Apparently it's not just EVs that can catch fire when they get flooded:
Last time it was Fiskers:
https://jalopnik.com/5958523/fisker-lost-30-million-worth-of-cars-in-hurricane-sandy
Apparently it's not just EVs that can catch fire when they get flooded:
Last time it was Fiskers:
https://jalopnik.com/5958523/fisker-lost-30-million-worth-of-cars-in-hurricane-sandy
the majority of which were new Maseratis models
Maserati makes some ugly cars these days.
Can't hide the flood damage and unload those.
If the cars were flooded with salt water it's no surprise there were electrical fires. Even if they hadn't burned they would have been totalled anyway.
Not really related, but made me think of a story, supposedly true, that my high school auto shop teacher told me.
During the summers, he worked for a small Chevy dealer. The dealership's owner had a boat that was kept in the water at a marina. The owner of the marina would call the owner of the boat, my teacher's boss, and tell him that his boat would start up, run for a while and shut off, all on it's own. It would usually happen early in the mornings.
This went on for a few weeks, no one could figure it out. Finally, my teacher went to the marina very early, before sunrise and waited. Nothing the first few times. Then he finally saw it happen. The boat started, ran for a while then shut off. He noticed the starter was engaged the whole time it ran, something nobody had mentioned before.
He pulled the ignition switch out and took it apart and it was wet inside. Apparently enough condensation would build up to the point of making contact, the engine would start in the crank position and when the switch warmed up from the resistance, it would dry enough to lose continuity.
I wasn't there, didn't see it but he didn't seem to be one for tall tales, of course, I was an impressionable teenage delinquent at the time, so.......
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