All is not lost.
www.clean-image.co.uk/articles/flood-damged-car-cl...m
An interesting read and lots of interesting photos.
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Amazing what these guys can do, I would have thought that it would be cost prohibitive but if an insurance comany will pay.
Interesting their use of enzymes... bio wars on a car!!
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So Pugulgy's A6 find will be fine then. But would you buy the Focus knowing it was in a flood. But how would you know?
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If it was mine it would be on autotrader as soon as the insurance company gave me the keys back.
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Hear Hear AE! There is no way they can know where the water has gone into the electricals and/mechanicals and no way they can fix it. Stand by for dodgy ABS sensors, faulty ECUs, seized brake callipers - the list muct be endless!
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It shows just how crooked this country has become when the scroats write puff pieces lauding their cons. That car should have been crushed; not given a superficial clean.
"There wasn't much mechanical or electrical damage."
Well start with a new engine, clutch and gearbox; add an alternator and starter; then a wiring loom; steering rack and pump; ABS pump; pre-tensioners and seatbelt reels; wheel bearings; brakes; fuel tank and pump; window regulators; door locks......
That car will be nothing but unmitigated grief until it is finally scrapped as uneconomic to repair. Meanwhile; these clowns will still be patting themselves on the wallet.
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I agree with screwloose. I can't belive someone would do that! That should now have its history followed to see how much grief it ends up. Im sure that can never be a reliable motor & will be hastle for some unsuspecting motorist.What about the Air bag sensors at floor level & wiring. When my boiler burst in my house the insurance company sent cleaners in, but the cleaners said however much they clean the carpet the dirt & smell will bleed through the carpet in time so the cleaners just cut big hunks out & said now they will have to replace. The increadable thing was that it was the cleaners who refused to do what they were paid for so it does indicate it would be hastle & a waste of time. the carpet was 2k's worth as well
Doc
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I think you guys are been a bit harsh, this is a *valeting* company, not a mechanical repairers, and they were paid by the insurers to make the car clean, it appears to me that they did that pretty effectively!
If I was in charge of the valeting company I would have been showing off just how good I was at cleaning cars too, it was the insurers who decided not to write it off.
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Blue
I follow your logic; but, by publishing that puff-piece, they are intimating that all a flooded car needs is a good clean.
A reputable company would have refused point-blank to get involved with such a project and told the insurers to think again. If the insurers couldn't find people to do their dirty work, then they'd have to do the right thing.
All they are doing is hiding the evidence that the car is trashed - and I've had the unwanted experience of telling a very good friend that the "brand new" MX5 that she'd just mortgaged her house for, was one of 50 write-offs that a local scroat "cleaned up" after they were flooded pre-reg at Brooklands.
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if the bits that needed replacing were actually replaced like engine but especially all wiring and ECUs then the car would be fine. But they don't because it would be the rightoff it is ;-)
This is not valetting. The water on this focus was quite high and lots of electronics and wiring below water line.
Nobody having at valeting Blue. But this is extreme valeting.
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I see your points of view, but I still think that I would have done exactly the same thing had I been the guy in charge. I certainly wouldn't have said no to a big job that would probably pay for my mortgage that month, if the customer was happy to accept the car then that's their look out!
If nothing else, you can't deny that their abilities at valeting are pretty superb, have you looked at the fire restoration article? If they weren't so far away (and expensive) I would have the MG down there in a flash, although to be honest the paint isn't that desperate anymore following a damn good clean, clay, polish and wax that I did before winter. I pushed her out of the garage today just to stare at and sit in her! :-)
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I think our point is the insurer is to blame. They are not sorting cars or writing off but they come back nice and clean. Then fail. wonder who they get work from.
... And then the car might get sold on without all the "history". Wonder if they can sort out traces of petrol in a diesel.
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