List of cars scrapped under the scrappage scheme

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^^it's stuff like that that will always convince me the majority of people are as thick as fuck

 

 

To quote above, I know what you mean about a car being rotten or running out of test but it can't have been the case in all of them. It's like a mass extinction, it removes so much at once and so quickly. This might be the reason why you hardly ever see a car "in the wild"

[PiperCub]

The company i worked for had one of the transportation contracts, ok there were some knackered dogs that could barely run, but there were some really divine little gems too, bloody 35k miler one little old lady owner corkers you'd give you're bloody eye teeth for.

 

Typical politicians bloody shambles.

 

That's exactly the thing that angers me so much. So many of these immaculate one-OAP-owner low miler cars got trashed as these folk were the ones with the money to buy new stuff! Folk with money usually are OK with spending it on keeping their cars nice, if you haven't much cash then the temptation is not to spend it unless really necessary so the car suffers - these are the one's left as their owners can't afford a new car in the first place! So scrap the good 'uns, keep the crap ones - genius idea.....

 

Recall seeing a programme on the effects of the scrappage scheme - it featured a piece shot in the VW factory where the VW rep proudly showed how the whole production line of Polo's had been turned over to RHD models for the British market as that was booming. Also, they interviewed some Johnny from Hyundai, he was delighted with the scheme too, saying they couldn't import i10's & i20's quick enough.

 

So well done UK Gov - you've done great things for the manufacturing industries......... of other countries - pity you can't do the same here eh? Cretins.

 

Sorry, rant over.

[Uncle Jimmy]

From what I saw and have been told any cars of interest were stripped of parts that will help to keep some of ours on the road. They'd arrive with mismatched steel wheels etc. I scrapped a 306 at the time and it helped me, on a lowish budget get a new, reliable car. Plus, it's a very good people whining about those Minors and suchlike that got scrapped, there's still loads about now that are beyond worthwhile restoration.

[Lankytim]

A Fiat dealer I did some work for always had a load of scrappage shitters round the back. Most looked like they were months away from the crusher anyway. I did hear about a mint Victor that got crushed, although I never saw it. It was a bit of a celebrity with every member of staff having a go in it.

[New POD]

At the time I had a very rusty, but road worthy mk3 astra on an R plate, and my sister had W reg fiesta 1.25 and my dad had a 51 reg 2.0 Focus Estate.

 

I had a conversation with my sister which went something like.

 

How much have they offered you in PX ?

£1200

How much is the new fiesta you want ?

£15000

Transfer £13000 to my bank account, and tell me which car you want me to buy and the exact spec and I'll buy it and transfer it to you and take away the fiesta and put it in my name.

I'll have to think about that, sounds a bit complicated.

 

Then some weeks later with my dad

 

How much have they offered you in PX ?

£1200

How much is the new focus you want ?

£19000

Transfer £17000 to my bank account, and tell me which car you want me to buy and the exact spec and I'll buy it and transfer it to you and take away the focus and put it in my name.

I'll have to think about that, sounds a bit complicated.

 

Then a conversation with my mum some weeks after that.

 

It's amazing, that you sister and father got new cars in the same week.

AHHHHHHHHHCGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

 

How can my family (who apparently are so clever) be so fucking mental.

Seems that they didn't want to have my name on the V5 as then they wouldn't be the first owner.

[cms206]

We, the Scotoshite Volvo Massive (SVM), do hereby find The Scrappage Scheme, a devious, disgusting criminal mastermind, guilty of the cold blooded murder of at least...

4 Volvo 144s
1 Volvo 145
2 Volvo 1800ESs
458 Volvo 240s

2 Volvo 260s
276 Volvo 340s
38 Volvo 360s
578 Volvo 740s
50 Volvo 760s
1003 Volvo 940s
177 Volvo 960s
9 Volvo S90s
20 Volvo V90s

 

... for which we will be forced to commit at least 2,618 revenge attacks. Then we'll look at 850 numbers and see if there's enough time after tea to finish that job too.


Cunts.

[Lacquer Peel]

ALFA 90!

