Another Scrappage victim..........

[whitevanman]

My father in law has decided to get a new car..fair enoughI'm going to do the scrappage thing...............WHY ????Well it costs me money to fix it.... And so will a new car !!!well I get £2k for my car...................No you dontEnsuing rant and explanation of how it works and why he will get a better deal on a car without scrappage, and I'll buy his old car off him..............BUT OHHH NO.................so one of the very first Toyota Rav4's without rust and onl;y 36,000 on the clock is gonna die so some bastard can make him a new Toyota Yaris .................we are a family at war now as I am refusing to speak to him

[OwdChina]

I hear ya.....some people just don't get it

[scrappylad]

I feel your pain...My dads mates 40,000 mile minted owned from new 1988 Escort gets scrapped this month in favour of a new Polo.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Makes perfect sense to me. Why spend hundreds of pounds maintaining your old car when for just a few thousand more you don't have to worry about it for three years?

[Steve_RS]

Everyone at work keeps telling me to scrap my Mk2 orion 1600 ghia for a new focus.Why the hell would I want to do that? It's a 1991 (very late Mk2) - sills are mint, arches not too bad, diamond white, EFi. Pretty standard. Gets me from A to B happily. Starts every morning without fail. And costs me £70 a year to maintain. (£40 for MOT, £30 to service myself).Also the car owes me £230 original purchase price. If some wanker demolishes it whilst on the road in an accident, it's not much money to lose. You lose more than that as soon as you drive a new focus off the forecourt.Not only that... - provided I dont get it wrapped round a lamppost or a car - the value is only going to go up in price. Hows that for depreciation. I reckon its worth £350 now on ebay. I've owned it for two years, and I've had my £230's worth out of it, and yet I could probably sell it for more than that now.Stuff your new focus's up your arse. I'm happy driving a fabulous piece of shite.

[whitevanman]

  Peter said:

Makes perfect sense to me. Why spend hundreds of pounds maintaining your old car when for just a few thousand more you don't have to worry about it for three years?

it may well do, but knowing the Toyota Garage around here they are more likely to break it, and find a way to charge him.............and how is £10k cheaper than £200 per year over 3 years ?? to me that means a loss of £9,400 from your income and a whole lot more in depreciation, also I went to the dealer and was offered £2,750 off an unregistered Yaris.....so still a Good idea ?might be me being all Scottish and that but I hate to see money being wasted

[FredTransit]

Absolutely, why waste money and a perfectly good car. GRRRR!

[Pillock]

Personally I can't think of a better thing to happen to a Rav4

[254575]

a friend of mines grandparent chopped in a ridiculously low mileage mk1 astra for a matiz

[whitevanman]

  Pillock said:

Personally I can't think of a better thing to happen to a Rav4

whilst probably true.the same could be said for these in there dayMETROSMONTEGOSMAESTROSBXMARINAMK3 ESCORTSETC,ETC................Now we lust after them

[Pete-M]

  whitevanman said:

  Pillock said:

Personally I can't think of a better thing to happen to a Rav4

whilst probably true.the same could be said for these in there dayMETROSMONTEGOSMAESTROSBXMARINAMK3 ESCORTSETC,ETC................Now we lust after them

Precisely. If they were all over the place they'd be shunned by the likes of the Autoshiter. I have to add, that out of that list, the only oe that's remotely interesting to me is the BX, perversely enough, as it's the only one of the list that was ever any good...

[oldford]

Even my 8 year old neice has seen this scheme to be the scam it is.What's all this about the government saying that we have to cut our carbon emmisions to subsidise the airlines? If they hadn't promoted the manufacture of all these new cars and the throwing away of perfectly good cars, maybe they wouldn't be in such a carbon mess.

[brammy777]

I saw what houndmills in basingstoke is advertising as scrap cars today:only saw 2, but my mums no doubt going to go there soon, so watch this space(not scrapping anything though)MKII golf, which is normal i guess, loads round here anyway but the big suprise was:MKII Legacy estate!

[pogweasel]

Why do we have to 'subsidise' air travel?I AINT GETTIN ON NO PLANE, FOOL.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  whitevanman said:

and how is £10k cheaper than £200 per year over 3 years ?? to me that means a loss of £9,400 from your income and a whole lot more in depreciation, also I went to the dealer and was offered £2,750 off an unregistered Yaris.....so still a Good idea ?might be me being all Scottish and that but I hate to see money being wasted

I was only joking! It'd be better if your father in law just said "Look, I want a shiny new car and I don't care about the Rav4" rather than pretending that buying new is in any way a sound financial decision.Personally, I think buying a brand new car is always waste of money unless you can afford to buy it outright and not feel the dent in your savings.

