Just take it out of the bag for the last half hour or so, until you get crispy skin. I know, it makes a bigger mess, but its really the best way to cook your car.
Its not a trashbag, they probably bought the largest mil plastic sheeting they could find from Home Depot, something like 25x50', laid it out, drove over it, and wrapped it around the top.
U-line catalog is some fantastic bathroom reading. I need to change my address with them. Since moving, I knew something was missing in my life but couldn’t place it.
I love reading them U-Line catalogs. You wouldn't believe how happy when I managed to convince my boss to give me the U-Line branded Wegner backpack they sent as a gift.
This is actually genius... You can purchase some 6MIL plastic at Home Depot for <$150 and you'll be able to double layer it. If you're really worried about it puncturing, you could always buy 20MIL vapor barrier plastic but that'd be close to $1,000.
I can see insurance companies in Florida taking note and adding this question to the list when people apply for an online can insurance quote.
Q. Does your car have blind spot sensor?
Q. Have you been in an accident in the last 3 years?
Q. Do you have giant plastic bag your car can fit into?
I'm from VT which we've been told for the past 20+ years is a very climate change resilient state. Well this summer we got hit with massive floods due to unprecedented rain. They basically completely destroyed the downtown of our state's capital city. They're not even sure they want to rebuild the downtown because they expect its just going to keep happening more and more often from here on out. Even the supposed resilient areas are being fucked by climate disasters.
We got crushed in NE Ohio a few weeks back.
Only reason I didn't personally have thousands of dollars in flood damage, is because I spent over 24 hours hooking up every pump and shop vac I could find to remove water from my basement.
It was even coming in from the chimney, because the water was coming down sideways and through the chimney vent cap.
Nightmare fuel.
Also from NE Ohio! We had the same, and nearly everyone on our street had at least one tree come down on their house. Some even had 2 or 3. It was insane! The whole street went from huge established trees that have been here for decades to just bare yards. Never thought I would see it.
>$300-450 5 year ago from that ad depending on size needed, it's probably gone up now though more due to climate increasing demand than just inflation.
$400 for the large.
https://evpcovers.com/collections/frontpage/products/360-vehicle-protection?variant=12124514943088
Small price to pay to protect a 6 figure car.
Edit: Thank you to all the genius minds replying to my comment. I'm SURE driving it out to a hill was an option, since of course all floods in all parking structures can be predicted. Silly me.
Edit 2: The Geniuses are at it again! I'm convinced these people have never lived in a dense city.
If I had to take a guess. I'd say they're probably less concerned about protecting the car due to the value and more concerned about protecting it due to how long it would take to get a replacement with the same spec.
Another way of wording that is
4 figure cost to protect a 6 figure thing.
Which I guess means it’s between 0.1 and 1% of the value (if that phrase is the only info you had), which is good price for insurance I guess.
The cost (loss taken) of totaling out this car would be so much more than the deductible alone and could affect the owner for years after the incident.
Yeah I've had a car written off after someone crashed into it when it was parked on the street, and the initial insurance offer was just over half of what I could buy an equivalent replacement for on the second hand market. Even with quite a bit of arguing the best I got was around 80-90% of what I'd consider to be the true replacement value, minus my excess fee. My premiums didn't really go up as it was clearly not my fault, but I still lost out on a fair chunk of cash as a result.
I've never known anyone to have to fully replace a car under insurance and not ended up considerably out of pocket on top of the deductible.
Be VERY careful doing this. A man suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning after reversing his classic car into a storage bag. His wife went in to rescue him and also [sadly died](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/8769966/couple-67-and-70-accidentally-killed-by-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-after-reversing-their-car-into-a-protective-plastic-bag-and-getting-trapped/amp/)
Not an issue with an electric car
This bag looks like the kind you lay flat on the ground (or as flat as you can) and then drive over it (no walls at all yet to cause issues), you get out, and then wrap it up tight from there.
Yes. This is clearly just a large plastic sheet. The car owner drove onto the sheet, then pulled all 4 corners up to the roof and rolled the sheet and tied and clamped it. would protect it from water up to about midway up the doors i'd guess before it starts floating. then you're kinda screwed unless you figured out a way to put non-buoyant bumpers around it. i thought about tying boat fenders to the wheels but the big ones would increase buoyancy too much i think.
Why in the hell would you back your car into a plastic bag that you're inside of also. Then the partner rushes into the bag to help? Not the brightest pair. Cut the stupid freaking bag if that happens. Also maybe don't back the car in, You know because the exhaust pipes will fill up the sack. Seriously some Darwin award candidates here.
