I've considered buying used Corvettes, but once I see they were once titled in NJ around the time of Hurricane Sandy and I gave them a hard pass. Will be doing the same for cars that were titled in Florida in 2022.

In damp weather, if a vehicle is parked for two or three days brake discs rust......

I met a guy in a car wash who had a trailer with two flood damaged vehicles. For a living, he drove to areas that had experienced flash flooding, and be bought non-running flood damaged cars for cash and loaded them on his trailer. He did this while the cars were still wet, then he took them to the car wash, pulled the interiors out, and washed the cars inside and out, engine compartment, trunk space, everything. Then he dried the cars out and put them back together. He told me he avoided salt water damaged cars, but he said he got most of his purchases cleaned up, dried out, and running and then sold for a huge profit at the cost of a small cash investment, the transportation expenses, and 10 hours or less of labor for each vehicle. The cars he could not get running/sold he parted out and still made a little.

I'll bet some of these cars will end up being sold to unsuspecting buyers, even though they should only be used for certain spare parts that aren't affected by water damage. Buyer beware.

Hell of a lot of body pieces that could fix other vehicles at least.

This will only end up making the used vehicle market even more expensive than it already has been in the last few years

$10 billion in claims in that field...

Insurance companies should offer incentives to entice people to evacuate with their insured cars ahead of Hurricanes to avoid bigger payouts.

"Was owned by a little old lady, driven only to church on Sunday" Right!

Lots of these end up in Texas. I know, there is a used car dealer across the street. The lot is screened and on sunny days, cars striped of the seats/carpets and the doors are left open for days. Beware!

Wonder how many of those will end up with the rest of the wrecked garbage at OffLeaseOnly or on Craigslist in Miami "excellent conditions, habla Espanol."

I daily drive a car that i fixed after it was under 13 feet of water. Everything works fine. Difference is it was fresh water 😂

Met that guy once super nice guy. He got us going quickly

I heard that they can be shipped out of state and titled in another state with no salvaged title designation. Then with a new “washed” title, they are sold to unsuspecting buyers. True?

Thats a field of gold to Copart with their extortive fees.

you got to be careful with some states that salvage titles and it gives clean titles back .from flooding cars ,trucks and others .some time copart would send cars and others to a car detail person to clean them .

After Superstorm Sandy in October 2012, there also were tens of thousands of cars damaged by salt water flooding in New York. That salt water permanently damaged the flooded cars' electronics, making the cars dangerous to drive.

Car dealerships are shedding tears of happiness!

Coming soon to a Craigslist near you.... " ran when parked...."

The real issue is these cars sitting like this, if steps were taken with these cars immediately after IAN, more would be repairable, but not after they've been sitting in a hot field for over a month without someone as so much as rolling the windows down. The insurance environment is a victim of their own pace of handling things.

These cars will be sold to overseas buyers, who will fix them up and resell them.

I'd wager most are owned by people who ignored the local forecasters and ignored the evacuation orders, so the cars got flooded. People who chose to ride out the storm instead of being smart, shouldn't be allowed to file and insurance claim.

If a car is flooded in any way it's just a total loss because literally everything from the antenna to the valve stems are electronic. The key is electric. The door handles, mirrors, front windshield, fenders, cowl, trunk lid/ lift gate, even the emblems on cars that light up. Everything is electric.

Most of these cars will never live again. The salt water flooding severely damages all electronics not to mention all the mechanical parts. At best they may be able to salvage some parts to repair another vehicle in need.

A lot of still usable parts there to sell

That dually tho 🔥 🔥 🔥

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and Happy New Year 🎊🎆🎈!!!!!!

I went to a well known national used car lot with over 300 cars. Not one car originally from my state . WHY ?

carvana: *allow me to introduce myself*

FB marketplace be like: “up for sale is a slightly used Honda Civic in fairly good condition. It has a salvage title from driving through a little puttle but everything works with noooo damage history. No lowballs I know what I have!”

Well, I guess the car market won't be getting cheaper at all soon.

They will be on the market at used car lots soon

Rare tow lot honest man!! Most would be interviewed or even give you the time of day!!😮

A pick and pull like no other

Woohoo can’t wait for those to be shipped to Texas as “quality used cars”

Insurance companies should make sure these cars are crushed. They are totaled and no one should be able to title them afterwards.

