Beware of buying a car from flood areas

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    Originally Posted By friendofdd

    This is an article from Edmunds which may be of help to you if you are in the market for a new car. With all the flooding the USA has been having, you need to be careful.

    <a href="http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/how-to-avoid-buying-a-flood-damaged-car.html" target="_blank">http://www.edmunds.com/car-buy...car.html</a>
     
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    Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

    ORWEN: That's very good advice friendofdd, duckling. And as long as you bring that up, I just wanna' say the same thing goes for broomsticks. After a broom's been laying around in water, it can get wood rot. Oh, it may have dried out by the time a witch get around to buying it. But most brooms with wood rot don't last long enough for even one good ride! And no witch wants to be flying a rotted out broom that's gonna' break up in the middle of a flight--especially if she's on her way to a Disney theme park!!
     
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    Originally Posted By Mary Poppins

    Hmm...I never even thought of that as I watched flood coverage with the cars. That is a very serious problem. Same g goes with the rotten brooms, my dear witches.
     
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    Originally Posted By tink2680

    I bought a car on ebay once and there was a lot of rust in really strange places...it had to have been in a flood. It worked out okay since we sold it for 1000k more than we paid for it but still it could have gone the other way.
     

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