One less Ultramarine Monogram due to Texas Floods
 

Well, last Wednesday was a very saw day for me. I lost my baby. I was driving down the street in the early morning in a heavy rain storm next thing I know it was like I was in a swimming pool. The water came up so fast with no warning. I didn't know these cars float. Within seconds water was up to the chest in the car. The engine was off by now, I hit the push to start button to try and turn the electrical system off. It did nothing. I had to get out the car, I opened the door and the car was a good two feet above the ground because I was thinking I'd step on the street. Nope, I had to start swimming. The most heart breaking thing was when I got to shore, was watching my car floating with all the lights on in the water like it was in a swimming pool. The was in Dallas off of Henderson ave. I never would think a city street could flood like that. There was a good 6 feet of water in the street. Here are the photos.
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Holy smokes good thing you got out alive!!! That's pretty scary but it is replaceable.(to a certain extent)

Wow that sucks, but at least no one was swept away inside it and you're alright. What's the plan going forward?

That sucks. Where did four feet of water come from in seconds?

OH SHIT!!!!!
I presume insurance will cover it? That is frequently the way with severe flooding. One minute all is cool the next it is a river.

Holy shit, I hope everything goes well for you, this honestly sucks

Dam...heart broken..i hope your insurance cover it all!!!!

P.S Its time to get a manual !

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Hopefully insurance covers it all

I loved that car, and I have been looking for another one. It took a few days but I found another Ultramarine Monogram with 1 owner and low miles. Chase and Jaguar has a promotion running so I’m also buying a Jaguar XE R-Sport in Blue. It comes out next month. So it kind of worked out, but I still wish this did not happen.

It’s a flash food. These things come out of nowhere. It was raining so hard I could almost see nothing. I was driving down the street and next thing I know it was a river. The street has a slight decline in it which is very hard to tell. I didn’t know how low the street was till I swam out of my car. The street was 6 feet or more lower than the parking lots that surrounded it. So all the water is going to one area, that where is flooded. There have been entire freeways under water in Houston. It crazy how fast these floods can happen in heavy rain. I never knew this was an area that flooded.

Yes, Allstate totaled the car and they have been very nice. They are paying for the rental, still working on the final value, but there has never been anything wrong with the car. I have zero deductible on comprehensive and since this was not an accident, this falls under comprehensive and so far I have paid nothing. Allstate has covered everything.

Another Flood to hit the auction, I swear my friend has been buying a ton of flood ones.

Aquaman was calling it. Needed a test drive.

Just a suggestion... Something made in Modena.

Whoas! Glad you are okay and that the insurance will cover the car.
Months ago my boss had the same thing happen but the car was parked on the street. Flash flood happened quite quickly and water was all the way up to the glove compartment. Insurance covered it too. Now my boss has PTSD when it rains quite heavily.

Too bad; glad you are OK; good that the insurance covered it; I'm sure a new Jag will help you recover.


humfrz

That sucks. Good to hear you survived! Since you had the Monogram spec are you going to get a BRZ as a replacement? If my car should ever suffer a violent death, I would probably go with the BRZ.

My current build is 'The Birth of 86'
I hope the day never comes that I have to rename the thread to 'The Death of 86' RIP

If you can afford it, you should get an Audi R8! This would be the next best thing!

I'm sure better days are ahead of you in your driving future!
Peace and should your 86 rest in peace.

Which would have been totally submerged in the same conditions.

That has nothing to do with what toysub was suggesting.

Sorry about the car. It happens.

Sounds to me as if the water was already there and OP drove into it. And before anybody criticizes, people drive into floods all the time because they can't actually see that the road is flooded, especially when it's dark or raining hard. One minute you're driving along. Then you're floating. Or sinking. Yeah, sometimes people try to cross when they shouldn't, but a lot (if not most) of these water rescues in Texas were people who got into the water before they realized what was happening.

When I lived in New Orleans, it was a regular thing for people to drive into floods and hydrolock their motors. What happened in Houston, NOLA people just consider Tuesday. I always took the Jeep out if I had no choice but to drive when weather was bad, because I knew the BRZ was at greater risk. Luckily I lived on a street that was a few feet higher than the surrounding blocks, and the vacuum trucks had recently cleaned our sewers.

Buy it back, disassemble it, dry it out, put it back together, and drive it like nothing happened.

370Z time!

Concrete. Dallas. Springtime in Texas. Sudden torrential rains. A bad combination. :thumbdown: Hopefully your insurance company will cover most of the cost of replacement and you'll have a speedy recovery.

