X5 stuck on the beach
 

Not sure if it is posted before.
What was the driver thinking? :tsk:

Watrob.. are you there ?

Well there's driving on the Beach & driving on the Beach. I do a surf beach run up to the beach house every weekend, day or night, high or low tide, 14klm run one way.

The X5 is quite capable, its just that some driver are not!

How are you Jamesboag?

welcome to yesterday :)

http://www.xoutpost.com/off-topic/lo...375-uh-oh.html

Weasel what do you think could have been damaged by this water?

Potential problems?

If salt water gets into the X5 through the door sill and the carpet is spongy wet then there is 100mm of water sitting in the lower floor pan, wiring loom, computer modules, speakers etc are all house in this area.

Even if you replaced the damaged modules BMW will not warranty the car anymore as corrosion sets in and the pins & plugs fail, there would always be something going wrong. Fresh water now that a different story as corrision is not as big a factor.

Thank you, it's a pitty owner of this X does not apreciate what he has.

Well you see, I drive mine on the Beach every weekend to get to the beach house. Well I mean I did with the E53, then with my first E70 and then with my 2nd E70. That 2nd E70 did not quite make the beach one Friday night in Jan 09, as I hit the second cutting to get onto the beach a king high tide the night before had washed the cutting out and I buried it in 350mm of salt water and X5's don't float.

With the amount of electronics in that lower floor area I would not want to even spill a bucket of water over in the front, even the sensors on the adaptive drive suspension cannot handle exposure for a long period of time in water!

It took only minutes to fill the lower floor area with water and all you could feel was that the carpet was wet and then the iDrive started to light up light a Xmas tree and everthing started to fail & then the transmission goes into park. The only way to get pulled out is to get the red release key out of the trunk and release the transmission.

The X5 only has around 220mm clearence, so water over 300mm is a no no and never make a bow wave as the air intake in the front will kill your motor, you cannot compress water in your cylinder heads, bent conrods!

Anyway I picked the 3rd new X5 up last Friday night to use over the weekend just to test some new 6mm offset castor bushes I had install, two hours later I was rallying up the beach, oh and I did not use the second cutting, to much water in it, went out the first cutting instead!:thumbup:

That photo kind of reminds me of the first time I took my X5 on the beach. I didn't know about letting the air out of the tires and sure enough I got stuck in the sand. No water involved thank God. It was embarassing trying to push it out with the wife driving and all the old beat-up pickup trucks driving by and grinning. Finally someone stopped and asked me if I'd let air out of the tires. Once I did that the X hopped right out of the holes she'd dug and down the beach we went!