Your Dead Shite - Do Parts Of It Live On?

[Guest watanabe]

During an epic unit de-shit-fest I came across some parts that Pete-M pulled off the 480 S I bought for buttons and ended up binning in disgust because no-one wanted 98% of its constituent parts.

The only part I made any money on the was the CEM - aka Central Electronic Module that controls most of the interior equipment and the digital display on the instrument binnacle. These were later dropped for being about as reliable as a promise from the University of Salford. A bloke from France practically inhaled them as soon as I put it up for sale as spares are incredibly hard to come by in the land of Sasha Distel.

More or less everything else got binned. I sold the reworked head to a bloke in the VOC who whinged off his crip about it being warped - except Pete followed the head sequence in the HBOL. Told VOC BLOC to foc right off and heard nowt else from him. Today I lobbed the coil pack at a feral cat that was trying to eat the tractor next door. It missed by three feet and twatted off the corrugated iron panelling.

Reanimation had one of the seats (weirdly, they were made by the TI Group, of Swallow Doretti fame - my 460's pews were made by Dunlop).to make into an office swivel and the fogs from the front bumper were snaffled by MM5 for something or other involving a wiring diagram and a Triumph Harold.

The 2 month old alternator went into my 460 Turbo and the 063 battery (WTF in a 1721) marked 'Mk3 Golf, SHIT' ended up in my Amazon because the bulkhead tray can only take a tiny cell.

What bits of your dead shite have survived?

[vulgalour]

I still have the chrome Imp bumpers with modified brackets from my Mk2 Polo, just in case I might need them.

[John F]

About 6 months after the death (by terminal engine meltdown) of my first car, a Ford Laurel Green / Silver Escort Mk II 1.3L, I spotted one of its manky, rust-blighted front wings adorning a red Escort. They hadn't even bothered spraying it up. 

 

I knew it was from mine. Apart from the unusual colour scheme, there was a dent in the valance area that I'd wobbed up (badly) that was still clearly visible.

 

To this day, I don't know why they bothered.

[pandamonium]

I'm about to buy back the engine that was in my last Lada to put in this one.

[Cavcraft]

I've possibly still got two front indicator units and a wiper arm for a Mk1 Renault 5 I owned about 15 years ago. Aside from that some 'de-chav' exercise parts from various Vauxhalls such as an Irmscher backbox for a Vectra B, Astra Mk3 halo headlights and some 16" Fox Racing alloys/tyres from my lad's Corsa C.

[Split_Pin]

Hey you'll get about fifty quid for the letterbox, its a genuine SRI factory item, I've got one on mine.

 

Other than the standard wheeltrims, nothing remains of my first Corsa. It only lasted the new owner 8 months despite being in good nick when I had it.

 

Lots if stuff from chod that wasn't ever mine, back in my childhood when I took stuff off cars owned by my work/friends before they fragged it.

 

I have an MG Metro grille from a black 1300 and the steering wheel also lived on in AlexG's example after being on the wall since 1997. I still have the grille from a 127 Fiorino and a Mk3 Escort.

[catsinthewelder]

My BX has one front strut, a window mech and the tail lights from my last one.  Various bits of that car were scattered far and wide when I scrapped it last year.

 

The Bus has the front seatbelts from my 405 in the back with one of it's original lapstraps in the centre.

 

The other one is in the Austin flanked by it's old front seatbelts,  thier place taken by Rover P6 retractables.

[dollywobbler]

I've owned many 2CVs over the years, so parts are still being recycled. I've still got the speedo binnacle out of my first 2CV, but I'm not sure why. The engine I put in an Acadiane in 2001 is currently in the 2CV.

[aldo135]

I moved house a year ago and found balljoints, lights and a grille for a 480, a halogen light comversion and voltage regulator for a MK1 Triumph 2000, and various halfords paint cans for long gone cars! Still have most of it too, no idea why...

 

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[beko1987]

Still got a rear light cage and the hub nut spanner I bought for my s3 landie, I've got the burnt remains of the 206 badge from the pug hanging from a nail in the garage. Got the ford badge nailed to something in the garage, lots of random engine bits still and the numberplates screwed to the roof beams

[overrun]

My old P11 Primera went worlwide when I broke it. Mk1 XR2 also went on to help many others, as did (and still does) my Volvo 360 Turbo.

 

It's always nice to see parts - shells especially - have a new lease of life.

 

I have fragged a few P10's and other P11's, Izuzu mk3 Astra, 940 estate and 18TD Escort, to name a few, where at least something was salvaged, and passed on.

 

I still have the torch key for my amazing old mk6 Escort. It still grafts, too. Lol.

[jonny69]

I wrecked my first car and sold it on as a shell. The struts and gearbox are in my Anglia and I've still got the keys. There's a couple fo spares in my box that I've still got because they're either compatible or close enough to adapt.

[beko1987]

You've just reminded me 69, I have the 206 and Puma keys too!

[nigel bickle]

A double garage full & 2 huge barned mountains of the stuff.

[daverapid]

This.....

 

.....is now this

[Junkman]

Carlo's dead shite lives on in my 405.

I have boxes of dead yank shite, which I moved twice already.

