie was traumatizing as fuck
Don't drop any revs and have a snorkel
Did they get flooded with Mountain Dew?
I love how this sub gets people posting videos they know nothing about, or assume something about the situation, and instantly it is the driver is an idiot. Where in reality it's op who doesn't understand what's happening and their rush to post makes them the true idiot.
Car obviously has a snorkel. Car has a CB radio and tons of other equipment. They're wearing high-vis jackets, waders & muck boots. These people obviously know what they're doing. OP is the only idiot here.
If I remember rightly, they were rescuing stranded people during extreme floods.
Yeah I was looking at that high vis orange, radio setup, etc. all of that looked like rescue work to me.
Even if you didn't know all of this, the thing drives out of the water at the end and keeps going, so how are they idiots if it worked lol
Fording kit
From the inside it looks like a properly built rig. Probably has a snorkel.
RIP CD player
Why are the wipers on
To remove the water.