[Hertz]

1 x Renault Alpine GTA

 

To be fair someone got hold of it and broke it for spares before it just got completely binned. It did go to help others improve and stay on the road. I tried to buy the whole thing when bits turned up on ebay but he said the chassis/bodyshell had to go back to the scrapyard as it was a scrappage scheme car.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I worked at Arnie Clark Fiat/Citroen in Paisley at the time of scrappage, and whilst i agree there will have been some rare/interesting/uber cool motors fragged elsewhere or even just good condition or perfectly sound usable cars crushed, I can honestly say that nothing like that came to us, they were all utterly fucked, even the newest ones that qualified and there wasn't even anything interesting bought either.

We didn't sell a single Citroen on scrappage and all the Fiats which were sold were base spec, usually non metallic painted. 500 Pops, Grande Punto 1.4 8v Actives and Panda 1.1 Actives, not a single Sport, Lounge, GP, Sporting, Dynamic or Eleganza spec sold on scrappage.

My hazy memory recalls a pogweasel pink Seicento with more hits than the Beatles, a rotten R reg Fiat Brava, T reg Focus, an N reg doom blue Corsa B special edition with poverty spec, an S reg Clio mk2 ph1 with more water ingress than the Titanic, and that was the better ones, still as they were getting scrapped we had fun "banger racing" them into one another like a demolition derby to see who could inflict the most body damage or set an airbag off first, I then half inched the speakers from the N reg Corsa for the X reg Corsa B my sister had at the time.

We bought a Lounge ,and I'm glad we did,as you say the majority of Scrappage 500s seem to be Pops so it's made our one keep its value up a bit. Initially my daughter was going to get a Panda,but I was concerned that 3 years in it wouldn't be worth what was left on finance!

[HillmanImp]

Oct '99 manufactured 530d.

How did they manage to make the chassis number so easily available?

 

Anyone want to clone it...

 

Not sure of the point of cloning a car that is deemed as scrapped and is not allowed back on the road. However if other cars on the road are showing up like this on HML its not ideal.

 

See there is an Audi WAUZZZ8DZTA056582 too.

[Tayne]

 

See there is an Audi WAUZZZ8DZTA056582 too.

'94 - '01 A4.

[quicksilver]

I'm sad now Reading that has just reinforced my belief that the scrappage scam was nothing short of criminal and someone should be punished for allowing it to happen. There's stuff on there easily worth more than 2 grand and something useful could doubtless have been done with many of them - think how much more money could have been made by selling or exporting them, or the government could even have done a great charitable act by donating them to those in need, but no, they all had to go in the crusher because they were old and sinful. Everyone knows the biggest environmental impact of a car is building it and scrapping it, so scrapping 400000 cars and building 400000 new ones to replace them in the name of saving the environment has got to be one of the biggest bullshitting lies ever told.

 

Quite apart from all that, the list just shows what a load of total and utter garbage is in the DVLA database so it's no wonder they have such an excellent* reputation for doing things right.

[dollywobbler]

This scheme seriously pissed me off. The people who claim the new car industry needed a shot in the arm can piss right off. A LOT of industries needed a shot in the arm. All Scrappage did was make bankers wealthier, and new cars salesmen too. Especially Hyundai ones. 

 

One of the Volvo 740s was a 14,000-mile minter. Hyundai 'saved' one Minor from scrappage after I published a story in Classic Car Weekly complaining about a nice Series II that had been scrappaged. Terrifying how many were binned. Presumbly by greedy relatives who found a cunning use for 'grandad's old banger.'

[cms206]

One of the Volvo 740s was a 14,000-mile minter.

*explodes*

[Richard]

I don't think anybody official tried to to play the Environment card, they couldn't because you could chop in a 70mpg Pug 106 for a 4mpg Range Rover.

[Cavcraft]

More Golfs than Vectras. So it wasn't all bad. 

[Hendry]

I'm in no doubt the DVLA would've fucked this up completely but how about this:

 

All the mint condition or rare stuff is kept from being scrapped, but the owner is still given their 2K then anyone with a real genuine deathtrap is given one of these minters which has been saved and their deathtrap gets crushed instead.

