Driver in a Camaro drives into flood water and gets the ride hydro locked
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The timing of the tow truck pulling into frame 👌
Probably could have slipped that driver $20 before hand to pull you through it.
He waits there for these idi*ts
He would have been fine if he drove slow.
Yeah he splashed the water sky high and right into his air intake. An expensive lesson learnt for him.
Drives a Camaro, doesn't understand where the air intake is. That sounds about right 👍
Perhaps, but they couldn't have known that: there's NO way they carefully measured water depth before charging through. You don't !@#$! around with flooding, especially in a low car. What's the cost-benefit analysis? Cost: * X chance of engine loss (hydrolock) and Y chance ...
Is that a tow truck inching up at the end? 😅
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Yep, I totaled my car too doing that. It was a flash flood, and my car ended up on the news lol
Don't feel too bad, I did it around the corner from my duplex at the time. It was coming down so hard I couldn't see the road was submerged till I was in it. And it was a road I had taken so many times in lesser rain. Had to get out and push it around the corner with a couple ...
I was taking my son to school one morning trying to avoid the rain but it came on so fast my car was swept away in a known flood plane, it went further than it ever has in to the other streets at a stop sign and a truck trying to make it hit me from the back and we just slid r...
Arizona has what is called a "stupid motorist" law so adds the cost of the rescue/tow to the ticket/s as well as the loss of the car and public embarrassment. Just sayin' that it could have been worse, LOL!
Can't fix stupid
and being stupid is expensive
The harder you hit that gas into water the higher that water is going to run up the hood, and your intake is sucking air pretty good when you hit it making it a quick drinking straw for the high water. Crawl it out
Need to create a bow wave
Money dont buy brains.
The shit is 100% financed at 18%
What did he think was going to happen?! 🤣
Driver did basically the only thing you absolutely shouldn't do in that situation. If he just drove slow with a consistent speed he would have made it much farther than he did.
Don't drive into flood water. Ever.
I drove a Dodge Spirit through a literal flood in 2004 and only my headlights stopped working
That was old DSM engineering
My old Accord would have breezed through that. It was the best off road vehicle I ever owned.
I drove a Nissan kicks thru a road that I thought had a little standing water…it was in a neighborhood, and the road was basically the floodplain and the houses say on a slight gradient. It wasn’t until I was finding thru it I realized it was almost completely covering my ti...
Tow truck driver: 
OH LOOK! A wild tow truck appears!
Fucking moron
Fucking knew it was the Houston area....
Funny one can tell more by the floodwaters more than the "832".
youd think people would learn a thing or two with all the flooding but every major rain event theyre on the news staging a rescue for some 18 wheeler driver
DRIVER in Camaro with an outrageously high monthly payment, takes the easy way out.
I can't believe your comment isn't higher, this is a pretty common way to get out of a loan. I forgot who said it, but you ever notice when the news shows flood footage there is always a porsche floating by.
Turn around don’t drown
This happened to someone in my neighborhood once. They had to basically abandoned their car in the water. I guess a tow truck must’ve gotten it later.
I thought I was on ConvenientTowtruck subreddit.
You should be fine. The Tow Truck Driver
Tow truck drivers….. My brother drove through a popular cut through in town, everybody usually hops on the gas because of the curves and the banking makes it fun, until it isn’t. Isn’t is just after a heavy rain, high curbs on the curves are brutal when you go over them at 4...
250 dollar tow vs 5000 dollar repair...
Why would you do that …
It's now a Canoero.
I read that as Canyonero 
Got their shoes wet too
People should have to pay an idiot fee sometimes
It's really astonishing how logic and brains go down as money goes up
Doesn’t even creep in just goes for it.
Driver in Camaro drives Camaro.
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He neglected to purchase the Bumblebee Edition which can transform to handle these conditions
Should've just transformed and walked.
This exact situation happened to me yesterday, I drive a challenger and i drove it super slow are the only differences, i made it home just fine
Had the idiot just drove normally he might have even made it.
Bro should have went slower😂
What was he expecting? The car to transform?
I guess he thought he could do it because the SUV’s were??
Its a camero driver, wouldn't expect actually have brain cells
Dumbass
Hey my air intake is like, higher than my hood, right? Asking for a friend.
That was just straight up stupid .
Idiot
What is hydro locking, specifically? Water in the tailpipe? Water entering the air intake? Cooling off the engine too much too quickly?
Water entering the air intake and getting into the pistons- it’s effectively incompressible so engine locks up.
No Bumblebee don't do it!
I can hear the drumbeats.
The trick is to drive slow. They, in fact, didn't know this.
Tow truck driver probably told him he needs to go fast
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the tow truck driver that told him he could make it 
The driver wondering why it doesn't drive anymore. 
