Flooded car

Since you drove it I had put a few k into it lol.

Its such a shame and I am totally devastated to say the least, Im hoping there is not much hassle with the insurance and lucky it was due for renewal sat. The main concern is the mods to be covered as you can get a standard one of mine for just shy or 20k but that doesn't include the mods on it that are insured like for like that cost me about £3000and I have no idea what will happen with that.

I only took the hire car to work this morning as I thought I would be nice and fill it up with diesel so Stephanie didn't have to and to save her the £90 it costs to fill it up and its ended up costing me my baby :(

I will always be thinking I didn't get that one last drive of her :(

We are in the process of ordering a new family bus as the S-max is still in the garage with no idea what the problem is.
 
Bad times :-(

Even if it was drivable it would be stinking as soon as it warms through.

I'd imagine that all kinds of sensors and wiring were compromised now. If you want a replacement my brother is selling his 600bhp X lol.
 
I seriously hope you aint wiht one of those insurers that will accept mods but dont actually insure the mods themselves :(

If you have that many mods on it mate, have the insurance given you a figure to keep the car?
 
86JR said:
That is not a flooded car.

Try water up to your wing mirrors, like mine was!
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86JR said:
Next thing you know guys on here will be accusing you of spending £300,000 to dump water on your £10k car for an insurance write-off claim.
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By the looks of his car, it hasn't moved. You travelled some distance to find one deep enough didn't you?


Millwall.FC said:
You drove into your "puddle" up to your "wing mirrors" his car was parked. Unless he can control the weather which I doubt.
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:D
 
Millwall.FC said:
we are being neglectful that his vision was impaired as the first "puddle" took out his headlights so he couldn't see the second one :D
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I wish I knew my mother was telling the truth regarding carrots as a child! TBL must have eaten them by the case load..... I mean - most normal people wouldn't drive without any headlights... ;):D
 
Janesy B said:
It's a car, not a boat, it's not designed to be submerged like that. It'll cause all sorts of damage, as the OP has stated.
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Flood damage cars even if they still drive are normally always written off because as you say it causes havoc with electrical systems, sensors etc.

Still if you can buy it back for peanuts, strip it and turn it into some mental track weapon Skywalker, but bad luck mate. :(
 
If the water has got into the cabin, especially being an inch or 2 deep you've got all the main cabin wiring harnesses running along the floor of the car plus usually a fair selection of modules as well.

The cabin isn't designated as a wet area so the connectors won't be to the same waterproofing standards as you get for external connections, engine bay and so on.

So apart from anything else the cabin harness will be scrap, possibly the engine bay too if it's connectors going into the cabin have gotten waterlogged too. Carpets will be scrap too, probably just not cost effective to try drying them out and they'd need a deep cleaning too.

In the case of the harnesses pretty much all of the interior - seats, carpets and maybe the dash would need stripping out to replace all the harnesses, these cost a lot on their own plus you're adding in a sizeable chunk of labour as well. And sadly with that much work being done the car just won't be put back together as well as it was when it was built.

Sad end to a very decent motor :(
 
It's just so gutting that I spent so much time and money making this car what it is. I might be tempted to find out how much to buy it back.
 
Such a shame they are writing it off, I'm sure mechanically the car would probably have been ok, just the cost of all the electrics.

buy it back and do an engine swap for some track day shenanigans??
 
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