Since nobody wants that stuff even for free (which is in stark contrast to the usual 'uh, where can I get bits for me yank?'),

it'll go to the tip soon I'm afraid.

[phil_lihp]

Shortly before my sister's Fiesta Mk5 was dragged off to the scrapyard with a blown valve (12 months of pizza deliveries on the wrong oil or none at all took its toll eventually...) we managed to rescue the original stereo, fog lights, rear wiper motor, wing mirrors and not much else - it really was all used up, a pending MOT failure due to bald tyres and a rotten chassis plus a stoved-in drivers door sealing its fate .  Most of the bits went on ebay to live on in other cars, the wiper motor went into my mate's Fiesta and I found the wing mirrors in a box when I moved house earlier this year - they went in the skip as no-one wanted them.  The scrapyard offered a decent price if we left the alloy wheels on (although only 3 were actually completely round) - other than that, there wasn't really anything worth rescuing.  

 

I hate hoarding stuff so when the Nova went to its new home, I made sure every last spare part I had accumulated for it went in the boot.  The only thing I still have from my first car is a bottle of increasingly crusty colour polish kept awaiting the day I own another dark blue car.  Hasn't happened yet.

[brickwall]

Rover 25 floor mats in the Rangie

[Pillock]

I scrapped my first car - it went off to a garage who declared it knackered, and I had two days to strip it before the scrap wagon was due - the shell money would then be considered payment for the minor work they'd done on it previously.

 

So I began filling my shed with bits of Beetle, convinced it would be snapped up at massive profit. Because there aren't pages after pages of failed MOT Beetles on ebay, after all.....  I think in the end the 1641 engine went into my ex's drag Beetle, a few switches and interior plastics went into my mate's resto, the bonnet and decklid went to the scrap man when he came round, and my mum binned the rest 10 years later long after I'd moved out. Shame, there were some good chrome mirrors and original 70s Hella spotlamps there but whatever. I think the glass is still up in the top of her shed, out of reach

 

The drag Beetle went on to become quite famous, only without my engine since it's now electrically powered and summat daft like europe's fastest electric drag car.

[Mr Lobster]

I've always thought that it was worth hanging onto any special / rare / potentially useful bits and therefore this R5 Le Car 2 which was scrapped in 2005 donated several bits to my R4 - seats, carb and manifold, wheels, steering wheel and possibly a few other bits long since forgotten.

 

[Bren]

I still have the genuine rubber spoiler from my SD1 vitesse which was disposed of in 2000 and will be fitted to my VDP EFi when it is finished.

 

I had a load of bits of small trim etc. but I chucked it several weeks ago.

[Joey spud]

I have just come in from the garden after re errecting an old shed i've had stashed behind the garage (can never have too many sheds) just so i can break and store my spare Subaru that has been sitting out the front of the house really lowering the tone for the last 18 months.

 

 

 

Now i have a spare space for an old Legacy or impreza so i can raid that and fit its running gear onto Subaru no1.

[oldford]

I've got bits from Renault, Skoda, Perodua, an old TV stand and a fork lift truck inner tube all helping to keep my Sierra working.

[Lacquer Peel]

What's wrong with your Subaru MV Joey? Even hanging ones seem to make strong money.

[Vin]

I've got all the parts from two of my past Pandas that were too rotten to persevere with.

 

This was what was left to weigh in after breaking the last one...edit; actually it wasn't as I cut the front panel section off...

 

[Lord Sterling]

Kin 'ell man about as much as I could pick off the my old E-reg Sterling:

 

 

I got;

 

2 rear doors

Leather seats (fronts have seen better days)

The carpet + original mats and boot carpet

Any plastics interior bits I could lay my grubby mitts on.

Front and rear bumpers

Alloys

Lights, grille,

Bonnet

Any ECU type devices

Air filter housing

Alarm

 

Basically, anything that could be removed within reason. I have also helped break other bits from other Rover 800s and collected stuff from scrappies so I have a plethora of bits, but never what I need.

[HMC]

A vacuum solenoid from a crashed aprillia motorbike lives on in my jag where it operates the bulkhead air vent as replacements are NLA.

[Richard]

The wheel trims from the ex-Ruffgeezer/Dr Steve Brule Xantia are now on my C5.

[Joey spud]

What's wrong with your Subaru MV Joey? Even hanging ones seem to make strong money.

 

Being a well abused ex farm vehicle it really is totally rotted out in important places underneath i had spent many a happy hour cutting and patching it up then lost my 'mojo' a bought a solid one instead.

[Burnside]

Still got a passenger rear light from my old MK4 Escort 1.4L as it had been leaking round the seal so bagged a new pattern one for £5 at the time from a local motor factors they had in the to clear section.

 

Hope to own another Escort some day so it may be a useful spare.

 

Also yesterday I found the incomplete book pack for a G reg Fiat Fiorino 1.3 Van with no floor I brought for a engine swap that never happened. The dick garage who ment to do it at the time then scrapped it before I had chance to remove any parts off it after deciding it was too much work to fit the engine in to my 1st Uno even though they came with me to look at it before I brought it to make sure it would fit and they needed the space in a hurry so didn't think I would be bothered.