[QUOTE=facade;71767885]If sewage has got into the box sections, short of stripping the bodyshell bare and immersing in a suitable disinfectant, you will never get it out.
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The group selling it are hugely up front about any issues they find with the car (they funnel cars out to the trade from other dealers within their group) and they've not listed any smells present in the car.


A couple of trade men have submitted bids. Its currently sitting at £1500 with a couple of hours to go. I think it'll go for around £1500 to £1800.


I'm tempted to stick in a bid but as has been pointed out its most likely going to be a horror story to try and insure and if you did have to subsequently sell it on as salvage a £1800 "gamble" could turn in to a £300 breaker....


I suspect the trade men bidding know at worst they could use it as a runner and drive it via their trade insurance, so not such a risk for them...

And this one isn't.


The only rarity factor is that its the 2.0 TFSI engine variant (the Golf GTI engine), an Avant and S Line trim.


Not in the league of a Quattro, no.....

Aww, this ain't ugly : http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C816736

This is a bit, but can be sorted : http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C819141 - blame the yanks (they also had to up the ride height which had a lot to do with the handling, or was that just the Midgets ?)

Now this is ugly : http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C815305

And this is ugly : http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C813052 or http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C811057 ... but strangely I really like them for the clever bits (the doors and windows things) ... but not enough to actually own one.

Didn't they put wooden blocks under the suspension to fix the ride height

The V8 MG is the one to go for. Some modern springs and shocks and poly bushes (soft road ones not solid race ones) will improve matters.

As a weekend fun car they are cheap, unless like me you buy one for £600 and spend £1500 bringing it upto scratch and then sell it for £1000.

No wooden blocks, metal ones (at the front anyhow - and some longer springs).

But nothing wrong with a bit of quality carpentry under the car - ask Marcos (who did it properly, unlike Morgan who just hang bits of metal on a wood frame).

http://www.italian.sakura.ne.jp/bad_toys/plywood_monocoque/image/buildjig5.jpg

https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hsx/2015/04/Plywood-and-Pluck---1965-Marcos-1800-GT/3748428.html

I missed the end of the auction because i was in a meeting. I'd estimate it made £1500-£1800 based on the bidding before that.

Felt it was too much of a risk to get a new v5c in my name and to get it insured to get involved.

Thanks for all inputs here. Much appreciated

As a motor dealer of repute with over 35 years in the business, and at the top end of the scale i say this, Joe Horner is indeed correct, the codes for Cat B are indeed voluntary between insurers, and D.V.L.A. and their is "no written law" to say a Category B vehicle cannot be returned to the road, the reason so very few actually are is because they are usually so extensively damaged and regular every day vehicles that it is simply not worth the cost or time to reinstate. However ..... in the case of say a Top of the range Mercedes, Ferrari, Porsche etc: the very value of the vehicle itself may deem it to be worth repairing to the highest of standards, indeed as i write this in August 2018, a 2012 new generation Porsche 911 Carrera is being advertised on Ebay motoring for £30,000 (over half the price cheaper than a non damage example) and is Insured, Taxed, and MOT'd and being used daily .... I am always amazed at so called "online" experts who pass on heresay information without actually checking the legality of such facts, whether you agree or not is immaterial, You CAN, should you so desire return a Cat B to the road, and yes, Adrian Flux WILL i insure it, none of it will be completely straight forward as so few people really understand the law surrounding this process, but the question started out as as "Can You return a Cat B to the road " .....well the real answer if you want to be completely within the law, but outside of most people's comprehension as to why you would ? ....is a Yes.....half price Porsche anyone ?

Since this has been dredged up. Any idea what happened to it?

Yes, surprised to see it resurrected after all this time.

No, not sure. I kept an eye out for it on gumtree, autotrader, etc but it never surfaced again.

I have the reg of it somewhere from the original email alert, must look it up and see if its on the road...

A check of the MOT history might be interesting.

As it's an Audi it's probably been crashed 5 or 6 more times by now.

Audi drivers don't crash very often. They see lots of accidents though.........

I cant do an MOT history check because its registered here in NI.

BUT its just went through MOT on the 23rd July there and has been on the road up to that point (tax expired 31st July 18)

Probably driven in to by a Honda driver on cruise control.

Have they really got rid of VIC? I didnt know that. In that case, as you said, surely the makes it easier to get rid of ringers?

And no, I didnt check the date on the posts and hadn't realised that it was a resurrected thread haha.