Cut and shut dangers!

[andrew e]

More ITN shite gold!

 

http://www.newsplayer.com/reconditioned-cars-made-from-scrap-video

[AXrescuer]

Great search tag with that clip:

 

man welding metal to remove bonnet from car

[Richard]

I hate lazy journalism. That car was having its front torched off to get the engine out. Cars destined for cut and shut, as any fule kno, don't come from scrapyards like that, not off the pile anyway.Shite gold though.

[CortinaDave]

Yep I can hardly see a yard going to the bother of cut n shutting a sierra can you? they were clearly taking the pinto out.. worth a few quid to the OLDSKOOLFORD mob.

[FredTransit]

WTF do they take the public for? That footage myst have been 10 years old!

[dollywobbler]

WTF do they take the public for? That footage myst have been 10 years old!

I think they know EXACTLY what their target audience is. They won't know any different.

[FredTransit]

Ah you mean automotive muppets who think that old cars are all dangerous and a risk to the environment, that are worthless yet expensive to maintain?

[Pillock]

What's the legal status of a cut and shut?Say if I had a car, and reversed it into a tree. I like my car so I decide to repair it and bought all new panels, fixed it myself, painted it and made it look like new. That's OK, right? I don't have to declare anything to anyone.If instead of buying panels I bought a similar car that had been in a frontal collision, and took seperate panels and parts from it, that's also OK yes? I mean, that's what scrapyards do - they sell parts to fit to other cars.So one step further is to take larger parts from the donor car, like the entire back end. Why is this not OK if welded properly, jigged and aligned, tracked etc? Is this actually illegal, and if so where's the boundary between 'repairing using secondhand parts' and 'cut and shut'?I mean, that ITN news report clearly states 'engineers' are doing this. Engineers are clever, I'd trust them more than the staff working on a typical 1980's production line.Obviously the car needs to retain it's correct identity but that's not what this report was claiming, it was just supposed sub-standard repairs.

[FredTransit]

Very good points, and well put. the problem is 'the law' doesn't allow for qualified people doing excellent quality repairs with 2nd hand panels. I would say, if you really did openly weld together 2 halves of different cars, and it passed an engineers test and/or an MOT (same level of importance as far as I am concerned) then it should be allowed back on the road, but would probably end up with a Q registration number.

[Volksy]

When was that filmed? Looks like the newest car in the yard was the Sierra?

[Richard]

I think it's an archived news clip from 10-15 years ago. Even then the footage to accompany it was inappropriate.