The Shite you most regret Weighing in....

[overrun]

x2 mk1 XR2's.

[Wilko220]

I've never actually scrapped a car myself - but I do regret selling this to someone who I knew was going to engine rape it.

 

It was completely shagged but I still loved it.

 

[Foeux]

F72EHR my original 205 GR which I regret scrapping at least weekly.

[Pete-M]

VHK473S.

[twosmoke300]

None of them !

[artdjones]

My last BX.A1.9D TGD Estate.Bought with the subframe cracked in half and lethal over 15mph but otherwise immaculate with a lovely interior.I put a s/h subframe on it and ran it until the test was out then parked it up because it needed a new windscreenand I had no windscreen insurance. A couple of months later I suddenly needed a 1.9 XUD and tore it out of the BX.Still regret it as I would probably be using it now if I'd had any sense.10 years ago.

[oldford]

VHK473S.

A Ford press car, was it on telly?

[DSdriver]

This:

Citroen DS 1964 model by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

It didn't get used because I had other cars. Some field mice found that the spare wheel was an excellent place to build a nest using the stuffing from the leather seats. Despite me having spent £400 having the floorpan welded with what must have been some extremely dubious metal it failed the next year's MOT.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Same as a few others I've never as such scrapped anything. Stuff either got sold or just died and as we had a garage I didn't car as there was always another free* car.

 

Still have a few I wish I still had though.

 

86 mk1 micra. Everything was worn out and the back arches going rotten. It went back in about 2001 as it's head and other bits were needed for another as my brother had sold a shit heap and he was trying to fix it cheap.

 

89 Escort mk4 with XR3 seats and gearbox. Given back in about 2000 as I got stuck in it a few times at the side of the road. I thought it was the petrol pump but thinking about it I bet it because I tried to run on £2.50s worth all the time

 

89 Fiesta mk2 ghia X. One owner very low miles and totally mint. Given to me for my birthday is 2001. Which was a bit thick as I didn't have a licence. Taken off me in a DVLA road block and crushed all because I didn't want to pay £250 to get it back. Never seen another.

 

AEH250Y Capri mk3 cabaret. Left it to die on the drive after dragging it out the garage thinking I would fix it. Sold it to some knobs for about £350 about 2010. It was nowhere near as rotten as I though now I can actually weld and I'll never own another. Does show as still alive on the dvla though

[fred]

Loads - Im  a soft crust and get sentimental over my chod. Always feel bad when I say Goodbye to one of my Lovelies

[Roostybroon]

Loads but mostly my first car after passing my test

A mk1 Cavalier 2door base saloon which only really needed a bit of tlc after an off road excursion but my dear old mum thought it an eyesore sitting outside her door and had it disposed of while I was at work.

[Pete-M]

A Ford press car, was it on telly?

Yup. :'(

[Six-cylinder]

A good friend’s XM diesel estate needed a Cyl head, he removed the old one, obtained a replacement and then hurt his back badly. He could not find anybody who would refit the head for him and weighed the XM in. It was a lovely car that I drove a fair amount, I should have bought it and found a way to save it.

 

[capsuleboy]

The Carlton had sat in a friends back garden for about 10 years after failing its MOT on rampant rot.

The Espace gave up many spares for my other and if you think they cant rust then think again!

Glad to see both of them go to be honest...

[xtriple]

I am personally responsible for the deaths of many, many late 70s to mid 80s BMW 3 series motor cars Used to buy them at the auctions for pennies, my son and his friend next door would rip them apart (and sell all the bits on that new fangled eBay - this was back at the turn of the century) and we would collectively race them on a Sunday. A good one would last two events... but then there was often four of us driving them. On the way home, if the BMW was now fucked it would get dropped off the trailer at Quarry breakers and money would be collected by my good wife when she went to Sainsburys later in the week!

 

Fun times....

