My $286,000 Aston Martin's Electronics were Destroyed by a Salt Water Flood. Is it Repairable?
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salt water damages stuff beyond repair dont consider salt water cars . I took alot courses and know for fact that water does to my computer or any electronic forget it not worth your time
Sam needs to hire someone who edits these videos, pump them out quick and and on to the next, these projects take way too long to get to us, not complaining but Sam’s channel has so much more potential if he pushes content properly
Sammm. You’d be one of my favorites… 👆
I wish! Sam's too cheap though 😂
He has 1.3 M subs and YT is not his main income source, banana's and chickens are ;0)
@@stevewaller6577 ...and I thought his full-time job was laying pipe for his step-mom's plumbing company.
Sam, I'll be your editor if you need! I'll accept partial payment in bananas and chickens
Sam, that "fuse box" you've replaced is called a CEM and it's programmed to each Volvo that it comes from, they're a nightmare to crack but using VDash and Vida, you can crack the PIN and re-program it.
Elliot Alvis has all that software and Volvo Oficial diagnostic computers. Maybe they can do a collaboration :)
I think bought new they come with all the coding included?
Can't wait to hear it start for the first time and what happened to the alarm?
All your content is great, Sam, but I'm really interested in this project. I'm hooked and the only thing that stinks is how long we have to wait between episodes. Keep up the good work!
Yeah……hire some junior high kid to edit and post to RUclips
He already hires tech school kids as his mechanical assistants
good job Sam ,I've got a tip when I'm working on flood cars,I use a Batt Terminal Cleaner It does a great job of neutralizing the green Crustys just pour it into a pump spray bottle and spray ,it works great.
@00:26, is it possible to remediate, repair and replace severe salt water intruded electronics? I'm Retired US Navy Aviation Electronics Technician, a chunk of my time was addressing salt water related corrosion on and in avionics systems. The #1 thing that can be done to mitigate salt water damage? Immediate flushing the area and electronics with fresh water, if able remove the electronics boxes, remove any batteries on the boards or in the boxes before hand and toss those batteries and then literally dunk the electronics and electricals in fresh water, open the boxes, dunk the boxes/boards/panels several times, agitate the water, if the water gets cloudy or just use constant flow of water (fill at the top, drain from the bottom because salt water is heavier than fresh), use a plastic soft bristle tooth brush and... I think the old NA01-16-540 US Navy Avionics Corrosion Control Manual is on the internet someplace. That tome is filled with information on how we do that job.
Yes to all this. Then use a drying and water displacing agent such as rubbing alcohol mixed with a bit of mineral oil. Mineral oil is non conductive.
On one other of these car repair channels, the guy had similar issues to Sam. This chap washed all his electronics with Ionized water and only had to replace one computer. This fellow I think had previously worked making computer circuit boards and they were always washed with Ionized water after manufacture to remove all the soldering flux and corrosion they can cause.
I just think it was weird how Rich Rebuilds was photographed along the levee system just before it failed, flooding this previously-pristine Aston.
LoL 😆
*Clean corroded connectors and plugs with soak in salt/vinegar slurry, then eutralize with water/baking soda and toothbrush.*
*I use soaked paper towels and wrap connector in saran for five minutes.*
I smell a cover up!!🤣
Lmfao
All I could think of was taking a pressure washer and some anti corrosive/salt cleaning chemicals and just powerwashing the interior and electronics. After removing the carpet and seats of course haha, probably has some drain plugs you can take out so would drain. Would make working on it a lot more better.
woooooo... what an ending. Always happy to see a Scott and Sam crossover.
Saltwater cars... you guys crack me up! Its bad enough on the outboards I restore... and those are designed from the ground up to be used there, but this is just hilarious. Hope you got it really cheap!
Awesome! Can't wait for Sam to work on this for a few weeks, get tired of it, park it unfinished in the field and never hear about it again!
That's his standard operating procedure!
To get rid of the salt, you want clean water, not contact cleaner. Seriously, salt is WATER SOLUBLE not oil soluble! Wash it out in clean fresh water again and again until the salt is gone, then use WD40 and contact cleaner. Just hose it all out, then go to town.
If you ever have to use that seat motor trick again, see if you can get a drill chuck around the motor shaft. Then you can get the drill to spend the motor instead of your hand doing it for 15 plus minutes. Usually, you probably won't be able to fit a drill, but you could get one of those flexible extensions for a drill and get a small chuck on the shaft that way. Even a flexible extension on a Dremel meant to hold drill bits for example.
Great editing on that disassembly also hats off to your creative and not awkward sponsor plug. Seamless!