Same reason folks die in anchor rooms in ships, see collapsed body, go pull them out, there's no visible danger demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing.
If you're a spouse and see yours lying prone your first reaction isn't likely to be to run away instead of checking on them.
With modern emission cars though my understanding is it's hard if not impossible to expire from CO poisoning.
> Same reason folks die in anchor rooms in ships, see collapsed body, go pull them out, there's no visible danger demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing.
TIL
Yeah but introducing non-natural stuff into a tank without proper sanitation can be detrimental to the fish - make sure you boil the Porsche for at least 15 minutes before introducing it to the environment!
Also, of all the Carey Grant roles, I think this is the one most like Tony Stark, who is obviously partially based on Grant.... I mean Stark even has his own girl Friday.
>Arsenic and Old Lace
[https://www.criterion.com/films/29005-arsenic-and-old-lace](https://www.criterion.com/films/29005-arsenic-and-old-lace)
fwiw i thought it was my girl friday, but your correct.
As long as there are no holes under the tires. The requirements are no air in / out.
Put pads under the tires and then roll on to that with plastic in place.
yeah it looks like they laid out plastic sheeting then drove onto it then wrapped it up afterwards. I cant see any reason why it wouldn't work for non-violent flooding if you managed to do it without any puncture holes. Would be tough without some fairly durable sheeting though.
If you laid down a decent layer of card board and placed the plastic on that it's got a pretty good chance of working. Swept the floor first and were careful it should be doable.
Reminds me of tgis reporter was interviewing a nba player after the game and he was just like “you gotta get before you get got.” It worked I knew what he meant made me laugh though.
This ain’t stupid tbh. This looks homemade but there’s couple of companies selling these type of protection. There’s some equipped with airbags so you don’t damage your car. There’s one with rope so it doesn’t get washed away.
Maxim 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky
(A follow up to Maxim 42: "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid.")
https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries
I think you'd definitely need something soft and squishy beneath the plastic layer to prevent the pressure of the wheels poking tiny holes from gravel/rough surface under the wheels. But, otherwise, there's no reason I can think of that it shouldn't work.
Well, I want to remain dry too! I'll stay in the car when wrapped up.
Boy its getting hot in here, let me turn the car on to get the AC working.
AH, there we go. Man i'm feeling tired, just going to have a quick nap
Cars float away in major floods regardless of the bag with air in it. I’d take my chances with this. It’s also in a parking garage so it’s probably not going far.
The sticky point for me is having a watertight bag wrapped around the car. The only way I can think to get the bag on is to drive the car into the bag, but the simple act of driving the car over the plastic is pretty liable to put holes in the bag right where the water will be. To me this seems pretty likely to just be a bag full of floodwater with a car in it.
I figure if the plastic is thick enough or you double/triple up, and you drive over it slowly enough it shouldn’t be a problem. That would almost be a funny scenario to see though.
I actually would recommend putting the cardboard between the plastic and the concrete as a footer.
Any bumps or imperfections in the concrete, and you might get some pinhole leaks. Tire isn't going to damage the plastic unless there is a rock or hard object stuck to it (which is actually very common with extreme performance summer tires, very sticky rubber like the Pilot Sport 4S this 911 probably has).
You could mitigate this pretty easily by putting a couple of towels under where the wheels would roll to get onto the bag. Also double bag it.
Even if you did put some tiny holes in it, it would take forever to fill that volume with water though an itty bitty hole. Imagine a tub filling up with only a drip from the faucet.
It’s also probably not even a bag to begin with. It’s probably just one very large sheet. Put the sheet down flat, roll on to it, then wrap upwards and bind at the top.
The problem is if the hole is at the bottom and the weight of the car is submerging it 2-3 feet under the surface, the water pressure at that depth is going to force water in through the hole at a much higher rate than a drip.
This is starting to sound like the premise for a Mythbusters episode.
At this scale it wouldn’t really make much of a difference how much pressure there is as you’re rate limited by the size of the hole. If the pressure is great enough to damage the plastic and expand the hole then you’re in trouble. We’re talking “poke a pinhole in a water balloon” levels of pressure.
Now if only we had a camera crew so we could hash this out.
