Extinction predictions

[Sudsprint]

While the french will doubtless keep the Renault Safrane alive... in the UK there were about 1,000 left three years ago now down to 337 thats over 200 being scrapped a year or over 20% so at this rate there will be none left in two years time.....  It would be interesting to know which cars are being bridged in the highest percentages though.

 

Frankly I am stunned that there are that many.

[pbottomley]

Daihatsu Cuore's. There is hardly any for sale at any given time, rust gets to them and I think I am the only one actively looking for one. Some will probably survive in Australia though with the better climate.

 

I have a second MOVE coming to bumhole central tomorrow, cam belt gone and a cam seized but i have a spare engine, costing me £150 delivered. I only wanted it for some odd parts, I could swap the parts off it to mine and you would be welcome to take it with the spare engine for what i paid?

[Ghosty]

C5s, too. You don't see many. 

Vauxhall Signums.

Merivas.

Perodua Kenari.

Suzuki Lianas (and when was the last time you saw a Baleno?!)

That convertible Focus.

VW Eos?

New Tigras.

Pug 2/3/4/607.

206 SW?

[Micrashed]

[Timewaster]

I was hoping that VX220s would become worthless very quickly so I could buy a shite spec ugly Elise for a quarter of the price.

 

Still hasn't happened.

 

Shit Vauxhall!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

K and L reg Mondeos. These are extremely scarce now and in 5 years time there will be none left. There will be more J/K reg Marinas.

[Bamboocarman]

Daihatsu Cuore's. There is hardly any for sale at any given time, rust gets to them and I think I am the only one actively looking for one. Some will probably survive in Australia though with the better climate.

I'm looking too; a Cuore or a Nippa, one day . . .

[Bamboocarman]

I was hoping that VX220s would become worthless very quickly so I could buy a shite spec ugly Elise for a quarter of the price.

 

Still hasn't happened.

 

Shit Vauxhall!

Me too; hasn't happened. Yet.

[xtriple]

There's a lovely Cuore that is run by a (quite fit) Rumanian lady who luves just round the corner. It's pretty near, mint in fact, before it just got a patch welded at the back of the cills for the mot, it was!

[DSdriver]

Nobody's mentioned all KIAs...    ...have they?

[RayMK]

Any sub £1K  automatic that goes into limp mode or CVT that slips.  Fixing them is way too much hassle, expensive (more than £1K) and even if you can get one from a breakers you have a game getting ECU's to talk to each other again.

 

A bit older than the thrust of this thread, but Sao Penzas dissappeared without a whimper or tear and so did the Diahatsu Applause (there can't have been more than one, surely).

 

Mitsubishi i (660cc turbo, not the GT mobility scooters which will sit in showrooms, unsold, for a few years yet).  Mitsubishi only imported 600 or so.  I had one, did 83,000 miles with absolute reliability, then the turbo broke - fractured blade - and fixing it was estimated to be close to what I thought the rusting unconventional vehicle was worth. I gave it to a recycler who got it going and sold it on.  He did not know about the autobox which only selected reverse if you spoke to it very nicely......

[Junkman]

anything that's in the £490 tax band will just disappear when the value gets below £1k

 

I doubt that. I'll have a Bentley Continental then.

[oman5]

Toyota Prius. In fact, just about any hybrid more than a few years old that needs a new battery pack or indeed model specific electrical hardware.

[brownnova]

How about the Chrysler Neon?? That'll be hard pressed to survive!

I also think things like the SsangYong Korrando, Hyundai Sonata and Daewoo Leganza will struggle.

 

Or the BMW Compact, think they rot,and would be expensive to put right if anything went wrong!

[Essex V6]

Any sub £1K  automatic that goes into limp mode or CVT that slips.  Fixing them is way too much hassle, expensive (more than £1K) and even if you can get one from a breakers you have a game getting ECU's to talk to each other again.

 

A bit older than the thrust of this thread, but Sao Penzas dissappeared without a whimper or tear and so did the Diahatsu Applause (there can't have been more than one, surely).