It was nothing like your situation, but I tried to cross a "low water" crossing near Austin a few months ago with only about an inch of fast-flowing creek water over the road. I distinctly felt the car begin to drift with the stream. Got through fine, but it scared the crap out of me. These cars are just too low to handle any amount of ponded or flowing water.

Sucks to hear about the car, at least you can swim and you're living to drive another day.

It's not just these cars. Even the brodozers will float right off the road in a few inches of water if it's moving fast enough.

sell the headlights?

I know you may be joking. But I had a friend with a 350z that was salvaged from a flood and it's built for track use with BBK, exhaust intake and tune. But he had small electrical issues, that would end up costing him quite a bit to finally get sorted out, it's a fun car to drive when it works. When it rains the stereo loses power or the car stalls it's hilarious, and at night even after replacing the entire headlight assembly the exterior lights and dash clusters will cut in and out. All of it was tied back to an ecu and wiring harness needing to be replaced which was quite expensive to get replaced, almost $3000. After that it drove like new, however it occasionally smells a bit musty and although most of the interior is new there are areas underneath the carpeting that could use an alcohol bath which is what he's doing and dynamat placement, also parts of the car rattle and squeak more than the FR-S because it's needed to be taken apart so much.

Bottom line, it's only worth it if it's not your daily driver

This is what I was thinking. A flood-salvaged car can be a nightmare. Better just to let it go and let insurance help get another one.

Nope, disagree. Totally different scenario if you get to it right away and are thorough. You have a golden opportunity if you play your cards right.

According to Weather.com

Six inches of flowing water can knock a person off their feet.

• Water flowing at 7 mph has the equivalent force per unit area as air blowing at EF5 tornado wind speeds.
• Water moving at 25 mph has the pressure equivalent of wind blowing at 790 mph, faster than the speed of sound.

Add to that how low the car is and yea, your car becomes a canoe before you realize what happened.


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nooooo.... :(

Rebuild it and turn it into a track rat :)

Wow that hurts to look at, glad you're okay. Also I dig those badges..

Thanks man. I want another Blue Monogram and I found one!

Just wanted to update you guys. After days of searching and by some awesome luck I found another Ultramarine Monogram at a Toyota dealership. This one had one owner and only 13K miles on it!!!! I ended up buying 3 cars in 24 hours. I never would have done that if it wasn’t for the flood.

Car 1) Monogram, Car 2) Jaguar XE-R Sport, Car 3) Kia Soul (Don’t Laught). Why? So my limited edition Blue (Ultramarine) Monogram FR-S floated away last week. Like I said, I spent days looking for one and found one in Ruston, LA with only 13K miles on in and in perfect condition!!!! I flew out there to get it and drove it back home. Since I will never get another one of these, I do not want to drive it much. I decided to get another car.

Chase sent me this great offer to pre-order a Jaguar XE or F-Pace. I filled it out, Jaguar called me, and we set a time up to go to the dealership. Silly me, I was thinking it would be like two weeks or so and I’ll have my Jaguar. Nope!!!!!!!! Jaguar informed me that it takes at least 4 months to get as new Jag, as they are built in England, have to be shipped to Georgia, and then trucked to Dallas. Since the XE is a new model and mine is custom it will take even longer. On Jaguar USA website they offer BlueFire, but they won’t even start painting those till the end of July and Jag was telling me I won’t get it till Oct/Nov!!!!! Yikes!!!!

So they made some calls and was able to get it in Caesium Blue, which is on the F-Pace but not the XE. So now I’m going to have a super rare XE. Score! Then they said I can get it by September. Still 5 months thou!!! So what am I to do in the mean time? I’m not going to put all those miles on my GT-86! I drive 200 to 300 miles some days around DFW. Don’t make fun of me, but I need a cheap fun car to get around and has the space to carry things. So I got a Kia Soul. It is a car I can put the miles on and not worry about it.

Here are some photos of the cars, including my old and new Monogram next to each other.

A sight for sore eyes. Almost new Ultramarine Monogram at dealershiphttps://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...92676719_o.jpg.

13,100 something when I got it and then added miles after a test drive.
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Side by side you almost can't tell one was in a flood except it is starting to rust :(
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For some reason this photo reminds me snakes.
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This is what the new XE looks like and the two colors of blue I was talking about earlier.
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More photos of the new Monogram. I don't know why it has it better navigation options than mine. I never saw these options on my car in the navigation.
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Here is the Monogram, Kia Soul and the rental. All my cars will be in Blue.
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