Remember that this is Lada, regular modern car will be wrecked after 1st attempt.

Man your guy's production value is great. Im glad you guys kept going.

dude plays beamng in real life

Lada would be good car for Pennsylvania roads. Running joke in PA is if you're weaving you're sober and if you drive straight you're drunk (because of all the potholes)

When Lada pass through potholes, the world spins. This is named day

Number 1 Automotive Science channel on KZfaq!

I do this experiment every day going from home to work and back.

This was ingrained in me the first time I drove offroad by my father, brake before you get to the hole then let off as you are about to hit it

“Hopefully the suspension will hold up” Sir, this isn’t car. This is Lada.

This is why a large profile tire is better than a rubber band tire

Your experiments help us in real life... 1% of KZfaq videoz are useful you are among this.

The good thing about steel wheels is that they are very easily repaired. An alloy that's been bent or cracked must be replaced. Yes, I'm aware that alloys can be "repaired" but not without special tools while also making them brittle and unsafe.

in short : suspension struts are made for up- down motion not really for front -rear kicks , thats why

Around 2005 my neighbor had his ‘03 Tacoma towed into his driveway. I was a kid at the time and I remember looking at the wheel and his Toyota alloy had a massive hole brown through it. To this day I marveled at what set of circumstances could have caused this and now I think I know the answer all these years later, thanks G54

Thank you for the upload Garage54, awesome content. And thanks to BMI Russian for the translation and voice over.

This is valuable information for the UK due to the shocking state of our roads.

Oi! That's a lot of Oi's in the video. Lols, great stuff as usual, fellas.

I wonder how a Citroen hydropneumatic suspension would hold up to that test

imagine this with 18's 19's 20's that today's cars run

I've also seen broken/bent tie rods as well due to pot hole hits.

The speed isn't the only answer to the destruction. It's an equation of wheel size, speed, pot hole depth and pot hole lenght. But hey, now you know if you have 1 and an half long poth hole lada wheel driving around 35km/h, you wont like it.

I bought a brand new Lada in 1982 in Belgium for around $2700 USA. It was tax free and had to be exported. We travelled for 6 months around Europe. It was a great little car, even for sleeping in some of the time! Bought another new one here in New Zealand, but was not the same quality. NZ used to swap them for butter!

This was translated into English very well. Great job!

Also you should always release the brake right before you go over a speed bump no matter how fast you're going.

Sweet new camera!

Here in South Africa, we struggle to find a road with no potholes! 😂 What we, or what I sometimes do if I can avoid the hole is to tap the brake just before I hit it, then floor it through the hole. In my brain, this causes the front to dip, then lift as it goes through, sort of jumping the hole if you can understand what I mean. Maybe you could try this and a few other things to try and save your tires. They also say the faster you go, the lest damage, but you need to go way faster than 30kph. Maybe 80 - 100 over that hole to make a difference.

Awesome! Very good to see what happens. Very educative and informative. In Brazil cars are used to that type of road. And also NEVER BRAKE on a speedbump also! Accelerate it!. If tou brake, it will brake the engine and suspension. But good luck braking after that and maintaining straight. Cheers

I still have yet to find any pot in these "pot holes" . . . Maybe one day I'll get lucky and find an ounce in one. Seems everyone gets there before me or something .

Why?.....Chicken thigh...! That was funny!

4:21 "that was very unpleasant" Somehow I don't think that was his exact words 🤣

"Unsprung weight" -- great insight!

Best video in a while! Great detail!

I think that's one of the nicest Ladas you guys have had. That thing is NICE!

The rear axle drops down at an angle because of the solid axle and more of the weight shifts to that corner.

This is one of the best car channels on all of KZfaq, no matter the language.

"Wheel take it easy" 💀

1:26 the car quietly going away

Top notch science experiment right there, answers the questions everyone had.

So if you see a pothole speed up. got it!👍 It would have been good if you put an old engine in the boot to see what the extra load would do to the back wheel.

Great channel, this. Learned a lot from this channel !

Don't ever quit you guys are awesome

Hole-y cow! That's a Lada damage. Wheel need to remember not to hold the brakes down over a pothole.

Another awesome video, I'm using driving fast enough that potholes aren't much of a problem, but when someone unexpected comes along I usually just hit the clutch and after taking the hole let the clutch out and keep driving. I once went right over a median as it was brand new and hadn't been there before. I'd gotten over into the turning lane a little early like I always do, but being night blind and not having bright headlights, I didn't see the freshly installed curb thay put in what used to be a turning lane the entire time until it was much to late to stop. I was going about 80 kilometers per hour and I didn't see it till I was about 15 meters from it. I had a car next to me at the moment so I couldn't just jump back in the lane I'd came from so I simply hit the clutch and went right over it, then I proceeded to the light and did the necessary U-turn to reach the gas station that I was already going to. While there, I checked me car out (tires and wheels) and everything was fine. The driver can make all the difference regardless of the car. A bad driver can make even the best cars bad, but a good driver can make good of pretty much anything that runs.

Another great experiment!

Keep up the awesome videos. You always have such quality stuff.

Great advice, thank you, sacrificial Lada.

Unsprung weight, the real deal ! Funny how every auto maker are selling new advanced comfy slushbox with anchor 20" alloy rim nowadays as an improvement ! The reason why lightweight shitboxes are so confortable offroad compared to heavy SUV & pickup trucks.

Alloy rims would shatter under most of these scenarios! Now I know not to brake when going through a pot hole! Thanks!

Brakes? No.. I just steer around obstacles.

