The Ford Where Cars go to DESTROY THEMSELVES! 

How does any person - who manages to go about daily life without dribbling and falling over - think that driving through a ford in a regular car at anything other than a snails pace is a good idea?

I never thought the r32 would actually go through it, that was so painful to watch

I love how i could sit and watch hours of cars going through some water.

surprised by the amount of cars that made it through. So used to having every single car breakdown from other channels lol

Never thought i would see Adam there lol. Nice!

1:17 The poor clutch on the red Mazda 😭

I said it a few times this is what I love about Adams channel you never know what you’re gonna get every week nice to have some variety please can we have some more of these fords they are awesome Highlight for me were at 7:44 and 15:18 lol

The "have fun in your track day" had me rolling lmao

7:43 that was just a pure meme moment drivers going nice and slowly Then the Range Rover driver arrives😂😂😂 15:17 moments before disaster

Love this, looking forward to seeing part 2 :D That poor R32 😭

with Adams commentary it feels like watching this on Eurosport 😂 RIP VR6 😭

5:02 looked like she might have trouble in that little car, then she nailed it w/ perfect technique, accelerating midway thru to stay right behind the bow wave & keep the revs up! 10/10, great job!

If someone builds a bar there they're going to be rich. I literally cannot think of something more fun then watching cars crossing the ford for hours while having a couple cold ones and some good fries

I came here with my grandad all the time about 15 years ago and took videos of him going through the Ford brings back memories. Mad to think that there is thousands of people watching this place now on RU-vid

I wish I lived in one of those houses next to the thing, you would never get bored, and you would probably have an infinite supply of number plates and undertrays lol

7:40 was the best sequence of events ever

The schadenfreude is unbearably high with me whenever someone wants to show off full-speed and killing his engine with it right after

7:39 "it seems that today most cars that go slowly tend to be alright" *Range Rover ploughs through right after*

15:17 killed me 😂 watch it on 0.25x speed you see how much water actually comes flying 😂

If I was in that area, I’d rather take the 4 mile diversion everytime rather than risk doing major damage to my cars engine or electrical equipment. Some people or drivers just don’t have a clue

The red Mazda at 1:15 nailed it. Drove through slowly, whilst slipping the clutch to keep the revs up, to reduce the chance of water flowing too far up the exhaust. Edit: As I finished typing that and unpaused the video, you said exactly the same as me - nailed it. Great minds :D

They should just livestream this area all day

Very sad to see the R32 get hydrolocked. Would have thought someone who would buy such a car would have more brains...

I wish more boy-racers would try this out. It sounded like the blue Golf put a rod through the side 😂

Rufford Ford vids are brilliant. I’m subbed to a couple of RU-vidrs who permanently video there

Drove through a big puddle once, had to change some engine sensors right after. 4 mile detour is better than risking damage.

RIP to that R32 though, From how the lights were flickering i feel like a good chunk of the electronics are fried, And the snapped rod to top it off. Such a shame :( Hopefully it'll get fixed but it's probably a lot of work and pretty expensive at that point

Never thought it all my time I'd see AdamC at Rufford Ford lol

Bet the R32 driver cried that night

Not gonna cap, idk why I find this entertaining

If I were a local I would buy cars from towns away! Very interesting crossing🤣

This has made me realize how much of a child I still am. I enjoyed this too much

This is one of my favourite videos you have done Adam had me in stitches at the end

I took more care of my R32 driving around in the PlayStation game Need For Speed Underground than this muppet does in real life!

7:39 "it seems that today most cars that go slowly tend to be all right" literally less then 10 seconds later *Range Rover going mach 3 has entered the chat*

I love how you did the spiny thing and tell the MX5 driver to double back.. but didn’t with the R32. Well damn great spotting haha

15:19 bloody hell I thought that was sped up 😂

just shows how most people have no idea how a car works and never heard of an airfilter... so simple to drive through it....

The Golf R32 moment was heartbraking. He knew that the car has slow clearance but he didn't noticed that the water was deep. 💔 I hope this R32 can be repaired.

Years ago, long before I could drive, I learned that when driving through deep water you want to push the bow wave in front of your bonnet. I feel like I shouldn't be surprised how many people don't know this... But I'm still surprised. There were, however, a few vehicles in this video who executed the crossing with perfect form.

Please do this again, so entertaining

Whenever I went to Rufford Park as a kid me and my brother would have my mum and dad waiting here for ages as we watched the cars go through on the opposite side. Love to see it again!

