Flood Damage?

ballooba

I have come across a couple of cars on www.tradecarview.com marked as accident damage.

Cosmetically the cars like fine from the outside, but when you look on the inside they are covered in dust or clay.

I've drawn the conclusion that they are flood damaged. What do ye reckon?

I'm not planning on buying one but I am curious.

http://www.tradecarview.com/stock/photo.aspx?id=22101&p=2
http://www.tradecarview.com/stock/photo.aspx?id=73384&p=2
http://www.tradecarview.com/stock/photo.aspx?id=22101&p=2
http://www.tradecarview.com/stock/photo.aspx?id=23033&p=2

Actually, on the second ones it says flooding. Must be from Tsunamis.

peasant

ballooba wrote:

Must be from Tsunamis.

A flooded underground carpark will do just fine ...:D

ballooba

Yeah, but why would it happen to japanese cars more so than any other country. I have never seen this before.

peasant

I certainly have ...not necessarily on the internet though.

Flooding isn't that rare an occurance and if a car just happens to be in an underground car park, low lying area, underpass at the time ...well that's it.

Same goes for hailstone damage.

Cars are usually written off for insurance purposes and the "remains" sold on by the insurance companies to recoup some of their loss.

But belive me, you don't want to buy a car that was submerged in a flood. You have to strip EVERYTHING down to the last bit and clean stinking, rotten muck out of every tiny nook and cranny.

Gandhi

My brother-in-law used to have a Jetta that had been flood-damaged. Every time it rained the engine would just completely die. We used to joke that the car had psychological trauma.

MercMad

Not to mention a new wiring loom with everything and all the labour that that entails !