Tight arsed owners tales

[srad34]

scrapyards are our friends! 

[fordperv]

I love scrapyards.

[simmo]

How much do you pay for brake pads at the scrapyard?

 

What kind of tight arsed lunatic fits used brake parts, oh yeah I remember now

 

 

[stormee]

Being charged for air?

[simmo]

Being charged for air?

 

That one always gets me, compressed air is  'value added'.  Whats the value of a teabag and half a pint of water? People pay a quid for a decent cuppa..

 

If you don't want to pay 20p, you should, like me, carry this in your glove box you will also need jump leads bot it good for 80 psi

 

 

[Pillock]

I was stripping the interior out of a mk3 Golf at a breakers in Rainworth, and noticed a chap going round every single motor taking the pads out.

[fordperv]

I used to pocket bulbs and fuses at the scrappy, I thought that was scrapyard etiquette

[plasticvandan]

I did chemical metal the friction material back onto the brake pad of my panda after it delaminated,as I hated the thing and refused to spend money on it,the sump got the same treatment. On discovering the boot mounted fuel tank on a reliant regal saloon was rotten I just shoved the pick up pipe into a fuel can with some gaffer tape to seal the gap,ran it for a good few weeks till I fixed it,the non functioning voltage regulator was similar in that I would just charge the battery every few days and not go out at night.. Oh and I thought it was customary to dump at work? I'll even hold it till morning if I can,I'm being PAID to dump,and I'm using their paper,and blocking their pan

[Pillock]

There's an app on smartphones where you can put in your hourly rate, set a timer going when you go for a dump and it'll tot up over a month or whatever how much you've been paid to defecate. I spend ages in there at work, it's preferable to talking to people and stuff.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I was stripping the interior out of a mk3 Golf at a breakers in Rainworth, and noticed a chap going round every single motor taking the pads out.

Wonder if it was yard staff? I stopped going to Deatons in Staveley when they started puncturing good shocks to get the oil out (wtf??) , fucking perfectly good wings and doors with the big forklift thing and trying to charge dreamland prices ('do you know 'ow much they cost new pal?')

[Pillock]

Charles Trent in Kirkby once turned up a Mondeo door in an exact colour match, mint condition. Was told I couldn't go get it myself so they sent down a chimp with a toolkit. Comes back 45 minutes later and there's a massive chunk out of it, fist sized dent right in the middle. Wasn't there before. They knocked me a fiver off, so generous.

 

Place in Pinxton charged a fiver for a dipstick out of a polo. Argued that they were £4 new from Euro.... "Yeah but we're open and they're not". So I didn't feel quite as bad about my pockets full of fuses and bulbs.

[plasticvandan]

Standard routine used to be to show your empty toolbox on the way out to distract from the pockets full of switches,badges and bulbs lol,or have a mate on the other side of thefence

[Cavcraft]

Money in oil, that's probably one of the reasons they drained the shocks. It wouldn't surprise me to find out there's some new environmental law saying they have to be drained before being disposed of too.

[overrun]

I once stripped a CV tripod joint on a mk1 Laguna DCi in the scrappy, so I could replace the roller pin bearing things that I had lost, from mine,

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Money in oil, that's probably one of the reasons they drained the shocks. It wouldn't surprise me to find out there's some new environmental law saying they have to be drained before being disposed of too.

 

The proper ELV processors do indeed have to drain shock absorbers of oil. [Defra PDF] They also have to make sure there's no screen wash left in the reservoir, god only knows what would happen to the planet if any of that polluted the ship load of scrap metal headed off to China.

 

Surprised to hear of parts selling scrapyards doing it though, you'd think the value of oil was less than the cost of getting it out. 

[jbz2079]

In the bad old days we used to run Marina's Ital's and Allagro's from the scrapyards, usually because we were skint, also they always wanted something.

I went up to my regular place and I was always welcomed there and there was never any bother, just have a scout around, if you seen what you wanted, just say at the office, collect your tools from the car and go to it.

 

I wanted a gearbox for a Marina, so they very helpfully tipped on on it's side for us and I set about removing the box.

I had brought a mate alon to help carry it.

 

When I paid for the gearbox the owner said if that's no good, just bring it back and get another.

As I said I was a regular up there.

 

We got in my car and set off back, The guy who was with me started producing all sorts of switched, fuses, bulbs and relays from various pockets in

his parka type jacket.

What a bloody pile of stuff we went through, it was that will come in or no we won't need that.

The no we won't need that's we instantly jettisoned out the nearside window into the passing field.