Brilliant video! I love Rufford vids!

Adam you have a natural talent for commentary. Hope someone discovers you. Job well done🎉

The narration on this video made what was becoming a very boring subject very pleasurable and interesting to watch again. Well done Adam, thank you for the time you put in and for sharing, great job. 👍+ 🔔

15:16 this is so legendary 😂😂😂

If this was in the USA you'd see trucks with snorkles blasting through at high speeds. Also the occasional stop in the middle to do an underwater burnout! lol

Welcome to our area! Glad you had a fun day filming here!

Quoting the case of the original Destruction Derby; "This ain´t the drag strip, this is the place cars go to die"

I came across some flooding under a railway bridge last week. It was probably only 18 inches deep but i remembered laughing at these videos, and didn't want to be that driver so I went the long way. My engine is now not broken:)

It’s baffling how people think flying through water is the way to do it. Absolutely no idea how a car works

Just found these videos now we sit here a bunch of people and streaming this videos during Dinner as a entertainment show. And the commentary just make this better it’s like looking at English sports or something 😊

Definitely some steam cleaned pistons there! I wonder if anyone tries going through in reverse to protect the intake

Adam C - Oh he's going for it. JESUS! EV - Tiadal wave

The greatest tourist attraction yet, I'd pay to camp in a tent just to watch this for a day

Always enter steady and then speed up enough to create a bow wave that will push the water away from your intake. People smashing into the water is just propelling water through the grill to smash the plastic fans and destroy other components. Not to mention air intakes can be placed just above the wheel arch.

This area used to be a quiet place for families to take their children out for the day to walk the countryside and to watch the cars drive through the ford whilst enjoying an ice cream.. This will soon be ruined, concreted/bridged over and gone forever.. To many youtubers giving this place the spotlight and making it a busy and anti social area. Not a rant just feedback.

there's a ford like this just outside my town, eventually the council got fed up of having to tow people out of it so they put a gate across it in the end and you have to go the long way round now.

7:45 Range Rover: How about a cooling splash? **SPLASHING SOUNDS AND WATER HITTING ADAM**

hi Adam it's Sonny, my dad has the blue Charger, we met at Knebworth......I really love your videos and I live quite close to Rufford ford and I like to go and watch these cars destroy themselves too!!🤣 thanks for posting this, it makes me laugh. Sonny, age 7.🙂

Tom Sunderland Midlifecrisis101x BENGREGERS And now AdamC3046 for your daily fix of ''You're an idiot driving into water like that!''

Been through that in my Abarth 595. Its not an issue if you take it slowly, although that MX5 was probably too low. Would've lost his front splitter

I have never seen so many blown headgaskets in 1 vid! Love it!

Lots of drivers seem to get angry being filmed lol

The instant the air intake takes in lets for example say water instead of air it will flood the engine and eventually hydro-lock it, That's basically the brief aaa thing that we just thoroughly enjoyed here. I haven't heard of a modern car that has water separators in the intake. Inevitably the cylinders will be filled with water in all modern cars when the water levels have reached the intake which has to be behind the front grille for it to take in cool air. If a person has not fitted an aftermarket snorkel or bought a car that has been designed for the job then a low riding car can be driven progressively slowly through 300mm of standing water for a short period of time up to 3-4 mph when one has surplus 10 grand spare cash and decides to create a small bow wave whilst trying to win an extra inch of clearance- good luck with that trying it first time in a new car as the cooling fan sucks water into the intake by every passing second. Insurance companies will not repair a hydrolocked engine because a modern car has literally hundreds of control modules and the seals around them are not designed to withstand constant water pressure. By that I mean that a car is usually not designed to drive on water. From the heading I can understand that there where a bunch of cars that made a conscious decision to destroy themselves- You'd have to be mentally ill or pretentious to make such loosey goosey assumptions. What about an honest heading. Proudly Ignorant youtuber Abam C3046 makes innocent little videos and decides not to warn passing drivers as they go bankrupt. And you are proud to post it online. But what really sets an example of humanity is us literally ''loving''that content. We obviously are careless, stupid, ignorantly sickening pieces of trash that have nothing better to do than to laugh at fellow citizens misery- And so am I. At least I am certain of it and dare to say it out. For crying out loud warn people, do something useful instead of creating added tension sitting like a hyena waiting to pounce for totally writing off their second most valuable properties. I am so fed up with living in that world. I have tried killing myself but unfortunately without results and I honestly consider myself one of the luckiest dummies who have ever lived, I can not imagine how empty and miserable your life has to be to enjoy ordinary people with mortgages falling in a financial sinkhole within seconds. We deserve to die in a slow and painful death- Choke on it

If you don't know: A lot of cars have their air intake low down (often around the wheel arch)... If water gets sucked into the engine and makes its way to the cylanders there's a real problem: Air compresses but water doesn't, so when water gets into the cylanders it can't compress which causes the pistons and engine to blow themselves to bits... That's the hydro-locking that our excellent narrator keeps mentioning.

