Fastmax32168

I dont know why you guys are always throwing Fl into the area where you are going to get stuck with a flood damaged car. Is it simply because we have lots of hurricanes? This is so but unless you live right on the beach with your corvette, flooding is normally not a problem here during those hurricanes. Our problem is wind damage. I assure you the sale of flood damaged cars with clear titles in Fl is very rare. When a car is flood damaged in Florida and anything is collected from an insurance company the title is clearly marked "FLOOD", and it cannot be cleaned, at least not in this state.
As a matter of fact most of the cars you are going to buy out of Fl are among the cleanest in the nation. We have very little undercarriage rust on our cars. We sometimes say that cars in Fl rust from the top down, as the sun bakes all the paint off the roofs and beats up the interiors.
Could it happen? I am sure it could, but your chances of ending up with a super clean, rust free car owned by an old guy are about the highest in Fl that you could get anywhere. Your exeption here is going to be the guy that lives right on the beach, as the salt spray causes corrosion. And I mean right on the beach, as in within a block or two.
I have been in the car business here in one way or another for nearly 20 years so I know what I speak of. (BTW I am not selling cars now so this post is not greed motivated) I have bought and sold several thousand cars here in the State of Fl and have never once ended up with a flood damaged car. So what are your chances of it happening?
If just hate to see people who really dont know any better passing up what could be a great deal for them because they have been misinformed here on CF.
Roy

bizaro

what you say is true, but they still smell like old people.

gator79

I bought my '93 in Florida and it was a clean car, funny thing when I was selling my offshore boat everyone was concerned it was flooded by hurricane Rita. and it never even got wet, it was in my shop the whole time it actually scared a few buyers away.

5speedC4

runner140*

Moth *****! I hate that smell.

Frizlefrak

Then stop sniffing moth crotches....



Buying Florida cars isn't a bad thing....my Vette was from Florida. Under the seat I found a medicare card, some Polident, a tube of Ben Gay, and a 2 for 1 coupon for Furrs Cafeteria. On the downside, vacuuming the blue hair out from under the passenger seat proved to be difficult. The car had "all freeway miles", but for some reason the turn signal was also stuck in the left turn position.

BADDUCK

You smelled moth *****. How'd you get their little legs apart!

jfb

The air in Florida has salt in it! My buddy who moved to Tampa from Ohio had every car he owned start rusting, a problem he never experienced when he lived in Ohio (20+ years). Oddly, he is the only person I know who did not move back within two years of moving to Florida!

Mallett Z

I bought my Grand Prix used from florida (off ebay) and when it got here i look underneath and was amazed to see almost no rust! Living in michigan seeing a 4 year old with no rust doesnt happen if its driven in the winter. I wouldnt hesitate to buy a florida car again!

cv67

Its because the sky is falling

FLA-C3

I moved down from Cincinnati twenty years ago this May...I'm just fifteen miles or so east of Tampa. I've never had a rust issue on any of my cars since I've been down here. Maybe it's a problem over in the coastal/beach areas? Now, I do remember a lot of cars back in Ohio driving around with ruted out quarter panels though...

Fastmax32168

This is
Like I said, unless he lived right on the ocean, rust is almost nonexistent down here.
Roy

guyjay777

Funny..I do not know anyone moving back after they moved to Fl...I moved from NJ eight yrs. ago and I would never leave here. Rust on my cars have never been an issue here but in NJ rust was a problem. Lets see Folrida or Ohio...hmmm.

93gtguy

I've lived in Panama City or Panama City Beach my whole life and have owned about 15 cars. I've never had a rust problem with paint or undercarriage. I think the place you have to worry about flooded cars is Louisiana. Most of what we have to deal here is wind damage.

BigDR

We get frequent hurricanes in eastern NC. I traded a 1998 Dodge Intrepid in 2000 because we had baby #3 on the way. We had Hurricane Floyd in 1999. We suffered no flood damage of any kind, but some people did. You would have thought that Dodge was stolen by the way the dealer acted. They asked me if they could look under the carpeting for evidence of flooding and I had to sign a form saying the car had not been flooded. Didn't bother me one bit. As always, when buying used - caveat emptor.

CMYC4GO

My C5 is a Fla. car, and it is nearly flawless inside, and out. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one from down there.

zr1fred

One of the problems we used to run into with Fla cars is that people
ASSUME the were always Fla cars, when in fact, alot are N.E. cars that people brought with them when they retired to FLA. We occasionally get that here in AZ from the midwest (Chicago-Detroit.)

vette92_1

My guess would be he had all that road salt from Ohio under his cars and when he got to HUMID Florida it had a chemical reaction.

Tommy T-Bone

I bought two Florida Corvettes. Probably because I live here.

FLA-C3

Oh, and let's not forget...

College Football National Championship Game, January 8, 2007

Florida 41, Ohio State 14

Sorry, someone was bound to do it sooner or later...