Your choice but I have seen people spend a lot of time and effort on flood cars and still have multiple issues. That water gets into everything and the silt in it does as well. Inside the mechanical parts like bearings and seals the silt acts like sandpaper.
It settles out in the heater/AC unit and in the carpets and padding, Seats mold on the inside. Your exhaust system will have a bunch of silt in it which likely will damage the converter. Inside every body panel and cavity that stuff will lay. Not a bid deal until you consider what was in the water and makes up that silt.
Then you have all the wiring and computers in there as well. Miss one connection that has water/silt in it and you have a problem.
It is the big issue with cars from the flood areas from the various hurricanes. It would not be much of an issue on old cars, they did not have miles of wiring and motors and computers controlling everything.
It really stinks, but in 99.99999% of the cases, unless you have tons of money or the car is some ultra rare vehicle that just has to be saved by someone with lots of money, it is better to part them out. The pictures are just some of the items that you would need to clean and test before you even tried anything.
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Monday, October 16th, 2017 AT 11:30 PM