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FL cars are usually great. My Cayenne was 7 years old when I bought it with 28k miles and looked like a brand new car. Road salt.ianfar worse than anything outside of a flood or Hurricane that FL exposure can do.
AZ cars usually have cooked interiors and shrunken leather dashes.
FL cars are usually great. My Cayenne was 7 years old when I bought it with 28k miles and looked like a brand new car. Road salt.ianfar worse than anything outside of a flood or Hurricane that FL exposure can do.
AZ cars usually have cooked interiors and shrunken leather dashes.
California is, in my opinion, probably the best place to buy a car.
Weather is good 90% of the time, a large selection of all makes and models, and other things. Even though I bought my 997 in Michigan and drove it home....
Here's an example of Florida oxidation on 997 w/40K miles that lived on coast and not garaged much.
And this is just the engine. I had undersides photos but can't find them.
Can you imagine what the brakes & suspension look like?? It was crusty mess.
My parents retired to Florida and lived on water with carport no garage. Their car was a mess from year-round humidity & heat.
Brakes totally rusted and undersides crusty. Was only 3 years old Lincoln Town Car.
Last edited by groovzilla; 12-26-2022 at 02:09 PM.
HAPPY HOLLIDAYS TO ALL... I am certainly paying attention to what you all have been advising me of. I am making notes so when I hopefully am able to go see the car I will be armed with some knowledge on these cars. I live on coastal water but, any car I buy will be garaged. My 7.3 excursion lives outside and has the corrosion issue on metal parts in the engine.
My parents retired to Florida and lived on water with carport no garage. Their car was a mess from year-round humidity & heat.
Brakes totally rusted and undersides crusty. Was only 3 years old Lincoln Town Car.
Makes a huge difference. My wife and I have a condo on the beach which we sometimes rent or use as a weekend retreat or sometimes longer. No garage though. Just a carport but just two nights in that carport and the car needs care even with good weather. It's always windy from the Gulf Of Mexico and it covers the car with a "misty" mess of dust and salt residue from the water and sand from the beach. So I always give it a good bath/soaking all over and under when I get it back to the house.
No way I would park my car like that for more than a week, never mind year around.
Makes a huge difference. My wife and I have a condo on the beach which we sometimes rent or use as a weekend retreat or sometimes longer. No garage though. Just a carport but just two nights in that carport and the car needs care even with good weather. It's always windy from the Gulf Of Mexico and it covers the car with a "misty" mess of dust and salt residue from the water and sand from the beach. So I always give it a good bath/soaking all over and under when I get it back to the house.
No way I would park my car like that for more than a week, never mind year around.
My parents condo had a water shower setup for cars. Basically a carport looking skeleton constructed of water pipes.
You pulled your car under it and turned on the water and car got good shower rinse. Of course only good for the exterior topsides to get the salt spray off.
The underside and brakes stayed crusty as hell.
While it would be nice not to see rust anywhere, is it really that bad on hefty components? A bit of rust isn’t going to eat through a control arm and chances are maintenance and parts replacement happen faster than rust materially impacting a component. You aren’t eating dinner off the underside of the car.
now rust on a body panel seems like more of a headache to me but maybe that’s because I don’t have the skills to repair that.
While it would be nice not to see rust anywhere, is it really that bad on hefty components? A bit of rust isn’t going to eat through a control arm and chances are maintenance and parts replacement happen faster than rust materially impacting a component. You aren’t eating dinner off the underside of the car.
now rust on a body panel seems like more of a headache to me but maybe that’s because I don’t have the skills to repair that.
Don't want it on body panels, less concerning nothing's like sway bars and control arms. A nightmare for a DIYer on all the fasteners where a 30 minutes job can turn into a 3 day one drilling out snapped or sheared bolts.
This is what the underside of a 48k mile Cayenne that spent it's whole life in FL and SC looks like
Lucky for me my best friend owns one of the best body shops in Ocala, he even repairs new and crashed damaged Fire engines and Ambulances for Mercedes and E One respectively. So rust corrosion body work etc will not be a problem.
Sandwedge, know what you mean about the daily Gulf grime. Had a condo with carport across from Siesta beach and rinsed off the car with fresh water every other day. Can’t stand driving a “dirty” car!
12-26-2022 | 10:10 AM
I got it...
