Subaru that spent 3 months at bottom of lake starts on first try

[Bloodshot Scott]

"Ja, that ice'll hold ya." Until it didn't, and suddenly a man's 1996 Legacy wagon was at the bottom of a shallow lake in Finland. Three months later, the Subaru wagon was dragged from its freshwater slumber, and while most people would just write the car off or at most turn it into a parts donor, curiosity got the better of the rescue squad.

Would it run? Just how bad was the damage? Before plunging below the surface, the owner did have time to shut the engine down and get his dogs out, so the boxer four didn't aspirate any water and electrons weren't coursing through the various circuits, two details that likely saved a bunch of damage. After removing a live fish from the engine bay, draining a lot of water from the fuel tank and crankcase, and a fresh fill of fluids and spark plugs, lo and behold, the SCUBA-ru chugged to life on the first try.

It's not perfect; until the residual water works its way through the fuel system it's going to feel a little low on power, and oxidation may start to fiercely assert itself. The smell is probably epic, too, but this is one funkbox with a great story.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/07/...=maing-grid7|main5|dl10|sec3_lnk1&pLid=174514

I'd still never drive one (I am pretty much strictly GM - domestic) but that is a crazy story.

 

[bahodeme]

Have you seen Top Gear when they tried to destroy a Toyota Pickup? Also the 200 series Volvos could take a lot of abuse. My mom had a '63 Plymouth that she totally abused. It finally died when a Nova hit it broadside while it was parked. It knocked the body off the frame but the damned thing still ran (you had turn the steering a quarter to to keep it straight) about a week.

 

[squallumz]

i hear they're good cars. i wonder how the 4wd feels with those guys.

id love to try one out.

 

[Ravenholm]

Sounds like the sort of car Ace Ventura would drive.

Why say that? watch the first movie and see why. His car gets fucked on the windscreen with a bat at the start and can't start for shit while this is going on. THEN later on in the movie he loses control and rolls the car like five times or something and it lands on it's wheels. Then Ace turns the key in the ignition and the car fires up first time and off he goes. Yet it wouldn't start with a simple bat to the window situation lol

 

[maildude]

That settles it. I'm buying a Honda.

 

[bobjustbob]

Big fucking deal. Can it do this?

 

[bobjustbob]

...or this?