Why do these idiots always floor it? You have to crawl through water if you want to make it.
He's from the towing company and he's here to help
Bro what a word: hydro locked.
That’s Darwin at work right there.
Engine flooding 12%
That's totaled; he just fried all his electronics.
Always nice to see a Camaro removed from the road without it having killed a bunch of people.
Last I checked Camaros are not amphibious.
FAFO
Someone has money. To waste. Jesus...
If you do shit like this, either drive slow or even better - drive backwards
Heh heh heh
Tow truck driver: 
Alternate title: Bumblebee goes for a swim
Tow truck right behind him. $$$
Bubble bee
Was his window down???
By the steam coming out of the exhaust he did the same thing on the way in
I had an Opel Kadett that would conk out every time we went through water. One shot of starter fluid into the carburetor and we were good to go. Edited to fix car model.
What an idiot
What did he think was gonna happen??
This brings back bad memories. This is exactly how I lost my Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. Damn, I miss that car!
I don’t speak Spanish, but I’m pretty that dude said “what a fucking dumbass”
Well that was dumb
Might have made it if you’d gone slow.
Me smart you dumb I go fast and float on water
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Definitely idiotsincars material..
Tow truck just knew they were gonna get paid!
Now is a boat!
Tow truck was hawk eyeing the Camaro and ready to swoop in for the kill.
What’s hydrolocked precious 🧐 locked in water? Does that just mean car is trapped in water
The combustion chamber got flooded with water and that kills the engine
live and learn
Let’s just drive into the deepest part
stupid games win stupid prizes
He did it to himself
He has a camaro. No brain, but has a camaro.
Always go slow. Dude going to fast into it created a wave of water straight into engine
That is going to be some carnage, revving the engine makes it much worse
And you especially don't gun it into the water. What a fucking moron that guy is.
Why didn’t he at least try to stay closer to the right side
As my sister likes to say, "stupid people keep you employed. Think of it as job security."
sometimes youre lucky and after things dry out it runs fine... with a sports car maybe less likely.
Time to call your insurance provider.
I'm pretty sure he thought he could go so fast it would splash the water away.
I think he would have made it going slowly to the edge, maybe
Why people go fast in water If they went slow would of had 80% better chance of making it
Small brains.
I had a 2000 buick lesabre that I once drove through flood waters that reached the grill and I had no choice but to keep going and I was going slow but steadily pressing the gas to at least keep the engine pumping and have no water back up into the exhaust and managed to get t...
How many stupid people there are, lfao
Insurance fraud needed a new motor.
What did they think would happen?
There are whole road safety campaigns and advertising about why its a bad idea to drive through floodwaters here. People still do it and still die in 2026. This is a darwin award attempt imo🤣
An expensive 20 metre drive.
Is it really "well that sucks" if it could have 100% been avoided by common sense?
I have yet to see a a single person with more than one brain cell between their ears driving these sports cars.
Easy pickings 😆
What did he think was going to happen? Bumblebee was going to transform into a fan boat?
Honestly, deserved.
Clipped right before it transformed into Bumblebee and ran away, nice try though.
"What was once your most expensive mistake in your life?" Then they show this:
Should’ve been in a Range Rover
Now you have a boat :)
The tow truck is right there, just slip the tow truck driver a couple hundred to tow you to the other side of the flood water. Everybody wins!
I've driven through higher water in a Honda Fit, but I know where my intake is.
Least he looked for oncoming traffic
Now it’s a real boat hahahah
If you want to drove through water, you need a Ford.
Lol insurance fraud
Bros braids scared me
Those top down intakes not so silly now
Deserved not sucks
Dumbass; why!?
Ha!
Camaro now makes a boat.
"Look guys my dad bought me a Camaro, I can do anyth-SHIT, Dad's gonna be pissed"
bumblebee are u okay?
^🎻
hey, at least the driver checked left before entering the road!
Looks like he was going to meet the mooseman
My neighbors drove theirs into a pond. It was still a smarter move than this.
Lmao of course it is Houston
you can't just flood your fucking bumblebee, omfg
Bumblebee, transform into raft.
I bet the tow truck driver waited exactly for that moment at this place xD
Man wish I had that kind of disposable money to ruin a decent car and don't feel it financially..oh wait 😂
In other news, the sky is blue x3
One thing I’ve learned, people who drive mustangs and camaros are usually really fucking stupid, as well as bad drivers
I hear my people and I see my people 🥰
These guys throwing money away like nothing and like idiots when Im sure how much he paid for that car would have me financially stress free for a while.
tow truck driver: "yeah buddy!"
He’s an idiot. Prob would have been fine if he went slower.
Schadenfreude, die
Could be chasing that insurance payout....
Bumblebee finds out he cant swim
Satisfying to hear an obnoxious engine/exhaust probably silenced forever.