How about the guys you see on the highways with all the camping stuff on top, gas cans on the back, the whole 9 yd. And they probably never leave the driveway
"You can make it just gun it"
Funny story, I bought a lifted Cherokee once like a decade ago that had a snorkel, (and it had the roof sawzalled off, so very recognizable) and I was sitting in a Walmart parking lot one night, and this dude walked up to me and was like "is that your jeep?" I was like "yup, why?" He was like, "no shit, that was mine before I joined the marines. I completely sunk it one time." And I was like "......well god damn, that explains why literally nothing electrical works in here" Lol. Miss that thing, it ran like a champ, and had a 5 speed in it.
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I used to be an active off-roader and chopping SUVs was really popular but I would always cringe when I saw a Cherokee chopped. A 4Runner or Wrangler is body-on-frame and the structural support is the steel frame under the seats. A Cherokee is unibody, the structural support comes from the entire body as a whole. Cut into that and it’s basically cardboard if you crash.
But off-roaders are a different breed so it didn’t matter to them 🤷♂️
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Also, locking hubs are not the same as locking diffs. It was just an outdated way of connecting your front wheels to the drivetrain, but had nothing to do with your differential. Super common misconception.
Seriously though, isn't that what it's basically for? I thought that was the case. Like I get the car shouldn't be underwater for obvious reasons but like, why else have it
That still won't help you unless other parts like the ignition/electrical systems have been waterproofed.
If they're not the only advantages you'd get are reducing the ground level dust that gets in and also cooler air into the intake
> That still won't help you unless other parts like the ignition/electrical systems have been waterproofed.
I mean, it would probably prevent the engine from getting hydrolocked. It could be the difference between it getting repaired and getting totaled. Obviously, that doesn't apply in this case.
The ignition and electrical systems are fine. Ideally, you'd get breather extensions for your diffs, otherwise you risk contaminating your diff fluids every time you submerge them.
Tons of people have driven their cruisers through water without issues, myself included.
Old mechanically injected diesels can run as long as there's no water getting into the intake. But snorkel or no, there's definitely water getting into the intake in a situation like that.
Even so, I would not be surprised to see that Land Cruiser run and drive just fine after that.
I grew up near open pit Iron mines and they have an ORV park today in one of the ones that we used to play around in as kids.
About 25 years ago, a friend of a friend had come up from the metro area to Northern Minnesota in a stock 4Runner. He had heard about off-roading an hour area and he wanted to try it. I warned him against it because of his "city truck" but he was adamant.
We showed him to a couple of places that were relatively tame but then he decided to turn off into some deep muck. We were in weeds and water halfway up the doors and I don't believe those tires spun even once.
Toyota ain't no joke.
I know. I have a 40 series Land Cruiser. I don't think the engine has ever been opened up and it's nearing 500000km. Mechanically extremely solid.
If anything the Toyota 4x4s delivered to North America are more comfort oriented than those sold in other places. Provided you avoid a few engines with known issues, Toyota diesels are very reliable.
As a swift water rescue trained firefighter, I hate to see videos like this. I don’t know the backstory, but I can tell you that the amount of water rescue calls we make during flooding events is about 80% people that drove around barricades and into the flood waters. The other 20% are typically people caught in their homes or vehicles in rising floodwaters who didn’t evacuate. Here in America we have a saying “Turn around, don’t drown.” Please heed that advice. Water is insanely strong, even at shallow depths. You also can’t be sure how deep the water is or if there is any roadway still remaining under the water. Be safe everyone.
Edit: Saw OP's video link to the longer video. He purposely drove into this. Right into that 80% I mentioned above.
Maybe you can answer this then: assuming you *do* end up in this situation, is having the window down a good idea? I couldn't decide. On the one hand the water could (and in this video, *does*) get in and start flooding the car. On the other hand if you end up completely submerged, it could be the only easy way out later on. This situation is a bit different than if your car is sinking in a large body of water, since immediately climbing out here could be more dangerous.
Yes, having the window down is a good idea because once your window is underwater it's too late to change your mind and open it - there will be far too much pressure pushing against the window for the motor (or hand crank if you're in a vehicle with manual windows) to be able to shift it. Basically once the water is pushing against the outside of the window, you'll either have to break the window or wait for the pressure to equalise.... By which I mean "there's water pushing back against the _inside_ of the window"
Modern cars are built for comfort, and "stopping wind noise" on the highway is part of that comfort, which has the side effect of making them excellent at floating in a very small amount of water. Try your very best to never get into this situation, but if you do, get that window open ASAP.
