Your friend may be talking about a bargain of a deal they got for their car. This may very well be associated to a car that acquainted some fishes and dolphins. You’ve seen them on TV. Remember the hundreds of thousands flood cars that we all saw on TV.

Approximately 500,000 sedans, trucks, minivans, sunk in salty floodwaters. Those cars swam in the wake of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. Yet, saw their way back to dealerships and from there to the streets. Car Experts warned everyone to look out for them.   

As Cars in Houston always warns you, some car dealers have no sympathy for a buyer that does not do his or her homework.  Unfortunately, the dealers had the right to buy the swimming cars from auctions.  An immoral dealer can buy a flooded car at a private dealer auction for approximately three grand; invest an extra grand to restore the car.    Immoral dealers then turned around and retailed it for over ten grand to unaware buyers.

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Watch out for those flood damaged cars sale.  Even if you don’t buy a contaminated car, a friend or a family member may end up riding, and having their lives risked by one.  The cars can have one or more of the following:

·        Contaminated with bacteria.

·        Mold.

·        The electronic systems in those cars are corroding away as time passes.

o       The corrosion is happening at a mad speed.

The good news is, that are currently organizations that are testifying before Congress, and working to pass laws that would prevent the cars from re-entering the market.  Cars in Houston, advises that you report such cars to the non-profit organization “Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety”. 

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