Recovery team called to find abandoned vehicle deep into the Nevada desert and quickly discover why no one has attempted to rescue it in years

When this recovery team was called out into the Nevada desert to retrieve an abandoned vehicle, they must have been expecting another day at the office.

Instead, they were met with one mighty job on their hands.

This car had been stranded for several years, riddled with bullet holes and filled with sand and debris.

Once the team got to work on retrieving it, they quickly realized why nobody had rescued it already.

Getting this abandoned vehicle out of the Nevada desert wasn’t going to be easy

Somewhere between Tecopa Springs and Mount Charleston, Matt’s Off Road Recovery had been dispatched to retrieve a vehicle that nobody else wanted to go near.

Matt and his team had quite the job on their hands.

This abandoned vehicle was full of bullet holes, missing its rear axle, and filled with sand, rocks, and debris.

According to locals, this vehicle had been buried in a river for years before it was unearthed by Hurricane Hillary back in 2023.

Jacking up the vehicle to install functional wheels proved to be tricky, as the car was extremely heavy, owing to what lay inside of it.

As they tried towing it, the abandoned car’s steering proved to be problematic, sending it all over the road.

The team opted to cut tie rods and clear the bumper, but that did little to improve matters.

This led them to use a portable welder to fit an 18mm wrench directly to the steering shaft, locking the wheels into place.

From this point onwards, the tow became a lot smoother.

In the end, they managed to get it loaded up onto a trailer and taken off to a wrecking yard.

All part of a day’s work, right?

It’s nice to get a job when others have shied away from it, as one woman in Arizona knew all too well when she rescued a Rivian R1T abandoned on a road.

Recovery teams deal with a lot of tricky situations in their day-to-day operations

This was just a taster of what vehicle recovery teams have to go through in their line of work.

Matt himself had taken on plenty of tough operations in his time on the internet, including this truck stuck out in the deserts of Utah.

But it’s not just out in the desert that vehicle rescues are getting stranded.

On this Floridian beach, a Toyota had to come to the rescue when this Ford Ranger Raptor rescue attempt was bungled.