scrapping my car for cash

motorguy

To get the maximum for it :-

• Cut the cat off if it has one. Weigh it in separately.
• Remove the spare, and when they are lifting the car, remove the wheels and tyres. Find somone cheap who'll split the tyres off the rims. I've a local guy who does four for £2.They should make an easy £10-15 each on gumtree.
• If the stripped wheels are alloy, remove weights and valve and weigh them in - you should get approx £12 for each.
• If the car has genuine wheel trims, remove them and stick them on ebay. They should make £15-20 for the set.
• Remove the battery and weigh it in seperately, or sell it on gumtree.
• Consider removing the rear lights and headlights. They should make some money on ebay.
• Remove the coil pack (look it up on google). It will make £20 on ebay.
• If theres a CD player, remove it and sell it ebay. It should make £15-20.
• If you're handy with a spanner, remove ancilliaries like the alternator and radiator, and sell them on ebay.
• If you're handy with a screwdriver, remove any switches you can, including electric window switches, and sell them on ebay.
• Remove the mirrors and sell them on ebay.
• Sell the rear parcel shelf on ebay / gumtree if theres on in the car.
• Sell the handbook on ebay - they make £10 on average.
• Consider removing the bumpers and selling on ebay / gumtree - but they're bulky to post.
• Weigh the remains in.

Rolandtheroadie

pgilc1 wrote: »

To get the maximum for it :-

• Cut the cat off if it has one. Weigh it in separately.
• Remove the spare, and when they are lifting the car, remove the wheels and tyres. Find somone cheap who'll split the tyres off the rims. I've a local guy who does four for £2.They should make an easy £10-15 each on gumtree.
• If the stripped wheels are alloy, remove weights and valve and weigh them in - you should get approx £12 for each.
• If the car has genuine wheel trims, remove them and stick them on ebay. They should make £15-20 for the set.
• Remove the battery and weigh it in seperately, or sell it on gumtree.
• Consider removing the rear lights and headlights. They should make some money on ebay.
• Remove the coil pack (look it up on google). It will make £20 on ebay.
• If theres a CD player, remove it and sell it ebay. It should make £15-20.
• If you're handy with a spanner, remove ancilliaries like the alternator and radiator, and sell them on ebay.
• If you're handy with a screwdriver, remove any switches you can, including electric window switches, and sell them on ebay.
• Remove the mirrors and sell them on ebay.
• Sell the rear parcel shelf on ebay / gumtree if theres on in the car.
• Sell the handbook on ebay - they make £10 on average.
• Consider removing the bumpers and selling on ebay / gumtree - but they're bulky to post.
• Weigh the remains in.

It's great in theory, I've a Corsa B lying in the drive right now I was going to weigh in for £100.

But this has given me the inspiration to break it.

I'll start a thread and update how easy/hard/worth it it is.

motorguy

scotsman4th wrote: »

It's great in theory, I've a Corsa B lying in the drive right now I was going to weigh in for £100.

But this has given me the inspiration to break it.

I'll start a thread and update how easy/hard/worth it it is.

Scrap merchants have a field day when you weigh a complete car in. The cat is usually worth £50 or so on its own. They take money off you for having to dispose of your tyres. They take the battery out themselves but dont give you any value for it

Rolandtheroadie

pgilc1 wrote: »

Scrap merchants have a field day when you weigh a complete car in. The cat is usually worth £50 or so on its own. They take money off you for having to dispose of your tyres. They take the battery out themselves but dont give you any value for it

We'll see how it goes, I've started a thread on the strength of making more than my £100 back.

It's got a brand new sump, new exhaust, recon starter and a brand new tyre.

Everythings good (apart from the engine), it's a diesel so the uprated springs are probably good for anyone converting one to a 2.0 petrol.

s_b

pgilc1 wrote: »

Scrap merchants have a field day when you weigh a complete car in. The cat is usually worth £50 or so on its own. They take money off you for having to dispose of your tyres. They take the battery out themselves but dont give you any value for it

cats on corsa b petrols are classed as half a cat and arent usually even worth weighing in because they at this age have usually all broken up and disappeared
this is especially true of the later pup 1.0 litre engined varieties where the cat is a manicat and most of these will have been changed by now for spurious rubbish because they all split on the weld

mestreech

Thanks for all the replies. I think i will try ebay firstly and if it doesn't sell then break it down myself and sell the parts individually. Thanks for all the extra info it's given me quite a few ideas.