Hey Sam , Just experiencing the same issue. no power for me as well , removed the Bcm on F-pace its destroyed with salt water. One possible solution that MAY work looks as follows. If you still have the dedicated bcm , you can try to send it out to the electronics board repair shop and try to swap memory module from original bcm to the new one. If the memory part is not damaged , you may get lucky and run the car with no problems. Regards from Georgia . Really looking forward for this project.
Freakin awesome you got such a huge sponsorship Sam!! Thank you for the free entertainment and you deserve it more than most!
Impressive indeed.. Walmart is not a easy one to get
The corrosion we saw in the last episode made me want to see this one. How is Sam going to get out of this one? Stay tuned to find out.
Ok.
Dildos remove rust and correctly corred
ive done countless flood cars, along with vintage audio gear. buy deoxit D5, its expensive, but corrosion just melts away
Sam--you truly have an inhuman amount of patience AND optimism to take on these projects! We may complain about how long it takes for you to release content but nobody is as willing to take the risks associated with potential diamonds in the rough, as you. Who says too much of a good thing can't kill you?! Godspeed and good luck on this and all of your projects.
"Could possibly be contaminated with mold spores" continues to touch,pat and breath in 😂
glad sam does projects that we all relate to. my grandmother drives a flooded Aston Martin
Instead of turning the motor by hand, you could have done it with your small hand drill with a socket near to shaft size and either pack it out and wedge it, or use a Blutak type product just to tack it temporarily.
Glad to see you got a great sponsorship.
Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride at the salt water express 💦💦💦 Good Luck Sam
It seems like you should have sprung for an extra $40 and bought the Walmart HyperTough electric drill and hooked it to that seat motor shaft and zipped that seat forward in no time. Just a thought.
He's got a different boy on his channel every episode to help out. He's not the most mechanically apt bloke. Most off us wouldve chucked that motor up in a drill... etc.
Samcrac was sounding like Kermit the frog there for a minute😂
Can't wait to see how this ends up. I enjoy when out of towners stop by and lend a hand.
Ayyy Matt! Good buddy of mine! Did work on my integra years ago! Glad to hear his name and shop shout out on here!
I bought a Hyper Tough tire pump. I've used it almost daily (long story) for 2 years. It's still going!
Whoooo what an epic ending! This is the best collaboration, don’t call Rich here, he just bragging and not helping, not mentioning to finish at all. Rattarosa is the man!
Some very innovative techniques in this video. Glad to see you don’t give up. Awesome you got friends to help you as well. I’m usually in the garage alone cussing at RUclips for making it look so easy.
Either Floridians really think Walmart is the best or Sam got paid. I would never buy those junk Walmart tools. Even harbor freight is better than that
You can see them cheating and using a Harbor Freight socket at 7:24
Sam that is an amazing car but the flood damage looks heartbreaking!!! BUT you are getting loads of experience eh!!!
The wiring harnesses has to be toast. If salt water was able to wick in because of the stranded wire, that car will be a nightmare a few years from now. I know some of the pinball guys actually place old wiring harnesses in the dishwasher to clean and the results are pretty amazing. Granted, not from salt water damage, more about decades of grime.
It is not a surprise that you found Ford and Volvo parts in the Aston. Ford used to own the Jag, Volvo, and Aston back in the 2000's. When I was an intern at Ford Global Purchase, Ford sourced their parts to be interchangeable in their product lines (economies of scale to push the parts price down). Even if the genuine parts are not available from Ford, you might be able to find an after-market compatible part. Good luck, Sam, and looking forward to the next video.
Sam is the king of sponsorships. You offer that man money, he'll take it!
Not sure about the tool box, but I’m definitely going to give the Electric 1/4” ratchet a shot for that price! Even cheaper than the harbor freight ⚡️ ratchet. I’m not working on anything industrial just car DIY stuff. Sh!t the snap on guy quoted me over $600 for a snap on 1/4” with 2 batteries! Wth
I don't know about how much space there is there to access the bolt..... but maybe taping the motor bolt to an extension socket which would be connect to a ratchet or a drill and using a ratchet/drill to spin the motor would have made quick work of it....
Sam I recommend repinning all those connectors that go I to the Volvo box. You should be able to buy new pins and pin removal tool pretty easily and that might fix a lot of you issues.
The issue you saw with the alarm and security light flashing in dash is a GOOD sign because you haven’t reprogrammed the Volvo CEM yet. This is how it supposed to work.
You also need to program that new box to the car before it will work which is why your security system is going off.
Yes, it's just a matter of how much money you have to spend. This would likely need a complete wiring harness plus any fuse block that got any water on it. Also, the engine may need rebuilt if the water got inside. Would also likely need new exhaust and catalytic converter if they were under the car where water could flood it.
I would just go the entire wiring harness route. Too many potential gremlins.
