shite auctions

[254575]

whats the best place for auctions of shite? ive looked on the BCA and Manheims website and they all appear to be auctions for 06-plate repmobiles...where are the kind of auctions that are full of Arthur Daley wanna-be's buying cars that are 80% filler for £100?

[r.welfare]

Where are you in the country? The auction house in Southampton is meant to feature some ropier motors than BCA. I'm sure a Yellow Pages search of your area will turn something up?

[254575]

im in Surrey, just inside the m25...soton not too far

[Father Ted]

Shame you are not in Preston - Olympia on London Rd - every Thursday its where everyone who wants real shite goes. Mostly its private sellers or ex minicabs.

[254575]

Shame you are not in Preston - Olympia on London Rd - every Thursday its where everyone who wants real shite goes. Mostly its private sellers or ex minicabs.

thats the kind of stuff im talking about!

[Father Ted]

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[carlo]

Saltash auctions next to Plymouth used to be pretty good for old tat, twice a week they would put all the cheaper stuff through the auction first. Unbelievably, now their service charge has gone up from £35 for a £200 car to £159 since they were taken over by Mannheim so it's just not worth going any more. God only knows what this ridiculous increase has done for their turnover - can't have made a very good impression on the prices they're getting for the punters' cars.

[Station]

A lot of auction houses have stooges and what not in the background. One near me has piles of cars because he doesn't want to let go of them for what he thinks they're worth. There's a Tigra that's now pink, has every window smashed, is full of water, and he still wants money for it!There's always 10% decent looking 80's cars coming through there, like Supras, MR2, etc.

[outlaw118]

Chelmsford's always got a fair selection, they've got a website, probably about 45mins for Dartford Tunnell.....

[shite_meister]

Jersey-loadsa shite in the auctions and the odd gem like a Triumph Dolomite with 13,000 from new.Getting to and fro would be costly thus I have a suggestion in that you send me your monieeeees and in return I'll spunk it on old tat that crops up in t'auction and chuck it on a ferry to Blighty.....no??

[pompei]

There ued to be a rough old pikey style auction just outside Beverley twice a week, but that folded a while ago ... don't know where the cars that went there go now

[andrew e]

Chelmsford's always got a fair selection, they've got a website, probably about 45mins for Dartford Tunnell.....

Pah I wouldn't trust those b'stards, I sold a 309 through there a few years ago, it accidently got sold under reserve... try Colchester (in Clacton really) instead.

[Father Ted]

Chelmsford's always got a fair selection....

Pah I wouldn't trust those b'stards, I sold a 309 through there a few years ago, it accidently got sold under reserve... try Colchester (in Clacton really) instead.

Surely you would have had some redress with them - you put a reserve on the car, they flog it under reserve surely its up to the auction house to stump up the difference or explain to the buyer they cocked up? No?

[andrew e]

Long story, but some auctioneers discretion.... they paid out the reserve, but basically Chelmsfords a closed shop and the local mafia didn't want us there

[seth]

Surely you would have had some redress with them - you put a reserve on the car, they flog it under reserve surely its up to the auction house to stump up the difference or explain to the buyer they cocked up? No?

I know of a well known, high profile, auction where a car was sold for significantly under its reserve and was shipped out of the country within 24hours and before the seller could do anything. I don't know if there were any repurcussions.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Mannheim are a pack of robbing bastards who charge £25 to send the logbook to DVLA.Southampton car auctions was the best in the country for rubbish, but it closed 3 years ago. Blackbushe isn't bad for tat on the right day, and Bawtry Car Auctions near Doncaster is legendary for general scrap, clocked scrap, ringers and wheeled corpses. The clientele are a scary breed - fat, tattooed, dodgy facial hair - and that's just the Women.Only trouble is, if you get the old white haired fart doing the auctioneering you can't buy anything because the silly old bastard takes bids off the wall....and blatantly so. Often you need to go 2 or 3 times to buy the same car.

[r.welfare]

Southampton car auctions was the best in the country for rubbish, but it closed 3 years ago.

Maybe they are back in business, or this is a different one, then: http://www.cars2bid4.com/Perusal of the stock list indicates a pretty shite state of play. My mate is keen to drop £500 on something old, so I suspect we will journey down to an evening sale in the not-so-distant future - I'll be leaving my wallet at home and keeping my hands in my pockets, mind!

