Feb 14, 2023
We have yet another automotive puzzler! We are doing well with these recently. Okay, here it is.
There is this guy, we will call him Fred.
Fred and his wife are driving along one day and they are in their automobile in a rainstorm, and they come to a portion of the road that has been flooded out. There is a huge puddle. Fred immediately comes to a halt in front of the puddle and his wife says, "What's the matter, Freddie?"
Fred is looking at this lake in front of him, this huge puddle and he says, "I can't drive through this...It looks really deep. So, I'll tell you what. We are going to sit here and wait until another car comes, from either direction and see how that car does crossing this amount of water."
So that is what they did. They wait and wait. It is a dark and stormy night, more water comes down. Finally, they see the headlights of another car approaching from ahead. So they watch this car as it eases into the puddle trying to cross. And they watch as the car gets deeper and deeper into the puddle. It is getting really serious. The water is getting over the door sills, that is how deep they are.
Sure enough, after a time the car emerges from the puddle and comes out the other side. And his wife says, "See Fred, I told you. We can make it. Now let's go."
So, Fred is just about to go and try to cross the puddle, he watches as the car that's coming out of the puddle goes on by. He notices something about that car that makes him stop dead in his tracks. He does not cross the puddle.
What did he see? What did he notice about the other car that made him decide not to enter the puddle to cross to the other side? Why did he change his mind and decide not to try to cross himself?
Time to answer this automotive puzzler.
Okay, a dark and stormy night. Fred and his wife find themselves in front of a flooded street, a huge puddle. They decide not to drive across until they see someone else do it.
They see another car come across. But Fred noticed something about the other car that makes him stop dead in his tracks. He does not go across. What did he notice? What made him change his mind?
Well, here it is.
As the car came out of the puddle and went by him, Freddie smelled diesel exhaust fumes. He knew that the car made it through the puddle because it had no ignition system to get wet.
And he knew that if he went through in his car, his sparkplug wires and distributed cap would get wet and it would be horrible for him.
But the car with the diesel engine went through with no trouble whatsoever.
Now that is a puzzler worth stealing!