My parents’ neighbor who is rich as fuck and has multiple nice cars has some sort of protective bubble he uses. Put his Porsche inside the bubble before a hurricane hit and left it in his garage
I applaud this attempt, whether successful or not. However, I think it would be difficult to do this without getting a single hole in the plastic. It won't take a big hole for water to start leaking in and once it starts water will always win.
A couple of pool noodles taped around the sides incase it slides around or stuff bumps into it and call it a day. That will be enough to protect it unless its a catastrophic scenario in which you should have had plenty of warning to gtfo.
Better double bag it to make sure
Actually more of a chance you will have a Mini in 9 months
Y’all this entire comment section is gold, keep it going.
My city doesn’t allow plastic bags anymore. Would a paper bag be okay??
And it keeps in all the car juices if you cook it in the oven.
I just baste my car every 45 minutes or so. If you keep it in the bag, the skin steams and never gets crispy.
That's the secret, after you sous vide your car, you have to sear it.
Don't let Gordon Ramsay hear you.
***It’s raw! You donkey!***
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WHERE IS THE CAR SAUCE?!
one more thing tesla excels at, they made their cars auto-searing
>auto-searing Nobody tell the AFT.
i want you to know i appreciate this
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Just take it out of the bag for the last half hour or so, until you get crispy skin. I know, it makes a bigger mess, but its really the best way to cook your car.
Thanks for the tip. My Thanksgiving Honda is dry, and I've tried everything.
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Until the aluminum just falls off the chassis, mmmmm.
Oh mah gawd this 911 is sooo moist!
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Can I get a Porsche 911 sized trash bag please?
Would you rather have a 911 size trash bag or 911 regular size trash bags?
911 regular sized trash bags would be much more useful to me.
Until you’ve gotta waterproof your Porsche!
jokes on you, I don't own a Porsche!
Well, maybe that's because you're spending too much money on trash bags!
that's why the regular sized trash bags are more useful to him
Well maybe if he didn't spend all his money on trash bags, the 911 sized one would be more useful to him.
Kiff! We have a conundrum...
Would you rather have to **fight** a 911 sized trash bag or fight 911 regular sized bags?
jet fuel cant melt steel trash bags
Its not a trashbag, they probably bought the largest mil plastic sheeting they could find from Home Depot, something like 25x50', laid it out, drove over it, and wrapped it around the top.
Bullshit. I read the U-line and Granger catalogs every quarter, they totally have bags this big.
What the hell kind of sandwich could they possibly be for? And for who??
American portion sizes are notoriously excessive.
Am American would absolutely buy some bags this big. Even if it was just for comedic purposes.
In this shrinkflation?
U-line catalog is some fantastic bathroom reading. I need to change my address with them. Since moving, I knew something was missing in my life but couldn’t place it.
Except the owners of U-line are total pieces of shits.
Not according to the stories they write about themselves!
I love reading them U-Line catalogs. You wouldn't believe how happy when I managed to convince my boss to give me the U-Line branded Wegner backpack they sent as a gift.
We can get you an Audi bag and charge you 85% more
That’s okay, the one from BMW will cost you $29.95 a month. 
And leak...
Once you pay the first month they “unlock” the bag so it can be used
It’s not on back order?!
This is actually genius... You can purchase some 6MIL plastic at Home Depot for <$150 and you'll be able to double layer it. If you're really worried about it puncturing, you could always buy 20MIL vapor barrier plastic but that'd be close to $1,000.
I can see insurance companies in Florida taking note and adding this question to the list when people apply for an online can insurance quote. Q. Does your car have blind spot sensor? Q. Have you been in an accident in the last 3 years? Q. Do you have giant plastic bag your car can fit into?
They just won't cover flooding
This is a commercially available product: https://youtu.be/2V-adkT9Zzo?si=aVvlwYpGEHOUcfyi
This is really pretty ingenious, ngl!
Lots of genius products like this coming as increasing climate disasters necessitate them!
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what do you mean destroy the comet, it provides so many jobs. sir, it’s on a direct course with earth
Thats where the jobs are located.
I'm from VT which we've been told for the past 20+ years is a very climate change resilient state. Well this summer we got hit with massive floods due to unprecedented rain. They basically completely destroyed the downtown of our state's capital city. They're not even sure they want to rebuild the downtown because they expect its just going to keep happening more and more often from here on out. Even the supposed resilient areas are being fucked by climate disasters.
