Station Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 What the funk is up with some of these scrapyard owners/workers? Why do they happen to be the most miserable, cantankerous, bastards? Any job is too big, any request is a conversation they don't fucking want!I dread going in the majority near me as they are simply unbearably pissed off. Why reply in a civil, helpful manner when a single grunt will do. Don't get up out of your oily chair in the corner of your portacabin, I'll just struggle to communicate with you while you glare menacingly as if I'd just pissed all over your kids!I've encountered a couple which were unique in being nice, but they've all shut up and moved on. All I'm left with now are a bunch of curmudgeonly fuckers. :(I nearly couldn't hold it in today and was about to explode and ask 'what the fuck his problem was', and he suddenly turned reasonable.And now they're pricing individual stuff in line with what they could 'buy it now' on ebay!! TWATS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I know what you mean, but TBH my one and only local scrappie (all others have closed, it's West London sweetie) is run by a reasonable bloke. Maybe it's just he's a bit sweet on me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I detest scrapyards for just that reason. Now that ebay is here, there's not alot of justification for them really TBH, their miserable , greasy, rude cholesterol-choked owners are like the last of the dinosaurs. Almost the end of the road for them, and they have only themselves to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 It makes no sense to me either, there's one place where the owners are so miserable and apathetic that I detest the idea of them receiving any sort of money - I genuinely hate them. But even the more pleasant ones tend to be laughably disorganised and have bad business practices. Here's an idea - keep a log of cars on a whiteboard next to the phone, then when someone asks you if you've got one, you don't have to go "Dunno" and be fed up when you have to go out to the yard and check.Another good one is panels - most places stack cars which is fair enough but it's basically requiring people to climb on the bonnet of the car at the bottom. A lot of times panels seem to get damaged through accidents, reversing forklifts into them or whatever - here's a thought - why not take good panels off the cars on arrival and stash them in a shipping container? There could be £50 worth of bonnet on each of the cars they bring in, but as soon as someone jumps on it, it's useless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Nah sorry I can't be doing with the wait off ebay, if I can go and get it off the scrappy the same day all the batter, and no postage costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 There's two young lads in there who look physically and mentally healthy, but they're the same. It's as if they're progressively trained to be cunts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Milford Cubicle Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I like my nearest scrappy, the prices are very cheap and they just let you root around.The stock barely ever changes though, so a lot of cars are completely raped or the parts are knackered.The one car I need to access (a 405 estate like mine, but in red) is completely battered and nearly always hidden behind/below other cars.Hey, now that I think of it, it's a bit shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I once worked in a breakers yard, in the office dealing with punters. It would make me miserable too dealing with scores of dickheads who want everything for nothing, toolboxes full of nicked bits etc.Once, I was up the top bit that is next to an open field and found a hole in the hedge where one cheeky bastard had been in, taken off loads of bits for a BX (this was 1994/5) and hidden them by this hedge. The twat was planning to come back in the dead of night and have it away.So I aerosoled 'FUCK OFF WANKER" on a Cortina bonnet and propped it up by the gap in the hedge. The yards I go to know me by name but can still be curt. It's a very tough business and even some big and well established yards are in financial trouble. "The EU want me to jump through hoops and you want to haggle over a Vectra headlight? Fuck off!!"My favourite is 'Do you know how much they are new Mate?" when buying a part. My reply is always the same: 'Do you know how much the car it came off cost new mate?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcqueenmachine Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I go to a bloke near Halifax for older (126 and earlier) Mercedes parts. He's a little eccentric but otherwise a lovely bloke. I turned up not so long ago with a shopping list. He'd ticked off the first couple of items, then caught sight of the clock, 'Bloody 'ell lad. Time for us tea.' He then proceeded to break off from what he was doing, prepare a microwaveable meal for one, eat it (with thickly-buttered white bread) then call his mate to discuss it. 'Aye it were alright - seven out of ten.''Right, where where we?' he said acknowledging my presence for the first time in a good fifteen minutes 'passenger side rear light lens for a W116? No problem.' He's a bit crackers but, come on, would you run a scrapyard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I must say that most of the scrappies I've used locally have been quite pleasant. A couple of them were a bit curmudgeonly but still easy and fair enough to deal with. In general I've found the "upmarket" scrappies to be the most twattish.It's actually quite some time since I used a scrapyard. I tend to buy bits new, use eBay or use a spares car these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones96 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 the ones round my way used to be full of oldish tat but have now gone the way of the airbag gone of brigade lol the one i used to like visiting just to browse when i was with a mate was adversane http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz ... e&resnum=1 still there according to this map see if you can spot it ?? always had loads of 60s/70s and older stuff right down the back of the place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 There was one called Cheshire Car Components in Chester and the bloke in there was really nice and always gave a cheap price for regular customers. Isn't that how independent businesses attract and keep custom? They close last year, which is a big pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 There used to be two belting ones up at St Annes, and a reasonable one down Essex St in Preston - the St Annes ones have long closed down due to legislation and Essex St has gone all "recycling centre" with corporate logo'ed fleece jackets and nothing over 