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had some nice flash flooding in the area from all the hurricane storms comin up to the midwest area today/lastnight, i didnt really know they were coming this way til i woke up to my car's horn blaring at 8:30 am this morning, went out side and found this:






thats my car in the street with all the lights on and horn blasting, ive yet to figure out why they were on


when i got out there, there was no water going inside the car, so i decided to leave it there, checked on it a few hours later when the water levels went down, and my whole interior was soaked with standing water on the floor


just spent the past few hours trying to dump the water out and soaking it up with sponges and squeezing it out, aahhhhh what a day....


none the less i just got this car about a month and a half ago

wow man... that hurts

holy crap! O_o
Hope everything will okay with it...

That sucks. Is anything ruined or is it just a crapload of cleaning up?

Man that sux, im sorry.

well after the water went down, i tried starting it up, battery seemed too dead to try n turn over, and the whole time my horn is goin and the lights are on, well a few hours later the battery eventually died, i came back to the car and tried hookin up a new battery, but the second i try to plug it in, the horn starts up and the lights come on, i dont know what the deal is

oh no.. your celi is now scarred for life..

do you have to remove the interior + carpet now?

Hmmm maybe some water might have gotten into something electrical which caused a sort. Which might be way this is happening.

sorry to see your car loke that if you got time get it stripped out let all dry and some wd40 or some sort of water repellent on wiring where ever you can hope you get it sorted

i had already planned on getting different carpet and seats, so its not TOO big of a deal, just sucks that its all gonna stink for a lil while, and there might be some rust issues now aswell


as far as the electrical part, i have no idea where to start and how to take care of that problem

dang sorry to hear bout your car man..hopefully everything else is alright as well.

Sucks about your car, but I'd like to nominate the first picture for the 2009 calender.

do u have an after market alarm??? id say she got cooked in the flood....check it out and un hook it.....empty out ur intake in case there is water in there..check ur plugs make sure water aint in there...same with ur exhaust i doubt water woulda traveled up that far but iv heard stories of ppl tryign to start cars in a flood and the car not starting but the vacum from rolling it over sucked water back in the motor?? i unno but check it out...hope she starts ok....open ur windows and vent it out is all u can do i guess....strip ur carpet seats and door panels put em some where with a (dehumidphyer) spelling?? and febreez the piss outa em make sure yea have no water layin around on ur floor and u should be ok

you need to strip your entire car down and clean it good, make sure all your harnesses are dry and water is outta the motor.
flood damage is disastrous

well, its a week later and i got some of the problems fixed


i pulled the horn fuse so itd quit blasting and drove it home, the first mile or so the car kept dying and the water was shooting out the exhaust, but after a few hours or so i finally got it home


i had to scoop the water out of the inside below the seats and around the pedals n floor mats, along with water in the spare compartment in the trunk, cleaned that ****er for a good 3 or 4 hours, but i still had the problem wtih the lights n horn being on no mater what along with my locks wigging out and flippin back n forth UNTIL , i found this lil black box under my driver's seat that was soaked, took that ****er out and opened it up n clean out all the mud n water n now my car runs pretty much perfect

can anyone tell me what that lil black box under the driver seat that says "toyota security" on it is for??


the only problem i have left is that my airbag light is on on my cluster, is there anyway to reset that or get it to turn off?

the toyota security thing might b e the alarm as i dont have it. I have aftermarket. your best bet is to uncover all electronics and let them dry in the sun. Your airbag module must have gotten wet. Its the one underneath the console. For that, get another one

I don't know if airbag modules are any good after the airbags have blown, but if they are I have one I could sell to you for dirt cheap. I hate sounding like I'm pawning stuff off, but that sucks about your car man. I had a tree fall on my house in the same storm. Hope everything goes well for you.