Saving A Highly Modified Miata With Flood Damage, For Profit? Step 1: Remove Water

Miata is ALWAYS the answer, and even though this one took on a bit of water, there's hardly any reason to part this out. NO, I'm not keeping it. This is a fix and flip. For the money I'll have into it, I should stand to make decent money and still give someone a good deal on a very well built car for much less than it would cost to build one as nice, and just as importantly, keep another one on the road. This will hopefully be a short series, 3 total videos showing the repair process for freshwater flood damage. These are simple cars and most of the important electronics were higher than the water was, which is what makes this process so simple. A couple disclaimers. 1. You can fix anything. Doesn't mean you should. Flood cars come with their own challenges and no two flood scenarios are the same. This car just had the right set of circumstances to warrant a repair. 2. Fresh water and salt water floods are insanely different, and require a significantly different amount of work to properly repair. 3. Improperly "cleaned" Flood loss cars can be incredibly troublesome and oftentimes won't show their issues right away. 4. People who knowingly flip flood cars without full disclosure are lower than the scum of the earth. A few weeks, maybe more ago, I made a post in the community asking you viewers if you'd like to see videos on flood car repairs. This is the "easy repair". I will have a video showing how terrible it can be in the coming month or two. You can look forward to a midweek video most weeks this year. Part of the new plan :) Hope you enjoy this video, as always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you all on the next teardown! -Eric

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