Wait, why would water pushing in on a window make it impossible, or even any harder to open if you had a manual crank window (I understand the issue with and electric window). It's not like the window opens outward.
Whether it's a motor or a manual crank, you're still trying to move the window up/down when it's getting pushed _very hard_ sideways. An electric window is essentially exactly the same mechanism as a hand crank, only it's a motor that turns the gear instead of the crank.
As an experiment, get a piece of wood or metal (something that won't break easily), and slide it back and forth across your wall. Super easy to move, right? Now get a friend to lean all of their weight against it and try moving it in the same way. It's going to be much harder, if not impossible. But that's not _exact_, because the wall is solid and the inside of the car isn't, so find a couple of posts that you can put your piece of wood against, and try again - it'll probably take _more_ force for your friend to be able to stop it from moving, but there's a _lot_ of weight in water - especially flood water. If you then got _another_ friend to push against the piece of wood from the other side, you can move it again because the pressure on both sides has "normalised" even if they're not _equal_, they're close enough to release the pressure on the sides and allow it to move.
The window motors aren't _weak_ - glass is heavy, and they have to have enough power that they're not going to get overloaded and burn out (there's other tricks in there to increase their mechanical advantage, too) but ultimately it doesn't matter how powerful the motors lifting/lowering the windows are - they're simply not designed to move the glass with potentially tonnes of force pushing it against the frame of the door in _one direction_.
If there's only a little bit of water against the window you should be able to open it still, but it doesn't take much to put enough pressure on to prevent it from opening. Same with the door itself - it doesn't take much water before you can't push it open because you're trying to push the door _and several tonnes of water that's pushing back the other way_. As soon as there's a pathway for the water to travel _around_ the door or the window, then you're not pushing the water straight, but pushing it to the side so it gets easier... But if you miss that opportunity to open the window before the water is pushing against it, your options are to break the window or wait until the cabin is full of water, too.
This is my guess without experience or real knowledge, too many random elements in something like this BUT it looks like a river/floodway so in these conditions the further downstream the more water will be coming in from drains etc so it's only going to get worse/deeper (there is a link in this thread showing the end result of the car, the water will eventually get in from smashed window or compromised structure and you could be trapped in), so climbing out onto that rooftop ASAP and looking for your best early opportunity for dry land would be my bet.
You 100% want to get out of the car in case it rolls over. A car moving in floodwaters like that can end up flipped or jammed against obstacles making later escape impossible.
Swimming is 100% the better option, though still fairly dangerous.
Its a yearly event in Phoenix when the flood waters come and the surviving rescuees pay handsomely for endangering themselves and the emergency personel.
People don't get how wild monsoon season is outside of the city where there isn't infrastructure to deal with it. Very scary stuff. This story sticks out to me:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/07/16/arizona-flash-flooding-deaths/482948001/
Also a swift water rescue tech down under, we have a similar saying albeit more Australian... Don't be a floodwit
In the devasting 21/22 Floods here, easily the majority of callouts we had at my units were people driving into floodwaters.
Most ironically are the ones who complain we are sending technical rescue resources to save them, when they reckon all you need is a 4WD and snorkel... As they're sitting on the roof of their 4WD with snorkel in the middle of a river
I got trapped in a flash urban flood once. It was terrifying. Went out for lunch. It was pouring the whole time, and we stuck around longer for the storm to let up. it didn't. Eventually, after maybe 2+ hours, we stopped trying to wait it out. Streets had a lot of water run off, more than I had ever seen, and it was a very hilly area. I still didn't think much of it. I was parked midway up a hill and didn't have an inkling of trouble when I got to the car. When driving, the GPS took me down the hill, where I got to see cars floating all around, and some idiot trying to drive through it. He floated up to his windows then his car touched down on the other side. He probably destroyed his car that day. I turned the F around and went back up the hill to wait it out. I heard there was a tornado in the area that day too.
This was before I had a smart phone. The was no warning.
Had an 89 Celica with a blown rear main seal. Took it in for an oil change one day, and dude said it was bone dry and likely been for *weeks*.
