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[Guest Hooli]

You have to do the Ring of Kerry & Healey Pass while you're there.

[Pillock]

Without exception, all scrapyard owners I know are the type that if you try and chip them on price they'll just chuck the part in a skip to spite you.

 

I wanted a dipstick for a polo on a Sunday. Breakers was open and closer that ECP so I went over. Ten quid he wanted. "They're six quid new" says I. "Well fuck off and buy a new one then" he said and walked off.

[Kiltox]

Cunts, the word is cunts.

[omegod]

Just asked a breaker's for a price on two seats, a carpet and a front bumper for a 15 year old Suzuki Ignis.

 

£150.

 

One hundred and fifty fucking quid.

I'm sure theres at least one in my local yard, I'll have a mooch on Thursday

[junkyarddog]

Ferry booked for an Irish roadtrip next week. In the 2CV. Quite excited. I've never been to Ireland before. We land in Rosslare, attend a Toyota meeting near Cork, then make our way to Dublin and the ferry home. On the Welsh side, we head down to Pembroke, then land back in Holyhead.

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/toyota-gathering-static-show-sat-12th-august/16031525

 

This?

[Eddie Honda]

Shout out to Michael Douglas Auto Salvage in Carlisle, they're great.

+1 Pleasure to go there and hand over sensible money for things.

[dave21478]

I've been to the Persley yard in Aberdeen several times and I've yet to hand over any money at all, the guy always just waves me through. Maybe it's because it's things that normal people put in their pocket.

 

He is too busy counting massive stacks of cash to be laundered through the business account to charge you two quid for some bits of trim.

Allegedly.

 

I did notice when I was over last week that the orange Transit van he used for an office for decades has finally fallen to bits and been replaced by some kind of wee portacabin.

[dollywobbler]

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/toyota-gathering-static-show-sat-12th-august/16031525

 

This?

 

That's the badger. My 2CV will fit in nicely...

[Matt]

+1 Pleasure to go there and hand over sensible money for things.

 

The only thing I don't like about them is that they scrap wheels right off the bat. I'm sure tonnes of really rare sets have been fragged by them. On the other hand I appeared a couple of weeks ago and they had a Swift in that they put aside on the racks just for me 

[tooSavvy]

I'm sure a lot of the expensive scrappies are up to the same sort of financial shenanigans.

 

I have heard such rumours... Although my tip referred to Kebab shops which had suspiciously few customers and large Aldis round the back/tints...

 

Must be a North Tyneside thing

 

 

TS

[eddyramrod]

I've got a killswitch on the horn/seat adjustment circuit on the Caddy, because it was causing fatal battery drains if the fuse was left in.  Guess what I forgot to switch off last time I took the car out?

 

Yep.  Totally flat battery.  No amount of comical over-revving would put enough through the jumpleads from the Giffer Rover to start the V8, so I've had to take the battery off and slip round to the garage on the corner for them to charge it up for me.  Buggeration.

[mercrocker]

Well, our town is now complete.   First we got a McDonalds, then a Subway and a Costa.   Now we have got this......

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was once a Mercedes dealership - very helpful storeman used to keep feeding me old W123 stock for un-MB prices.   Prior to that, an excellent transmission specialist who thankfully still exist a couple of miles away.

 

Further back, still, a portion of this site was one of the final business ventures of Jim Keeble, ex Gordon Keeble.     

 

It was also a very handy Esso outlet, one of the four filling stations that have closed here in the last 20 years.  

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

I think Scotland when I see Arnold Clark

[dave21478]

Aye, cant beat a bit of length when it comes to jump leads.

While diggering once years back I snagged a massive cable the size of my wrist. After my butt hole relaxed after expecting billion volt death, it turned out to be a bit of old cable about 15 meters long with 5 cores in it, each significantly thicker than my thumb. It was all fucked up and chewed at certain points along its length but I managed to rescue two cores that were long enough sections to make a set of monster jump leads where I can jump a stricken car even comfortably parked behind it. I got the four clamps from a tractor spares place.

[Supernaut]

I thought that might be the case. Still handy though, the first thing I got was a safety catch for the Volvo's bonnet, which people were asking stupid money for on eBay. I'm sure I've had headlights and wheels there too. I'm sure a lot of the expensive scrappies are up to the same sort of financial shenanigans.

