Well at least I've tried!

[FredTransit]

The only people I can think of who would really use this scheme are those who buy a new/nearly new car outright (or independently financed) and own it until it is worth less than the scrappage value, many years down the line - ones who get rid of them before that won't want to entertain the scrappage scheme as their car will still be worth more in part-ex anyway. Meanwhile, people who buy used cars outright remain largely unaffected as the gap between used and new cars isn't bridged enough by a scrap incentive. Their pool of motors is reduced, but probably not by anything noticable as the market is already saturated with used cars which people aren't willing/able to swap for new ones and thus don't get scrapped.

Sadly the people in this bracket generally own the cars that are most desirable for us shiters. My Parents always buy new, do next to no mileage and look after their car. For example they have just bought a new Honda Jizz to replace their ageing Peugeot 106. The 106 was bought new for cash and a part ex of their Seat Ibiza, they had it for 11 years, always garaged it covered 26,000 miles in that time had it serviced at the dealers every year and any repairs got done regardless of cost. They got next to fook all for it in part ex, but the fossils cant be bothered with trying to flog a car privately. If they had of got £2000 to see it scrapped, my old man would have bit the dealers arm off!

Knowing what you know, have you never pointed out the error of their ways?

[chaseracer]

The more I read about the scrappage scheme, the more I think it's just a marketing ploy that will fail in so far as getting old cars off the road. Few who have bought a new car, and have done in the recent past, will be running a 9+ year old car. I accept there will be a few occasions where some perfectly good classic cars will go, but I would like to bet they really would be few.

Yes, but their student son or daughter might have - and they could put the new motor in their name in order to qualify couldn't they? It wouldn't be hard.

I believe you have to own the car for a year, and it must be tested to qualify.

And that's the killer, isn't it? To qualify for scrapping, the car has to have a current MOT...

[Volksy]

The only people I can think of who would really use this scheme are those who buy a new/nearly new car outright (or independently financed) and own it until it is worth less than the scrappage value, many years down the line - ones who get rid of them before that won't want to entertain the scrappage scheme as their car will still be worth more in part-ex anyway. Meanwhile, people who buy used cars outright remain largely unaffected as the gap between used and new cars isn't bridged enough by a scrap incentive. Their pool of motors is reduced, but probably not by anything noticable as the market is already saturated with used cars which people aren't willing/able to swap for new ones and thus don't get scrapped.

Sadly the people in this bracket generally own the cars that are most desirable for us shiters. My Parents always buy new, do next to no mileage and look after their car. For example they have just bought a new Honda Jizz to replace their ageing Peugeot 106. The 106 was bought new for cash and a part ex of their Seat Ibiza, they had it for 11 years, always garaged it covered 26,000 miles in that time had it serviced at the dealers every year and any repairs got done regardless of cost. They got next to fook all for it in part ex, but the fossils cant be bothered with trying to flog a car privately. If they had of got £2000 to see it scrapped, my old man would have bit the dealers arm off!

Knowing what you know, have you never pointed out the error of their ways?

You try telling my old man how to do things...

[AnthonyG]

To be fair flogging cars privately can be a major pain in the arse, and the cheaper the car, the more wankers you will have to deal with (this is a proven statistical fact, as Pog, Wuvs, et al can testify).

 

So I can see it from their point of view.

[dollywobbler]

But, as said above, the it's the old-but-good cars that will be scrapped. All those low mileage slabs of J-Tin that we love, will be scrapped, while shonky heaps driven by skint folk (ah, is that us?!) will keep going.