Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

SingleSue

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Try and get him to £150, and if necessary, settle at £125.

We've just scrapped an old Austin Metro that was bought to do a video shoot with, and that was worth £150 with no straight body panels.

CK

Scrap value around here is £140....good to know that even when my car goes to car heaven, I can something back although she has done good as she only cost £461 over 5 and a half years ago and running/repair costs have been negligable!**

**Touching wood very firmly!

misskool

zagubov wrote: »

What's the deal? Is it going to be crushed/ put to auction?
If so, have you and yours saved anything you can salvage from it first (has it a newer battery/tyres etc.) road tax, mats, radio, ariel, wipers, mirrors, breakdown kit etc.

This must sound foolish as you'rve probably thought through every item already but I'd be searching the seats for money and keys!:rotfl:

he came, paid me £90 and took it away. putting the form into the envelope for DVLA now.

Gone to be broken down for parts I think. He got a free half tank of petrol because I had no idea how to siphon it out.

To be honest, it's sat on the side of the road for almost 2 weeks not working Being rid of it was worth anything more. I know it sounds terribly un-MSE but it was the only way I could deal with it.

BertieUK

SingleSue wrote: »

Scrap value around here is £140....good to know that even when my car goes to car heaven, I can something back although she has done good as she only cost £461 over 5 and a half years ago and running/repair costs have been negligable!**

**Touching wood very firmly!

You can at least take some consulation that most scrap cars are taken apart and much of the car is recyclable, we are decluttering our property to be able to sell and we have taken lots of things to our recycling centre knowing that very little will be wasted which is very comforting, we have been literally shock by the quantity of things that we have been storing especially in the attic.

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

he came, paid me £90 and took it away. putting the form into the envelope for DVLA now.

Gone to be broken down for parts I think. He got a free half tank of petrol because I had no idea how to siphon it out.

To be honest, it's sat on the side of the road for almost 2 weeks not working Being rid of it was worth anything more. I know it sounds terribly un-MSE but it was the only way I could deal with it.

I understand completely and sympathise.

My first car, a Fiat had an intermittent fault that made it thoroughly unreliable unless the weather was perfect, and when I moved to London I parked it down a side street and forgot about it.

Every few weeks when I remembered I'd drive it around the area to recharge the battery then leave it again. I hated driving in London so much in those days I eventually took it to an auction and was pleased as punch when somebody took it, it felt like having a millstone removed from round my neck.

For future reference didn't GDB or his DS find a way to get petrol out of a car that was being towed for scrap?

lostinrates

My lawnmower was returned from repair and servicing a few weeks ago and today seemed the day to use it.....

Grrr, the fault it went in for is still there. The drive belt for the blade keeps hopping off. Dh is trying to get it back on now as the shop is closed at weekends. He is a dab hand and getting it on, but he shouldn't have to.


Meanwhile heating people trying to re write history ATM so that needed to be knocked on the head. (not being a nice person comes so much more naturally to me at times) and our woodpellet delivery (goodness only knows why we are feeding pellets to the thing when it doesn't work adaquately) has been delayed, so I need to go and buy some woodpellets.

Dh and I cannot agree what to have for supper. My suggestion of 'soup' went down like a lead balloon.

zagubov

BertieUK wrote: »

You can at least take some consulation that most scrap cars are taken apart and much of the car is recyclable, we are decluttering our property to be able to sell and we have taken lots of things to our recycling centre knowing that very little will be wasted which is very comforting, we have been literally shock by the quantity of things that we have been storing especially in the attic.

I remember taking an old hifi to our recycling centre (yes, I should have sold it on ebay, but nobody's perfect, least of all me). One was a decent turntable with its diamond stylus. I told the guy looking after the electrical goods that it was in 100% good order and fully working. As I drove off I made the mistake of glancing in my rearview mirror and saw the guy smashing it against the side of the skip to get the metal out.:mad:

Just made another mistake and looked it up on ebay and saw a broken version going for this price. :wall:
Which is a lot more than I paid for it new!

We'd be better reccyling through friends. family and freecycle, I reckon.

StevieJ

Some bargains here I bet you won't find bigger discounts than those?
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BertieUK

zagubov wrote: »

I remember taking an old hifi to our recycling centre (yes, I should have sold it on ebay, but nobody's perfect, least of all me). One was a decent turntable with its diamond stylus. I told the guy looking after the electrical goods that it was in 100% good order and fully working. As I drove off I made the mistake of glancing in my rearview mirror and saw the guy smashing it against the side of the skip to get the metal out.:mad:

Just made another mistake and looked it up on ebay and saw a broken version going for this price. :wall:
Which is a lot more than I paid for it new!

We'd be better reccyling through friends. family and freecycle, I reckon.

Ouch...I bet that view was distressing..

I have since the experience with our poor car done exacly as yot mentioned and sold lots on Ebay and have made some extra pennis which has been very welcomed indeed.

Giving away to friends and family is also a great idea.:)

Masomnia

zagubov wrote: »

There's a page somewhere about MOTs and how to avoid getting your bill padded with unnecessary work.

Thanks, I'll be needing that myself soon.

The thing with my mum's, she takes it to the dealership she bought it from. It was around ten years old, and I know for a fact that young lads like the starlets, seen plenty of them souped up. Anyway so she took for the MOT and they told her it had failed the emissions, and it would cost loads to fix, and since it was ten years old, why didn't she part-ex in and buy a new Yaris?

So it was even worse than just a bit of expensive work, they sold her a new car on the basis that it would be so expensive to fix the old one. She phoned me right after the test and I said to her please don't do anything, take time to think about it. In other words get a second test done and watch them do it, or take it somewhere else if possible. But she didn't...

I used to work in a garage and helped out with MOTs for a few weeks, and I saw one car fail its emissions test in that time, and it was a clapped out old Ford. So I'm convinced the mechanics and sales people conspired to get her to buy a new car, while the mechanics got the Starlet out of it, especially as this was around 2008 and the slump in car sales.

Still, she likes the Yaris so it's not the end of the world.

I hadn't spotted you live in Sheffield. Have you read much Danny Dorling, as in "So You Think You know the UK?". Sings its praises to the heavens;)

I haven't but it's on my list, I've met him a couple of times through work so I do want to read it!

misskool

oh, so that's what it's like to have power steering

i have a proper car now. terrified of denting it though.