My dad bought a flooded van. Was almost new, but its running fine. Some are hit or miss, know the risks if youre willing to buy one

That's why I refuse to own a vehicle that has an massive volume of computer crap. One can't help from owning a vehicle that has a computer in it, but in the last fifteen years they've (the manufacturers) have made it a priority to get as much computer chips and sensors in their products as possible. I've been saying for the last few years that the vehicles on the market today are way over engineered and unreliable and therefore not worth the money for the price you pay for them.

I bought a used truck the day after the hurricane hit because I knew the market would only go from bad to worse.

It’s only water, those are good cars

I need parts how can I purchase plus I have fix multiple flooded cars

*And that folks is what greed looks like.* *They rather let those cars rot then sell them at a bargain.* *At least donate them to working Americans that need help with transportation to get to work because of car accidents, car theft, car problems etc.* It would be a positive for the country getting and staying on pace. All that wasted material, oil, gas, human injuries, time,... because of greed. (Humans)

Soon to be for sale at a lot near you.

Car Mechanics: STONKS

They're gonna try to sell it like " great condition! Runs like brand new! " 🤣

I've always recommended reading Chapter 7 of The Grapes of Wrath to anyone considering patronage of a used car lot.

Do people somehow profit from this? Why would someone leave their vehicle in the path of a hurricane? I would think their insurance premium would go up significantly.

There are many cars still unaccounted for and many on the market as we speak

Cool use of clone stamps guys!

Can I have one to try to fix ?

How can I buy some

Comming to a block near you! Dealerships love flood cars. lol

In the UK vehicles flooded by salt water are scrapped by insurance companies.

Offleaseonly rubbing their hands right now

every last car should be shredded

Vlad’s and Dmitriy’s will be getting new BMWs no doubt

I need a 2015 mazda 3 front grill

Why? Because RICH PEOPLE leave their car without to WORRY about flood damage. Because they have more cars. Because they have insurance. Because this is THEIR Vacation carsss.

Looks like walmart on saturday....

We are in the year 2022 - HOW THE F can you upload a video in a 360p quality??????

Huge opportunity for the used car market, used car resellers and many mechanically inclined car enthusiasts who will restore some of these cars to driveable condition again.

I don't see the FREE link to Carfax 3:00 You said you have

It should be law that these vehicles are destroyed. These vehicles will hurt families financially or worse moreso than help anyone. The salt may not act upon the electronics for a couple or so years after ownership.

Will we ever run out of metals?

Well why aren’t they being recycled? Selling dangerous cars to unsuspecting customers is a violation of law they need to be recycled period.

Don’t Worry People, They Will Be Forsale Soon 😒

I wonder when they're going to start removing the hundreds of cars that are in the water

Coming to a local ZAG dealership near you!!!

WHY!!!! THOSE CARS SHOULD BE DESTROYED, PERIOD

added to the pollution problem, nice.

These cars need to be scrapped

You would think where hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc, happen, you would think people would know that they should move somewhere else where things like this dont happen, but you know, people will stay dumb.

Where can you buy one

If you fail to evacuate in a mandatory zone A evac, you shouldn’t get compensated, unless you evacuated at least one of your vehicles.

Eastern european countries : it's free realestate

Any mechanic can see the car was underwater!

My husband was there to help out

Y don't u guys scrap them

and about 8 million golf carts

Some parts can be refurbished and sold

I feel like we make more things than we can get rid of.

That means 350,000 new cars are needed.

They’ll all be on Kijiiji next month.

Salt water too. Those cars are junk. Great for body parts and wheels but the rest is trash.

Don't try sell and send them to the Bahamas either were sick and tired of being swandled.

0:59 no shit that would happen even with regular rain

Gonna be lots of youtube videos coming soon

Wsm auctions in Phoenix will be selling them

time to get on copart for these beauties

Enjoy insurance companies!!!!!!

These cars should all be crushed or sent to a scrap yard. But unfortunately, quite a few of them will likely be bought by people who don’t know much about cars and think they are getting a good deal. Always have a mechanic check over a used car!

Guess what's going to be turning up on west coast

Can we parts

Excellent! We need to get rid of motor cars and car culture!

No bringing back to life lmao, you buy a wet one and a crash one to repair the wet one in your private garage and flip it for 10% less of the cost for a new one...

Manhiem **heavy breathing**

Buying a salvage vehicle isn't a bad buy unless you don't know what you're doing.

NJ is where most will end up all with new titles .

Motorswaps all day

That's heaven for armanians from glendale!