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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: muddyjames on February 13, 2008, 22:02:08

Title: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: muddyjames on February 13, 2008, 22:02:08: I need mainly a new exhaust for my rover 620. I desperatly need the front pipe section but it is so rusted onto the manifold it needs drilling out, so a new manifold would be handy too. Oh and the rear and middle section where they join are on thier way out too.

I am thinking about buying a rover 620 off ebay for Â£50 that is advertised for spares and strip the bits i need off (as a new front wing would be lovely too as mine is a bit rusty) and then taking it to the scrap yard.

I have been quoted Â£300 for a new exhaust. Annoying as I just spent Â£600 on the breaks for the mot and they supposidly "welded" the middle section up, but not much evisence of new welding going on under there!

Just looking at my options really!
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: suzota on February 13, 2008, 22:35:11: i wanted some vit coils from a scrappy
was quoted Â£35 a corner plus vat.

sod that, new ones dont cost that much
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: muddyjames on February 13, 2008, 22:36:50: no, no, noooooo

I am not intending on buying from a scrapy.

I am thinking of buying a spares or repair car off ebay, strip the car for bits i need then take it to the scrappy
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: MudRat on February 13, 2008, 22:50:10: james, do it and then offer the car back on ebay as spares/repair, u will prob get ur money back, if not cars at a scrappy will give you roughly Â£50 cash.
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: muddyjames on February 13, 2008, 22:53:03: give ME Â£50 ;D Liking the sound of that.

So if I buy a rover for Â£50 off ebay, take the bits I want off, then take to a scrappy it in theory should cost me nothing. :D

Sounds good to me!
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: Guardian. on February 13, 2008, 22:55:24: its strange, as scrap metal prices are going through the roof, but anything made with new steel isnt worth anymore! :-k
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: muddyjames on February 13, 2008, 22:56:38: for example. this ended about 30mins ago and now relisted

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180215627022 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180215627022)

not the same colour as mine but hey. as an example it will do!
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: Lucy1978 on February 13, 2008, 23:12:29: I know someone who got Â£100 quid for an escrort they weighed in recently.
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: ben_haynes on February 13, 2008, 23:17:58: we resently weighed in a Fiesta and got Â£90 for it but make sure you take the wheels off or they will charge you Â£5 a corner for the rubber
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 14, 2008, 04:41:54: Scrap weights will vary a lot depending on model year/how complete the car is (catalyst etc) but prices are good at the moment.

Do be careful though, scrapping a car now comes under these end of life regs, stripping one at home for example could bring you grief and transoprting a partly stripped car is also a pain. Ring the scrappy and have them collect, you'll still get a few quid that way.
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: Boggert on February 14, 2008, 12:06:37: Yep, i would buy a spare if i had the room to store it. but SWMBO would go mad [-X and its a big no no.
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 16, 2008, 03:28:01: Err, it'd be another spare for me :oops:

Or as they say about LR owners, your spares dept is on bricks in the back yard.
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: ben_haynes on February 16, 2008, 19:01:14: Quote from: Range Rover Blues on February 16, 2008, 03:28:01
Err, it'd be another spare for me :oops:

Or as they say about LR owners, your spares dept is on bricks in the back yard.

or some one elses back yard :lol:
Title: Re: Scrap yard costs.
Post by: carbore on February 16, 2008, 21:29:20: Guy I shared my old yard with took some an old fiesta (the car!) to scrappy plus some trailer bits and got about Â£70. was v.happy.
Like they say, remove the tyres and some may even get fussy about the oil etc.

Also you may want to stick the dash and ecu on ebay, anything thats easy to post and complex.