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14/10/2025

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13/10/2025

There are a lot of dumb things to do with a 4x4 and it's hard to say which is the worst, but this sort of driving would surely make the top 5.

First off I doubt the influencer actually realised the dangers, so I'd like to extend the benefit of the doubt. Nevertheless, dangers there are:

- there is a very real risk of bogging due to soft sand, unseen dips, gradients and even rocks. The waves will also destabilise the vehicle, and sap precious momentum just when you need it.

- once bogged and stopped, that's it. Goodbye car. The wave action will erode the sand from under the vehicle's tyres, and rock the car, further helping the erosion. It's not a static environment like bogging on land where things don't get any worse, the ocean will actively work to claim your vehicle and it gets busy like it's got an overtime bonus. You could find your vehicle rolled over.

- even if you don't get bogged it's very possible a wave will come up over the bonnet and your car gets a nice big engine suck of salty water instead of fresh clean air. This will, if you're very lucky, simply stall the engine. If it doesn't, then the engine will hydrolock, which is another way of saying explode, because the pistons will be expecting some air to compress, instead they find incompressible water so something has to give which isn't going to be the water, it's going to be your engine internals. But it doesn't matter anyway as soon as you stop the car is dead, so whether it's stopped with a functioning engine or not is immaterial.

- oh wait you've got a mate to pull you out? Good luck. You're probably 20, 30m into the surf and that's a long recovery because the recovering car will need to be on firm sand and be working uphill. Typically, if you've done this sort of driving then you probably won't have proper recovery gear, but even if you do by the time you've got your recovery ramps out it'll be too late, and digging is pointless, the ocean works much quicker than you do. It's likely the only real recovery options for a car bogged in the waves are a Unimog with a 100m rope on the end, or a Chinook with a friendly loadmaster. Or maybe wave down a passing orca pod with the promise of a whale tongue dinner, it's as good an option as anything else at this point.

- let's say you do manage to get away with your surf driving and you emerge elated, memory card full of wicked cool reels for the 'Gram or the 'Tok or wherever these sugar-hit ten-second wastes of time are posted. But you will have given your car's body salt-water cancer and its brain electrical dementia.

Your first indication will most probably be some weeks later, an odd electric fault. Then another. And another. You'll take it to a mechanic, who refers to you to a sparky, and he'll realise what's happened - for the rest of the car's life it'll be chasing random electric gremlins, one after another, hard to diagnose and even tougher to fix, you'll end up hating the car because it simply won't be reliable, and you will find it hard to sell if anyone does a mechanical inspection. Let's also not forget the fact that salt water massively accelerates rust too.

Now it's true that beach driving will expose your car to salt, as will simply being close to the beach never mind on it, but that's not as bad as actually immersing your car in salt water. I know it looks ah-may-zing, but it's a terrible idea from a safety and car care perspective.

If you do end up in salt water, then immediately bathe your car in fresh water. Multiple lawn sprinklers are a good idea, as is driving in a torrential downpour. But it's better just to avoid salt water in the first place.

This is also a note to marketing people. Please don't show this stupidity.