Flood Damage, Car Totaled, what to do...?

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Apr 3, 2010 | 07:08 PM

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euntaeyi

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Good luck. With the amount of work invested in it you may want to keep it but it's a matter of how much hassle you're willing to deal with.

Apr 3, 2010 | 07:13 PM

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the car was flooded. Get rid of it.

Apr 3, 2010 | 07:29 PM

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I'm sorry, but it had to be said, this is NOT something to talk about on a public forum about insurance claims.....

Sux about the problem you now have

Apr 3, 2010 | 07:32 PM

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SeansEvoAte

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scrap the car but try to work out a way to keep the motor & trans. however you do it is up to you.

Apr 4, 2010 | 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by smokedmustang

A friend of mine is a body/paint guy, and he said he bought some flood cars before that were totally submerged, and he put a crapload of rice, or ricebags in it, and it totally dried all the electronics, and it worked fine ever since. if you want to know the exact details, I can ask him.

did this with an iphone when i dropped it in the pool.... put it in a ziplock bag with rice in it and left it in the sun and the rice absorbs all the moisture and the phone works perfect now haha

Apr 4, 2010 | 02:56 PM

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if you buy it back, i would be interested in buying the rolling chassis. i can easily get my hands on new harnesses. and you could keep your engine and trans to drop them into a non-damaged vehicle

Apr 4, 2010 | 04:37 PM

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blkmkIII

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why not just buy the car back if the price is rite...... buy an entire car harness... problem solved.

Apr 4, 2010 | 05:24 PM

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Aznlyfe2

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i would just buy a new one

Apr 4, 2010 | 05:33 PM

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RockmanX

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yup i agree total and get anew one.

Apr 4, 2010 | 07:52 PM

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05ah8james

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I'm undecided weather or not I wanna just buy a "new" evo 8, or buy an Audi RS4...

Apr 4, 2010 | 07:54 PM

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05ah8james

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Also, what about the relays under the dash... would these be ruined?

Apr 4, 2010 | 08:01 PM

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Aaron20

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it may sound harsh but i would try and use it as a track only car because the amount of money it will cost to fix might not be worth it. but thats up to u.

Apr 4, 2010 | 08:09 PM

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i say try and buy it back from them that way u can keep it as a track car and just run a stand alone ecu

Apr 4, 2010 | 08:17 PM

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05ah8james

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Quote:

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i say try and buy it back from them that way u can keep it as a track car and just run a stand alone ecu

It actually had an AEM in it...

Apr 4, 2010 | 08:23 PM

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luvmyred9

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*cough*buy a peice of junk engine and throw it in and total it *cough*

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