One totalled BMW on it's way to a copart auction, sold off to some unsuspecting new owner, described as, 'starts, runs, drives A+ condition, minimal cosmetic damage, 1 careful owner, full service history, low miles, slightly damp boot, may just be boot seal? Sold as seen'⚠️😲😳
Yeah, if he gets it running I bet he'll try to sell to some unsuspecting buyer. Salt water flooding is the worst. A partially flooded salt water car, can get up and running fine again. But will start quickly rusting away.
That recovery guy has the patience of a saint, BM is a write off for sure, it begs the question how dumb do you have to be to try to drive through that depth of water in the first place.
Not usually one to defend BMW drivers but it was done at 5-6 am by all accounts. Might of been dark and who knows what signage etc is about (though being a BMW driver prob thought they don't apply to him/her)
@@simongee8928 Easy: didn't expect it to be that deep, lost control - and it was too late to stop when the car floated. Until he did it deliberately, and people saw it, it would be hard not to pay for the insurance. Otherwise, anybody getting into an accident would not be paid because they are "a stupid BMW driver", should have gone slower/turn earlier/anticipated the change in environment and so on. We are humans - we make (somteimes stupid) mistakes, until you do it on a regular basis - this is what insurance is for
Also props to the recovery guy who wanted to be professional and get that car out without more damage... even though it will probably be a total loss anyways
Any 'incidental damage' from recovery is unimportant - the car is a write-off. The only thing worth salvaging will be the headliner.... unless the water was even deeper than we saw.
The splitter was damaged being dragged on because the car probably had about 200kg of water in the footwells, lowering the car quite a few cm's! 100% write off that car.
Unless you’re in something designed or modified to cross deep water, once the water level is above the sidewalls of your tyres, turn around and find another route.
The deepest water I've been in was in a ford edge, the water was nearly halfway up the doors but the car got theough with no problems, it was outside a local sainsburys and the water looked shallow
Just stopped in to say americans run their cars into deep water as well and british people aren't even close to as smart as they sound, it's miles away.
Hope insurance companies keep an eye on this channel because I would put money on it that these muppets will all tell some bullshi* story to try and claim their own insurance for their own stupidity ! 😂😂😂
Insurance will not cover this at all. Very rarely will insurers pay for water damage unless it's though a natural disaster which many others will be claiming as well to back up your claim.
You just got me wondering, if full coverage insurance covers a person who knowingly drives through a flooded road and destroys their car in a non emergency situation. It's kinda like driving your car over a road filled with hot coals 🔥 when you don't have to. Just to see if it'll make it.
@@michaelbrinks8089 No it doesn’t I looked into this a while back it’s looked on as wilful negligence. As you say it’s the equivalent of driving over hot coals or down a cliff face 😂. Full coverage doesn’t cover stupid.
Don't normally comment on other videos, but that is a dangerous recovery, never ever have customers / people standing around your winch cable if that thing snaps its game over, even with his own hand next to the winch line is a disaster waiting to happen, straight in the firing line! NEVER winch all the way up off TOWING eyes, ( there calling towing eyes not winching eyes ) and NEVER ever stand in-between the door like that! If winch fails he's GONE under that door! Jesus that was scary to watch.
Bullshit, since a steel cable has nearly no elasticity it will not contract when it snaps. Therefore, there will be no whipping effect. Do not mix up with Polyamide or polypropylene lines.
@@xspeedy9137 with tendencies - no, just to people - yes, why not? If it is his 3rd car drowned - or at least 2nd, yes, there are questions, otherwise - sorry, looks like an accident to me.
@@chrissmith8280 all stuff in nature which isn't supposed to be there. He didn't have to close it for the owner of the car, but for the natural envirement.
@@adamhoward8328 I think people just assume BMW = super expensive! My 2015 435d cost me £17k last year, they are a lot more affordable than people think. Definitely wouldn't drive it through water like these idiots though!
Cars fucked anyway, wrapped the steel rope around the alloy wheel, just as well its next stop is the scrapyard. That tow truck driver was a bit brutal or just didn't have a scooby what the hell he was doing.
The car is too heavy for a 3.5t transporter. The gradient of the road was working against the loading, but in the context of a write off who cares anyway.
it's been closed for over a year, but idiots like this BMW driver ignore it and drive round the barriers cos they're "special" and better than everyone else...
The BMW has got MOT till December probably insurance job. But I don't think Insurance Company will pay up because they failed to comply with a road sign which is criminal offence which is a £70 fine.
@@makantahi3731 I had a 420 d m sport in the same colour for two years and never got the bmw mindset 😂 I thought I could change the image of the bmw driver!
@@ShanesAutos i always meet guys like him, : 2 weeks ago, i traveled and on highway i caught up bmw 330i estate , 2020y, and we were in left line , me behind him on 10m at 180km/h and he did not move in right line to allow me to pass, and so some 20-30km , then he barely moved to right and then he started to push me , but i washed him on straight, in corners and in corners uphill but he did not understand that he is slower and less capable diver, because he attacked again and again where i slowed down because of probable police ambush but i accelerated again and he leaked out every times
The bollards are under the water. trapping the door. There another video of a tracker pushing them out of the water.....lol It's a ford, theres plenty of signs.