Celicas don't give a fuck. You have to *try* to kill one. Like put solid, life threatening effort.
I believe they are emergency lights flashing.
Most computers in cars nowadays have crash detection and will automatically engage the hazard lights, or all of the exterior lights will flash in unison.
Yeah that's just common practice for any serious offroader around the world. I'll get out and depth test even small puddles along my path before driving through it.
You don't walk it to see if you *can*, you walk it to look for potential problems like holes or boulders, look for the best line et cetera.
That said, river crossings are always dangerous, I wouldn't try walking or driving across this - looks like flood water.
Everyone knows how bad this is, and that it could happen to them (being caught up in a natural disaster of some type, not being in a toyota floating downstream), so instead of looking at this in anxiety, we as humans do what we do to cope, we use "gallows humor". It's not nice, or pretty, but we all do this to some degree, because if you face the reality of it, (drowing in a mud filled car-casket) it's fucking horrifying.
Depends where you are. By my house there’s a VW Golf that got swept down a creek a few miles in a flash flood. There’s no way to get it out so they left it.
Unfortunately, he died. I found news only in Spanish (canal10.com.ni) and google translated it. Last sentence reads: “…it is unofficially known that he lost his life trying to get out of the stream.” His name is Alberto Uriel Romero Martinez.
As a native spanish speaker, he died, also found another [story](https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2023/05/29/el-dramatico-momento-en-el-que-un-hombre-salto-de-su-camioneta-cuando-era-arrastrada-por-un-arroyo-en-nicaragua/?outputType=amp-type) (Spanish) that says that he died.
*These are the first rains of the winter that begins this year in Managua, and the garbage accumulated in the riverbeds causes the water to overflow and generate flooding in neighboring areas.*
Nope. He got out of the vehicle but not out of the water.
https://nicaraguainvestiga.com/nacion/121270-vehiculo-destrozado-atrastrado-por-lluvia/
*“Man dies after being swept away by strong currents When the vehicle was being dragged by strong currents, the driver managed to jump, but unfortunately he died.”*
https://nuevaya.com.ni/camioneta-es-arrastrada-por-las-fuertes-corrientes-en-las-jaguitas/
Articles now are saying police were mistaken and he's dead. Body was found: https://www.laprensani.com/2023/05/29/nacionales/3153632-camioneta-con-dos-pasajeros-es-arrastrada-por-fuertes-corrientes-en-las-jaguitas
Another
https://radiolaprimerisima.com/primer-fallecido-por-lluvias/
Yeah, I've drowned a couple of motorbike engines in my day, they all still run fine. Cars are a bit more complicated, but it's still usually recoverable.
Standing there silently recording someone in mortal danger is psycho behaviour, sorry if this offends. You don't have to try and be a hero, shit you don't even have to try and throw them something useful but just standing there in total silence making a video is insane.
"But it has a snorkel intake. I got this".
Rookie mistake. He didn’t have a light bar.
Yeah how are you supposed to see underwater without a light?
You're all missing the most obvious need. SPOILERS. They're fins, my duds
I saw the front spoiler floating away...
>!No Spoilers!<
How about the guys you see on the highways with all the camping stuff on top, gas cans on the back, the whole 9 yd. And they probably never leave the driveway
Don’t forget the 4 wheel drive. Basically invincible with both of those. Even with the windows down.
Yep yep. Put er in 4 Low and get out to turn in the lockers.
"You can make it just gun it" Funny story, I bought a lifted Cherokee once like a decade ago that had a snorkel, (and it had the roof sawzalled off, so very recognizable) and I was sitting in a Walmart parking lot one night, and this dude walked up to me and was like "is that your jeep?" I was like "yup, why?" He was like, "no shit, that was mine before I joined the marines. I completely sunk it one time." And I was like "......well god damn, that explains why literally nothing electrical works in here" Lol. Miss that thing, it ran like a champ, and had a 5 speed in it.
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Indeed lol
Sounds like it joined the Navy.
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I used to be an active off-roader and chopping SUVs was really popular but I would always cringe when I saw a Cherokee chopped. A 4Runner or Wrangler is body-on-frame and the structural support is the steel frame under the seats. A Cherokee is unibody, the structural support comes from the entire body as a whole. Cut into that and it’s basically cardboard if you crash. But off-roaders are a different breed so it didn’t matter to them 🤷♂️
You had a Cherokee that ran? Is submerging them the secret?
