Dumped cars in your area

[Motown]

Plenty of new and old vehicles in various conditions just sat on crofts and parked outside houses on my island. Some are half buried and unsalvageable others look like were abandoned yesterday but have clearly been there for sometime.

Years ago we used to drain them of oil and fluids (reuseing the oil to preserve wood and fencing) put them on a tipper and dump them in the sea but that stopped in the late 80s early 90s....

Nowadays companies visit the island periodically and collect scrap but we don't get anything for vehicles like you do on the mainland due to transport and ferry costs. In short they take them away for free so many are just abandoned or used as croft vehicles.

I really should go round and take some pictures as they are some real gems ive seen a fair few Mk3 Astras and Cavaliers recently and the odd old Peugeot. They are two blue Lada Nivas on my croft but there's not much left of them.

Just a few examples... Might get out with a camera soon

 

 

[Motown]

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[bunglebus]

Last night, I found this place with a clearly out of use Transit

MX5

And T3 going green(er) on the drive

I had a closer look

I didn't really have a choice

This was my air B+B for the evening. Inside of the main house looked as you might imagine, separate rental room was...OK.

Oddly that Mazda is apparently red, and the bus blue! Don't think so

[stuboy]

4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Last night, I found this place with a clearly out of use Transit

MX5

And T3 going green(er) on the drive

I had a closer look

I didn't really have a choice

This was my air B+B for the evening. Inside of the main house looked as you might imagine, separate rental room was...OK

i do like the look of the transit

[smellypoo]

12 hours ago, Motown said:

That Integra Type-R would be worth proper money on the mainland...

[Split_Pin]

I wasn't sure whether to put these in Truck Shite or here.

Spotted these while waiting for my MOT.

They belong to a local recovery firm which looks to have gone out of business very recently. I remember these trucks cutting about as you could hear their fruity exhausts for miles!

8 legger is L889UHT and looks to have undergone some bodywork before being laid up. It was previously a bulk grainer.

Tractor unit has been off the road a long time, at least since 2008. Probably bought for spares from another local haulage firm which is still trading, however it still appears complete.

Theres another N reg EC10 behind that which has only become untaxed this month. I didn't photograph it as Id have had to walk too far into the premises.

[Rustybullethole]

On 06/11/2025 at 20:36, stuboy said:

i do like the look of the transit

Pretty clean too at a glance its much better than many.

[sierraman]

On 06/11/2025 at 18:57, Motown said:

Plenty of new and old vehicles in various conditions just sat on crofts and parked outside houses on my island. Some are half buried and unsalvageable others look like were abandoned yesterday but have clearly been there for sometime.

Years ago we used to drain them of oil and fluids (reuseing the oil to preserve wood and fencing) put them on a tipper and dump them in the sea but that stopped in the late 80s early 90s....

Nowadays companies visit the island periodically and collect scrap but we don't get anything for vehicles like you do on the mainland due to transport and ferry costs. In short they take them away for free so many are just abandoned or used as croft vehicles.

I really should go round and take some pictures as they are some real gems ive seen a fair few Mk3 Astras and Cavaliers recently and the odd old Peugeot. They are two blue Lada Nivas on my croft but there's not much left of them.

Just a few examples... Might get out with a camera soon

 

 

I’d like to see the Nivas

[Lord Sterling]

Spotted this on the way back home. It'd been hammering it down and rather unfortunately, this car had been left abandoned on a bit that became quite flooded.

[martc]

Not my area, but...

Abandoned x Government Peugeots in Homs, Syria.

[Lord Sterling]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Not my area, but...

Abandoned x Government Peugeots in Homs, Syria.

Yes, they loved these Peugeots. My uncle who was a manager of the financial department at the Sheraton in Damascus had a 1980 Renault 12 for many years until the war started.

[Scruffy Bodger]

On 06/11/2025 at 18:57, Motown said:

Plenty of new and old vehicles in various conditions just sat on crofts and parked outside houses on my island. Some are half buried and unsalvageable others look like were abandoned yesterday but have clearly been there for sometime.

