Thread: Flod damaged cars?

Australia has had a massive problem with flood damaged insurance write-offs been purchased by unscrupulous repairers and sold back into the secondhand market. Remember that Australia has been struggling with much more serious flooding problems for the last couple of years and there are literally thousands of cars affected.

I remember in W.A. a good few years ago now there was a shocker case of a bunch of high end 4WDs sold by a Queenslander as “one careful owner”. Turned out they had all been purchased as insurance write offs direct from the recovery company in the Top End that had pulled them out of ill advised river crossings and the other daft situations the owners had got themselves into. That case led to an inquiry into how easy it was to fraudulently hide a vehicle’s history due to the differing systems and laws from state to state.

Lots of resources online will tell you how to go about spotting a flood damaged car.