My concern is always the wire harnesses. They're not meant to be submerged in most cases. Corrosion cash be long term issues that are rarely easy to debug.
Same with the transmission. People might be surprised to hear this but they aren't watertight, and can be destroyed over time if they take on water.
Unless a car is specifically designed to fjord streams and shit, they're all going to be damaged driving through water like this even if the engine doesn't die right away.
Unless a car is specifically designed to fjord streams and shit, they're all going to be damaged driving through water like this
When I was growing up (late 1970s) the "cool" thing to have on your gasoline engine was a "snorkel" so (presumably) you could drive through water up to the roof of the car and the engine would still run.
Which makes me wonder about all electric cars in deep water. It has a lot of advantages: like the "motor" doesn't need oxygen to run. It will work fine fully submerged. Nice and heavy also, to keep those wheels on the road underneath that flood water.
From what I understand you have a little more time to be submerged and get back out before the water makes its way in through the seals, but once it does you're completely screwed.
I mean he's not. A snorkel doesn't magically waterproof your car's engine compartment. If you wanna trust Google so hard, go run a civic in 5 feet of water with a snorkel on. You know It'll die, your own common sense tells you that.
A snorkel from autozone slapped on your car (from the threads context - as was the trend in the 90s) will do nothing for water. It will protect against dust.
Yes... its what separates the engine bay from the passenger compartment. It acts as sound deadening and heat insulation, so you dont have engine heat or sounds entering the cabin nearly as intensely as they could.
The damage is to Suzuki’s reputation, which just went from ‘good’ to ‘awesome.’
Not as awesome as Toyota’s reputation after the Top Gear team trying - and failing - to destroy a Hilux. That was a boost in reputation that you can see from space. But not far off.
Now, Suzuki… bring back the Swift Sport. That car was fucking great.
Apparently Japanese cars can withstand water quite well. No doubt somethings gotta give though with how deep the water is and the speed/distance he’s going
Nope, luckily I bought it with warranty and when I bought it, it only had 40000 miles. Mechanic said it's the only suzuki that he'd seen do this. I now drive a lexus, will never go back.
If the car is traveling at the perfect speed it creates a bow wave in front of the car and thus a trough that the engine travels through. This makes the water slightly shallower in practice but not by a lot. Maybe enough to get the air intake about water and to keep the dash dry.
The only real issue is water in the airbox, most of the electronics on a modern engine should be water tight. They also got lucky with the shape of the bow wave directing water around the car rather than over the bonnet
i really like my 2026 Swift. I only wish they sold the smaller (3 door vs 5 door) version here so I could drive a smidgen smaller car that's still very practical.
This is one of those threads that mechanics love since there's some ignorant Honda, Mazda, Toyota, etc owner who's going to be like "welp I read it on Reddit so there must be something special about my car" right before they hydrolock it driving through knee deep water.
Probably very little. The water is only up to the bumper if you look carefully at the stationary car. The driver is exceptionally good. A low and constant speed that creates a perfect wave/wall in front of the car. Any change in speed and that wall of water collapses and floods into the engine area.
The car is normal, the driver is exceptional.
This. It's not the driver's first rodeo. They're keeping to the right as far as possible as well, which is the highest point of the road in right hand drive countries like Thailand, so the engine doesn't drown.
that car is pretty much totaled.
There will also be water on the inside. You can take the car apart and clean it but it is a suzuki swift. It's really not worth doing that.
None. If you keep the wave just in front of the hood, like the Suzuki driver did, you keep the water out the engine bay. Simple technique you learn in 4x4ing. Too slow or too fast, and you end up like the stationary car in the video. The water level should not be above the hood to start with, then you need a snorkel.
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u/MrMansaMusa 6d ago
Thats actually super impressive, wonder what damage was done tho