Thank you Guys ~ that was interesting. Love from the UK

8:15 That's super interesting to know. 🤔 But when you properly think it through, that is correct. The rear axle with its suspension parts are much heavier than the individual suspension setup in the front and thus the weight for the wheel to push up is much higher, thus things don't happen enough fast and rim gets damaged. Super interesting. 🤔 This is the reason why I watch your channel. 😄

Great video! I drive high mileage in cars with sporting suspension and never damage or blow out tires, or damage wheels, and have only ever had two or three alignments (necessary after long-lived tie rod replacements) in over 900k+ miles, and my front end components also tend to last a lot longer vs other people around here and the only reason I could come up with is that I lift off the brake before impacting a pot hole whenever possible (even if that means heavier braking before hand), which I've done since shortly after I began driving. I started doing it because I had cheap cars in the days before ABS and doing this prevented lock up that increased braking distances as well as not feeling nearly as hard a hit at the wheels, which led me to think the impact forces at the pot hole trailing edge were being more concentrated to a single point as the wheel locked up when it became unloaded after passing the leading edge of the pothole as demonstrated here. I also run my tires on the higher side for pressures.

'We got a car?' - Nope you have a Lada - indestructible.

I think its just crazy to watch the front wheel suspension move as a mass counter clockwise after it hits the pothole. Its amazing how much give the suspension has

I love your guys channel you and your guys are genius.ive been binge-watching all your videos you're 6 cylinder engine was amazing

This I a great lesson thank you guys for this video

This is my favourite channel on youtube!

Dude, the content was really good and interesting and practical, and I exactly agree with your opinion on this matter, you are very creative and have interesting and good ideas, thank you

We don't have potholes in the UK, we have one big pothole with some tarmac every now and then.

We once went with Ford transit on highway in the night. Empty road, we went like 120 or so, suddenly we dropped with bang. Road there was suppose to be repaired and they indeed scrape down top 8 cm of road, but either they didn't mark it or somebody stole the sings. In any case, here it was, almost ten centimeters drop down on the highway in the night. But it woke us up, not gonna lie.

Very informative video,

Do it with low pro tires now

I was a fan of 70 to 90 km/h on logging roads portholes/washer board etc. Just float over it. Mostly s10 and bronco.

Next, we crash Lada into wall to see at what speed damage occurs.

Something I noticed.....look very closely at the front wheel at 35KMH (time 4:35 and 5:21). The camber and toe was affected. It was toed out a hair after the hit, and cambered out towards the bottom. Little story. My mom had a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee a while back. Solid front and rear axle. She hit a frost heave at 40mph and it bottomed out hard enough to dent the top of the axle tube in the front.

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This is why i like my older cars. Taller tires and soft suspension. .. 1 they ride nice.. 2. Pot holes dont pose as high a threat.. . .

Super test! Watching from Chicago USA. Na zdrowie...

Reminds of when I bent my steel wheel like that and my friend brought out a sledge hammer and the soapy water and sealed it right up. And I thought I was gonna have to replace it. I’ll take it to the grave. Works good, especially in a pinch.

Can i sue Government for Pothole damage to my car ?😂

Next you should grossly overfill the tires and see what happens

That a bomb crater!

Wow, good video. Good use of slo-mo.

Lada #437 Pothole Test :) These guys have an endless supply of Ladas ahahahah I love it🎉🎉🎉

Well I had a feeling the suspension was gonna go!👋🤣👍

Incredible how the tires didn’t break untill the brake test.

20:10 😂😂😂 Yeah, that's definitely a wheel alignment issue!! I hate pot wholes.

After this video, weld the shocks, struts, lower and upper arms, ect, to show a "before" and "after" of just how much of a difference these components makes in driving and handling. 👍

La verdad que eres el único que hace lo que todos emos pensado alguna vez,bravo por ti👌🏻👏

The rebound damping in the shock absorbers would change how far the tire drops into the hole. If the shocks are worn out then the wheel will drop faster. Be interesting to see the slow motion footage with new and worn shock absorbers.

it would be cool if this respawned the lada and they became available in the USA

I love how the car is just rolling away on neutral

It did better at 20 rather than 10 and I believe it's due to the tire having a chance to rebound with that particular size pothole. . Nice experiment

Steel rims can be fixed. MAgs cannot. Don't see many in Cameroon. Rather replace a cheap rim than suspension and other parts...

Rear live axle gives it more unsprung weight so the wheel is slammed into the edge harder.

I believe the front is moving fast enough that on the initial impact it doesn’t do enough damage because it’s moving fast enough, but on the second impact it slowed down enough just wrong also because it has a solid axle

No Vlad, my first reaction to seeing a pothole is to go around the pothole instead of hitting it no matter how much air I have in my tires 🤣

I can’t be the only one who avoids potholes by going over or around it.

Lada don't care. It just takes the potholes and keeps on going. Very reliable car.

Very informative experiment, thanks for sharing so I can confirm thet steelies are best for Indian city roads cause we've potholes and bumps built into new roads because of uneven manholes.

that alloy wheel was tough

It also looks like the rear wheel is stopping because the traction is on the rear, and he still is on throttle so the other wheel is on the ground and probably stops this one because of the open diff

I recently hit a bit of the median strip that was sticking outward, head on in my WRX at 60kph. Massive damage done to so many components.Still waiting on some of the parts after 14 weeks.

And always make sure that you don't slow down for potholes

With bad shocks, you can attempt to bunny hop over the potholes by braking, and then releasing brake just before.

The UK should use this as a PSA.

Great content, love this channel.

Bro is doing beamng experiences irl now😂😂

This is a serious issue - great test

Depend how far your car/bike with the hole, if the brake can handle distance between, then better use your brake, but if you didnt notice and the distance too close, better open the throttle higher. Acceleration move weigh distribution to the rear, so the load in the front suspension reduced to minimum, prevent damaging both front wheel and suspension.