You order a brand-new Ford-branded pickup truck and pay a fortune for it. Your F-150 Limited, the highest of all trims available, is delivered weeks later. You drive it around for a couple of months and a few thousand miles, bragging about and taking care of it as if it's the VIP member of the family. And then it gets flooded. What do you do? You call up the insurance company, and it decides to send your new truck to the crusher.
Sometimes, flooded cars end up on the used car market with a salvage title after having been written off by insurance companies. But other times, they are so badly damaged that the only way for them is the crusher. This is what happened to this 2023 Ford F-150 despite the fact that, if you look at it, you would think that the only contact that it has ever had with water was at the car wash.
The truck is nearly new. It rolled off the production line in March 2023. The odometer reads just 5,300 miles (8,530 kilometers). What makes everything even more painful to watch is that the pickup truck is a Limited variant, which is the top of the line and starts at $83,010 on the American market.
It is powered by the 3.5-liter PowerBoost Full Hybrid V6 with 430 horsepower and 570 pound-feet of torque. The vehicle has a towing capacity of 12,700 pounds and a maximum payload of 2,120 pounds.
Unfortunately, the vehicle was flooded, and the insurance company decided that scraping it is way more financially efficient than fixing it. Even worse, selling parts of it that were not affected by water is prohibited.
Photo: Junkyardjeff1966 | TikTok
According to the video uploaded on TikTok, the crusher company must take several precautions to avoid a fire or an explosion during the process. The fuel tank is removed, all fluids are drained, including engine oil, and the freon is evacuated from the air conditioning system.
The car still looks brand-new, with no visual sign of flooding. The interior is impeccable as well. But that is what the insurance company decided, so that is where it is going.
The vehicle is lifted with a forklift and put into the crusher. To help the machine crush it easier and prevent parts of it from jumping off the crusher, the forklift stabs the right side doors and rear fender and pushes them back in.
Everything gets compressed slowly. The load bed and the 22-inch polished alluvium rear wheels (only the right side one is visible) seem to put on quite a fight as they still look intact after the first attempt of the crushing machine.
In the end, the forklift picks up the pancake Ford. It’s already in the Valhalla of cars.
@junkyardjeff1966 Another contracted job for an insurance adjuster. Had to crush a beautiful 2023 Ford F150 with only 5000 miles on it because it was in a flood. No, we are not allowed to keep a single part. Before you say it- Why would you donate unsafe vehicle to poor people? The vehicle does not belong to us, it is not our decision to crush it, and all we can do is crush it. There are always people from the insurance company or the car company off camera that schedule a time to come and watch it get crushed. #Ford#fordf150#crushinganewcar#crushingcars#autorecyclingtiktok#junkyardjeff#noyoucantkeepit#fyp♬ Oh No - Kreepa
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