HOW TO SURVIVE HITTING FLOOD WATER Save your car after hitting water 

Another fantastic video with sound advice! Thanks for going to all the effort with the graphics!

I've watched a few of those videos and you're spot on! The damage is usually done upon restarts and the driver revving it back up

Hi Timm this is Alvin your number one fan. I didn't know that BMW made a 650 boat. 🤣🤣🤣 thank you for this video, great information. 👍🏾

Best not go into the water in the first place, a couple of miles/minutes is the detour around Rufford Ford and I guess a lot of people wished they would have taken it. In an advanced driving course years ago advice is not to go over tyre depth through unknown water.

Wow Timm it rains there in the UK very heavily. Thanks for the good advice to save our precious vehicles.

Well said tim, great advice. I'm amazed by the amount of driver's who flood their engines and then immediately try to restart their car. Then still face the embarrassment of tow out of the water along with a hefty bill .

Dude you are awesome!!!Graphics and all. I was really hoping you didn’t put the 650 in the water like that. Lol.

I had an Austin Cambridge very many years ago. It had a 1622cc 4 cylinder engine of cast iron and a single SU carb. It survived a few fords (and Fords...lol) Only the Westminster had a straight six (3litre) and twin SUs. I now have a 1959 Humber Super-Snipe. (Straight six 3 litre single Zenith downdraught carb). It would probably deal with the odd ford or two but I tend to play safe in my dotage.

Great information and Graphics Timm keep them coming!

I remember watching the video in relation to your Daughters BMW and agreed what an idiotic man to do that. Did she get compensation i hope so, but thank you for time taken to show us what to do professionally. Give us your keys mate - no thanks just pull me out!

Very useful video and makes a lot of sense the way you explained it. 50 years ago I was working in a garage and my boss's daughter drove his Austin 3 litre land grab into a flood and exploded the engine. You could have mentioned that for automatics that you should put them in neutral before removing the key, although with modern DSG gearboxes the parking brake is automatically applied anyway.

Cheers! Great guidance…

I'm not as old as you, but I still have the memory of my dad's old Mark 1 Cortina going through floods which seemed to be at least a couple of feet deep with no ill effects (I don't even really remember the water coming in through the many rust holes in the floor!). In the intervening years I've barely considered how newer car designs would make this feat impossible, so it's probably mainly luck which has preventing me from killing any cars in this way since... I mean, I also have the sense not to try driving through flooded fords anyway, but...

Top special effects.

Brilliant video mate thanks 👍

Interesting, great vid.. Do you think the e38 straight 6 is more forgiving?

One driver who went through Rufford Ford when it flooded didn't start the engine straight away when it stalled was pushed out. He later jacked up the car at the front, took a couple of spark plugs out and floored it to get all of the water out. You do less damage to an older car because they're more simple and the air box and filter is much higher up.

Hey Tim great video but a little too late for me and my 2015 640D Gran Coupe. 😢 I have the option to buy it back from the insurance company and I am very tempted. I was driving around 10mph when the engine cut out. Tried turning it over but the car said no! Ran a diagnostics on it and there was an issue with glow plug in cylinder 6. Do you think it’s worth my buying back and giving it a go or should I say bye to it!?

Good advice

WOW WOULD FRIGHTEN ME TO DEATH , Ineed to ask a question of you if that's ok ,i have a 2008 650i i have had 3 years and love it , may i ask you tim how do a make the inner inside angel eyes white the outer head lights i have leds in but the inside eyes are still yellowish when switch on ???? help

Very good information...... What would you do with a diesel engine? Remove glow plugs or injectors?

Great intro

Good advice, thanks!

Of course, the *other* thing we were all told about driving in water, is that 'you have to create a bow wave'... not such useful advice. How fast do you have to go? Everyone has a radically different idea, as you can see when you watch the videos!

would you remove glow plugs on a diesel? wouldnt that be difficult?

Great info and fun, addicted to Rufford Ford vids sadly watching all those scrap engines and the 000's in uninsured damage and lost jobs for the van drivers who write off the van and its contents. Most impressive car was the Tesla , totally covered in water and totally waterproof motors and batteries flew thro the flood. Why don't council close the road?

Funny enough I ran my 08, e64 into a rather large puddle a few months ago and killed one of my headlights (supposedly). Non-rock pitted one and lower bezzles are nice though!

Can someone explain to me why the 1 series BMW engine was seemingly deliberately destroyed? I am genuinely confused by this.

Hello Tim?how would u use trickle charge on you're 840ci ?

Cars should almost have a water sensor in the air intake system that disables the starter if there's water present

Are you close to Rufford Ford? I thought you were from down south London way.

Just curious what you would do to purge the water from a flooded diesel post-swim?

Best way to pass a ford is to turn around. Do extra 10miles but do not cross it. Or. If you really really really have to, and you are NOT Land Rover Defender, go like a turtle 1 km/h speed.

I lost a 635 because of flooding it probably wasn’t the engine but all the electrics under the seats the battery gearbox everything lost

It depends on the sequence of events. If you get clank clank silence, the engine is toast. If you get silence before the clank clank, then yes, you may get away with it if you do as you have advised.

I swear I thought he was Tiff Needell at first!

90 times out of 100 most of the drivers I've seen in the ford are brain dead to start with. Hydro-locking is just the icing on the cake.

No classic BMW should be going in any water. :)

Rufford ford is now closed indefinitely

Noone knows this details . Most of repair man try to start the engine. Then hydroblock happens. Idiots team always on board in rainy days. Beware of them

Shame the Fords shut by the cops for the foreseeable future.

Thank god it's being closed

They won't be going through Rufford Ford now. Unless they want to ram a police vehicle

Or get an EV