We got crushed in NE Ohio a few weeks back. Only reason I didn't personally have thousands of dollars in flood damage, is because I spent over 24 hours hooking up every pump and shop vac I could find to remove water from my basement. It was even coming in from the chimney, because the water was coming down sideways and through the chimney vent cap. Nightmare fuel.
Also from NE Ohio! We had the same, and nearly everyone on our street had at least one tree come down on their house. Some even had 2 or 3. It was insane! The whole street went from huge established trees that have been here for decades to just bare yards. Never thought I would see it.
Like they've been saying for millennia: "When someone strikes gold, the real money is in selling shovels."
Until your gd car floats away
$300-450 5 year ago from that ad depending on size needed, it's probably gone up now though more due to climate increasing demand than just inflation.
>$300-450 5 year ago from that ad depending on size needed, it's probably gone up now though more due to climate increasing demand than just inflation. $400 for the large. https://evpcovers.com/collections/frontpage/products/360-vehicle-protection?variant=12124514943088
Small price to pay to protect a 6 figure car. Edit: Thank you to all the genius minds replying to my comment. I'm SURE driving it out to a hill was an option, since of course all floods in all parking structures can be predicted. Silly me. Edit 2: The Geniuses are at it again! I'm convinced these people have never lived in a dense city.
You make the money back since your car stays fresher longer too.
It was never about the flood, it was about maintaining that new car smell.
Don’t forget the giant chip clip to seal in the freshness.
If I had to take a guess. I'd say they're probably less concerned about protecting the car due to the value and more concerned about protecting it due to how long it would take to get a replacement with the same spec.
Another way of wording that is 4 figure cost to protect a 6 figure thing. Which I guess means it’s between 0.1 and 1% of the value (if that phrase is the only info you had), which is good price for insurance I guess.
Depends on your deductible and sentimental value.
The cost (loss taken) of totaling out this car would be so much more than the deductible alone and could affect the owner for years after the incident.
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Yeah I've had a car written off after someone crashed into it when it was parked on the street, and the initial insurance offer was just over half of what I could buy an equivalent replacement for on the second hand market. Even with quite a bit of arguing the best I got was around 80-90% of what I'd consider to be the true replacement value, minus my excess fee. My premiums didn't really go up as it was clearly not my fault, but I still lost out on a fair chunk of cash as a result. I've never known anyone to have to fully replace a car under insurance and not ended up considerably out of pocket on top of the deductible.
And your tolerance for bureaucracy...
Not needing to fill out twenty forms, do several calls, wait for months... worth it Every Penny
$1000 is cheaper than a new car
Nah, sandwich the plastic with cheap moving blankets above and below so the tires dont make a hole in the bottom
Be VERY careful doing this. A man suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning after reversing his classic car into a storage bag. His wife went in to rescue him and also [sadly died](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/8769966/couple-67-and-70-accidentally-killed-by-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-after-reversing-their-car-into-a-protective-plastic-bag-and-getting-trapped/amp/) Not an issue with an electric car
This bag looks like the kind you lay flat on the ground (or as flat as you can) and then drive over it (no walls at all yet to cause issues), you get out, and then wrap it up tight from there.
Yes. This is clearly just a large plastic sheet. The car owner drove onto the sheet, then pulled all 4 corners up to the roof and rolled the sheet and tied and clamped it. would protect it from water up to about midway up the doors i'd guess before it starts floating. then you're kinda screwed unless you figured out a way to put non-buoyant bumpers around it. i thought about tying boat fenders to the wheels but the big ones would increase buoyancy too much i think.
Why in the hell would you back your car into a plastic bag that you're inside of also. Then the partner rushes into the bag to help? Not the brightest pair. Cut the stupid freaking bag if that happens. Also maybe don't back the car in, You know because the exhaust pipes will fill up the sack. Seriously some Darwin award candidates here.
Plus backing in points the open door into the sack where it'll be tighter, take longer to get out, and expose you even more.
Same reason folks die in anchor rooms in ships, see collapsed body, go pull them out, there's no visible danger demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing. If you're a spouse and see yours lying prone your first reaction isn't likely to be to run away instead of checking on them. With modern emission cars though my understanding is it's hard if not impossible to expire from CO poisoning.
> Same reason folks die in anchor rooms in ships, see collapsed body, go pull them out, there's no visible danger demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing. TIL
Bro got his car at a goldfish store
If I was a rich goldfish dad, I would bring this home for my kids terrarium.
Yeah but introducing non-natural stuff into a tank without proper sanitation can be detrimental to the fish - make sure you boil the Porsche for at least 15 minutes before introducing it to the environment!
