After a car's been flooded, mileage on the odometer is the least of your worries and should have no impact on the value of the car. Anyone buying a flood car to rebuild it has never considered what it means. About the only remaining value on a car like this is probably the stainless and the frame itself (unless already rusted). (Yeah, the fiberglass is good but doesn't have any value). A few days underwater won't hurt the "hard parts" but like Mike said, anything that moves or is electrical right down to the little vacuum canisters on the heater is junk. Being submerged several feet is much different from being sprayed with rain water. There isn't much that's truly sealed against being under water, so everything is full of wet sand. Ball joints, CV joints, relays, radio - everything. Some of it will fail right away, some not for months. But it's all bad. At least this guy's saying it's a flood car, it's pretty obvious that he's out to make a few bucks (what's wrong with that?) and he did go to the effort of buying it, dragging it back home, and pulling parts that he could use off the car. Actually he'd probably make more money and catch less criticism if he just parted it out. In that case the parts buyers would have no idea it was a flood car either. Would that be better or worse? My guess is that's what will happen with the next owner, and no one will know. The only way to restore a car like this is to find a donor car that was in the right kind of accident (rollovers are good!) to donate all the soft parts/mechanical parts. And then don't count your time. When you're all done you'll have a $16,000 car with a "flood salvage" title or a "totaled" title depending on which one you use the VIN from. Dave Swingle --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Qume Fox" <qumefox@xxxx> wrote: > > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "f14dflyer" <f14dflyer@xxxx> wrote: > > > > List, > > > > this car was purchased by a guy who is on the DeLorean forum at > entermyworld.com. He > > intended to fix it up, but decided he'd bit off more than he could chew > > > -Dave J > > I don't have a problem with what he did, only the fact that his auction is > extremely misleading and the mileage changing. I mean if he put in the > auction something like "the car had 12000 miles on it when I bought it > but after swapping some parts the current odometer installed reads > 5900" then that would be a hell of alot better, To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/