Man who bought flood-totaled Bentley Continental GT for $9K manages to fix it for just $330
- This man bought a ‘dead’ Bentley
- It was riddled with issues and wouldn’t start
- But he was able to fix it for just $330
Published on Dec 31, 2024 at 1:46 PM (UTC+4)
by Siddharth Dudeja
Last updated on Jan 02, 2025 at 3:14 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
This man bought a 15-year-old flood-totaled Bentley Continental GT that simply wouldn’t run despite his best efforts, and he managed to fix it for just $330 (and a lot of patience).
Back when he got it, this luxury car’s future wasn’t looking bright.
The car was riddled with electronic issues and saltwater from a flood inside the cabin.
Despite all that, he was committed to getting it back up and running.
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Flood-totaled Bentley Continental GT had a hopeless future
YouTuber Samcrac bought this ‘dead’ Bentley not so long ago, and he paid $9,000 for it.
Shortly after his purchase, he quickly realized why nobody else wanted it — the more he looked, the more problems he found.
Although you may be wondering why anyone would touch a car that had salt water inside it, know that Sam knew what he was getting himself into.
It wasn’t his first rodeo.
He previously fixed a supercharged Camaro ZR1 with a ‘bad clutch’ in just three minutes.
He also purchased a fire-damaged Ferrari F430 and got it running in 12 days.
Despite all his extensive knowledge, he got stuck at a chokepoint.
Sam went through most of the electronics and found that some of them had been tampered with.
As shown in a recent video, however, he managed to conquer even that.
Tinkering with the electronics
This Bentley Continental GT had an immobilizer module — or a Cassie unit — that wasn’t working.
In simpler terms, this module connects all the electronics together, and if it’s broken, anything with a computer will refuse to function.
The usual option is to replace the unit along with every other part that requires it to function — which would cost around $40,000 for a car like this.
Fortunately for Sam, a friend of his was able to clone this unit so nothing else would have to be replaced.
And that cost just $300.
Add in a $30 fuse box, and this car was running again.
Granted, it still had a ton of other issues — but the biggest problem was now gone.
Now Sam just has to decide whether to sell the Bentley as is, or fix it further to make it fully driveable.