 

What I found with scrappage scheme was that in a lot of cases the 2K allowance was off the list price, which as everyone knows, nobody ever pays anyway, but as you were getting that 2K off then they wouldn't give you any other discount. However, and I use this as an example only, places like Arnie Clark have sold brand new cars for years with a lot more than 2K off the list price anyway, so you'd probably be getting your new car cheaper just by going down the ordinary route of trading in, OK so you might not get 2K for your heap of junk, you may only get 400quid, but its the cost to change that's important nowadays, not the PX figure, so I daresay loads of folk were conned by the 2K scrappage and probably got a worse deal than they should've.

[HH-R]

The spelling is like when we're taking the mickey on here.

 

ALL VAUIXHALL COMBOZ R SHIT.

[Cavcraft]

I would have understood it slightly better had they limited the cars to those made in the UK. It might, just might, have given our manufacturing base a shot in the arm, even if the actual profits had gone abroad.

[EssDeeWon]

Seeing the list is bad enough, just imagine if there was a webpage containing all photo's of the cars scrapped, that really would be heartbreaking because I bet some right nice low mileage gems were scrapped....Infact I know they were.

[drum]

I've never bought a new car so I didn't take notice of the scheme at the time. Was it the case that £1k came from the government and £1k from the car dealer?

 

If so, that's £400 million of tax payers' money thrown at this folly.

 

Loads of defenders everyone one of which would be easily fixable and worth way more than 2k not to mention all the series land rovers that got cubed.

 

Can't blame the 'sellers' for cashing in but there should be some war crime trial for whoever dreamt this up.

[HH-R]

O NO 4 PROTONS! I hope they weren't J reg.

[Pete-M]

That list isn't as bad as I'd expected it to be.

[Sudsprint]

That list isn't as bad as I'd expected it to be.

 

I agree. I was expecting much much worse. 

 

And I have to put my hand up to neglecting a perfectly decent Alfetta 1800 saloon to the point it was lost and that had nothing to do with the scrappage scheme.

[quicksilver]

The spelling is like when we're taking the mickey on here.

 

ALL VAUIXHALL COMBOZ R SHIT.

Perhaps that explains so many ebay mong spellings. "DVLA say it's a Vaulkswagon so that must be right, a government agency can't possibly be wrong".

[Pete-M]

If I'd had the funds to buy a new car and an unsaleable old shitter on the drive the scrappage scheme would have had another "victim".

 

As it was, I had a selection of old shitters on the drive and no new car funds, so it didn't make any difference to my car buying ideas.

 

If they bring it back next year - and I've won the lottery or something - then I'll chop in my x type for a Jag XE S.

[gordonbennet]

I don't blame anyone taking advantage of the scheme to dump a rusted and knackered hulk with a weeks MOT left (even though with a bit of careful buying they could have matched the cost), but among the dross were some gems.

 

Three minters i witnessed were a i lady owner 60k 3 door Civic, a 30 odd k BM 316, and a similarly miled i lady owner Starlet that was as new...Christ we'd be fighting each other for them and as for that Starlet, and i wonder if the old girl found her new Yaris anywhere near as nice and easy and airy to drive, doubt it.

 

Some bastard should be doing time for these three alone.

 

The amusing thing is that i drove an 11 car carrier, and even the most knackered one i carried, from Cambridge that one, a rusted smoking buggered Metro with a slipping clutch running on about two point three  cylinders still managed to pull itself up onto the top deck...something brand new Fiat 500's with the automated manual gearbox usually failed miserably to do, the whole thing was bollocks.

[Junkman]

Publishing this data is the final insult.

I demand a memorial be erected, which will be the destination of a pilgrimage of all Autoshiters.

[Mr Lobster]

Someone scrapped what could possibly be the final remaining UK SEAT Malaga. This person should be hunted down and executed until dead.

[Lacquer Peel]

I remember some new list prices going up by £2k after this scheme was introduced, so even the customers weren't benefiting.

WHAT WAS POINT.