Hurricane Harvey & my old H3 Alpha:

[Best4x4]

As all of you know I sold my mint H3 Alpha for an LR3 HSE a while back. Well the guy that bought it seemed like it was his dream car and he was going to baby it. I was sadly mistaken. Well Hurricane Harvey hit and all of my Land Rover's made it thru with zero issues. I was fumbling on FB and saw a video of a flooded highway and what appeared to be a white H3 up to it's windows driving thru the flood waters......... (couldn't see the THOR rear bumper or front bumper due to them being under water). Sadly when I did some further research it was indeed my old H3 Alpha aka White Devil. The post in the video says "I drove thru flood waters up to my windows & now all sorts of electronics are acting up and the floor is soaked".... All I can say is good bye to a flawless vehicle that was killed off by someone that thought it was a boat.

Be on the lookout in TX for a White 08 H3 Alpha hitting the salvage yards with all sorts of off road goodies.

 

[Enter Hummer]

Well that sucks.

My dad had an 02 F350 on big mickey thompson tires, we called it “Big Red”. It was a beautiful nicely taken care of truck. We had to sell it and about a year later it was for sale again: it was on small tires, the frame was bent from jumping it, and it looked like hell.

Even though it’s not your truck anymore, it still hurts to see anything bad happen to it lol

 

[Best4x4]

Yep I put a lot of work into that H3 Alpha. Just sad to see a perfectly good SUV go to the scrap yard. R.I.P. White Devil....

 

[Bigunit]

That's a bummer!

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[RamRod]

Man that's just foolish.

My dad had a 70's something F-150 with a big a$$ motor in it (not sure on the specs but it needed drag slicks on the rear to keep it from burning out at every light)... anyways he sold it to a guy with an 16 yr. old and my dad warned him when handing over the keys "Do not let you son take this out for a few years".... 2 weeks later the truck was wrapped around a light pole destroyed and sue enough the son took it out and wrecked it 4 blocks from his driveway...

It's only steel, but man does it hurt to see an old rig like that!

 

[Traxx]

Don't see the big deal, You fry a bcm just replace it, drain the diffs, replace the alternator, dry the carpet, etc. Just nuts and bolts not rocket science or like you caught some sort of Hummer virus fording water where sheet metal and all wiring will disintegrate in 14 months because water touched it. Water dries, it's all amazing like that.

 

[SolidusJ]

Sorry to be that ass but I really, really want a first gen Thor bumper... So if anyone in TX could keep an eye out fot it, that would be great. I'm station over at Korea right now and can't really do much.

 

[4Lo-Tank]

Sorry to be that ass but I really, really want a first gen Thor bumper... So if anyone in TX could keep an eye out fot it, that would be great. I'm station over at Korea right now and can't really do much.

Pretty aure you can order the 1st gen bumper still. The only thing he did was add the side pieces

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[SolidusJ]

Really? I only see the 2nd gen on the site.

 

[Best4x4]

Well after Harvey sadly everyone that was either under in their vehicle value vs loan payoff or people that saw an easy way out of their current vehicle drove thru deep water on purpose or left their vehicles to get flooded out on purpose. Sad to say it but I know several people where I work that got brand new vehicles over little more than mold on their front seat due to it being soaked from getting in/out during all the rain, then closed up for a week while it got up to 90F out and of coarse mold is gonna grow, or oh yes my vehicle was flooded... Then you asked omg really how deep of water was it in? They'd reply back with oh it was in water over the lower part of the tire.... Even better yet was when people came to work for say 2-3 weeks after Harvey using their so called flooded out vehicles without any issues then one day they'd have a rental, and soon after that a brand new vehicle. It had nothing to do with Harvey flood waters, but the insurance companies had so many claims they eventually were just writing them off with checks.....

All of my Land Rover's were in water up to the center caps during Harvey and did I make a single claim? Hell no there was nothing wrong with them! Car lots were completely empty down here after Harvey and for like 2 months 95% of the vehicles on the road had paper plates.

So the guy probably was like well if ever I wanted a new SUV now is the time & sadly 1,500,000 vehicles got totaled out and probably half weren't actually flooded which is sad. However if you need any parts from a Pick N Pull now is the time for some good parts lol.