 

Also, back when I was a dedicated biker and lived up North, I tired of riding my bike in the snow and ice and started  buying bangers to get me through the winters. First year I bought a MK2 Cortina 1500GT estate (a rarity?) with bubble arches and huge banded wheels. It was taxed and tested and the paintwork was truly horrid, but, it cost me £15! I brush painted it bright green with some stuff called 'Re-paint' and it came out beautiful Eventually, I sold the huge wheels for about £20 'cos the tyres were rather devoid of anything that resembled tread and stuck a load of standard sized things on from Eva Brothers with good tyres and after much fun and games with it, burnt out the clutch towing my MK10 about 8 miles. It was scrapped at Evas who gave me £30 for it!

 

Second year I bought an Austin 2200 landcrab out of the paper and it cost me £75 - the bloke had it up for £125 but was so fed up with areholes who never turned up he took my pittance. That poor car got hammered for about a year not only taking me to and from work, but also towing a trailer with three race bikes in it, five blokes and all the kit, spares, fuel for meetings all around the country.

 

It went everywhere, flat out.

 

Eventually it started smoking a bit (maintenance? What's that?) but being as big a prick back then as I am now, I never opened the bonnet let alone checked the oil.... so inevitably it started knocking. After that it did get the odd gallon of used black stuff thrown in but it carried on gamely for about another 3 or 4 months all the while knocking like a set of drums being beaten by a chimp on acid. Finally, I think the clutch went so it was off to Evas for it. They had a rule back then that if the car drove they gave you 'X' for it. It drove, just and I got about £20 for it. I was truly sad to see the heap go.

[eifion]

There are far too many XMs in this thread for my liking, and I'm going to add to the list. I scrapped my first XM, a 2.5TD, when rust got to the rear end. Within a month of buying its replacement I realised that I could have got several useful parts from it for the new one. I didn't save the strut tops either, which were only a couple of years old. Ho hum.

[Mr A Lawrence]

In 1988 I bought a 1974 mini 1000 with 10 month T&T in 50 shades of black that looked like it had been applied with a dead chicken. For 100 quid.

 

Used it for a while until a charging problem meant it was parked up.

 

I coach painted it in fire engine red with a hand painted union flag on the roof at quite a considerable cost and time then scrapped it for £30!!!

 

What an utter muppet!!!!

[ShiteRider]

Most of my shite has gone over the bridge, either at my hands or others. Some of the most memorable/regretable.

Grey xr2 E222 CVH, mum give it pikeys when i was at college.

C924 NFV maroon base spec nova 3dr, went with the xr2

H157 ODA red over grey sapphire 2.0 glsi, dad cut it in two when he found out i'd been driving to school in it.

K125 ANM weighed at preston recycling when i hit a lamp post that hard the engine went back into the bulkhead and split the dashboard!

A262 RHG red capri laser, sold for £50 to an enthusiast when the mot ran out, it was a bare shell the following weekend........cunt.

K289 UBV astra merit diesel, dad owned from 6 months old, went through the whole family til it got to me. We fell out, and i weighed it out of spite.......i was the cunt that time, 11 years later we still don't speak.

B827 WCK mk2 cavalier 1.6l rotten, ended up at burscough tip sans plates.

 

There were many more, but they are the ones that come mind first.

[MrBiscuits]

In 2013 we were thinking about replacing Mrs B’s ageing Rover 200. At the same time my Dad was about to trade in the only brand new car he ever had. This meant the chance to acquire a 2005 Corsa SXI that had been cosseted from day one with new MOT and a year’s rent at a price too good to refuse.

 

Poor old ‘Roxy’ as her owner lovingly referred to her, had given 6 years good service (with the usual Rover niggles) but now bore a  few impressive battle scars, was overdue a cambelt, had a whining alternator,  sunroof permanently sealed with silicone snot and was a bit too crunchy round the rear of the sills. Residents parking and the wonderful new continuous insurance rules meant it had to go in a week.