Hey Sam great video,,, take a wide rubber elastic slide it over the shaft of the electric motor and over the chuck of your battery powered drill add tension and the electric motor should spin,,, just like a serpentine belt spinning all the pulleys on your engine.....
10:59 Immobilizer is situated in the bcm. Key data wont match, if steering lock does not unlock ignition wont turn on
I really want to see ya fix that Mercedes coupe instead of the Aston. Waiting for that one
That CEM or Relay box as you calls it, is also part of the immobilizer and a lot more in one. It needs to be reprogrammed in order to work. Probably not possible as it is not a virginized unit. 😫
It can be reprogrammed he just needs the proper software which I know he doesn’t have. He can send it out tho to have it married.
for future reference, Metal Rescue would clean those connectors, tie them all up closely in a plastic bag, submerge in Metal Rescue. it will bring continuity back to electrical connection. Safe on plastic and electronics. It worked for me, I dont work for them.
I love that even after not being able to fix the flooded Viper, Sam is ALL IN to give it another go with a flooded Aston. Man, I know the feeling of excitement and enthusiasm to want to buy the next project and hopefully have it turn out great! SO many beautiful flood cars that seem like they have great potential. Some actually run and drive but have a certificate of destruction. I was really excited about that $250k 2019 GT3 RS flood car that just sold for $63k! So tempting but like Sam said, it could need an entire new power train. That's quite the gamble but SO tempting! Tavarish just couldn't resist buying that P1 and so far NOBODY has told him he got a killer deal. But, maybe it will end up as a killer deal. I hope this car ends up as a killer deal for Sam. Great content, Sam! Keep inspiring me NOT to buy a flood car!😁
I don’t think he purchased that Viper, someone else did and he was just trying to get it going for him.. but yeah still a gamble
@Alex TypeS You are correct. Another guy purchased the Viper but Sam definitely learned how challenging these flood cars can be. Lots of these flood cars get purchased by hopeful buyers then 6 months later they end up back at copart... still not running!
Not real life and if it's not fixed no big deal. Most of us need to fix our purchases.
@@adameldridge1719 Good point!
Just call Mortons Salt company and see if they want a "show car" !!!
The Aston Morton DBS? (Drive By Salt)
@@mikeundi PERFECT!!!
I love watching people moving or removing seats. What you need to do is turn them so the base is vertical and the bottom of it towards the front of the car - then it is easy to just turn the seat around the pillar to get it out.
Man you have balls of steel for trying to take on these projects, salt water is the great destroyer, hell just living near salt water slowly destroys cars, houses and even boats that are made for it😮
I can actually get parts for my Mercedes from Walmart that I couldn’t find anywhere else other than the Mercedes dealer.
I'm following this Aston Martin story. Why can't you buy a ecu and matching paired key from a wrecked db9 from a salvage yard. Since the issue is programing?
Wonder if you could have gotten a drill chuck on that motor spline? Have to be a small drill.
The waltons are taking over the automotive space!!
I'm curious if salt water migrated into the wires from the terminals and if so how that affects the conductor's resistance. Should the wire harness be replaced?
yup...
The wire connector to those pins that is hiding behind those plastic covers will look just as bad as those fuse panels. Great video series on this car but who ever buys this off him better do research or know what they’re getting into.
@@gbpg2016 I know about the connectors. My concern is water/salt migrating up into the wire/sheath....capillary action. Hence the need to replace the harness.
The corrosion won't affect the resistance initially, but over the long term it may eat the wires away to nothing. This car will never be reliable the way he is 'fixing' it.
Holy smokes...frickin wally marte.. 🎶movin on up!!!
From where I come from, I decided to call those stores Wally Martinez.
this beautiful car of yours was built in the UK. i guess over in America your car alarms work different to the UK. our alarms shut off after 30 seconds and then goes off again 15 seconds later.
Sam, your videos are like a really good book but with the last chapter torn out. Please can we get the full story.
Exotics typically depreciate terribly as the wealthy always buy new and second hand buyers still can not afford. Parts are still for a $300,000 whether depreciated or not. Plus specially mechanics ask for more cash/hour also. I bought a used year and a half Aston for half off with only 700 miles. It’s not a salvage vehicle. I drove it for 4 years and sold it for half what I bought it. Fit and finish not as good as a mass produced car. Infomat system funky. You definitely need another car as parts take months and in shop frequently. Love the v12 though.
was it worth it in the end? Probably not right? V12 is glorious, and cool bragging rights, but a new V8 mass produced car will probably get you 90% of the excitement without the extra headache. What did you get to replace the aston?
Hey , remember that if you have a bad ground the car won’t work ! The best way to fix that car would be to take it apart remove the harness completely and build one out of the old one !
Your optimism is great. I really hope you succeed and prove the critics wrong.
