Drowned vehicle

Yeh but there are hobbies and hobbies.

The message from "R L Driver" contains these words:

Bin it.

Salvage anything worth selling, then bin it, shirley?

Wheel nuts?

Si

The message from "Mungo \"two sheds\" Toadfoot" contains these words:

Tyres, probably.

Ring insurance company.

Take cheque.

Buy another van.

Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It's a 'scrote van. By the time the excess and loss of NCB are taken into account, there's no WAY it's worth claiming - even if there's not much NCB to lose.

I'm an optimist. If you've got the time it's an interesting challenge IMO. I'd agree, more or less with what you said. First of all, remove the battery. It'll be knackered anyway. Then, if you have the facility, a thorough hose down with a pressure washer, or next best thing a hosepipe. By thorough, I mean everywhere, using gallons of water. Under the dash. Remove the door cards and do inside the doors, into any vent holes in the chassis. IOW every nook and cranny you can reach. Even then you'll never get rid of all the salt. It'll probably go rusty sooner than it should because of it's dunking. You only need to recall that Toyota pickup that Top Gear tried to kill some months ago, to prove that it can be done. Good luck. You'll probably need it. Mike.

Get it running & take it down the bangar races/demolition derby - its about all its good for.

I.

You'll probably get it going after you've replaced every electronic bit. Then try Banger Racing. Sorry, it's scrap. Dave

Give it a good hose down get it so it runs and the electrics do everything they should do then run it until it goes wrong then scrap it, at least you wont have spent loads of time on it..

Rich

as others have said, scrap it. Years back my wife took her newish ZX through a ford in flood, and that was only 18" deep. Insurance paid out, we got a new engine (it had only done 24k), but it's virtually impossible to completely get rid of the smell. And as for the damage salt water will do to anything electrical, well it's just not worth contemplating IMO.

Chris Bolus ( snipped-for-privacy@FARINAb0lus.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Remember the Tricolor?

I was going to say, too bad it wasn't one of them! But that was a diesel, I think.

All those XC90s...

Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Let the f'er drown then.

interesting site, didn't realise when they meant cutting the hull up it was literally that, for some reason always thought they used oxy, but then looking at the size of the hull I can see why they don't.