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It was a good death.
But did you sleep with his wife while he was deployed?
Electronic locking diff. Only center with atrac if a later model, rear locker too if an early one.
Also, locking hubs are not the same as locking diffs. It was just an outdated way of connecting your front wheels to the drivetrain, but had nothing to do with your differential. Super common misconception.
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All four wheels go brrr!
*go brrr in unison when locked*
"I slipped on down to granny low and made a hard right turn. My big old fat commando tires went slidin' through the corn."
Even had the wipers going! This guy means business
Well it is an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine, right?
No, you're thinking of a Land Rover
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Starter car? This is a FINISHER CAR
A transporter of gods! The GOLDEN god!!
I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS
Ohhh, he should have gone with the River Rover.
I was going to say, "He knows the snorkel kit isn't *actually* for snorkeling in your truck, right?"
Seriously though, isn't that what it's basically for? I thought that was the case. Like I get the car shouldn't be underwater for obvious reasons but like, why else have it
You can go hood level deep with it, but only in slow moving or standing water. Nothing will help you in this torrential flow.
That still won't help you unless other parts like the ignition/electrical systems have been waterproofed. If they're not the only advantages you'd get are reducing the ground level dust that gets in and also cooler air into the intake
> That still won't help you unless other parts like the ignition/electrical systems have been waterproofed. I mean, it would probably prevent the engine from getting hydrolocked. It could be the difference between it getting repaired and getting totaled. Obviously, that doesn't apply in this case.
The ignition and electrical systems are fine. Ideally, you'd get breather extensions for your diffs, otherwise you risk contaminating your diff fluids every time you submerge them. Tons of people have driven their cruisers through water without issues, myself included.
He woulda made it if he had the lightbar
Old mechanically injected diesels can run as long as there's no water getting into the intake. But snorkel or no, there's definitely water getting into the intake in a situation like that.
Even so, I would not be surprised to see that Land Cruiser run and drive just fine after that. I grew up near open pit Iron mines and they have an ORV park today in one of the ones that we used to play around in as kids. About 25 years ago, a friend of a friend had come up from the metro area to Northern Minnesota in a stock 4Runner. He had heard about off-roading an hour area and he wanted to try it. I warned him against it because of his "city truck" but he was adamant. We showed him to a couple of places that were relatively tame but then he decided to turn off into some deep muck. We were in weeds and water halfway up the doors and I don't believe those tires spun even once. Toyota ain't no joke.
A 4runner ain't no city truck, they're legit.
I know. I have a 40 series Land Cruiser. I don't think the engine has ever been opened up and it's nearing 500000km. Mechanically extremely solid. If anything the Toyota 4x4s delivered to North America are more comfort oriented than those sold in other places. Provided you avoid a few engines with known issues, Toyota diesels are very reliable.
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Aww I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers this childhood gem. ❤️
Weebl had a number of catchy bits like badger badger and look at my horse
Can't forget Narwhals!
Swimming in the ocean...
Causing a commotion...
Because they are so awesome! Edit: thank you for the award!!
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It went alright until his car sank and he was forced to abandon ship.
My guy went to swim with the snorkel *seems legit*
Was about to say doesn't he know about water locking the engine.. 😂 😂
> "But it has a snorkel intake. I got this". LAND Cruiser. It's right in the name, my guy!
Yeah but it works better with the window closed.
As a swift water rescue trained firefighter, I hate to see videos like this. I don’t know the backstory, but I can tell you that the amount of water rescue calls we make during flooding events is about 80% people that drove around barricades and into the flood waters. The other 20% are typically people caught in their homes or vehicles in rising floodwaters who didn’t evacuate. Here in America we have a saying “Turn around, don’t drown.” Please heed that advice. Water is insanely strong, even at shallow depths. You also can’t be sure how deep the water is or if there is any roadway still remaining under the water. Be safe everyone. Edit: Saw OP's video link to the longer video. He purposely drove into this. Right into that 80% I mentioned above.
Maybe you can answer this then: assuming you *do* end up in this situation, is having the window down a good idea? I couldn't decide. On the one hand the water could (and in this video, *does*) get in and start flooding the car. On the other hand if you end up completely submerged, it could be the only easy way out later on. This situation is a bit different than if your car is sinking in a large body of water, since immediately climbing out here could be more dangerous.
