How to pull out car from a frozen lake

robbersdog49says...

If it wasn't running when it went through the ice there's a very good chance that with very little work the engine and mechanicals would be fine. A strip down clean and rebuild would be the worst case scenario there. The electrics may be shot, but replacing those wouldn't be too hard with a donor car from a scrappy. Likewise with the interior. Take it all out and let it dry properly and it'll be fine. Certainly a lot better than not having a car.

In the west we often think about things like this in terms of how much it would cost to pay someone else to do all this for us. The owner of the car in Russia would be much more likely to do the work themselves. So, the cost becomes the cost of parts, rather than labor - and labor is often the most expensive part of any repair job.

Besides that, even if it was a write off it's far better for the environment (and these guys are probably eating fish they pull out of that lake) and for the owner if they get the car out of the lake.

charliemsaid:

How is that car not written off?
Would it even start?

timtonersays...

How do they even know the ice is thick enough to support the weight of the car NOW?!? I mean, clearly it got there somehow. Someone's bad judgment about ice thickness and whatnot ended up with an improvised submarine. How do they decide that now is the time to try?

nanrodsays...

The car's condition depends mainly on whether or not the engine was running at the time the air intake was submerged (water does not compress well inside a cylinder) and if the water is fresh or salt. This is lake Baikal so it's fresh. The blurb a the end says its during the Baikal Cup ice yachting event and you can see some ice boats in the background so the ice is probably safe in most areas, just not in this one.

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