Some people just have more money than sense. Watched one the other day, where the guy was on the phone saying he wasn't going to make an appointment because he'd gone through a big puddle. :-)
I'm quite facinated by these videos. I've driven through there a few times, it's perfectly fine when the water level is low but I would never attempt it in my car after it's been raining hard and most definitely not if it's like this. There's a water level on the side too !! Been down to watch Tom and others videoing in the summer and saw how many number plates and other bits they'd fished out of the ford and laid at the side of the road.
I just don’t get it. With Road closed signs and a depth marker showing two feet + these idiots, for want of a better word still keep driving through! SMH.
Great advertisement for the recovery company NOT. Didn’t care about the valuables floating out of the boot what he opened. Didn’t use a soft strap round the wheel. And destroyed the front bumper pulling it on.
I mean, the boot was already opened when he got there, if he had close it he'd loose access to the tow eye. The car will be totalled regardless, there wasn't any reasons to protect it
The boot lid had a problem while in the water, and couldn't be closed as far as the comments above suggest. The car was lowered, and the front lip of the bumper seemed to be aftermarket. or some sort of M package (in this case car is lowered from factory) That's what you get for tuned BMW. I think the recovery dude made a fair enough job given the circumstances. Anyway, the car is totaled. Engine is flooded and all electronics are oxidated. Fixing it will cost a fortune and it will always have unknown issues end electric gremlins and corrosion from inside out.
He also had to shunt half a dozen times, didn't keep the public a safe distance away and I think from what I saw in another video he flattened his battery, but not sure about that
The driver didn’t care about his own car and valuables. Why should the tow driver care more than the owner? They drove the car into the ford, then left the drivers door and rear window open.
It is not a bright idea in driving through a flooded road. I remembered in late September 1986 my parents had to parked their cars a couple blocks away from our house. The creek near our house was over full of water it went through a few neighbors yards including up the driveways. Luckily my house was affected by the huge puddle in the middle of the street. Even some kids were playing in the water. The water had some gasoline in the water from cars. I did noticed the colors in the water. We were affected by it in the morning when the pump in the basement stopped working overnight. There was puddles in the basement and even my 2 cats couldn’t figured out how to get out of the basement. One cat leaped towards the stairs and the other one that I picked up to carried towards the stairs. Everything was fine after my father fixed the pump. It was heavy rain for couple of days as I remembered. The following week my school had to split the classes for odd periods one day and even classes on the next day. It was liked that. I missed a class or 2 on certain days because I was in vocational school for couple hours in the morning.
I would of looped the cable through the alloy and clipped it back on its self till the car was almost out…. Then got the towing eye connected when the car was easier to get too.
@@rearspeaker6364 So I saw. I was wondering if that was the headlight washer fluid? It's certainly an innovative approach and does avoid all the spray onto the bodywork, just after waxing the car.
I am not going to diss all BMW drivers…because some of them ARE normal, but often the type of people who buy these (and other German prestige cars) are pretty damn arrogant; they literally think they own the road and drive with a high skill….so why wouldn’t crossing a four foot deep ford be possible for them..Lol.
Yep could have been avoided with a bit more patience and some extra brain cells (correction - some brain cells...), it's probably for the best he's off the roads for a while.... 😂 People like that rarely learn. Love the headset, very cool...... 😉
If he had the cable length, he could have used the tree opposite; feed the cable around the tree to the car, so he could pull it straight forwards/slightly left; this had to be done to my mums car, after she slid off an ice covered road, down a 30 degree slope, as the recovery driver couldnt get within 100-150 metres due to the ice covered section of road.
Tractor pushed these barriers out when We have had a very heavy rain and main roads have been closed to traffic due to the flood . I guess that was the reason why.. and I guess the farmer has been fed up ..it has been closed again today unfortunately. You can find a video of barriers removal on Tom Sunderland you tube channel..👋
From Wellow to Old Rufford road the detour via Ollerton is only 0.6 miles or 1 kilometer, 2 minutes extra. It is crazy how people risk their car for that.
Precisely. Some drivers are so impatient. That BMW U-boat could have gone via Ollerton multiple times there and back. I wonder how much sewage has been pumped into this stream.@@MrHenkkkie
The road was closed by the council. This bloke wont get a payout from his insurance company because he used a closed road. Be careful everyone if you go out after a storm or use closed roads as you are effectively uninsured if you have a problem like this man.
Nah it's the drivers that are super thick along with tow truck drivers as well by the looks of it. I think he flattened his battery on the truck as well from what I saw in another video.
@@Iceeeen I noticed that too. That may be the positive side of driving on the wrong side there. No one in Europe wants these crippled cars, so they are cheap.