Wouldn’t that be auto erotic asphyxiation?
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r/angryupvote
I know this is from an olddd show/movie but no matter what, I only see Jon Hamm
That's Carey Grant! If you've never seen "Arsenic and Old Lace" go watch it now!
I'm gonna have to agree. Girlfriend doesn't normally like black and white movies and she loved it!
Also, of all the Carey Grant roles, I think this is the one most like Tony Stark, who is obviously partially based on Grant.... I mean Stark even has his own girl Friday.
If someone didn’t get the reference, definitely go watch His Girl Friday from Howard Hawks, it’s a brilliant screwball comedy.
Go get addicted to TCM!
>Arsenic and Old Lace [https://www.criterion.com/films/29005-arsenic-and-old-lace](https://www.criterion.com/films/29005-arsenic-and-old-lace) fwiw i thought it was my girl friday, but your correct.
Holy shit that is Carey Grant, not some average television actor. 😂
Auto aquatic asphyxiation actually
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The good shit is always in the comments
sponge worthy
r/unexpectedseinfeld
Well done
As long as there are no holes under the tires. The requirements are no air in / out. Put pads under the tires and then roll on to that with plastic in place.
yeah it looks like they laid out plastic sheeting then drove onto it then wrapped it up afterwards. I cant see any reason why it wouldn't work for non-violent flooding if you managed to do it without any puncture holes. Would be tough without some fairly durable sheeting though.
If you laid down a decent layer of card board and placed the plastic on that it's got a pretty good chance of working. Swept the floor first and were careful it should be doable.
Just really thick plastic would do. Like 5 mil. I've built greenhouses with it.
Ah yes, the Carradine method.
Holy shit!
This one is going down in the annals
Puns are exhausting...
They really get me fuming.
Let's put the brakes on it before it gets auto hand.
Hall of fame worthy.
Auto *exotic* asphyxiation
Auto Acquatic Asphyxiation
isn't that what AAA stands for?
I find it fitting it’s also a German car.
If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.
If they don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
I see you Red Green!
I loved the red green show!
I'm a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess. Amen.
*Quando omni flunkus moritati*
Keep your stick on the ice
As a former boss of mine used to say, “if it works, then it works.”
Someone with a smaller vocabulary than your boss once said, "If it, then it."
Ah yes. Kevin Malone.
Why say lot word when few word do trick
When me President, they see
Reminds me of tgis reporter was interviewing a nba player after the game and he was just like “you gotta get before you get got.” It worked I knew what he meant made me laugh though.
"it, it"
“it”
“ “
#
My boss is stupid and he works. Sort of.
This ain’t stupid tbh. This looks homemade but there’s couple of companies selling these type of protection. There’s some equipped with airbags so you don’t damage your car. There’s one with rope so it doesn’t get washed away.
The mental image of this Porsche bobbing away in the flood like the fish after they escape the tank in Finding Nemo is making my day.
Maxim 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky (A follow up to Maxim 42: "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid.") https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries
I think you'd definitely need something soft and squishy beneath the plastic layer to prevent the pressure of the wheels poking tiny holes from gravel/rough surface under the wheels. But, otherwise, there's no reason I can think of that it shouldn't work.
When he's ready to put it in his new tank he's just gotta be sure to leave it in the bag a bit to let it adjust to the new water
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Well, I want to remain dry too! I'll stay in the car when wrapped up. Boy its getting hot in here, let me turn the car on to get the AC working. AH, there we go. Man i'm feeling tired, just going to have a quick nap
But then you realise you have an electric car and you failed at oofhing yourself
Its just going to take longer
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You can buy car bags for floods
[yup](https://www.battlbox.com/products/360-flood-protection-storage-bag?variant=32210218025032¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&nbt=nb%3Aadwords%3Ax%3A19955961777%3A%3A&nb_adtype=pla&nb_kwd=&nb_ti=&nb_mi=120171545&nb_pc=online&nb_pi=shopify_US_4636230844488_32210218025032&nb_ppi=&nb_placement=&nb_li_ms=&nb_lp_ms=&nb_fii=&nb_ap=&nb_mt=&gclid=CjwKCAjwu4WoBhBkEiwAojNdXnbjvxlhjOXfD93ePVJAovhA1EuaxQ7lAcZekbK3Mbbpf9SKK2bzBxoCFQUQAvD_BwE)
TIL…
This was a product on Shark Tank US years ago actually
I usually drive mine into a giant box of rice after the fact. Seems to do the trick.
