So this is where lots of the scrappidge stuff is going.....

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

http://www.u-pull-it.co.uk/home.html

 

Look in the various sections - cars maked AO are scrappage minters. Look in the Mercedes section for a mint 1986 S Class (with 'scrappage deal' in the screen ) and the lovely 106'000 mile 300E.

 

Two lovely old Mercs with loads of life left, crushed.

 

Words can't describe just how much I hate this fucking government.

[Torsten2001]

I feel sick!

[CortinaDave]

I'm sure scrappylad on here mentioned a 14k miler volvo traded in on the scrappage scheme.. well... looks like this is where it turned up.

 

 

 

 

 

Why the hell did a car like that end up a scrappage victim.. its MINT

 

On the plus side ou get to totally strip it and take everything for £125... which surely someone on here should do? any takers?[/img]

[trigger]

Look at this mint Jag!

 

 

Only 63k and a 4.2, It looks spottless as well, I checked the plate, B323 SWX, Comes up on Ebay listings but been removed from the DVLA database?.

[CortinaDave]

I'd been looking at a 99 cougar v6 they have on scrappage.. 46k miles and looks pristine... im thinking of buying the rights to strip it for the leather interior etc.So utterly stupid to see a pristine car thats hardly even run in scrapped becaus it happens to be ten years old. I hate the scrappage scheme (although i do quite like the idea of u pull it.. some bargains to be had)

[Owain-328i]

 

another tidy old bus

[autohausdolby]

It pains me to say it, but the easiest way to dismantle that Volvo for spares is to dismantle it around the chassis number, leaving that on the floor, and take the rest away to be installed around a new one. I'm not condoning it or whatever mind.

[trigger]

I think that's how they work there anyway, You strip everything of the car but they keep the chassis and chassis number.

[FredTransit]

I feel sick!

me too.....

[CortinaDave]

You cant take the actual shell.. so basically everything but. Which in fairness is a pretty sweet deal at £125 in that condition

[autohausdolby]

I was just reading their website. Their game sounds air tight, much like Ice Cube's.

[Owain-328i]

You'd have to question who in their right mind traded in a 14k Volvo 740. Which is possibly one of the best made cars of all time (not quite old merc quality)I mean we have to be talking about a major league MORON surely.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It will be some old geezer wont it who's had it since new and is now trading down to something a bit smaller and more manageable.

[VWPowered]

+1

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

My mate just rang me, more than a little pissed.....A guy who walks his dog near him has just weighed in a pristine (and it was pretty much concours) 1995 520i with 54'000 miles. Dark metallic blue with beige leather and four recent Dunlop Metrics. I put a rear lights cluster in it a year ago because the original had a chip in the lens - so I know just how lovely it is. Now it's scrap, traded for a new Volvo.I hope to God they do finish this scheme next year on cue, but what if they find a reason to continue it?? Absolute carnage.

[r.welfare]

It's fugging criminal what's being scrapped, but at least the stuff landing at U-Pull-It can potentially provide valuable spares to other owners, instead of being instantly cubed.GR8 article on U-Pull-It in Car Mechanics a coupla months back, sounds like a good idea if you have the space and time, shame there are none down this way yet - if there were, I'd be filling the garage with as many Accord parts as I could...

[pompei]

Looks like the UPI in York used to be Simsons, unless they're running in tandem?

[Pillock]

I guess it could be fun, you get 7 hours to strip as much as you can off the car for the 'car price'. Do they limit how many people can work on each car? I reckon 5 or 6 people could strip your average motor back to the shell in the alloted time with some left over for a cuppa. Not a bad haul then!

[Milford Cubicle]

Shame UPI Inverkeithing has no 405s, seems like quite a good service.

[mouseflakes]

I'm sure this has been said before but....At a conservative guess I'd say that 14,000 mile Volvo would give another 20 years of good service. In the meantime, if you follow the current argument, you'd have to manufacture and destroy at least two replacements.Three cars manufactured and disposed of when one would have done. I thought the idea was to discourage this throw-away mentality?

[pompei]

I think the idea is to help the Korean car industry

[FredTransit]

yeah that's true enough, and it's working too....But so is what mouseflakes said....

[mattblack]

Thing is, no-one put a gun to that Volvo owner's head, or anyone else who's traded a car in under the scrappage scheme... Don't get me wrong, I think the scheme is a crock o' shite, but (thankfuly) we live in a country where a person can do as they see fit with THEIR OWN PROPERTY...Now, where did I put my flameproof suit?

[mouseflakes]

Folk can do what they like - I just dislike the way we're being encouraged to throw perfectly serviceable stuff away.Why not keep the good 'uns back? They could do some sort of 'amnesty' where hard-up folks could swap their genuinely dangerous polluting old crocks for one of these.Impossible to organise I know. It just seems such a waste.

[Torsten2001]

Well said!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Stick them all on a boat to Africa. For years that's been happening in Germany etc, huge compounds near the docks to ship stuff out there.Nah, let's destroy it instead.

[M'coli]

Looks like the UPI in York used to be Simsons, unless they're running in tandem?

It is Simpsons, they sold the business to Copout last year.

[andrew e]

Don't search 505 what ever you do.....

 

 

 

Though this seems a good crack to me...

 

http://www.u-pull-it.co.uk/lotDetail.ht ... hType=HOME

[mouseflakes]

So this P6 has an MOT?

 

[retrogeezer]

Stick them all on a boat to Africa. For years that's been happening in Germany etc, huge compounds near the docks to ship stuff out there.

So it's o.k for the africans to pollute the atmosphere and trundle about in old cars but not the germans.....do the German government not realise it's the same atmosphere?

 

And another thing that boils my piss is the yanks can drive around in stuff like this without a care in the world while we get bum raped left, right & centre for owning even an economical petrol car...