Try not to purchase a flooded car...
 

So thousands of cars flooded this weekend. How many of those salt water flooded cars will sell within the next 2 years with no disclosure or record of flooded?

Volvo for sale, previous owner: Irene

Nice.

This thread is too late for me...

Withing the next 2 years? Ha! Within the next 3 months or forget it. I lived for 20 years in North Carolina right where Irene hit. Cars flooded with salt water are totaled not because of potential body rust but because of electrical issues. The wire harness totally disintegrates in weeks. Short of immediately re-dunking the car into a swimming pool, nothing can be done.
When I was in high school, I worked summers at a local marina. Twice customers dropped small outboards overboard into the salt water. The cure? After getting the motor back on shore, we immersed it in a 32 gallon trash can full of fresh water. We'd strip the motor down, oil it up and put it back together...good as new. Folks don't do that with flooded cars though...

Cool. So I will be clear to purchase east coast cars again by Janurary.

Sure but if you see a bilge pump...think twice!