Here's How to Avoid Buying a Hurricane Damaged Car
Hurricanes have socked the Southeast lately, and with that in mind, we speak with Patrick Olsen from Carfax about how you can avoid buying one of these vehicles that's been flood damaged.
Olsen supplied us with some numbers -- up to 138,000 vehicles were flood damaged due to Helene, on top of 89,000 flood-damaged vehicles already this year.
These states saw the brunt of it:
Florida: 60,700
South Carolina: 27,500
North Carolina: 22,900
Georgia: 16,800
Tennessee: 4,900
Virginia: 4,900
Matthew Guy and I then discuss retractable extension cords and NASCAR playoffs after the Alex Bowman disqualification.
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We thank Patrick and Matthew, as well as Matt Posky for editing. Most of all, we thank you for listening!
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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