Can Flood-Damaged Vehicles Apply for Scrapping?

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Mia
07/30/25 6:50am
Flood-damaged vehicles can apply for scrapping. Below are the hazards of vehicle flooding: 1. Water ingress is absolutely fatal to a car's engine. Once water enters the engine, at best, the spark plugs may fail to ignite causing immediate stalling, and at worst, it may lead to engine seizure. 2. When a vehicle is submerged, water enters the cylinders through the intake manifold. Due to the incompressibility of water, the piston stroke becomes shorter, resulting in bending or breaking of the connecting rods. In extreme cases, broken connecting rods may pierce through the engine block. 3. The reason a car stalls in water is that the distributor cap gets wet, causing the distributor to lose its normal ignition function. The engine air filter element becomes soaked, increasing intake resistance and allowing water to enter the combustion chamber, making the spark plugs unable to ignite. Restarting the engine under these conditions can easily cause engine seizure.
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