How Much Money To Repair A Flooded Car

Automotive

Published on December 23rd, 2022 | past Daniel Sherman Fernandez

How Much To Fix Your Flooded Auto In Malaysia

We get some rough estimates on the cost to fix a flooded car.

Yes, the recent wink floods were terrible and the effects are still lingering in many areas and the rain is back this week to scare some affected residents in areas where they are just nigh to recover from flood damage.

Meanwhile, we have seen how many motorcar owners who do not accept flood impairment insurance are unable to determine whether to repair their cars or just scrap them.

As you lot probably know by now, cars in Malaysia are expensive to purchase when new due to our high import duties and the idea of scrapping a car has never been idea well-nigh equally erstwhile cars just get 'pushed' into small towns for the lower income group to buy and own.

For urban car users, the demand for a reliable automobile is very necessary to get to piece of work, movement the family unit around and for the day to mean solar day running.

With a flooded car the state of affairs for many is new and without any insurance coverage, what can they do. We did some research and here is our uncomplicated advice for you lot to consider.

If you are the owner of a basic unproblematic motorcar, similar a showtime generation Toyota Wish, Proton Wira, Perodua Kenari or Nissan Sunny, and then yous are looking at about RM4,000 to RM6,000 to get your motorcar back in good running status. Please notation that this only applies to cars that were Non driven in the flash floods. But cars that were parked in rising waters.

At present, with more modern technology filled cars, which are cars with added safety features and 'talking' infotainment arrangement similar Hi Proton! This volition be a very expensive gear up as the costs could run between RM9,000 to RM14,000 as the electronic control unit, infotainment system, gearbox controller and also automatic climate control systems will need to be replaced (cannot be fixed).

Plus, you might non become the cars back in even ninety pct condition every bit the wiring loom and its connectors sitting within the dashboard might need replacing and this tin can merely be confirmed subsequently the car is returned to the owner and driven for a few days. The long term furnishings will be bad and this is why in the past, most overflowing damaged modern cars were fixed fast and so sold.

We know of a commencement generation Mercedes CLS, BMW F10, BMW X1, Nissan Murano, Toyota Alphard and Honda Accordance (Perdana) flood damaged cars from the past few years that were sent for repair and even after echo trips to the workshop to get modest problems looked at, the cars were never even 90 percent stock-still.

Nigh of the owners ended up selling their cars to used machine dealers for a hefty loss and after a proper calculation of the repair costs and extended loss in the auction to a used car dealer, information technology was not worth it at all. It would take been better to just fleck the machine from Day 1 and accept the fact.

For case, a used showtime generation perfect status CLS today is worth about RM30,000 at best. The inundation repair cost was close to RM14,000. The used machine dealer offered just RM18,000. Then with just RM4,000 back it was not worth the effort.

A 2022-2015 Honda Accord (Perdana) is worth about RM40,000 in the used market place. A flood repair bill of about RM12,000 might still be worth the endeavor, only this is a car with little appeal for an owner to keep.

With flooded cars that have had serious body damage, similar the Honda City pictured above, then the repair costs will be high and it volition be better to do an insurance write-off and await for your merits.

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