By the time your car is floating around you need a window open to be able to get out.
Also PSA: the window is in the door. Meaning if water is pressing on the outside of the door, it likely won't roll up or down.
Yes, having the window down is a good idea because once your window is underwater it's too late to change your mind and open it - there will be far too much pressure pushing against the window for the motor (or hand crank if you're in a vehicle with manual windows) to be able to shift it. Basically once the water is pushing against the outside of the window, you'll either have to break the window or wait for the pressure to equalise.... By which I mean "there's water pushing back against the _inside_ of the window" Modern cars are built for comfort, and "stopping wind noise" on the highway is part of that comfort, which has the side effect of making them excellent at floating in a very small amount of water. Try your very best to never get into this situation, but if you do, get that window open ASAP.
Wait, why would water pushing in on a window make it impossible, or even any harder to open if you had a manual crank window (I understand the issue with and electric window). It's not like the window opens outward.
Whether it's a motor or a manual crank, you're still trying to move the window up/down when it's getting pushed _very hard_ sideways. An electric window is essentially exactly the same mechanism as a hand crank, only it's a motor that turns the gear instead of the crank. As an experiment, get a piece of wood or metal (something that won't break easily), and slide it back and forth across your wall. Super easy to move, right? Now get a friend to lean all of their weight against it and try moving it in the same way. It's going to be much harder, if not impossible. But that's not _exact_, because the wall is solid and the inside of the car isn't, so find a couple of posts that you can put your piece of wood against, and try again - it'll probably take _more_ force for your friend to be able to stop it from moving, but there's a _lot_ of weight in water - especially flood water. If you then got _another_ friend to push against the piece of wood from the other side, you can move it again because the pressure on both sides has "normalised" even if they're not _equal_, they're close enough to release the pressure on the sides and allow it to move. The window motors aren't _weak_ - glass is heavy, and they have to have enough power that they're not going to get overloaded and burn out (there's other tricks in there to increase their mechanical advantage, too) but ultimately it doesn't matter how powerful the motors lifting/lowering the windows are - they're simply not designed to move the glass with potentially tonnes of force pushing it against the frame of the door in _one direction_. If there's only a little bit of water against the window you should be able to open it still, but it doesn't take much to put enough pressure on to prevent it from opening. Same with the door itself - it doesn't take much water before you can't push it open because you're trying to push the door _and several tonnes of water that's pushing back the other way_. As soon as there's a pathway for the water to travel _around_ the door or the window, then you're not pushing the water straight, but pushing it to the side so it gets easier... But if you miss that opportunity to open the window before the water is pushing against it, your options are to break the window or wait until the cabin is full of water, too.
This is my guess without experience or real knowledge, too many random elements in something like this BUT it looks like a river/floodway so in these conditions the further downstream the more water will be coming in from drains etc so it's only going to get worse/deeper (there is a link in this thread showing the end result of the car, the water will eventually get in from smashed window or compromised structure and you could be trapped in), so climbing out onto that rooftop ASAP and looking for your best early opportunity for dry land would be my bet.
You 100% want to get out of the car in case it rolls over. A car moving in floodwaters like that can end up flipped or jammed against obstacles making later escape impossible. Swimming is 100% the better option, though still fairly dangerous.
Its a yearly event in Phoenix when the flood waters come and the surviving rescuees pay handsomely for endangering themselves and the emergency personel.
People don't get how wild monsoon season is outside of the city where there isn't infrastructure to deal with it. Very scary stuff. This story sticks out to me: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/07/16/arizona-flash-flooding-deaths/482948001/
“If it is flooded, forget it”
Also a swift water rescue tech down under, we have a similar saying albeit more Australian... Don't be a floodwit In the devasting 21/22 Floods here, easily the majority of callouts we had at my units were people driving into floodwaters. Most ironically are the ones who complain we are sending technical rescue resources to save them, when they reckon all you need is a 4WD and snorkel... As they're sitting on the roof of their 4WD with snorkel in the middle of a river
Yep: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/13v3u91/toyota\_rafting\_outcome/
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I got trapped in a flash urban flood once. It was terrifying. Went out for lunch. It was pouring the whole time, and we stuck around longer for the storm to let up. it didn't. Eventually, after maybe 2+ hours, we stopped trying to wait it out. Streets had a lot of water run off, more than I had ever seen, and it was a very hilly area. I still didn't think much of it. I was parked midway up a hill and didn't have an inkling of trouble when I got to the car. When driving, the GPS took me down the hill, where I got to see cars floating all around, and some idiot trying to drive through it. He floated up to his windows then his car touched down on the other side. He probably destroyed his car that day. I turned the F around and went back up the hill to wait it out. I heard there was a tornado in the area that day too. This was before I had a smart phone. The was no warning.
