Scrappage scheme question

[stormee]

Just out of interest, a few years ago I read something about the UK scrappage scheme. A lot of cars to be stored away, whole unused airfields full of them. Some rumors a few months ago read about setting those cars free again instead of scrapping them eventually. Had there any decisions been made yet?

[Lord Sterling]

Not as far as I know. A lot of what is heard tends to be nothing more than just rumours. Many of those cars have sadly been standing for a very long time, plus many have been damaged by vandals. I reckon they'll be there for a long time.

 

Besides, the government cares too much about paperwork, as far as they're concerned, once a vehicle has been issued with a certificate of destruction, that's that.

[Matt]

Some rumors a few months ago read about setting those cars free again

 

I can't find a single article suggesting this. Besides they've been sat there rotting for years now and with scrap being as low as it is there'll be less of a market for them.

[castros_bro]

Tin foil hat?

 

 

There are no unused airfields full of old cars bought by her Maj Govnmt.

[Cavcraft]

I actually hope there is still disused runways/fields full of scrappage scheme cars as metal is worth fuck all these days.

[Jim Bell]

Our scrappage scheme industry is all but collapsed now.

The Chinese are beginning to flood the market with cheap, low quality vehicles that will be good for nothing but scrap in the near future.

 

And the Tories sit in London, laughing.

[stormee]

Some say that on some storage facilities cars were pre-sorted for later sale/export/breaking.

Here's an old article about storage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263548/Now-did-say-left-car-The-28m-backlog-perfectly-driveable-vehicles-waiting-SCRAPPED.html

 

 

[Lankytim]

The cars are all sat at RAF Thurleigh, quietly rotting away. I seem to remember reading something about certain cars being allowed to return to the road but it may have been one of those crappy E petitions.

 

The collapse of the scrap market must have wiped millions from the value of the Thurleigh hoard. 

[gordonbennet]

I can't give the numbers involved, but i personally took many lorryloads of scrappage scheme cars direct to dismantlers/recyclers as the company i worked for had one of the contracts to collect them from dealers, no storage involved there they simply did not have the space so were processed sharpish.

 

Fuckin desperate typical balls up as you'd expect from a bloody politician's half arsed idea, yes some bloody death traps were took off the road but i collected some right little real live one little old lady owner gems that we'd have given our eye teeth to buy..

Whoever came up with it should have their arse kicked every day for the rest of their miserable worthless lives.

[Lacquer Peel]

Great for the economy tho.

[garbaldy]

Great for the economy tho.

Whose economy, Korea

[eddyramrod]

Whoever came up with it should have their arse kicked every day for the rest of their miserable worthless lives.

 

 

And the Tories sit in London, laughing.

Gordon Brown.  I rest my case.

[Timewaster]

What the SMMT want, they usually get.

 

Add in some health and safety and bang the ECO drum loud enough and suddenly £millions of tax payers money is handed over to Hyundai and Kia dealers which eventually finds it's way to Korea.

 

The squished cars are then sold to China who now have so much steel that they have sold it back to us so cheap that our own steel industry has collapsed. Costing £millions of tax payers money.

 

Genius.

 

Anyway, that was all years ago. Move on.

[Cavcraft]

Vauxhall have kick started it again, two grand off some (not all) new cars.

[Lankytim]

I don't think they actually scrap the cars though.

[beko1987]

Most of those cars will be fucked though just by standing there for all this time wouldnt they?

[richardthestag]

And the Tories sit in London, laughing.

 

That is as maybe but it was Noo Labia who executed scrappage scheme

 

Doesnt really matter though, they are all politicians, doesnt matter what colour they wear

[UltraWomble]

There are also airfields full of old steam trains and traction engines waiting for when the oil runs out...

[\tinfoil hat]

[Stanky]

Most of those cars will be fucked though just by standing there for all this time wouldnt they?

 

The Vauxhalls you mean? (trollololol)

[Uncle Jimmy]

US scrappage scheme. Look like old F bodies or similar.

[Bren]

At least New Liebour were only scrapping cars.

 

The current lot are scrapping people.

 

I would have thought all those cars would have been crushed by now.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

The cars are all sat at RAF Thurleigh, quietly rotting away. I seem to remember reading something about certain cars being allowed to return to the road but it may have been one of those crappy E petitions.

 

The collapse of the scrap market must have wiped millions from the value of the Thurleigh hoard.

 

Digging around a bit deeper on the 'net, Thurleigh is only home to unregistered and new cars now. All the old stuff has gone, presumed beanz tinz.

[dave21478]

There are also airfields full of old steam trains and traction engines waiting for when the oil runs out...

[\tinfoil hat]

Not airfields, they would have been found by now - they are in tunnels, bricked up and sealed off until they are ready to be recommissioned.

 

If anyone is interested in mildly interesting tinfoil hattery, google Strategic Steam Reserve.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On Saturday I took our Fiat 500, bought on the scrappage scheme, for MOT. It failed on knackered front shocks and got an advise for rusty exhaust. Made me think ,wonder how many Scrappage cars have been scrapped ?

The 500 still seems worth a few quid , but if this was some sort of rinky dink Korean shit would it be worth spending £400 on?

If some of those Scrappage victims really are still around ,there could be some that outlast the cars they were scrapped in favour of.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Not airfields, they would have been found by now - they are in tunnels, bricked up and sealed off until they are ready to be recommissioned.

 

If anyone is interested in mildly interesting tinfoil hattery, google Strategic Steam Reserve.

It's all true, I have photographic proof.

[anonymous user]

There are also airfields full of old steam trains and traction engines waiting for when the oil runs out...

[\tinfoil hat]

I thought they were all in the disused slate mines in North Wales along with the mothballed diesel P5 Rovers and Austin Gypsys

[Pillock]

There's also some electric trains for when the steam runs out, diesel trains for when the electricity runs out, and 60 millions pairs of rollerskates which means we're all screwed.

[Negative Creep]

At least New Liebour were only scrapping cars.

 

The current lot are scrapping people.

 

I would have thought all those cars would have been crushed by now.

 

 

I dunno, they did a pretty good job of scrapping Iraq

[Lankytim]

Digging around a bit deeper on the 'net, Thurleigh is only home to unregistered and new cars now. All the old stuff has gone, presumed beanz tinz.

 

 

There were some still there earlier this year. Check out the first pics, Rover P4, 6's and big Daimler conquest things!

 

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/r-a-f-thurleigh-car-graveyard-april15.t95528

 

The last post in the thread suggests that all the old cars have gone, but I suspect that they were looking in the wrong area. The place is huge, plus it would be impossible to move all those cars and nobody to notice and mention it.

[Richard]

Not airfields, they would have been found by now - they are in tunnels, bricked up and sealed off until they are ready to be recommissioned.

 

If anyone is interested in mildly interesting tinfoil hattery, google Strategic Steam Reserve.

There are hundreds of steam locomotives and traction engines being kept in tip top condition by enthusiasts all over the country. I think they would be a better bet than trying to dig machinery out of a tunnel and distribute it around a devastated country.

 

I have seen machinery that has been left underground, it doesn't survive very well.