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

[CortinaDave]

According to classic car weekly , a PA Cresta has also been a victim of the scheme. Dear god. Even a rough one of those is worth 2k plus these days.

[mattblack]

According to classic car weekly , a PA Cresta has also been a victim of the scheme. Dear god. Even a rough one of those is worth 2k plus these days.

Is it???

[whitevanman]

According to classic car weekly , a PA Cresta has also been a victim of the scheme. Dear god. Even a rough one of those is worth 2k plus these days.

Is it???

YUP...........................suprisingly as it may sound

[CortinaDave]

People are idiots! Another victim...

 

[FredTransit]

SMART CAR?? you gotta be fookin kidding!!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

:cry:Why do I keep coming in this thread? Why am I working to make a scruffy old car road worthy when people are deliberately destroying better ones?

[Rusty Pelican]

:cry:Why do I keep coming in this thread? Why am I working to make a scruffy old car road worthy when people are deliberately destroying better ones?

ditto

[FredTransit]

Yeah me too, I think it's the fact that nicer cars than the ones I have running are being crushed.

[The Main]

I think the way forward is to keep protesting about the Wastage Scheme to anyone who will listen. Even if it doesn't actually achieve an obvious, tangible result, positive action has got to be better than no action at all. Last weekend I did as Classic Car Weekly suggested and sent a letter to my MP, requesting that he raise in the House Of Commons the possibility of a 30-year cut-off on the scheme, to prevent further damage to our industrial/motoring heritage. Pointed out the low numbers involved and that fact that the German and American scrappage schemes will not accept (I think) pre-1984 vehicles.Got my Dad to do the same in South Wales, not that he needed much pushing on this - he thinks the scheme is an appalling waste of decent motors and he's not even 'into' old cars!I have to say I think Classic Car Weekly is doing a top job, it's managing to keep headlines which are very uncomplementary towards the Scrappage Scheme in a prominent position on the newstands almost constantly - this must be having an effect on awareness/overall public perception. A good read too - the standard of journalism on there is streets ahead of where it was a few years ago, IMHO. I've always rated Peter Simpson highly and remember enjoying his musings on running older vehicles right back to the mid-1980's on Practical Classics (when I seem to remember he had at various points an A35, a Farina Oxford, a 1600E, that tatty old Volvo Amazon which he restored and which ended up living with it's co-owner in my home village of Skewen in South Wales - and of course the famous PC Sunbeam Rapier project car). I have to say Messrs Seabrook/Larkin/Gunn etc seem to be right on the money as well and manage to keep it 'real', which is something most other classic car titles seem to continually struggle to achieve.

[mouseflakes]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - why don't they keep back the decent cars and allow people who're driving the real polluting, dangerous old heaps (not usually by choice) to trade their car in (for free - why not?) for one of the decent 'scrappage' ones? Scrap the real heaps and let people get some use out of the good'uns.

[warren t claim]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - why don't they keep back the decent cars and allow people who're driving the real polluting, dangerous old heaps (not usually by choice) to trade their car in (for free - why not?) for one of the decent 'scrappage' ones? Scrap the real heaps and let people get some use out of the good'uns.

I thought the original manufacturers were going to be made responsible for disposing of their own cars when they came to the end of their life?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

That would be a problem for Rover.......But I'm sure Autoshite would undertake this for a small fee. Imagine - worthless old shitters AND getting paid to own them!

[Guest]

If you are a player. There is a helpful news for you. We provide you with WOW Gold, really Cheap WOW Gold, cheap Aion Gold, just so low price that you cann't believe. Also we supput Metin2 Yang for Metin2 player to buy cheap Metin2 Yang. Buy WOW Gold cheaper. Buy Aion Kinah cheaper.

[FredTransit]

bollox, him again.....

[mnde]

Great!

[Mr Lobster]

WOW! Gold!I mean like, Wow Now fuck off and die.

[trigger]

My wife came across this story on facebook last night, It was posted by a friend of a friend who must be a car salesman.

He was moaning about sending this Beetle for scrappage as it was so tidy and had only done 78k, He said it was out of his hands as the owner wanted a new car but he was pretty gutted about doing this.

 

 

I would of thought it's still worth £2000 with these scene guys though.

[Mr Lobster]

Can't see the picture from here, but surely any half decent Beetle is worth £2k?

[CortinaDave]

The owner of that Beetle is a twat because A) he's scrappaging a decent Beetle and he puts his tax disc right in the middle of the screen.

[Milford Cubicle]

Hey I do that too! Keeps it out of sight, right behind the rear view mirror.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

One of the good things about modern cars with their massive deep windscreens is that you can hide the tax disc down in the corner and barely see it. That stupid paper circle takes up about 10% of the screen on a Mini

[retrogeezer]

I followed a guy a few weeks ago that had his satnav stuck to the screen RIGHT in front of him, you know, 3 inches above the top centre of the steering wheel. He must have been driving with the force.

[ashmicro]

I followed a guy a few weeks ago that had his satnav stuck to the screen RIGHT in front of him, you know, 3 inches above the top centre of the steering wheel. He must have been driving with the force.

There was something in the paperwork that came with my satnav that said it mustn't be mounted in the swept area of the windscreen. Irrelevant in my case as the stupidly raked screen of the S Type wont let you mount it anywhere.

[Richard]

The first time I got an electronic MOT the tester stuck the sticker in the top right corner of the screen. If I'd presented it for the test like that it would have failed, and rightly so.

[garycox]

When I took my van for the MOT last year I had the sat nav suction holder thing on the screen (in the usual place, just above the centre of the dashboard) and he told me to remove it cos it's not supposed to be in the swept area.Apparently if you get stopped by VOSA you'd be in trouble, and if I got stopped on the way home from the MOT (they tend to hang around that area) then he'd get a bollocking too.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

you see any amount of gormless cretins nowadays driving round with a fuggin mini-TV in the middle of the windscreen, I wonder how many accidents are caused by folks view being blocked by these bloody things.

[hennabm]

The first time I got an electronic MOT the tester stuck the sticker in the top right corner of the screen. If I'd presented it for the test like that it would have failed, and rightly so.

The MOT reminder sticker is classed as an official sticker, the same as the tax disc and parking permits. Therefore if positioned as you stated, even though it may be more than 40mm, it should pass.

[hennabm]

I followed a guy a few weeks ago that had his satnav stuck to the screen RIGHT in front of him, you know, 3 inches above the top centre of the steering wheel. He must have been driving with the force.

I've seen quite a few postioned like that with the w**ker of a driver obviously slavishly following the directions instead of using their brain.

[scrappylad]

I accept it's better the parts are at least re used, but it doesn't make me any happier about the car being there in the first place.

Couldn't agree more... especially when one of the cars we have here has been known by me since it was new (IIRC saw it when it was less than a week old) and was chopped in by a family friend; the 46k mile blue Escort shown on Page 8 of this thread.

[CortinaDave]

Series One SD1 V8 scrappaged... whats even worse is that the scrapyard has refused to sell any parts off it and are crushing the lot GRRR