The banger auction thread.

[warren t claim]

And I must say the choice of top modernish chod up for grabs at sensible money is fantastic. I've long since thought that Ebay had killed the banger auction off but tonight I was pleasantly surprised.

 

52 plate 206cc with a working electric roof and decent ticket £600

03 plate 1.0 Corsa in decent condition with no camchain rattle with tax and long test £500

05 plate 3 door Megane in fetching metallic black with long test £500

04 plate X Type jag 2.0 diesel manual Soverign spec £1100 with long test.

52 plate 206sw estate HDi with a scabby bonnet but taxed and tested for £400

04 plate ex taxi Cit C5 with 300,000 miles and 6 months test £290.

 

All the above cars were far from shonky and were well presented with no undue rattles or shonky bodywork.

 

Must return on payday, preferably for daylight viewing cos taking pictures as they went through is a bit of a no no!

[Partridge]

Christ, £290 for the C5. But I wonder how long it would last until the engine grenaded?

[Jim Bell]

Are they "bangers" these days?

 

They all look interesting and affordable, but theyre all newer than anything I've ever owned.

 

Supose the auctions isnt really the place to go for old shite.

[Cavcraft]

Where was this, Warren? We still haven't done a NW auction visit yet, even Pingu has to be worth a try?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sounds interesting. I'd love to check out a banger auction with you two. Send me an invite!

[warren t claim]

All the above were far from bangers and would provide decent service to any shiter.

 

An 03 plate Corsa with test and sensible miles has to be worth £895 retail if you wantes to sell it on and what's the cheapest 206cc you've seen advertised?

[Spiny Norman]

There's one in Glasgow I've been to a few times and the prices are often similar there too.

 

Decent looking trade in Clios, Corsas, Yarises etc, around 10 years old for £5-700, petrol Mondeos, Vecras and Lagunas for about the same. A lot of them are from Arnold Shark and they often don't hit reserve but if you're really wanting the car they'll always deal. My mate picked up a very tidy good spec 53 Polo a couple of years  ago for £1200, when we got it home we found the "£2988" ticket in the boot! Greedy bastards.

[warren t claim]

Good old Pingu at Port! I honestly thought it would be full of utter shit but was pleasantly surprised.

 

We really need an AS auction meet soon. I'll make it interesting and bring money and have a few sneaky bids myself!

[warren t claim]

05 Vectra diesel with test was sold at £500. Probably display an interesting number of warning lights by the time you hit the motorway but still might be worth a punt.

[Cavcraft]

Right, you're on, we'll organise something firm and arrange a meet up on here then. All invited and with a bit of luck one of us will come away with something and do a thread on it.

 

 

I think they have a weekend sale (Sunday?) so perhaps that'd be better than an evening one, where people might struggle to travel.

[Cavcraft]

http://www.epmaauction.co.uk/

[Split_Pin]

Sounds like a good day out that!

[Bucketeer]

Auctions are GR9 for buyers and GR7 for sellers.

When I worked at BCA, if there was a car than one of us fancied, it was common practice to swap plug leads over/put drop of oil on exhaust for blue-smokiness/remove bits of trim, etc before the car went through, and when no-one subsequently wanted to bid, a friendly trader would stick a paltry bid in on our behalf and snaffle up said motor for peanuts.

I was never* party to these shenanigans though.

[warren t claim]

Ewloe used to run a Saturday sale but have moved it to Friday, probably to piss Pingu off.

[cort16]

There's one in Ayrshire but most of the stuff is right shonky old heaps. Intercity used to be good in Glasgow but they've gone tits up.

I find them massively appealling but have only ever bought one thing.

[HillmanImp]

I guarantee if i went to one the first car i bought would be a fucking disaster. Would probably grenade itself the moment i handed over the money.

