Splashing cars in Gurney . after heavy rain .2024

[@adaptable272]

Here before this blows up 🔥

[@wordreet]

Most of these are idiots. There's always a chance that a heavy water splash could get into the electrics. But peeps think, "Meh, who cares, my works van is tough and so am I." Or "Meh, my car is totally reliable, I paid thousands for it!"

[@SLAPDOORS]

Take a bike out in calm rain and it would still get more wet than any of these cars lol, cars are made for it ;)

[@wordreet]

@@SLAPDOORSHmm yeah, but cars are made to protect passengers mostly.

[@SLAPDOORS]

@@wordreet hopefully no passengers were hurt when the cars went through the puddles

[@markwright3161]

@@SLAPDOORS They're really not made for it. Many newer cars have the air intake low down behind the bumper. Driving through a puddle like this with enough speed to splash water up into the wheel arches like most of these are doing could get enough water on the wrong side of the bumper and then into the engine, not to mention all the electronics in the bumper now from parking sensors to radar, etc, that will be 'waterproof' against rain but not being submerged or hit with a wave like will be thrown up by large tyres, water will be thrown towards the plastic lining of the wheel arch with equal force as it's being thrown out the side to the height of the car with, and if you try throwing a bucket of water 4+ feet in the air you'll soon know how much force that is. You need to remember that those tyres have now up to and exceeding 2'000 kg behind them, travelling at upwards of 20 mph here, and the force of pushing that water aside even in a relatively small puddle like this is enough to scrub several mph off that vehicle, again, that's a lot more energy than people realise, and it's no surprise that airbags, etc can be set off when people drive into deeper water too fast. Also, with the electronics used in modern drivetrain, etc systems, many vehicles' official wading depth is their ground clearance and no more, and splashing too much water up above that will invalidate warranties, etc if drivetrain components, etc fail as a result. One of the largest suvs from Skoda has a wading depth of only 18 inches. We don't seem to have progressed as much as people would like to think from the days of the original Mini with its distributor behind the grill such that heavy rain would cause you to lose ignition, which required the cap to be taken off and the points dried to be able to start the engine again. The only difference now is if the modern electronics fail you can't dismantle them to dry them to get on your way again in a few minutes, you need recovered and usually expensive replacement parts before you can get on the road again.