Edinburgh Multis demolition reveals chod.

[CortinaDave]

apparently these cars were bought from a local scrappy by the car park company to test the mechanism so thats why no one claimed them.

 

F666XSC is the reg of the white uno, looks pretty shagged tbh.

[Skut]

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[Alusilber]

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If that's the state it left your car in, it's no wonder it closed 

[Alusilber]

This is how the Germans do it....

[Clanger]

 

 

Apparently these new fangled parking thingies don't like Jags...

 

https://jalopnik.com/automated-parking-lift-nightmarishly-smashes-this-guys-1822232565

[vaughant]

One thing it does/did surfer from is heat, that can affect its positional accuracy however it's 25 years old and has only had basic maintenance, no upgrades (like pretty much all their other equipment) and I think about £500,000 would convert it to rack and pinion making it super accurate. Chicken feed in a big project like that. The idea has legs but with the size of modern cars it would need some serious hardware to get it to work.

[1duck]

 

 

Apparently these new fangled parking thingies don't like Jags...

 

https://jalopnik.com/automated-parking-lift-nightmarishly-smashes-this-guys-1822232565

 

 

sounds like driver error, but you have to wonder why there was no fail safe!

[adw1977]

Skit's picture shows that the Maestro is a lowly City X.

[oldcars]

Skit's picture shows that the Maestro is a lowly City X.

With MK3? Cav trim on it i think. Sure the rear trim on the Uno is autoplas.

[chaseracer]

^ This place, etc. 

 

 

[loserone]

Skit's picture shows that the Maestro is a lowly City X.

What do you mean lowly, that means it hss a rear wash/wipe!

[adw1977]

What do you mean lowly, that means it hss a rear wash/wipe!

True, it would be better if it was a plain City without wash/wipe.

 

 

With MK3? Cav trim on it i think. Sure the rear trim on the Uno is autoplas.

It certainly is from a Mk3 Cavalier:

 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61090099@N04/13550413604/in/album-72157643053689504/

[Datsuncog]

 

 

It certainly would be a result if the developer managed to extract these mothballed cars and make them available to shiters (since the story was trending on BBC News Online, it seems there's certainly some interest), but I fear they'll decide it's more of a ball-ache than they'd be worth, financially... since they appear to have been bought as scrappers in 2001, they may or may not be quite fooked.

 

Having said that... it's not the first time eBay optimism has got the better of people.

 

"OMG Edinburg Multistory ABANDOND RARE Fait Uno VINTAGE RETRO STEAMPUNK"

 

"Unique car very rare AS SEEN ON TV - £10k BIN"

 

If there's a Volvo estate in there, as the BBC interview reports, the SVM could be all over it. And Ladas are pretty sought after and all.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-42789879

[garbaldy]

Two Uno's and two maestros and it looks like someone has been in to them already,

I'm wondering how one car is pointing the wrong way though,

[timolloyd]

These'll be white roomed in no time and sold as time capsules. You can imagine the bollocks story accompanying them:

 

'In 2001 Mrs Miggins drove her cherished Uno into Edinburgh to buy some tweed, forgot where she parked and died 2 days later etc etc'

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

I've got a funny feeling that Uno was once owned by Gail who lived in Forrester Park back in the day...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In which case I know nothing about the stains on the rear seat

[nisfan]

The uno and the white maestro next to it look like they've been trashed so likely be skipped I would think, the other 2 don't look as bad but I wouldn't think they'll be saved after the story dies down and forgotten about

[sierraman]

I like stories like this where something as bizarre as an abandoned Maestro in a car park has some story behind it.

 

There must be loads of car parks with cars in that have sat there for years!

[pompei]

One of my favourite episodes of Thunderbirds was the one when the lady driver set a skypark on fire with her bad parking. 

[fordperv]

Will this be the start of carpark finds replacing the age old barn find on ebay

[Pillock]

a lot of automated / semi automated 'small product' warehouses use them with varying success ... Dixons have a couple at Newark that work well, Marks and Sparks have loads at Castle Donington but their success is mixed ... but part of that is tryingto do too much with them i.e. your standard 600 *400*400 tote might hold half a dozen radios / couple of blenders / a few tens of printer cartridgies, but hundreds of pairs of undies ...

Dixons have one, in Building 1. I was told it was the largest automated picking system when it was opened but since then they've actually scaled some of it back and have human pickers with headsets on following instructions. The boxes are still weighed at the end to verify correct contents though, everything fits in totes as it's the small product warehouse for stuff like cameras, headphones, memory cards etc.

 

Building 2 is traditional - reach and clamp trucks with human drivers. That's because it's all washing machines and stuff.

 

Dixons had the first automated warehouse in the country back in the 70s in Stevenage. It was run by bearded men in brown shirts who dreamt in COBOL.

 

400x600 totes also fit brilliantly through my loft hatch, and in the shed.

[cort16]

The article I read says there are 8 cars. A guy who worked there said they also bought a long wheel base Volvo to test it.

Apparently the automated system used to break down all the time and they’d have to recover the cars tetris style using joy sticks .

[Isaac Hunt]

Good value long term storage if you timed it right. Wouldn't fancy putting my motor in one of these Kung Fu Parking systems, still, safer than that car park in Liverpool

[Split_Pin]

There is a seemingly inexhaustable supply of abandoned cars in my local train station car park.

 

I'm an OCD type and park in the same spot every day, usually possible because Im one of the first cars there. There is currently a Nissan Note squatting in it just now, my mind is in turmoil!

[406V6]

There's a similar setup on a much smaller scale in a Mercedes dealership in West London near junction 2 of the M4 which is visible if you're travelling east on the Motorway.  There's no way to get most of the cars out if it breaks.

[DodgyBastard]

That's pretty much my dream storage facility, including random old Uno`s..

 

Surely there's a loaded Scot who'd wanna adopt it, reinstate the mechanism & turn it into the chod capital of the world? FOAD? 

 

One problem with that plan. I'm not loaded.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

These cars are hotter than ever:

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-42976652

[Datsuncog]

^^ Ah, ffs...

 

Would have been nice to have seen these extracted safely, but not exactly an easy task if the whizz-bang hi-tech lift machinery's long since banjaxed... wonder whether this blaze is entirely accidental, or merely convenient...

[oldcars]

that is a shame. I was hoping they would be saved. Bet they "just went" on fire.

[Felly Magic]

How convenient this happened