The one thing that can be learned from these videos is that slow and steady means most cars can easily make it through. Wouldn't like to try it in an Elise, simply because it'd try to float, but most normal cars driven gently are fine. Did once drive through a flood this deep in a Rover 623 when some melon decided to overtake me in a 4x4 because he was impatient. Thankfully got away with it, and I gave him a furious bollocking when I caught up with him at the next stop...

Never thought he was going to do THIS!!!

If they don't know to follow the first wave maintaining the same speed, then after flooding their engines they likely don't know they can just pull out their spark plugs, turn engine over a couple times to clear the water out through the sparkplug holes and re-insert the spark plugs after drying them off to drain a flooded engine... a bit of water in the crankcase will evaporate as steam as long as you aren't race revving your engines... in fact a bit of water passing through the combustion chambers on the running engine can help clean off some of the carbon buildup... Establish your limits before expanding them... This is definitely the most memorable school bus ride in the morning..

Those that go slowly don't get Adam soaked 😁

Living in Indonesia, this is quite a common occurrence (flood instead of ford though), especially in rainy season (as expected I guess). So it's quite wild for me that someone made a video as if this is something special lol. Also TIL that Golf R32 is really weak lol. One time when I was a kid, my dad went through a flood with a similar water lever through quite a long road (or at least longer than this ford) with a '91 Mazda 323 Interplay. It survived to this day, now with me using it as a daily driver.

The commentary is what makes these video's always so enjoyable!

Wow I only found these videos yesterday and they are so cool to watch I’m gonna subscribe

The really sad thing is that this ford can be bypassed entirely in a shade over three miles via proper dual carriageway. There's also basically nothing else on that road past the ford save for a few houses. For 99% of people there's zero reason to even go that way and much of this is so easily avoided.

7:37 perfect moment Edit 10:20 another perfect moment

Never thought you would go to Rufford ford🙂👍

Here in the US we build bridges. The only time we ever have to ford a body of water, is if there is massive flooding.

The commentary is absolute gold from Adam. It's almost a sport. Rufford Ford world cup coming to RU-vid soon!! 😂😂👍

I've only just started following you on Facebook now you pop up on RU-vid and you visit the ford which is 15 minutes down the road for me lol

It's always impressive how much torque the starter motor has enough to bend and snap rods if the engine is full of water

8:35 love a discovery uncles rebuilding one at the moment

Adam at Rufford? Oh, yeah! I'll watch that! I'd like to see someone doing a burnout on the edge of the Ford. That would be interesting...

It's fun seeing regular cars try to ford water instead of the usual lifted trucks and Jeeps

Nice video, Adam. You really are the David Attenborough of cars!

15:19 BEST BIT TRUST ME 😂

I wonder if driving through backwards would be better to stop getting water in the engine. Many, many years ago my mum drove through a really deep flood in an '83 Skoda Estelle. Water was coming over the bonnet and round the screen, no problems at all.

That rover v8 sounded good

Land rovers seem king here no problem for them

Pro tip, if you ever drive through water deep enough to get down the air intake,if you can shut it off before it hydrolocks,you can just pull the spark plugs and crank it to pump out the water.

The Ben guy was the one that makes a lot of content like this

Adam, you should film more of these, this is fun to watch

Wonder if that would be classed as a write off considering those R32 are collector pieces now.

I can hear the ‘expert’ in the background. ‘The cylinder head has gone’ obviously a book of knowledge on cars

Watched this Ford content for years, cars going through at high speeds, always wondered why would you do that? 🤔

Not sure what's worse that I can't stop watching this or that people think it's a good idea to drive through that

The idea is to go slow and don’t have all the water coming up the bonnet and high enough to get int air intake

That Astra lady did it perfectly!

Isn't it bad to have your hot engine/brakes rapidly cooled like that?

I’ve been through that Ford with the water up to the windows and never had an issue!! I always cross it in reverse 👌

15:19 thank me later 🤣🤣🤣🤣