Flood Damaged Cars - How to Avoid Buying
Flood damaged cars have flooded the used car market. Hurricane Katrina alone produced over 600,000 flood damaged cars! And every new hurrucane or flood throws a new portion of flood damaged cars into the market.
As a result, many car dealers and individual owners practice
title washing and register the car in a different state in order
to compensate the loss and sell the flood damaged car as a good one.
Over a half of all flood damaged cars are later sold to unsuspecting buyers.
Should I Buy Flood Damaged Cars?
In fact, if you knowingly decided on buying a salvage car, an expert would
recommend you to buy any kind of salvage vehicle, but avoid flood damaged cars by all means.
Because you can never know what to expect from a water-damaged vehicle in case of an accident or
how it will behave on the road or at what point in time some of the electic systems may fail. With water damaged cars, the consequences are postoponed.
What Is So Dangerous About Flood Damaged Cars?
Literally, flood damage means that a car was sunk in water, sometimes for hours or even days.
It may look fine, clean and shiny out the outside and have no visible signs of damage but on the inside be very dangerous because of the following flaws:
- severe damage to electrical systems
- malfunctioning antilock brakes
- damaged or even rotting dash boards
- malfunctioning airbags
- rusting and corrosion of critically important parts, including brakes
The list can be continued.
How to Avoid a Flood Damaged Car?
Inspect the car carefully, pay attention to corners slots, rugs. There shouldn't be any traces of rust or mud inside. Electric system malfunctioning is another warning sign. If you are not a car expert a wise idea is to run VIN number check and obtain vehicle history report to reveal the truth about a flood damaged car, even if it has a clean title. Vehicle history report is also a good idea because it informs you not only about flood damage but also about other hidden problems of a particular car, for example odometer rollback. Consider vehicle history report seriously before you buy a used vehicle if you want to avoid flood damaged cars. Always do VIN check for Florida cars.
