What happens to all the flood damaged cars?

Atlantic Dawn

What happens all the flood damaged cars, are they stripped for parts and sold at breakers or sold as is by insurers? I'd imagine part worn tyres would be taken from them and alloys but body panels with salt water damage unlikely.

Some nice cars ruined in Galway today, Landcruiser Amazon amongst them...

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/heavy-rain-and-winds-lead-to-power-cuts-road-closures-1.2510750

Donnelly117

Put up on donedeal as one careful owner...

Id imagine written off by insurance and stripped for salvageable parts

Rob Thomas

How are people still silly enough to leave cars in that car park with all the warnings that were issued yesterday.

Notch000

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What happens all the flood damaged cars, are they stripped for parts and sold at breakers or sold as is by insurers? I'd imagine part worn tyres would be taken from them and alloys but body panels with salt water damage unlikely.

Some nice cars ruined in Galway today, Landcruiser Amazon amongst them...

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/heavy-rain-and-winds-lead-to-power-cuts-road-closures-1.2510750

interiors can be dried out & a power hose would sort most of the damage, I'd imagine most could be put back on the road,

electrical damage would be the biggest deal breaker here

Ron Burgundy II

Notch000 wrote: »

interiors can be dried out & a power hose would sort most of the damage, I'd imagine most could be put back on the road,

electrical damage would be the biggest deal breaker here

No I think once water gets into the foot well of the car the insurance company consider that a right off and won't let the car be sold on. This happened to a friend of a friend who's nice Audi was written off by the insurance company over this.

I guess they have a level, once water surpasses this point they consider the car unsafe.

Thargor

Rob Thomas wrote: »

How are people still silly enough to leave cars in that car park with all the warnings that were issued yesterday.

I made a thread asking the same thing over in the Galway forum. I walked past that place the other day and there's a carpet of sand and seaweed in there it happens so often:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057552939

These are residents cars aswell, as in residents of those apartments in the background of the pic, check the news article in post #4, residents outraged at flooded carpark again

Its been flooded at every high tide or wind even all Winter! And for the past few years beforehand, they cant set up a weather alert on their phone or just watch the news where it was explained multiple times that there was an orange/yellow warning in effect with high tides, that always means flooding there, its basically all the business owners and residents talk about in that part of the town.

Toyotafanboi

be a handy spot to leave your car if you were short a few quid...

i'd say a lot of them could be ok, if a bit smelly.

bazz26

Coming to a car park near you, for sale at an irresistible price.

Toyotafanboi

http://connachttribune.ie/residents-outraged-as-up-to-20-cars-written-off-in-toft-carpark-flood-602/

City Councillor Niall McNelis says he’s contacted the City Council to ensure that residents do not receive parking tickets while the carpark is closed.

ah, how very reasonable of him.

i'm in no way saying this is the councils fault, but if they put out 6 traffic cones this time yesterday, they could have saved a us all a fortune.

JohnBoy26

Notch000 wrote: »

interiors can be dried out & a power hose would sort most of the damage, I'd imagine most could be put back on the road,

electrical damage would be the biggest deal breaker here

After being semi submerged in saltwater for 24 hours I'm not sure they could be tbh.

Atlantic Dawn

Notch000 wrote: »

interiors can be dried out & a power hose would sort most of the damage, I'd imagine most could be put back on the road,

electrical damage would be the biggest deal breaker here

Maybe with fresh water but salt water would have the interiors, fittings and all electrics destroyed with corrosion.

ianobrien

Some were sold off as I know of somebody who bought a fresh water flood damaged Citroen C2 a few years ago to build a rally car out of it. Despite stripping the interior and most of the loom it wouldn't run right. The reason was corrosion in some electrical components that was throwing up incorrect readings for the new engine ECU. In the end, anything electrical that was in the flood damaged car was dumped to solve the problem. Now I think they are drained and scrapped.

Some of them cars are in so deep that the water level is over some major components (gearbox breathers, etc) so some major items have now got salt water in them. Some of the cars are starting to suffer electrical gremlins already I'd say. The black Golf in the IT report has all its windows down. I guess the owner didn't intentionally do that.

ianobrien

Some were sold off as I know of somebody who bought a fresh water flood damaged Citroen C2 a few years ago to build a rally car out of it. Despite stripping the interior and most of the loom it wouldn't run right. The reason was corrosion in some electrical components that was throwing up incorrect readings for the new engine ECU. In the end, anything electrical that was in the flood damaged car was dumped to solve the problem. Now I think they are drained and scrapped.

Some of them cars are in so deep that the water level is over some major components (gearbox breathers, etc) so some major items have now got salt water in them. Some of the cars are starting to suffer electrical gremlins already I'd say. The black Golf in the IT report has all its windows down. I guess the owner didn't intentionally do that.

dr.fuzzenstein

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

After being semi submerged in saltwater for 24 hours I'm not sure they could be tbh.

Except Toyota Hilux. Can be washed out to sea, recovered and be right as rain.

Whu557

Saw 2 cars after storm frank that had to pull over after after driving through a flood that was bonnet high. Thing is they saw other vehicles traveling through it as you could see the flood down the hill. Just don't know why they didn't turn around and travel the other way out of town. Safe to say I havnt seen them cars since floating round town

JohnBoy26

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Except Toyota Hilux. Can be washed out to sea, recovered and be right as rain.

You can even set it on fire to dry it out :pac:

talla

Unfortunately I have direct experience with this.
I lost a 152 BMW 5 series Estate in December due to flooding.
Insurance classed it as a category D write off.

It was bought by a salvage company as part of the settlement process for €30,000 - invoice price of car was €75,000 because of all the extras that I put on the build, so it wasn't a bog standard 5 series.

When receiving the cheque from the salvage company, he told me their plan was to get it back on the road.

Irish Steve

We had a car written off by fresh water flooding in 2002, and from what was said at the time, the insurance worry was that water got into things like the airbag sensors, and that meant that they could no longer be guaranteed to work in the way they were designed to. Clearly, that's a risk that the insurance companies can't take. How it's dealt with if someone buys it as salvage I don't know, but it clearly was an issue at the time.

racso1975

talla wrote: »

Unfortunately I have direct experience with this.
I lost a 152 BMW 5 series Estate in December due to flooding.
Insurance classed it as a category D write off.

It was bought by a salvage company as part of the settlement process for €30,000 - invoice price of car was €75,000 because of all the extras that I put on the build, so it wasn't a bog standard 5 series.

When receiving the cheque from the salvage company, he told me their plan was to get it back on the road.

Am I right in saying a cat d right off has to be signed off by an engineer to be put back on the road? I often wonder are there dodgy engineers, like the dodgy ones thst signed off on apartments, putting cars back on the road.

Damien360

Thargor wrote: »

I made a thread asking the same thing over in the Galway forum. I walked past that place the other day and there's a carpet of sand and seaweed in there it happens so often:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057552939

These are residents cars aswell, as in residents of those apartments in the background of the pic, check the news article in post #4, residents outraged at flooded carpark again

Its been flooded at every high tide or wind even all Winter! And for the past few years beforehand, they cant set up a weather alert on their phone or just watch the news where it was explained multiple times that there was an orange/yellow warning in effect with high tides, that always means flooding there, its basically all the business owners and residents talk about in that part of the town.

That car park flooded every single winter even when I was a young lad in Galway. I cannot understand why the car park is not just closed. It is in a hole with nowhere for the water to go. It used to be very small but I assume it is expanded in the direction of the claddagh which used to be a field.