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Only time I hosed out a car is my uncle's car when it ended up in the ocean. Was low-tide and tons of seagrass on the boat launch. Lost traction and just slowly
by mmaunder 5y ago
Only time I hosed out a car is my uncle's car when it ended up in the ocean. Was low-tide and tons of seagrass on the boat launch. Lost traction and just slowly slid all the way into the ocean. Actually turned out OK after a serious fresh-water bath and carefully drying out everything.
Hosing out a car under normal circumstances is insane. I recently worked on a Dodge 12V diesel 1994 truck. Removed all interior carpet and WIPED out all the nastiness and vacuumed up the bits etc. Got it down to the metal and really nice and clean. Then layered up on Dynamat in prep for installing a high-end sound system and got a great result.
Unless you've destroyed the vehicle anyway by dipping it in sea-water, don't hose out your car.
A really great check to do if you're buying used is to look under the driver's seat for rust. It indicates flooding. In the case of pickups, it means they either submerged it or used it as a mudder. Red flag. Walk away.
- irrational 5y agoHow do you see the metal under the drivers seat? Every car I have owned has had wall to wall carpet, including under the seats.
- tokai 5y agoyou remove the seats?
- irrational 5y agoLOL What? Do you seriously remove the driver's seat when you are car shopping?
- tokai 5y agoDon't you lol what me. You are making this about car shopping. mmaunder wrote about removing the carpet to clean. Ofc you don't remove the carpet of a car you want to buy. I would never had guessed that you meant 'see the metal' in a car shopping context, as it's as easy as breathing to flip some carpet over and get a sense of the floors state.
- zamfi 5y agommaunder also wrote: > A really great check to do if you're buying used is to look under the driver's seat for rust. It indicates flooding. In the case of pickups, it means they either submerged it or used it as a mudder. Red flag. Walk away. which is probably what the parent post was addressing with how do you check this?
- pnutjam 5y agoYou just slide it back all the way and then slide it forward all the way.
- nabilhat 5y agoLook at the seat rails and seat mounting brackets. They're pretty much never galvanized, just painted a light matte black and work great as slow acting moisture detectors. Trim covers them up these days, but move the seat all the way forwards or back and you'll usually either see some of that metal or be able to get to a position where you can. They'll also rust over time due to long term high humidity from a leaking window or door seal, or shoddy crash repair, or a slow leak from the heater core, so even if it's not flood damage there might be other issues.
- markdown 5y agoMy dads Toyota Hilux was a rustbucket when he bought it 20 years ago. Still runs "fine", despite lots of use in the intervening years carrying highly corrosive NPK fertilizer on the farm. A bit of rust isn't anything to be scared of so long as you know it's there.
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- ugl 5y agoThe old TopGear trio put a hilux threw hell, ocean, on top of an imploded building, and more. It "ran" still at the end of it. https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Indestructible_Hilux.2C_Part_1_.28Series_3.2C_Episode_5.29 https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Indestructible_...
- Aeolun 5y agoEngine starts, car moves. Good enough for me.
- peteradio 5y agoI had a Jeep Cherokee where the only thing separating my feet from the road was the carpet. Would that satisfy your standards?
- 14 5y agothat is when you pull the carpet lay some cardboard over the hole and put down some fiberglass and sell the vehicle. Old car salesman trick
- thorens 5y agoHere in Finland the classic way was to wait for winter, slip a wet the rag rug under the carpet and let it freeze and then just sell the car ASAP.
- Bancakes 5y agoWhat is a high-end sound system anyways? I've always wondered, and now I ask. How do you measure it - just frequency response and power draw?
- koolba 5y ago> How do you measure it - just frequency response and power draw? Same way you measure any other high end consumer good: price
- Daneel_ 5y agoI submit that a better measure of high end audio equipment is weight. Top end gear is HEAVY.
- jorvi 5y agoNot for anything portable.
- grepfru_it 5y agoThe noise floor of a car is incredibly high, such that it’s probably not a high quality system, it’s just a loud system.
- relaxing 5y agoTo be specific, top end gear has heavy torroidal inductors and transformers to keep the current flowing.
- Daneel_ 5y agoNot just that - high end speakers are heavy because of the need to use thick, stiff and dense materials to eliminate resonance.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoOne of the metric I know is sensitivity - how many dB per watts can a speaker produce. Logic is that at lower watts amp has less distortion. For best results buy an amp that's like 10x smaller than required, tho you will waste tons of power (which then goes into class A/B/C/D/E amps...)
- madaxe_again 5y agoYou’d be amazed at what you can hose out. My house flooded in 2019 - river flood, filthy silty water up to the roofline. Everything got dunked. I decided I’d at least try hosing everything down. PC, NAS, TV, headphones, you name it, it got hosed, and then left in the sun to dry. Mud and silt had filled most of it, and I’d little hope any of it would survive. Turns out, bar two hard drives, everything survived. The TV had water trapped in the screen for a few months, but it dried without any residue or mark, and was perfectly usable while the thin film of water between the screen layers evaporated. But the car was a write off. There was no going back from an engine full of silt, and 100% cooked electrics.
- dTal 5y agoJust a supplement to your point of water not always being fatal to electronics - I once found a PSP lying at the bottom of a lake. It was by a school, so I guess bullying had been involved. One thorough rinse later and it turned on. Battery and optical drive were shot of course, and the screen was seriously watermarked. But still.
- adolph 5y agoThe PSP is not especially ferrous, so you were not Magnet Fishing when you found it? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=magnet+fishing https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=magnet+fishing
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoI’ve sent many desktop keyboards through the dishwasher. Pop the keycaps off and put them in the flatware compartment first; allow 48 hours to dry before re-assembling and plugging in after. Even the cord comes out looking good as new.