[Justin Case]

  Peter said:

Personally, I think buying a brand new car is always waste of money unless you can afford to buy it outright and not feel the dent in your savings.

I would go further and delete everything after 'money' Our local Vauxhall emporium is almost next door to the chippy so I can't avoid seeing their 'special' offers. One Astra has a large notice in the screen offering over £4k off including the scrappage allowance. It also has a smaller notice in one of the side windows offering gap insurance. So this means that even after their 'generous' reduction, the thing still depreciates faster than you can pay it off Yes, a great deal.

[M'coli]

  pogweasel said:

Why do we have to 'subsidise' air travel?I AINT GETTIN ON NO PLANE, FOOL.

Indeed, the last flight I took was last century, so why should I cut my emissions so that my colleagues can fly to fuck-knows-where?

[whitevanman]

  Peter said:

  whitevanman said:

and how is £10k cheaper than £200 per year over 3 years ?? to me that means a loss of £9,400 from your income and a whole lot more in depreciation, also I went to the dealer and was offered £2,750 off an unregistered Yaris.....so still a Good idea ?might be me being all Scottish and that but I hate to see money being wasted

I was only joking! It'd be better if your father in law just said "Look, I want a shiny new car and I don't care about the Rav4" rather than pretending that buying new is in any way a sound financial decision.Personally, I think buying a brand new car is always waste of money unless you can afford to buy it outright and not feel the dent in your savings.

appologies, wasn't 100% sure if you were serious or not in the first place....

[Father Ted]

Frigging shit loads of 09 plate Kia Picantos on the road roundhereabouts. Stil, will be lots of CHEAP Kia Picantos in the free ads in a few years, just when the kids are learning to drive....

[Richard]

The thing I don't get is nearly new cars. Why risk your house (even an unsecured loan can put your house at risk) on a car that isn't even bloody new?

[Justin Case]

  Richard said:

The thing I don't get is nearly new cars.

They show quite a saving over a new one. A neighbour has recently bought a Jetta with the paint barely dry for £5k under the (discounted) new price. He would have bought another Passat with an even bigger discount, but unlike his old one, the new one wouldn't fit in his garage. More bloat I think a lot of the importers give their managers new cars every few months and sell the old (new) car on at a knock-down rate.

[Volksy]

  Father Ted said:

Frigging shit loads of 09 plate Kia Picantos on the road roundhereabouts. Stil, will be lots of CHEAP Kia Picantos in the free ads in a few years, just when the kids are learning to drive....

Few years? Months more like!

[CortinaDave]

spied this dod o shite on upullit website... it's in york... looks a minter

 

www.u-pull-it.co.uk

 

 

 

48k miles too.. must be wastage scheme surely?

[dollywobbler]

GAAAAAAARGH!!! I CAN HAZ ANGURS!!!!

[whitevanman]

I remember them new...........................still look cracking as well.................people aught to be shot if they do things like that

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What the fu...The other old cars I've seen scrappaged on ebay etc have at least looked a bit scruffy. I hope those photos (and the rain) are very, very flattering.

[Pillock]

That's tidier-looking than a museum piece. I really, really hope it's a teabag underneath, with a fooked engine and tatty insides.I just can't think who would restore a car to that condition, and then let it go to waste. Unless it's an old-boy special, and he sadly dies, and it's a case of "oh yeah, the wreck in the garage.... call the scrapyard will you?"

[andrew e]

Triumph Mayflower anyone?

 

http://www.aronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum ... &start=200

[trigger]

The Mayflower was never was a very pretty car IMHO, they look a bit like a hearse but that still doesn't mean it deserves to be scrapped.I was chatting to a salesman today at a Suzuki garage in Colchester about the scrappage scheme, He was saying they can't keep up with the demand on the Alto under the scheme, Group 1 insurance, £35 road tax and 64mpg for under £5500 makes it to a tempting offer for many people.I asked what they have had in and he said mainly bangers but have also had some nice stuff in as well as a 1984 Capri with 130k which was rusty and a Triumph TR7.

[Des]

My missus had an email read out by a daytime financial program called Working Lunch, it was in response to an item they aired on the scrappage, she actually made a good point, in that in the current climate surely a mend and make do attitude should be encouraged rather than enticing yet more saps into debt.Just a shame they read it out in relation to the house boiler scrappage scheme and thus she sounded like some multi cat owning fuckwit nutter.