5 years old surviving the crusher by more than a week. I miss the good old days of crawlig over teetering piles of Morris 1000's to try to get to a pair of feugo foglamps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain-328i Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 The scrapy's here are alright, theres only one i wont use thats owned by a couple of Inbred brothers, who are rip off merchants and always accuse you of pinching.The other 3 (all within a 10 mile radius) are great. Let you have a wander, lend you tools. Im lucky as there are still some big yards here, and they all still keep old stock 80's and 90's stuff (as thats what most of the paupers and valley commandos are still driving)And of course the E36 BMW is becoming quite common in the yards which is great for me, shame none of them are ever 6 cylinders or fully loaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 He's a bit crackers but, come on, would you run a scrapyard?Actually that's my dream occupation, but I'd want the old fashioned type yard, with an old Bristol Half-cab bus as the office, an old tractor with front end loader as the forklift, loads of old Humber's, Jags etc and old vans rotting into the earth, a Bedord J type as the breakdown and a nice German Shepherd Dog. I can't see how I'd make a living out of it, unfortunately, so it will have to wait a few more years and be funded as my retirement project.Me an all, but can't see either of up getting away with it what with H&S taking the fun out of it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerodeck Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 My favourite old scrapyard was tucked down a country road, you could turn up, roam the site and they would even muck in if you were having difficulty getting a part off a car. Friendly and cheap.Now you turn up, you aren't allowed into the yard because of insurance, cars are cannibalised and then quickly crushed and they dont want to know if you are after a tiny piece of trim, or a foglight switch.The one I use most frequently is great, but can be expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I got banned from a scrapyard by dropping a couple of foglamp bulbs into my toolkit. No amount of 'but they'd be going in the crusher anyway' protests from me would make them see sense, guess they'd have been horrified at the amount (handful) of fuses and screws I had "stolen" over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Oh, don't get me on scrapyard freebies . You would be amazed at what you can get off a scrapper with a multi tool, and you would be amazed at where I would said bits. put it this way, I have been known to leave some yards with three tits and a limp..... catsinthewelder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 . put it this way, I have been known to leave some yards with three tits and a limp.....Do you do stag parties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 ^^^ Has Mr Bollox got 2 log in's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Do you do stag parties?Why? Do you have a scrap yard ? Any transits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shite_meister Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 When I used to live in Torbay there was a chap in his thirties who ran Quarry Breakers in Paignton, Devon who was sound, he used to finish every sentence with 'duck' as in 'that'll be a tenner duck', I honestly don't think he was bent though-just northern and friendly. When I was running an SD1 ten year ago the scrap yard was like a sweet shop. Jersey scrapyard is full of twats, you ask them to keep something back for a day and they crush it...fucking wankers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 . put it this way, I have been known to leave some yards with three tits and a limp.....Do you do stag parties?I didn't know Take That hanged around scrap yards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 . put it this way, I have been known to leave some yards with three tits and a limp.....Do you do stag parties?I didn't know Take That hanged around scrap yards!That's three tits and a limp not three tits and an imp..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Oh, don't get me on scrapyard freebies . You would be amazed at what you can get off a scrapper with a multi tool, and you would be amazed at where I would said bits. put it this way, I have been known to leave some yards with three tits and a limp.....I bet you've never left a scrapyard with an as new Ford Pinto camshaft tie wrapped to your leg. The followers go in your pants. It was worth the genital discomfort to hear my '87 Sapphire 1.6L Emax purr like a kitten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallondrunk Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredTransit Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Oh, don't get me on scrapyard freebies . You would be amazed at what you can get off a scrapper with a multi tool, and you would be amazed at where I would said bits. put it this way, I have been known to leave some yards with three tits and a limp.....I bet you've never left a scrapyard with an as new Ford Pinto camshaft tie wrapped to your leg. The followers go in your pants. It was worth the genital discomfort to hear my '87 Sapphire 1.6L Emax purr like a kitten.No, not done engine internals, but did come out with a wiper motor assembly down me trousers, hence the limp! Top scrapyard tip, don't take a tool box (you get scrutinised less), take a multi tool (mine's Victorinox, AKA Swiss Army) and wear combat trousers, stuff everything about your person! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 You're all thieves aint you?Ive never done anything like that, oh wait a minute I once nicked a set of front seats from a Granada by swapping them with the ones from the Fiesta (asked them if I could see if they fitted - told them they didnt the ran like fuck before anyone saw they were vastly different) In my defence i was a poor student nurse at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lobster Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 This place used to be good - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 3&t=h&z=18 Used to be able to wander about at your leisure, get what you needed from the vast selection of rotting motors many of which had been there for years and best of all they were cheap! Last time i went they had a nice selection of 'classics', loads of old '80's tat and the obligatory ex Burnley & Pendle Bristol single deckers. Went last year though and everything had changed. No access to the yard, have to wait while the 9012 year old owner went and checked if said car / part was available. No admitance due to H&S y'see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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