Top Ten cars scrapped in UK.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

No surprises............

 

 

http://www.trents.co.uk/top-10-scrap-cars-2014-revealed

[Partridge]

Good riddence to bad rubbish.

[Timewaster]

See also best selling cars 2007

[Lord Sterling]

Those cars are tomorrows shite. A bit too common still to be shite or rare. But they are still Ok cars to get around and about in.

[Negative Creep]

I must be getting old because they still look like new cars to me

[dollywobbler]

That generation of Fiesta belongs in the baler. Hateful things. Especially the diesels. But, do you reckon they actually broke down their stats by generation or do you think that's just all Fiestas? Mk4s are all rotten by now so I bet a lot of those took the ship to Chinatown.

[phil_lihp]

Indeed, I'd call all of those 'modern' cars and most of them are also in the top ten big sellers lists anyway so it's no real surprise.  More interesting is what's lurking behind the Fiesta in that last photo.  On that topic, a more relevant top ten might be the survival rate of particular models as percentage of the amount sold.  Or the reasons for them being scrapped - not that there'd actually be any reliable way to record that.  Obviously the vast majority will be either mechanical failure or an MOT failure but it'd be interesting to see what the actual cause(s) were.

[HH-R]

Can't say I'll be losing any sleep over any of them.

 

I learnt to drive in one of those Fiestas, brand new at the time, high spec diseasel.  It was really cheap and nasty inside and I thought it looked crap outside, glacially slow too.

 

My mate has an early petrol one though, and I have warmed to it a bit. Has the small car feel and the petrol is a lot more likeable.

[HMC]

Would be interesting to know what the average age is these days. Quite a few of those in the pics are newer than my 'modern' workhorse.

[Partridge]

13 years, I think.

[Station]

That page could have been titled:

 

Most popular current used cars

Most popular cars sold between 2000 and 2005

Cars that will be parked against 'the green door' behind Billy's house in the next two months

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

The scrap your car link from that site, offered £140 collected for my Volvo

 

.http://sellyourcarorvan.trents.co.uk/index.cfm/quote

 

 

 

J407ROM

VOLVO 940 GLE 1992 (PETROL) Not your car?

Not your car? Please check you have entered the correct registration number. If the registration is correct but the vehicle details do not match, we will not be able to provide you with a quote.

 

Collected from WS35DY

 

Our Quote £140

 

It might be more convenient for you to drop your car at a Charles Trent Ltd Recycling Centre

• £175 - Kirkby In Ashfield (51 miles away)
• £175 - Rugby, Warwickshire (45 miles away)
• No thanks - I need my vehicle to be collected

[drum]

Most common reason for scrapping probably used to be rot. It won't be long before it's beyond economic repair due to DMF or borked sensors or some such nonsense.

[Cavcraft]

The day that all Kas and Focusssss are weighed off can't come soon enough.

[CortinaDave]

That generation of Fiesta belongs in the baler. Hateful things. Especially the diesels. But, do you reckon they actually broke down their stats by generation or do you think that's just all Fiestas? Mk4s are all rotten by now so I bet a lot of those took the ship to Chinatown.

 

Disagree - My missus has had a 1.4 Zetec 54 plate fiesta for the last five years. Despite suffering from living in the wilds of aberdeenshire all its needed has been one spring (other than occasional servicing ) in all that time and 60k miles.

 

Great wee thing.

[Slappy]

My Fiesta has been good to me too as my first car. Had it 2.5 years and it's never really let me down, even when the thrust bearing went I managed to get home. On 105k now. I got it at 68, and other than the admittedly annoying clutch, it's only been service consumables and 2 sets of front tyres.

[mercrocker]

Much as I despise/castigate/deplore/laugh at the modern motor car it was never any different to this really. Scrapyard, 1972....Bloke turns in a shiny black 1962 Consul 375. Failed MOT on about six fixable items but structural part of sill non-existent behind the paint. Half a dozen Farinas, engines shagged at 60,000 or rapidly dissolving floors. At least three Mk 10 Jags all FUBAR. A fintail Mercedes coupe - rotten as a pear. Anglia vans by the score - 105E shape. Need I go on? All of those things were happening when I was still at school and used to pester the scrappy for car badges and name-plates. Good thing is now that I really don't give a shit what modern thing goes over the bridge....

[Bren]

I bet a lot of cars dont make their 10th birthday.

 

Mechanical/electrical maladies see them off.

[phil_lihp]

Focuses seem to be a lucky draw - my landlady has a 2004 estate which is seldom washed and has lived outdoors right next to the sea for 3 years now.  Aside from rear brake calipers seizing up, it's showing no signs of corrosion issues at all, there's not a spot of rust anywhere on it despite it being covered in scratches and scuffs.  On the other hand though I've seen one or two with crumbly door bottoms at the same sort of age.  Mk4 Astras don't seem to rust half as badly but I guess have their own issues.

[Cavcraft]

Most common reason for scrapping probably used to be rot. It won't be long before it's beyond economic repair due to DMF or borked sensors or some such nonsense.

As much as I love my 'modern' car if the DMF goes, it'll be scrapped.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Disagree - My missus has had a 1.4 Zetec 54 plate fiesta for the last five years. Despite suffering from living in the wilds of aberdeenshire all its needed has been one spring (other than occasional servicing ) in all that time and 60k miles.

 

Great wee thing.

 

Agree. The previous Fester was a rot prone heap of shit but the later one is far better built and more Focus like.

[John F]

Mercrocker beat me to it.

 

These are the sort of everyday, ordinary, anonymous boxes that are destined to be used, abused and scrapped without mercy, EXACTLY the sort of thing that this site is all about. Or rather, they will be exactly the sort of thing this site is about in about 10-15 years.

 

That being said: there's nothing in that list that I'll particularly miss.

[sierraman]

I don't think the Mk4 Fiesta was any more rot prone than the Corsa or similar, it just showed it on the arches etc whereas the Corsa went horrifically rotten in the chassis legs or the jacking points to name but a few.

[eifion]

Presumably the Citroen C6 behind the Fiesta is queuing up for their "10 Least Scrapped Cars In The UK" photo session. 

[holbeck]

I was at work today, driving my (empty) train. I had to spend 15 mins parked in a loop for a couple of 'important' mainline trains to go past.

 

I was stopped right next to a scrappy and was pleasantly surprised that every car in there was newer* than my 205, let alone my e30.

 

*not counting the wolseley Hornet they have as a pet.

[Timewaster]

I bet a lot of cars dont make their 10th birthday.

 

Mechanical/electrical maladies see them off.

 

In the 70s it wasn't unusual for a Simca or Fiat maybe even an Austin 1100 to celebrate its 3rd birthday with an epic mot fail and a one way trip to the scrapper.

[Ghosty]

My aunt has an 03 Fiesta Zetec - and probably will for a while yet as she hardly drives - she had a Mk2 Fiesta from 1992 until about five years ago when it failed an MOT on OMGWELDAGE.

I'll be interested to see if she still has the Zetec in ten years.

[capsuleboy]

The end of life centre in Leicester that took away the remains of my old Espace last week said they just don't get any old stuff.

The last car he collected was a 56 plate Pug with ecu problems. They just take the cat, battery and alloys and chuck the rest in the crusher...