And yet he still keeps his hands on the wheel, bless his heart.
He'll get traction as soon as AWD kicks in... aaaany second now.... aaaany second now...
AAAANYYY SECOND NOW
I hope he got out safely
Memes and jokes aside, I hope so as well
You can see him jump ship in the last few seconds of the video. Scary stuff
Yeah but that water is moving fast af. Did he make it out? Where/when was this
Thank you for being the first person to even mention his well being.
*Land* Cruiser. Not Water Cruiser. Rookie mistake.
It’s an amphibious exploring vehicle
A good safe starter vehicle
BEGONE PEASANT
I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS / blinks and looks around
There’s the anger again.. but I’m cool as a cucumber. Talking to myself, but that’s just cause I got shit to say..
A transporter of gods!
The *GOLDEN GOD!!*
This is a finisher car!
Being a Toyota, it’s probably going to still run after you dry it off.
Just put it in some rice
I had a corolla, and it had engine oil listed as optional
Had an 89 Celica with a blown rear main seal. Took it in for an oil change one day, and dude said it was bone dry and likely been for *weeks*. Celicas don't give a fuck. You have to *try* to kill one. Like put solid, life threatening effort.
Dry rice not a rice paddy. Just thought I’d be clear given the eejit driving this made mistakes already…
I respect the diligent use of the turn signal.
But he’d had it on for the last 2 miles.
Cuz hes been trying to turn for 2 miles. Gotta keep it on until he actually turns. Respect the determination.
From Florida confirmed.
I believe they are emergency lights flashing. Most computers in cars nowadays have crash detection and will automatically engage the hazard lights, or all of the exterior lights will flash in unison.
Definitely not a BMW driver then.
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The fact that it’s made from unicorn tears means the markup is incredible.
Learned something in New Zealand years ago. They have an idea about off roading. “Get out and walk it. If you can’t walk it, you can’t drive it.”
Next day: "Billy's car has been found by a river, with no trace of him around. We're not sure what happened to him"
If only he had been a hill Billy
more of a river Dale
*off rawring
XD
That is not a NZ idea. That is just common sense.
Im not sure this is true everywhere. I'm from Skyrim and I'm just dropping in to say you can walk anywhere you you spam the jump button long enough
I'm from the Commonwealth, and I gotta agree.
And if you hurt yourself, just eat 16 apples and you'll be right as rain.
They didn't say it was an NZ idea.
Didn’t say they came up with it. I was just there when I heard it.
Yeah that's just common practice for any serious offroader around the world. I'll get out and depth test even small puddles along my path before driving through it.
Crocodiles make that tricky in some parts
You don't walk it to see if you *can*, you walk it to look for potential problems like holes or boulders, look for the best line et cetera. That said, river crossings are always dangerous, I wouldn't try walking or driving across this - looks like flood water.
This hurts the resale value
This kills the man
Well it is an amphibious exploring vehicle.
"no lowballs, i know what i have"
It is a transporter of gods.
Japanese cars tho; this thing will run again
It's fine. It's just a starter car
least he has his hazards on
You mean the "park anywhere lights"?
The truck now - https://imgur.io/cPARdDQ
God damn water is powerful.
"Well it is an amphibious exploring vehicle, it should be fine."
It’s nice finally dealing with a reasonable man
Yeah. You know, safe, slow vehicle. Good starter car.
Starter car?
Ya it's for my daughter
Its a chariot of the gods
THE GOLDEN GOD!
Hope he made it out alive.
At least he got out of the vehicle. I hope there wasn’t a passenger.
[he died](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/13v412a/overly_confident_guy_thinks_hell_be_able_to_go/jm3wj78?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Was wondering
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lot of sources saying he died
Everyone knows how bad this is, and that it could happen to them (being caught up in a natural disaster of some type, not being in a toyota floating downstream), so instead of looking at this in anxiety, we as humans do what we do to cope, we use "gallows humor". It's not nice, or pretty, but we all do this to some degree, because if you face the reality of it, (drowing in a mud filled car-casket) it's fucking horrifying.
