It’s the smell that’ll give it away.
“You had better get your face close to carpet,” urged Ivan Drury of Edmunds, the automotive information service.
Now take a whiff.
“That gross, musty smell,” said Drury, “that’s a big red flag.”
It means the vehicle probably has been in a flood. Soon, these may be the perils of shopping for a used car in California.
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