 

Always been the same my mate like a magpie, anything shiny just seems to attract him!

[lisbon_road]

That initial story of the man fixing the bush with an old shoe is excellent.  Of course, shoes are normally made of polyurethane so I wonder if he claimed it was polybushed?

 

I once fixed a friends old Volvo 345 with some old Montego plugs.  I said to him to get some more next week as they were very old - just had electrodes unlike the ones in his car previously.

 

Saw him a few months later.  He had had the car serviced.  'Bloke said those plugs you gave me weren't much good'.

 

Gratitude.

 

We both had yellow Volvo 3 series.  Mine was a bit rusty at the edges.  Went to a specialist once to get something, and he looked at the car, really tired expression.  'Them yella ones were never any good' he said.

[FredTransit]

scrapyard+cargo trousers=free parts. I once left a yard with both transit column switches in me bra and both wiper arms and wipers down one trouser leg. Also various dash switches in the pockets......

[Micrashed]

I once left a yard with both transit column switches in me bra

Only on AutoShite would these words be spake.

[mat_the_cat]

I always grab bulbs and fuses from scrapyards,and sometimes the odd switch. With the exception of one place I used to frequent (Harry Bucklands near Cheltenham). I'm not sure whether they were just generous, they took pity on me or simply the amount of time I spent there but there prices were always low, and if it was something pocketable then chances are it'd be free anyway! Or the very most "Give us a quid mate". Happy days

[Pillock]

I can confirm that an E36 trip computer fits nicely in the waistband of a pair of combats.

[twosmoke300]

If you think the scrap yards don't know you are nicking stuff you are daft . All they do is charge you more for stuff you declare.

Even honest upstanding people like my fil seem to think its ok to lift stuff from scrap yards. It's strange really because it's still theft.

Most of them wouldn't charge you for the odds and sods anyway .

[explosive-cabbage]

I once bought an old motor from a tight-arsed seller.

 

He was so tight with his money he did not even bother rustproofing.

 

Wanker.

[Bobthebeard]

I always think charging for air is just a bit too strong...

Whilst the actual 'air' may be free, the actual machine that delivers it at 30 PSI or whatever probably costs around £2000. Plus electricity.

The 50p charge isn't so bad really! You don't actually have to use it....

[bub2006]

Charles Trent in Kirkby once turned up a Mondeo door in an exact colour match, mint condition. Was told I couldn't go get it myself so they sent down a chimp with a toolkit. Comes back 45 minutes later and there's a massive chunk out of it, fist sized dent right in the middle. Wasn't there before. They knocked me a fiver off, so generous.

 

Place in Pinxton charged a fiver for a dipstick out of a polo. Argued that they were £4 new from Euro.... "Yeah but we're open and they're not". So I didn't feel quite as bad about my pockets full of fuses and bulbs.

Been to pinxton a couple of times in the past but try not to go there if i can help it. Wanted 200 quid for motors and switches for leccy windows from a fiesta sport i wanted to fit in my ex. Partners car and 40 quid for a seatbelt out of a ford escort. Perhaps he didn't like our face. he also don't like you walking through his yard to have a look for bits even though he tends to not move out his chair

[Pillock]

He's just really possessive of all the old broken crap he's got. Understandable if it's worth something but he once tore me a new one for bending a side trim off a Golf (that was already knackered, with chunks out of the plastic) to get to the clips. Which I was paying for. 

 

Mansfield Woodhouse are a sound bunch. Shirebrook used to be fine with me wandering around aimlessly too. If they were reluctant, I used to tell them I wanted some front seats for a kitcar and could I see if they had any about the right size.... too much hassle for them to escort me round measuring stuff.

[bub2006]

Cant understand being possesive if you own a scrappy?Do you mean vale at Woodhouse? Only been there once. I used to walk round caunts yard with my dad years ago before house where built on it just off stoneyford road in Sutton. Also the one at south normanton on birch wood lane was OK too till houses where built. Albert loons always been OK for a general wonder too. Not been in a couple of years though

[Cavcraft]

My uncle-in-law pulled the heads off cotton buds and superglued them on to the wires protruding from the sidewalls on his Talbot Alpine. If I hadn't actually seen him do I wouldn't have believed it, but it's true.He also used to try and save a few quid on fitting charges by running his car tyres over with his 38 ton truck to break the beads.

All of the above was baffling enough but seemed even more bleeding stupid when you consider I was working for a tyre company at the time and would have changed his tyres/found him some decent runners for nothing.