 

The Transit did well, he was still in it the last time I was there, which was only a couple of years ago.

 

Aye, the portacabin is fairly recent. They actually have the better sets of wheels all stacked up neatly next to the portacabin now... some sort of nod to customer service?

[M'coli]

Well, it turns out the 3-stud Peugeot 106 has different rear stub-axles to the 4-stud ones, meaning that I can't simply pop the healthy 3-stud rear beam into the 4-stud car for its MOT retest, which has utterly pissed on my chips, I tell thee.

[dollywobbler]

I've got a killswitch on the horn/seat adjustment circuit on the Caddy, because it was causing fatal battery drains if the fuse was left in.  Guess what I forgot to switch off last time I took the car out?

 

Yep.  Totally flat battery.  No amount of comical over-revving would put enough through the jumpleads from the Giffer Rover to start the V8, so I've had to take the battery off and slip round to the garage on the corner for them to charge it up for me.  Buggeration.

 

Surprised by that. Either iffy leads or poor connections one end or the other. If a 2CV can start a 2.1 turbo diesel, a Rover should be able to start a V8.

[eddyramrod]

That was my logic too, but it didn't work.  Never mind, an overnight trickle should have me booming down the alley again!

[phil_lihp]

Sensible silver dieselness sold.  Bright yellow petrol thing incoming.  A good day!

[Guest Hooli]

Surprised by that. Either iffy leads or poor connections one end or the other. If a 2CV can start a 2.1 turbo diesel, a Rover should be able to start a V8.

 

Me too.

 

My normal answer to to sit there with the leads connected for 5mins at a fast idle to boost up the dead batt a bit. Seems to help a lot.

[Ghosty]

A4's had one enquirer for every day it's been on sale, and they all seem relatively sensible too. No bites yet, but the stream of interest is both surprising and reassuring. 

Current enquirer is a Polish fella from Prestwich. Started off 'what's your lowest price' so I said £750, he says OK I'll check insurance.

Could this really be easier than we all expected?

[alcyonecorporation]

A4's had one enquirer for every day it's been on sale, and they all seem relatively sensible too. No bites yet, but the stream of interest is both surprising and reassuring. 

Current enquirer is a Polish fella from Prestwich. Started off 'what's your lowest price' so I said £750, he says OK I'll check insurance.

Could this really be easier than we all expected?

 

I hope so. NI buyer of the knob van decided he couldn't be arsed waiting for his collection service - booked up for three weeks - to come and collect it from me despite me offering to store it for him until then for free. 

He's since ignored all phone calls and texts; got him briefly on the phone last night but he couldn't wait to get rid of me. 

 

I'm speaking to the next highest bidder tonight. 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

XM booked in for MOT tomorrow morning at 8:05, wish us luck...

 

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[alcyonecorporation]

LUCK GOOD 

[17-Coffees]

The BMW 316i 'Shed' is officially on SORN, and it suffering from a broke rear spring. So she'll be holed up in the garage until I get round to fixing it, hopefully get some bodywork done as well. 

In light of this, i'll be making plans to remove another car out of the storage of 'Top Men' and see if it'll fit in the driveway... 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Yes indeedy

 

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[HMC]

Incoming merc E320cdi- loaded with toys and rust. It's basically cosmetic rather than structural but admittedly looks awful- but at least that puts people off and makes them cheap I suppose.

[Jams]

Incoming merc E320cdi- loaded with toys and rust. It's basically cosmetic rather than structural but admittedly looks awful- but at least that puts people off and makes them cheap I suppose.

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That's my mates car!! Very strange as we look very much alike! If it's off him it will be a good one!

[Supernaut]

The BMW 316i 'Shed' is officially on SORN, and it suffering from a broke rear spring. So she'll be holed up in the garage until I get round to fixing it, hopefully get some bodywork done as well. 

In light of this, i'll be making plans to remove another car out of the storage of 'Top Men' and see if it'll fit in the driveway...

So are you going to chop that step off the front door before or after you try fitting it in the driveway?

[BorniteIdentity]

Anybody here in Lancs able to nose at a car for me in Chorley?

 

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