Avoid Buying Flood Damaged Cars...Trouble
Avoid Getting Soaked by a Flood-Damaged VehicleBy Hiram Reisner
The violent storms that have inundated the country's heartland this spring and summer have caused considerable damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure -- and some deaths. Casualties also include many cars and trucks, which pose a threat to unsuspecting buyers down the road when, inevitably, a share of them re-enter the market with cosmetic fixes covering the damage. Approximately 10,000 vehicles were seriously damaged or totaled in Texas flooding alone, according to industry experts, NBC News reports. "A car that's been in a flood, with the engine [immersed] for any length of time, will never be the same," says Carl Sullivan, a veteran inspector for California-based Alliance Inspection Management, the report said. If you learn the signs of flood damage -- some are obvious and some are not at all -- you can avoid being suckered into buying a ve…