sierraman Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 Now if it was a Mondeo... mrbenn, jumpingjehovahs, Dannyk and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 To quote our @320touring on E46s "A 'hve never seen a tidy wan". 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthedonkey Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 I've done it with motors that were abandoned on an industrial estate where we used to have a unit.... £25 for new V5 and weighed in at Bridge when scrap prices were high... Wouldn't bother in the current climate... Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk bangernomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rave Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 It's annoying to see a potentially viable* car go for scrap but as everyone else has said there really is no way of making it yours that doesn't leave you open to at best losing money if the previous owner comes forward to claim it, and at worst result in a load of hassle from the police. If you want one for scrap money keep an eye on facebook and gumtree, I assume that the "£50 and a broken xbox tonite m8" crowd must occasionally get a bite otherwise they wouldn't keep doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 4 pot e46s are worth about 50p these days anyway, even the nice ones are 1500 quid, after owning 31 of the fuckers I wouldn't have a tidy one given to me these days, propper lost their sparkle stripped fred and twosmoke300 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 It’s not viable though is it. It wants a set of tyres, some glass, and testing before finding out why it’s crapped out at the roadside. £6-700 would buy you one that’s a going concern. bangernomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 10 hours ago, Bren said: Nonetheless budget for a timing chain? Wrong engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaughant Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 When this dvla disposal thing kicked off about 15-20 years ago a mate of mine spotted a nice * Rover R8 cabby in turquoise dumped at the side of the road with the inevitable no tax sticker on it. He went to the dvla compound, paid various fees to get it released, had to back pay some tax and the like on it. No keys so paid to get it recovered, got keys sorted, started it up and OMGHGF explained why it was dumped. When he eventually got that sorted it at great expense it rewarded him by getting him stopped on a daily basis due to the previous owners occupation* in the supply and demand trade. Sold at a crippling loss but provided a valuable lesson to us all. I bought a 520i E34 estate from a posh part of town before for pennies,well, cheap enough, old boy selling it as his son had bought a new car. Took it to a local specialist as it was missing a bit only to be told said son had come in the middle of the night and removed it without paying his bill. Chased the misfire for ages with no success, very intermittent. Took it to Brighton and it cost me about £3,000,000 in fuel despite them apparently doing 30mpg, yeah OK, at 55mph perhaps (both I've owned were the same). Decided to not start in a Churchill car park and a load of pricks watched me push it down trying to bump start it. Called AA next day using my mother's details, found a fuse hidden under the dash blown but then noticed my brake lights didn't work all the time. Insisted I fix this before driving home, wasted 2 hrs to then get caught in M25 traffic and the final straw was it overheated. Got it home, parked it up, ended up selling it for fuck all. Moral of the story? Not all car owners are as honest as the folk on here and often they're sitting there on the drive for a reason....... Like my e36 has for a good 7 years or so ??. BorniteIdentity and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 8 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said: Wrong engine. Still had / seen a couple fail . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 12 hours ago, jamiechod said: 4 pot e46s are worth about 50p these days anyway, ... Senior colleague traded hers in for a Lexus hybrid. Think she was offered about 50p.... Jamie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 I had an E46 once Went back to Alfas. More dependable, less faults. sporty-shite, Jamie, stripped fred and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangernomics Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 I claimed a lime green 83 y reg metro in 93 or 94, took a month or so and then just popped a door lock out and got a key cut off it. Simpler times I guess. All it needed for the test was a plate on the front valence, a horn and a pair of wiper blades. Great little 1.3s that went well and made me a few quid. Brown striped interior was ace. Previous owner had done a bunk from the flat I was renting so they wrote to him and it came to me . After that a golf mk2 that had been stripped of its bumpers and glass. Inner city Manchester was rich pickings in the early 90’s stonedagain, paulplom, BorniteIdentity and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 13 hours ago, twosmoke300 said: Still had / seen a couple fail . Thought it was virtually unheard of for an M47? Ours has been brilliant. As an aside, are there any modern dervs which you've worked on which are around five years old which are slightly less shit than any others? Looking to go a bit newer with my fiancées daily but scared of newer, more complex dervs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Hilux ? But there aren’t many modern diesels I’m keen to recommend . Hence I now drive petrol Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 I'm gonna go out on a whim and say it's not going to be worth me advertising my e46 tourer on here then! Lol stripped fred, BorniteIdentity, stephen01 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Oooh hello, that's sounds good paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollysmart Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 41 minutes ago, Ben_O said: I'm gonna go out on a whim and say it's not going to be worth me advertising my e46 tourer on here then! Lol Only one sure fire way to find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
They_all_do_that_sir Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 I'll just leave the video of my mate's E46 here for you to enjoySent from my TA-1012 using Tapatalk Datsuncog and Aston Martin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Fucking hell. And people knock Ford Ka for rust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, sierraman said: Fucking hell. And people knock Ford Ka for rust. E36 is just as bad in the sills area. The plastic covers just hide the advancing crustiness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Quality German motorcars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 I quite enjoyed @Jim BellBellBell'sBellBBellBellBell'sBellBBellBell's E46 when I borrowed it a couple or years ago. Seemed pretty well screwed together, though a bit heavy for its interior space and would have benefited from having a bigger engine. Failing to keep up with my first 206gti (which had a totally fucked rear axle and the back wheels were wobbling all over the shop but got more stable as @scaryoldcortinadrove faster) was a bit of a disappointment from the BMW's perspective. I seem to recall that was also a notinabarn find, and had endless troubles. Still would, moreso a touring with a six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpjitservices Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 Morning good AS folks. Car has been removed off to its scrapyard in the sky. Would have been a headache any other way! But a car I would like to try one day having never owned a BMW. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpjitservices Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 10 hours ago, Ben_O said: I'm gonna go out on a whim and say it's not going to be worth me advertising my e46 tourer on here then! Lol Well I did say on Page 1 of this fine post, that a nice Tourer would be tempting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 stonedagain, loserone, cpjitservices and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 It was only fit for a tramp to sleep in Even then, it would still find a way to go faulty. Because E46. The Mighty Quinn, The Moog, twosmoke300 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 1 hour ago, The Mighty Quinn said: 'Touring'. Rover make Tourers. It was a scrap E46 and the baler is the best place for it tbh. You're not far wrong there, Ben. loserone and Pillock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 55 minutes ago, The Mighty Quinn said: Apparently, 'Cavcraft' is following me. That's not heathly fella. Run Ben ...RUUUUUUN Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 On 11/21/2019 at 5:57 PM, Ben_O said: Say what you want about 'percieved quality' but e46s are bloody good looking cars Ben_O, cpjitservices, bangernomics and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 2 hours ago, The Mighty Quinn said: Apparently, 'Cavcraft' is following me. That's not heathly fella. Less healthy than coming back under different aliases, Ben. NorthernMonkey, twosmoke300, Dick Longbridge and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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