Monday 28th March 2011

Video: The Exploding Porsche Cayenne (Tyre)

Cayenne owner shows how not to drive off-road

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If you ever get yourself stuck in a mud bank at the edge of a river and there happens to be a massive truck nearby offering to help you out, our advice would be to take that help.

If not, you might just suffer the same fate as this (presumably Russian) chap, whose inexplicable antics in a Porsche Cayenne result in a tyre explosion sufficiently spectacular to cause some major damage to the bodywork, and to set off the car's myriad airbags.

And the moral of the story? Keep the Cayenne for trips to the shops and a bit of light field work; if you want to ford rivers, use your mate's massive six-wheel truck...

 

 

[Beyond Rational]

I wish Landrover Experience were like this.

[Godzuki]

Can I say cock? Is that allowed?

[ZOLLAR]

Godzuki said:

Can I say cock? Is that allowed?

fk tt cock


Yep seems ok to say that

[Rum Runner]

Great driver...great car

[Fartgalen]

Godzuki said:

Can I say cock? Is that allowed?

I think it is in this case.

[anonymous-user]

lol....

[jake15919]

Handles like a sports car don'tcha know.

[robman23]

ooya that did a surprising amount of damage lol what a cock

[Swifty Stig]

[Jasper Gilder]

Now - about the warranty claim - This tyre burst utterly unexpectedly and it's done zillions of roubles worth of damage......

"Don't worry sir - It'll buff out"

[PhilJames]

The moral of the story is: If you are daft enough to buy one of these cars....

Get your mates to film you being daft! And make us laugh!

Thanks PH!

[angusc43]

I just feel sorry for the bloke on pistonheads.de who had that car nicked off his drive a couple of months back

[1000TCR]

It seems like Darvinism does not work anymore these days... He should have lost at least the ability to procreate

[jke11y]

angusc43 said:

I just feel sorry for the bloke on pistonheads.de who had that car nicked off his drive a couple of months back

Funny, I thought exactly the same thing (that it is probably stolen).

[havard01]

In communist Russia, tyre drives you.

[sootyrumble]

The germans proving once again that when designing and testing the Chelsea Tractor they didn't bother with the concept of countryside and mud due to their being a severe lack of these within the natural habitat of the School Mum run, as heaven forbid your 20" rims get dirty.

German 4x4's
BMW:
X1
X3
X5

Porsche:
Cayenne

Audi:
Q5
Q7

Mercedes:
G Wagon (A true legend this one)

[TVRWannabee]

Oh, so clearly if you get stuck you don't rev the nuts off the car until something happens.

There, I have learned something today.

[wackojacko]

[Dino D]

Why was it behaving like a 2wd drive with an open diff?

[rossyIIa]

Dino D said:

Why was it behaving like a 2wd drive with an open diff?

Because they don't put locking diffs on them. They use 'clever' traction control systems which break the spinning wheel sending drive to the other wheels. But Porsche's system doesn't work in the soft wet stuff, very capable on dry ground though.