[cort16]

I spotted 3 that'd defo been in that intercity auction conked out between the auction and me getting home 30 miles away once. The rozzers also hang out near that one in Ayrshire on the look out for the gaurenteed chancers who try to drive home with no tax/mot/insurance/hope/brakes/floor pans.

[DeeJay]

Funny you should mention car auctions,

I was going to go to the West Derby rd one today.

Anybody been there recently?

Any decent cars go through? 

[philibusmo]

These sound like a right old laugh.

 

It sound much more fun putting all your savings into 3 or 4 ten year old motors and then trying to punt them on with eBay than blowing the lot at Ladbrokes. There's about equal odds of making anything out of it as well - unless you buy something French and you then you are playing a very risky hand.

[cort16]

An example of the Ayrshire auctions top flight stock list.

 

 

 

Yes that's 427,000 miles!

 

 

Probably soon to be for sale on a gumtree near you with 87,000 miles on it.

[warren t claim]

If anyone was feeling brave, a 2003 Rover 45 with only one previous owner went under the hammer for £250... 1.6 petrol and looked really tidy.

[Station]

Where was this, Warren? We still haven't done a NW auction visit yet, even Pingu has to be worth a try?

 

The last four times I've been there (in the past two months), at least 75% of the stock is the same, even though some of the same cars seem to sell every week?

[Rover414]

The West Derby Road one (Liverpool Motor Auctions) had some interesting cars going through when I visited a few months back. There was a lovely black 2004 Rover 45 when I went that only passed for £200ish that I'd have gone for if the money was there.

[DeeJay]

Last time I went (a few years ago now) buying from Autotrader would have been cheaper.

[rml2345]

Car auctions are a right old laugh and can be pretty exciting as you never know what's going to appear. Like Hillmanimp the first car I bought from auction would explode in a shower of cogs and springs the moment I paid the money over though... However FATHA_RML has bought quite a few motors from auction and not one has been a proper snotter yet. Best was the Honda Legend with it's exhaust back box in the boot for £800 or so. 
Dunno what like the SCA place in Livingston is now though as I haven't been for a few years.

[fordperv]

When I think of car auctions, I think of cortinas with bent m.o.ts, papier mache sills with body filler fired into the balljoint boot to stop the ballpoint flopping about

[beko1987]

A friend and me keep meaning to go to the one in (or just outside) Witney one night. Problem is it would involve me driving to witney! Just to see what its about, having never been to one before!

[Cavcraft]

The last four times I've been there (in the past two months), at least 75% of the stock is the same, even though some of the same cars seem to sell every week?

 

 

Ah, he hasn't changed then.

Years back his site on the Rossmore ind. est. was littered with seriously shagged out cars, including a Mk1 MR2 that you'd have had to pretty much take away with a dustpan and brush, and an Astra van that had a bush growing out of it.

Seemingly they were his own motors and he wouldn't lose money on them, so they sat there until someone would buy them, which of course, they never did.

I know for a fact if something has a below CAP price, he bounces a few bids off the walls and buys it himself. He then keeps running it round the block until he's turned a profit on it, almost certainly the reason you keep seeing the same cars.

 

He was honestly something of a laughing stock in the trade for quite a while and as a rule a lot of people avoided the place. They probably do better since the much missed DMA closed down, but he does still have Queensferry and Ewloe almost on his door step, plus there's a new one just opened up in Winsford I believe. 

 

Anyhow, it's still worth a visit, we can have a brew and a laugh if nothing else.

[skattrd]

I quite enjoyed my trip to the local auction last year (Newark). I went with a mate to find a small car for his Missus, however all small cars were going for silly money, as was anything VAG, so I bought an S80 with 6 months T&T  for not a huge amount.

I don't allow myself to go to auctions any more as I can't trust myself.

[R9UKE]

It scares me how little the Mégane II is worth now, especially the 2.0 16v (the best engine) because nobody wants to pay £260 to tax a Meg for a year. Great looking cars that treat you well if they're not abused, I miss driving mine everyday, I really should get it sorted