One Nissan The owner of the pickup crashed catastrophically while trying to cross a river in Canterbury, New Zealand.
The scene Jamie Jack recorded, who posted the video on his Facebook page. The clip, which has already been viewed more than 35,000 times, shows the beginning of what turned out to be a very bad idea.
The video shows the car at the start of the Ashburton River crossing, just before it overturned and sank into what Jack called an underwater hole.
A Motor 1 Ashburton River is a braided river common on the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand. Unlike a single-channel river, braided rivers span wide, shallow gravel beds that continually branch and rejoin in ever-changing channels.
This geography makes the crossing deceptively dangerous. Water depth can vary dramatically within a few meters and what appears to be a shallow crossing may actually hide a deep channel carved out by recent water currents.
In Jack’s case, there was also the risk of water getting into the engine. THE NZ4WD magazine, rebuilding an engine swallowed by a river can be extremely labor-intensive and expensive.
Fortunately, according to Jack, draining the oil pan and removing water from the glow plugs was enough to get the pickup running again.
However, it is important to emphasize that water entering the engine oil, transmission, differentials and electrical systems can cause problems that do not appear immediately, so the question remains whether the Nissan will remain fully functional in the long term.
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