[Spottedlaurel]

I regularly used to visit Ipswich Car Auctions in the early ‘90s. Splendid selection of old rubbish used to go through there, especially if one of the local main dealers was having some kind of minimum £1500 p/ex scheme or similar. Cortinas, RWD Japanese, oddities like a Mirage Turbo, all sorts.I never bought anything from them (still regret not going for a 180B that sold for £35) but I did use them to sell a tatty, high miles Sunny that I wanted shot of quickly. Tell a lie, I did buy a box of magazines from them for 50p.Worth getting there early to see traders unloading their vehicles which they’d later be bidding up themselves...The traders were an interesting mix of rural types and Essex geezers making a journey up the A12 (like the chap who still has loads of 4wd’s at the end of Ipswich Road in Colchester), banger racers/scrapyard people and private buyers.Some stuff sat in the yard for ages, like a finance repo Laurel and a 2dr Cavalier Mk1. I do have a few pic’s which I’ll maybe dig out over the weekend.They operated from a series of one-step-from-demolition premises around town, I recall Cecilia Street and Wherstead Road but recall there may have been somewhere in between? Auctioneer always seemed a bit posh, but dodgy. They’re no more, I believe, unless Trigger or anyone local knows better?

[CortinaDave]

The auction in Kinross is doing the shark infested £25 to send the logbook to DVLA nonsense.There are no bargains there because you have to stump up a £100 plus "indemnity fee" plus the £25 logbook fee and cheap cars instantly become dear cars.I'm surprised they get any business from sellers these days .. with the fees to enter, the commission, and the fact people bid less because they have to pay the indemnity etc on top, the actual cash sellers get from the sale must be hardly anything most of the time.

[AnthonyG]

Kingsland Car Auctions near Leominster, Herefordshire, if it is still going, is/was a superb banger auction. Frequently the 'best' vehicles would be the 3 year old police Astras with 200k and holes in the roof and dash!The local car breakers refused a contract to collect all the abandoned/unsold stuff - thats how crap it was!The local farm auction people (Fred Davies of Cardiganshire) do a great one every month but you're lucky to get more than 20 vehicles in each sale.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

All this lot makes paying £30 to ebay to flog your heap, seem like a real bargain

[AnthonyG]

Fred Davies charge an entry fee (£10 last time we used it) and a comission of not more than 5%, which is capped at £250, I think. But nothing makes much coin unless its either a cheap tax little car, a 4WD or a diesel.Its very rare for anything to make more than a couple of grand, unless its a 54 reg Nissan Navarra or similar. Land Rover Defenders also go for silly money regardless of age or condition, and diesel Transits are the motherlode.

[Mr Lobster]

Stoodley Auctions in Manchester used to be good for tat. Might still be to be honest, haven't been for five years or so though so I'm not sure.Back in the day though was all hand painted Mk3 Granadas, deathrow Montegos and all sorts of lovely stuff.

[FredTransit]

........and diesel Transits are the motherlode.

give that a few years and that will change though. There are 06 transits with scary rust for their age, so I doubt many of them will make it to an actionable age!

[Justin Case]

Kingsland Car Auctions near Leominster, Herefordshire, if it is still going, is/was a superb banger auction. Frequently the 'best' vehicles would be the 3 year old police Astras with 200k and holes in the roof and dash!The local car breakers refused a contract to collect all the abandoned/unsold stuff - thats how crap it was!

Is this the place? 8 out of 107 cars with warranted mileage sounds promising for the shite-seeker. http://www.leominstercarauctions.co.uk/sales.aspxBTW not to be confused with Brightwells of Leominster who do a big non-shite 4x4 sale every week. Must have a peep sometime, the petrol Range Rovers look as cheap as chips

[AnthonyG]

Kingsland Car Auctions near Leominster, Herefordshire, if it is still going, is/was a superb banger auction. Frequently the 'best' vehicles would be the 3 year old police Astras with 200k and holes in the roof and dash!The local car breakers refused a contract to collect all the abandoned/unsold stuff - thats how crap it was!

Is this the place? 8 out of 107 cars with warranted mileage sounds promising for the shite-seeker. http://www.leominstercarauctions.co.uk/sales.aspxBTW not to be confused with Brightwells of Leominster who do a big non-shite 4x4 sale every week. Must have a peep sometime, the petrol Range Rovers look as cheap as chips

Thats the place! - seems to be doing a better class of vehicle than 15 years ago though - £40 Mk3 Cortinas and the like!Brightwells is well worth a look - a very professional operation.