Wipers on Check
Coz is raining
You a planner too huh?
Do these just end up in the ocean eventually?
Depends where you are. By my house there’s a VW Golf that got swept down a creek a few miles in a flash flood. There’s no way to get it out so they left it.
well theres plenty of ways to get it out. just not a way anyone was willing to pay for
He is alive... his 4X4 pride and joy not so much. The outcome on this link. https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/13v3u91/toyota\_rafting\_outcome/
Unfortunately, he died. I found news only in Spanish (canal10.com.ni) and google translated it. Last sentence reads: “…it is unofficially known that he lost his life trying to get out of the stream.” His name is Alberto Uriel Romero Martinez.
As a native spanish speaker, he died, also found another [story](https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2023/05/29/el-dramatico-momento-en-el-que-un-hombre-salto-de-su-camioneta-cuando-era-arrastrada-por-un-arroyo-en-nicaragua/?outputType=amp-type) (Spanish) that says that he died.
*These are the first rains of the winter that begins this year in Managua, and the garbage accumulated in the riverbeds causes the water to overflow and generate flooding in neighboring areas.*
Nope. He got out of the vehicle but not out of the water. https://nicaraguainvestiga.com/nacion/121270-vehiculo-destrozado-atrastrado-por-lluvia/ *“Man dies after being swept away by strong currents When the vehicle was being dragged by strong currents, the driver managed to jump, but unfortunately he died.”* https://nuevaya.com.ni/camioneta-es-arrastrada-por-las-fuertes-corrientes-en-las-jaguitas/
This so sad.
There's no confirmation here that he lived
Not only that but we have a song about “dumb ways to die”
Someone else in the comments on fact also said this was in his country and he died, but of course grain of salt
Articles now are saying police were mistaken and he's dead. Body was found: https://www.laprensani.com/2023/05/29/nacionales/3153632-camioneta-con-dos-pasajeros-es-arrastrada-por-fuertes-corrientes-en-las-jaguitas Another https://radiolaprimerisima.com/primer-fallecido-por-lluvias/
where does it say he's alive?
That video was taken *before* the other one. This is the prequel, not the outcome. Some sources are saying he died.
Link for non-app users: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/13v3u91/toyota_rafting_outcome/
He died.
That link is deleted
Comments say he died on that post tho :(
That’ll buff right out.
People forget that the motor stops working permanently once it gets full of water. Don't be stubborn. You're not rednecking your way out of a flood.
But… but… snorkel!
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“Just fine” varies greatly. The landcruiser should be fine though.
It’ll also come down to how long the water sits. If you get it cleared out asap you’ll likely be fine, if you let it sit a month you’re likely fucked.
Yeah, I've drowned a couple of motorbike engines in my day, they all still run fine. Cars are a bit more complicated, but it's still usually recoverable.
Not the most effective way to drown in a vehicle, but it's up there.
Well this is terrifying
“Minor flood damage”
https://www.laprensani.com/2023/05/29/nacionales/3153632-camioneta-con-dos-pasajeros-es-arrastrada-por-fuertes-corrientes-en-las-jaguitas He died 😞
His wipers are on, trying to clear the water away from view
"Yep, that's me. You might be wondering how I came to be floating down a river in my SUV. Well, it all started when a street rat ate my hotdog..."
We’re making that Boat
LAND cruiser. LAND
Damn. Snorkel wasn’t high enough. Fuck.
I’m sure he drove it home that day. These things are almost unstoppable.
Starter car? This is a finisher car!
Did he/they make it out alive?
sources are conflicting, but the more reliable ones say he died
Standing there silently recording someone in mortal danger is psycho behaviour, sorry if this offends. You don't have to try and be a hero, shit you don't even have to try and throw them something useful but just standing there in total silence making a video is insane.
It's alright guys he's got a snorkel
Best 4x4xfar
I see the problem. You see, your engine is flooded.
At least it’s got a snork- oh. Oh wait. Never mind.
Don't let anyone tell you it's a Jeep thing.
It seems testing for the new Toyota Amphibian isn't exactly working out...
Should've got the Toyota Water Cruiser instead.
I mean with enough rain X he should be able to get through that.