 

Mitsubishi i (660cc turbo, not the GT mobility scooters which will sit in showrooms, unsold, for a few years yet).  Mitsubishi only imported 600 or so.  I had one, did 83,000 miles with absolute reliability, then the turbo broke - fractured blade - and fixing it was estimated to be close to what I thought the rusting unconventional vehicle was worth. I gave it to a recycler who got it going and sold it on.  He did not know about the autobox which only selected reverse if you spoke to it very nicely......

There are still quite a few Applauses knocking about NZ - saw one with a hideous facelift the other day!

[barefoot]

Kia Shuma

[Bren]

I think that the "love" that people may have had for something like a cortina or montego is thin on the ground nowadays simply because fixing a modern car can bankrupt you - they truly are white goods that you get rid of and replace with another.

 

Rust used to be the biggest killer - now mechanical / electrical maladies usually render a car uneconomical to repair. People could tart something up on the side of the road themselves (plastic padding and rattle can jobs) and if you couldn't weld there was always somebody who could do it fairly cheaply. How many people do you know who have diagnostic kit in the shed with the weedkiller and trampoline? Not many I bet. Equipment to remove stuck injectors? Even garages have to hire a bloke with hydraulic equipment to get the bastards out.

 

Actually I've thought of something that may end up rarer than a lib dem councillor after May 2015 - proton impian.

[warren t claim]

Funny how DSG gearboxes get a perpetual slagging off on here 'cos they're highly thought of amongst the taxi fleet owners in these here parts. One company I know runs eight VAG motors and has never had any transmission trouble even though some of them have covered north of 250,000 miles.

[chaseracer]

K and L reg Mondeos. These are extremely scarce now and in 5 years time there will be none left.

 

Prime short-oval cannon fodder...

 

[alf892]

I think that the "love" that people may have had for something like a cortina or montego is thin on the ground nowadays simply because fixing a modern car can bankrupt you - they truly are white goods that you get rid of and replace with another.

 

Rust used to be the biggest killer - now mechanical / electrical maladies usually render a car uneconomical to repair. People could tart something up on the side of the road themselves (plastic padding and rattle can jobs) and if you couldn't weld there was always somebody who could do it fairly cheaply. How many people do you know who have diagnostic kit in the shed with the weedkiller and trampoline? Not many I bet. Equipment to remove stuck injectors? Even garages have to hire a bloke with hydraulic equipment to get the bastards out.

 

Actually I've thought of something that may end up rarer than a lib dem councillor after May 2015 - proton impian.

I reckon you are on to something here.....maybe time to sell the MiG and starting learning 'computers'???

 

In the years to come there won't be anymore problems with ECUs as things develop and Halfords will start selling universal ones with add on adaptor looms sold separately. These won't work until you take them somewhere else and get them wired up correctly.

 

They already do this with radios.

 

That's the future right there.

[AnthonyG]

Re Kias, I don't see any older than about 2009 except Picantos, Sportage and Sedonas.

 

But then the other models only really started being popular after the scrappage scheme, I never saw a Clarus on the road but they were available to buy (I hestitate to say 'sold') here in about 1999.

 

I saw a Baleno a couple of weeks ago, was pretty surprised it had survived though. Those 2.4 pez 4wd saloons Suzuki have - Kwazas or something?, they will be übershite in 15 years time. As will Chevrolet Epicas.

 

EDIT: Suzuki thing sold over here for about a year! That's Top class instant shite status straight out of the box, CityRover style: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Kizashi

[xtriple]

I reckon mine could be obsolete in a decade or so - it has all the undesirable features: CVT 'box, hybrid, loads of electronics. I don't care thoygh as it's got an eight year warranty and I'll be dead before then as my warranty definitely runs out sooner!

[DVee8]

Anyone mentioned a Nissan Leaf yet?

[chaseracer]

Re Kias, I don't see any older than about 2009 except Picantos, Sportage and Sedonas.

 

But then the other models only really started being popular DURING the scrappage scheme...

 

www.fixdat4u.com

 

[chaseracer]

Anyone mentioned a Nissan Leaf yet?

 

DollyWobbler, mainly...