mikey72

pgilc1 wrote: »

To get the maximum for it :-

• Cut the cat off if it has one. Weigh it in separately.
• Remove the spare, and when they are lifting the car, remove the wheels and tyres. Find somone cheap who'll split the tyres off the rims. I've a local guy who does four for £2.They should make an easy £10-15 each on gumtree.
• If the stripped wheels are alloy, remove weights and valve and weigh them in - you should get approx £12 for each.
• If the car has genuine wheel trims, remove them and stick them on ebay. They should make £15-20 for the set.
• Remove the battery and weigh it in seperately, or sell it on gumtree.
• Consider removing the rear lights and headlights. They should make some money on ebay.
• Remove the coil pack (look it up on google). It will make £20 on ebay.
• If theres a CD player, remove it and sell it ebay. It should make £15-20.
• If you're handy with a spanner, remove ancilliaries like the alternator and radiator, and sell them on ebay.
• If you're handy with a screwdriver, remove any switches you can, including electric window switches, and sell them on ebay.
• Remove the mirrors and sell them on ebay.
• Sell the rear parcel shelf on ebay / gumtree if theres on in the car.
• Sell the handbook on ebay - they make £10 on average.
• Consider removing the bumpers and selling on ebay / gumtree - but they're bulky to post.
• Weigh the remains in.

I've bought 5 tyres and rims for £12, and 4 tyres for 99p. I've bought another set of tyres with the wheel trims thrown in for free, for £15 for the lot. Lights I've bought for a couple of quid. Radiators I've seen for a few pound that haven't sold. Switches £1 each. Handbooks I've bought for 99p. Once you've paid ebay fees, and paypal, there's nothing in it.

motorguy

mikey72 wrote: »

I've bought 5 tyres and rims for £12, and 4 tyres for 99p. I've bought another set of tyres with the wheel trims thrown in for free, for £15 for the lot. Lights I've bought for a couple of quid. Radiators I've seen for a few pound that haven't sold. Switches £1 each. Handbooks I've bought for 99p. Once you've paid ebay fees, and paypal, there's nothing in it.

Good for you.

I've just sold 6 tyres for £20 each on gumtree. Got £11 each for 8 old alloys by weighing them in. I've listed a couple of headlights on ebay for £20 each. CD players are worth £20. Genuine wheel trims i easily get £20 a set for good used ones. I've sold three handbooks on ebay this week averaging £10 each. £10 for a quick sale on a coil pack.

I'm happy to back that up with actual evidence by the way.

This is just some of the bits and bobs i've gathered up over the past couple of months whilst motor trading and for fairly average cars - vauxhalls and fords.

Maybe if the car is particularly !!!!!! and old, then you can pick up the bits for peanuts?

I'd never weigh a car in complete - you're just giving money away.

motorguy

Heres a list of recent completed 'buy it now's on ebay for hand books. Scroll down the green ones which have sold and they're easily averaging £10.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=36085&_from=R40&_nkw=handbook&LH_Complete=1&Literature%2520Type=Manuals%252F%2520Handbooks&_dmpt=UK_CarParts_Vehicles_Manuals_Litterature_ET&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1

I typed 14 inch tyre into gumtree and 75 hits came up - prices from £15 to £35.

http://www.gumtree.com/search?q=14+tyre&search_location=United+Kingdom&category=wheel-rims-tyres&search_scope=title&min_price=&max_price=

Heres a Corsa parcel shelves that have sold - for between £10 and £15.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/csc/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=corsa+b+parcel+shelf&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

Heres Corsa 13 inch wheel trims making approx £5 each

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=corsa+13+wheel+trims&LH_Complete=1&_dmpt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Wheels_tyre_Trims_Trims_ET&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=4

I could go on, but i'm sure you take my point.

mikey72

Luck of the draw then, there's a lot on ebay that don't sell for the prices you quote, with high starting prices, and a lot of completed items at 99p. Depends on how desperate you are at the time to buy, I'm not, so I can wait a week and go for the 99p ones. As to the handooks link, sort it on price +pp lowest first, put 200 items per page, then scroll down and see how many sold, most even for less than a fiver. Parcel shelf, half sold, lowest one was 99p. Put a reserve on it, and pay if it doesn't sell, then relist, it may go eventually.