Years ago we used to drain them of oil and fluids (reuseing the oil to preserve wood and fencing) put them on a tipper and dump them in the sea but that stopped in the late 80s early 90s....

Nowadays companies visit the island periodically and collect scrap but we don't get anything for vehicles like you do on the mainland due to transport and ferry costs. In short they take them away for free so many are just abandoned or used as croft vehicles.

I really should go round and take some pictures as they are some real gems ive seen a fair few Mk3 Astras and Cavaliers recently and the odd old Peugeot. They are two blue Lada Nivas on my croft but there's not much left of them.

Just a few examples... Might get out with a camera soon

 

 

I could really do with the sunroof out that 405!

[bunglebus]

This has been sat here forever with a bin bag taped over the broken window. The bag fell off about two years ago

[sheffcortinacentre]

Probably loose crank pulley killed it.

[DavidB]

This was unmoved when I used to live on this road.

That was in 2016, I walked down there the other night and it’s still there. it's a bottom of the range Astra 1.4 Merit estate.

Pretty much every year it's had multiple "suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded" fails on the MOT.

2025 - rare no sun roof model which might mean the rear arches will be intact ...

 

[Lord Sterling]

In Birmingham near my Mum's house;

X5 has been here for at least a year, if not longer. Rear suspension is down so much, the rear tyres are tucked up in the suspension. The road here is surprisingly more busy than I thought hence the crappy pics.

Mondeo has been here for a few years too. It's usually up to the top of its bumpers in wheat grass and weeds but this seems to have been cleared. Not dumped as such, but has sat unused for a long time.

[horriblemercedes]

On 05/11/2025 at 21:06, Missy Charm said:

Given that the Jag's front door doesn't match the back, I wonder if that's some salvage-auction special bought by someone with long-since-foundered intentions to 'do up' and 'sell on at a profit'?  The back end of the sill appears to be rusty, too, which isn't great for a nearly new car.  Presumably it's still worth something?  

It's 14-18 years old, so I wouldn't say it's nearly new. I doubt it's worth saving in that condition - an early XF is not a particularly valuable car. It'll be worth even less if it has something serious like an engine/gearbox problem or rot is getting into it.

A running and MOT'd one is £1200 or so upwards I'd say, and that one doesn't look like it's close to running or having an MOT...

[Lord Sterling]

Between Kidderminster and Bromsgrove. This has been here a while now, at least 2 or 3 months as I remember first seeing it around October when the weather started turning. There doesn't seem to be any urgency in getting the car removed, having said that, the field looks a bit boggy at the moment and its right next to a busy road so recovering it wouldn't be as easy unless the owner of the field could get a tractor and some forks to lift it out to somewhere more solid. There is some old Police tape flapping about around where presumably the car entered through the hedge.

[bunglebus]

Dumped? Parked? Who knows

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Dumped? Parked? Who knows

"But it's not on the yellow line Officer!"🙄

[sheffcortinacentre]

Parked.

[stuboy]

On 24/11/2025 at 08:12, Lord Sterling said:

In Birmingham near my Mum's house;

Mondeo has been here for a few years too. It's usually up to the top of its bumpers in wheat grass and weeds but this seems to have been cleared. Not dumped as such, but has sat unused for a long time.

That mondeo almost beat me on milage.. looks clean

[Motown]

On 07/11/2025 at 07:39, smellypoo said:

That Integra Type-R would be worth proper money on the mainland...

Not my thing... Owner wont part with it anyway

[Motown]

On 11/11/2025 at 10:58, sierraman said:

I’d like to see the Nivas

i shall take some pictures when the weather and ground is better its far to soft and wet to get out there on the tractor just now 

[Motown]

On 22/11/2025 at 17:50, Scruffy Bodger said:

I could really do with the sunroof out that 405!

Gone now unfortunately... i asked about it myself thought about restoring it as my first car was a red 405.

[23rdian]

On 26/03/2025 at 22:54, High Jetter said:

Walsall,  tho?

I know where this is. It is Walsall. Pm me for details.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, 23rdian said:

I know where this is. It is Walsall. Pm me for details.

Thanks, but I have no idea what i was referring to 11 months ago 😀

[stuboy]

Shame...