 

I didn’t have the time or inclination for joe public so I tried a mate of hers who was apparently ‘desperate’ for a cheap car. There ensued the questioning – how many miles has it done? How long will it last? My boyfriend says Rovers are shit etc… All for a £200 motor with 6months tax & test – surely that’s a no brainer?? Needless to say, said mate ended up with a brand new Corsa on some sort of deal where she gives the car back after renting it for 5 years.

 

In hindsight maybe an Autoshiter would’ve given Roxy a second chance but I was just lurking about back then and too shy to dive in. Time and insurance ran out and I was left with no option. One final illicit spin to the knackers. When I took the £130 I felt as if I’d just lobbed a bag of kittens in the canal. RIP P486LPX doovla say’s you never made it back on the road.

 

To make me feel even worse, to this day Mrs B laments the loss of that Rover (although all she could think about at the time was her shiny new Corsa with its Aircon and decadent power windows). A woman’s prerogative eh?

[Lankytim]

I've weighed in stacks of cars. I most regret my first car, a 2 door S2 orange Allegro that would be an easy fix nowadays and a mk2 Escort 1600 sport in yellow, fishnet recaros, the lot Crushed due to rampant rot. 

 

I've bought and broken a few XM's. I don't really regret that as when an XM is fooked, it's REALLY fooked, and they all supplied parts to keep my XM on the road. 206k on the clock and counting!

 

 

 

[beko1987]

That last picture is both cool and upsetting at the same time

[hennabm]

Only sent a MkI Transit over the bridge for £50 as it drove in, as a lad.

LVH 318P - a 1600 Kent engined SWB in pale blue and rust.

 

More recently an R reg Astra Arctic auto with a blown engine. R463 GNS.

 

Most others I have managed to move on to someone else before the inevitable.

[155V6]

A Mk 4 Cortina 2.0S,the 1st car I ever put an MOT on.Bought for £100 in 1989 because it had a misfire,it was ok once we put the plug leads on the right way  .I used to buy cars & run them until the MOT ran out,but this seemed like a solid old thing so I put it in for one.It failed on one void bush & a small patch of rust on the chassis leg.I got the work done & ran it for 10 months or so until I got a Granada Coupe.Sold it to a mate who ran it until the MOT ran out,& then gave it back to me to scrap.

 

Also,a late MK 1 Escort 2 door.It was bought as spares for the other MK 1 I had at the time,but hardly anything fitted.We didn't weigh it in,but took it into the woods & killed it by driving it into trees & finally into a ditch where we left it 

[oldcars]

I will stand proud and say i have never bridged anything. Some of the stuff i have sold should however have been bridged.

[xtriple]

I had a Hillman Avenger as a company car once and that had been in a BIG accident (could see daylight round the doors shuts AFTER it had been repaired!) and should have been fucking crushed. Bastard scared me to death in a slight breeze or mildly moist road.

[Guest Lord Sward]

I scrapped a silver BX 19 diesel just because it needed a windscreen.  It still upsets me.  It drove lovely.

[Honey Badger]

Triumph Dolomite 1850 HL auto with a full stainless exhaust, got passed onto me when a mate shat on me from a great hight and dumped It outside my house, drove it a few times and loved it, started stripping it to check the rust and I couldn't find anything to weld fresh plate on to, got sent to Charlie Perkins in Kettering and I got a tenner for it.

 

Always regretted it as it looked the dogs bollocks in Sandglow with stag alloys and a slight lowering, I'd like another at some point.

[solid61]

There's 2 that I regret,Citroen cx Safari lbh83y,lovely condition but it broke its cam belt and I couldn't be bothered.Rover sterling 825 manual on a C plate in lovely metallic blue with olive leather,a rare car even then but the clutch was slipping so it went under the drop weight,sad but at the time they were both worthless old cars,nobody wanted them.

[Lankytim]

1st rule of motoring, everything gets scrapped in the end, so don't feel too bad about it!

[J-Rod]

I honestly thought that my old Prelude was destined to become razor blades, with the amount of rot it had in the boot due to water ingress (apart from that, the car was straight and only on 50k). A quick check on the DVLA and it's still going.. if anyone comes across V990 FPD, say hi from me..