Sam, just about every one of your picks is the best and most relatable on the internet. Glad to see Scott return and hopefully turn this AM around! Your too close to the finish line on too many cars! LoL.... BTW~ whats that Mercedes 'Black' behind the AM?
You have to understand pal, that after 50 odd years of working & restoring, sometimes expensive motor vehicles, that once salt water has ingressed the electrical components , the car is totalled!
You also can’t beat Walmarts warranties. Especially for the cheap batteries. I work in automotive for WM and 99% of the bad batteries brought in are just warranted out. (Your first warranty applies to the exchange.)
Wal-Mart automotive is one of the worst you could go to.
Congratulations on the Walmart sponsorship! You did a nice job weaving that into the episode. The lamp and jump pack look like screaming deals!
What I've learned from watching car RUclips videos - NEVER buy a flood damaged car.
freaking addicted to this rebuild!! keep them coming Sam!!!
Astin Martin reminds me of obsolete American Motors the way they have a soup of various car makers parts on board.
All wall-mart tools so far. I have the hart drill, driver, flashlight, circular saw, sawza, air compressor.
Can you solder the chip that was removed from the AM board and put it on the Volvo board?It would have all the codes in it already.
That Ford Motor Co component looks like a 100amp relay, should be easy and cheap to replace.
Sam I’m returning the optimism: engine is locked up lol
Between this, tavarish's and LSC's mclaren im hooked
You can buy or even make some rugged car dollies and place them under the tires and move the car from the field to the barn/garage.
Every time Scott comes it’s lovely that guy is a
Top man
You can try cleaning the sockets by soaking them in a full glass of vinegar for a couple of days. Then you need to clean the vinegar and apply contact cleaner.
Should have used a mini drill with tape on the end and mate to to the motor……🎉🎉🎉it would have turned quicker
Surprise ending or what !
How you not have dollies Sam?!?!?! That's more shocking than the lift you didn't have for years
I do, but have you ever used dollies on grass!?!??
@Samcrac nope. And that makes sense bud. Plus how low it looks. Good luck bud. I love these cars!
@@Samcrac if you cut 3/4 inch plywood in half then you lay out a track so the dollies can roll on it till they're on the road. But seriously dude, this was such a teaser. Your Stepmom is going to have more ammunition to her claims you never finish anything
Did you consider using your cordless ratchet attached to the seat motor shaft to rotate it, rather than rotating it by hand?
Sounds brilliant to me
i actually saw this and went back to watch the first bc it seems sam may actually be committed to this project
Form a Nissan Mastertech take this advice….Replace ANY & ALL electrical components that show corrosion AND replace ANY & ALL harnesses that were underwater. That corrosion will make its way into the harness like a unseen plague. It’s the only way to guarantee that an electrical NIGHTMARE going down the road, won’t haunt the next owner.
I think the junction Box is part of the immobilizer
Try using battery terminal cleaner spray on all of the terminals, it's better to use contact cleaner after
Your future reference you could have slipped a rubberband around that seat motor used in electric drill and have that seat pulled forward and how'd it moved in a matter of seconds
Dude, I owned a boat for 40 years. Freshwater good, saltwater worse than bad…that car needed a freshwater immersion hours after it became inundated. Every circuit board, every wire that got saltwater on it or in it is toast. Galvanic corrosion in a salt water immersion combined with much of the electronics being energized while wet has awoken the copper worms…same as iron worms that eat steel except that copper worms eat copper wires and circuit board traces. Best of luck with the mechanical stuff no water in motor or tranny is a good thing.
5:15 Good to know what the tool kit would cost if I lived in Beverly Hills 90210!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Lol bro put it back on the trailer and then back the trailer up to the barn 😂
I got all excited when the alarm went off. Feeling was short-lived.
I'm willing to bet money on that this is another project that won't get done
Rubber hose on the end of the seat motor other end in the chuck of the drill. Spin and enjoy
perfect car to sell in parts... this corrosion nightmare will never stop
cant believe walmart sponsored a guy whos cows spend more time in his cars than he does, oh wait that makes walmart sense
Never seen walmart sponsoring youtube content. Nice break from all raid shadow legends or war thunder 😁
Its the zf gearbox and a very reliable and easy to work on gearbox.
It's a pyro fuse.
SAM!!!!!!! You could have simply slipped some fuel hose onto the seat motor armature and spun it with a drill!
I have that hart toolbox, it's actually pretty convenient
There's a salvaged Callaway Corvette at East Coast Auto that seems up your alley
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The absolute very first thing I would be doing with this car is wash everything. The engine bay and exterior/underside before anything else. The sale will continue to deteriorate everything until it’s fully washed away
You Called in help from the UK, Now it will Run !!
I repaired flood damage vehicles for over 15 years and the worst case is when the connector terminals are corroded and need to be replaced.