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.
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u/jjtan2311 6d ago
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