Flood car
A car after being flooded by a flood is known as a delayed ignition mine. Motogratka suggests how to avoid buying such a car.
After the last flood wave, it will surely swarm with advertisements automotive, car dealerships and at automotive exchanges from flood cars. In the era of thriving workshops smart repair covering up the flood origin car it is not so difficult and that is why especially now deciding to buy a used one car it is worth paying special attention to the most thorough examination of the past of a given vehicle. (Motogratka advises)
In the car, practically everything is more or less, but sensitive to flooding by water. A rule must be adopted, that the more technologically advanced the car, the better equipped and the more complicated in its construction, the more it can cause trouble for the future owner, if it has come under water in the past. Especially electronics and all kinds of control systems are extremely sensitive to water and moisture. An electronic board with corrosive contacts and paths will work worse month by month or simply at some point will completely refuse to obey, surprising the driver at the least expected moment.
Checking car in terms of the post-flood past, carpets should be exposed in detail, armchairs, upholstery fragments. That's where we can find traces of flooding, moisture, musty, shrunk lining materials, damaged elements of the electrical installation and traces of corrosion or unusual raid on metal elements in unusual places. These unusual corroded places should increase our vigilance and distrust, because e.g.. traces of rust in the cabin under the rear seat almost in one hundred percent indicate that the car was flooded, because under normal operating conditions there should be no water at all.
The second important element of checking car according to the site motogratka is to see the condition of the engine, if we also see strange raids and traces of corrosion, they may also be a sign of flooding, if, on the other hand, we find impeccable cleanliness, if we find out that the engine has no leaks or signs of use, that it is simply washed thoroughly, it may be a fact, that the seller wants to hide some defects of the vehicle being sold from us.
Flood test car it's also the smell inside. If we get in car and we will feel the perfumed interior, we can be sure, that the power of chemistry is a weapon in the fight against mustiness and the smell of moisture mixed with rot. Such a carmotogratka advises to leave.