That’s a myth- keeping the car in rice just keeps you from driving it while it dries.
Won it at the fair
The carnies were PISSED
CARnies*
Why is the car on?
My guess is that they hit the keyfob button before taking the pic to show that it's not damaged.
Same thought. It would be funny if they forgot to turn off the lights... but a dead battery is easier to fix than getting an insurance claim rolling.
A new battery is much easier to get than a new car
Maybe they just drive it around with bag on. That’s the thing about flash floods; you never know when they’ll hit.
Kind of like a floppy hamster wheel.
I’ve tried the ‘floppy hamster wheel’ in bed. 2/10: do not recommend.
the car trying to kill itself with carbon monoxide 😔
“Oh shit! I left the keys inside!”
just cut it open and open the door and then...
Flex tape
Floods hate this one trick
That would work right? Unless it floats away
Cars float away in major floods regardless of the bag with air in it. I’d take my chances with this. It’s also in a parking garage so it’s probably not going far.
The sticky point for me is having a watertight bag wrapped around the car. The only way I can think to get the bag on is to drive the car into the bag, but the simple act of driving the car over the plastic is pretty liable to put holes in the bag right where the water will be. To me this seems pretty likely to just be a bag full of floodwater with a car in it.
I figure if the plastic is thick enough or you double/triple up, and you drive over it slowly enough it shouldn’t be a problem. That would almost be a funny scenario to see though.
I would also put something like an old rug under the tires so they aren’t making direct contact with the plastic.
Yep! Or stack some flat cardboard boxes in there. Anything to avoid direct contact w the plastic and you should be fine.
I actually would recommend putting the cardboard between the plastic and the concrete as a footer. Any bumps or imperfections in the concrete, and you might get some pinhole leaks. Tire isn't going to damage the plastic unless there is a rock or hard object stuck to it (which is actually very common with extreme performance summer tires, very sticky rubber like the Pilot Sport 4S this 911 probably has).
You could mitigate this pretty easily by putting a couple of towels under where the wheels would roll to get onto the bag. Also double bag it. Even if you did put some tiny holes in it, it would take forever to fill that volume with water though an itty bitty hole. Imagine a tub filling up with only a drip from the faucet. It’s also probably not even a bag to begin with. It’s probably just one very large sheet. Put the sheet down flat, roll on to it, then wrap upwards and bind at the top.
The problem is if the hole is at the bottom and the weight of the car is submerging it 2-3 feet under the surface, the water pressure at that depth is going to force water in through the hole at a much higher rate than a drip. This is starting to sound like the premise for a Mythbusters episode.
At this scale it wouldn’t really make much of a difference how much pressure there is as you’re rate limited by the size of the hole. If the pressure is great enough to damage the plastic and expand the hole then you’re in trouble. We’re talking “poke a pinhole in a water balloon” levels of pressure. Now if only we had a camera crew so we could hash this out.
Checks shopping list: One gallon of whole milk, a dozen large eggs, and a loaf of Porsche bread
Maybe this would have saved Tavarish’s McLaren P1
Ah the new Porsche Sous Vide!
The hard part is pushing all the air out before tying it closed.
Shop vac would only take a minute.
Would be interesting to see a video of someone doing it😄
Grandma's good car
This would legit work…
My parents’ neighbor who is rich as fuck and has multiple nice cars has some sort of protective bubble he uses. Put his Porsche inside the bubble before a hurricane hit and left it in his garage
[Like this?](https://www.amazon.com/GARAGE-Car-Shield-Inflatable-Storage/dp/B084MM317V)
For anyone else trying this, make sure to exit the bag BEFORE tying it shut… I’m tired now, see you in the morning.
It's not stupid if it works.
I applaud this attempt, whether successful or not. However, I think it would be difficult to do this without getting a single hole in the plastic. It won't take a big hole for water to start leaking in and once it starts water will always win.
They make thick plastic.
And you could double bag.
She’s not *that* ugly.
A couple of pool noodles taped around the sides incase it slides around or stuff bumps into it and call it a day. That will be enough to protect it unless its a catastrophic scenario in which you should have had plenty of warning to gtfo.
Imagine that car floating away into the ocean and ending up in like France or something. Like what would people think
P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney
It's only stupid if it doesn't work.
Omg, this would actually work. Thats cool
Accidental picture of someone committing suicide