Scrappage extended. Again

[dollywobbler]

So, it'll go on until the end of March then. Gah! We were so close to waving it goodbye!

[Volksy]

Reading the report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8497239.stm

 

Scrappage sales must not have been as good as first hoped, as no further funds are being added into the 'pot'.

 

So after the initial rush things seem to be slowing down thankfully.

[dollywobbler]

Well, yeah, to be honest, it's a no-brainer for the government. They can be seen to be 'helping' the manufacturing sector for absolutely no expenditure.

[Mr Lobster]

Exactly. A bit of a compromise to keep everyone happy without actually doing much. Extension keeps the SMMT etc happy whilst not adding any funds to the pot keeps the detractors happy (ish)

[seth]

I can't imagine there are many people left who might want to make use of it. Daft really.

[Pete-M]

Who'd have thought that they'd find 330,000 idiots who wanted Kias?Surely another 70,000 won't be that hard? Besides, all our cars will rocket up in value soon

[FredTransit]

ENOUGH ALREADY! FFS are there any legible cars left?

[fiatdaft]

heard yesterday from the contractor that handles our stuff that over 1500 cars from the scheme have went missing before being crushed.

[pogweasel]

How careless!

[FredTransit]

Fantastic! I hope they were proper classics, not just some stuff worth a few quid.

[Pillock]

Real classics? Like stuff with wire wheels and starting handles?Sod that, I hope they were all beige Maestros.

[FredTransit]

Erm, are they not real classics then?

[strangehighways]

Here's hoping a nice Roland Garros 205 slipped through on the way to the crusher

[Mr Lobster]

I think you could be fairly sure that the missing stuff was either GR10 4 EXPORT or 'donating its parts' to a rebuilt (the sort of rebuild that involves cutting and welding of chassis numbers and fitting new reg plates)

[FredTransit]

From another forum

Speaking to a good friend of mine yesterday. He bought his wife a new car under the Scrappage Scheme a few months ago. They traded in her old B reg MK2 Fiesta 1.1 Polular (on it's last legs mechanically but the bodywork was OK). Yesterday morning what does he see while he's on his way to Travis Perkins? The same bloody Fiesta!I was under the impression that cars traded in under the Scrappage Scheme were suppoosed to have a destruction order attached and be destroyed within a few weeks not sent to auction or traded on to some unsuspecting numpty

And another one still

You're wrong I'm afraid. A number of B's and even A's pass the VIC every month. I've done a post on how the categorisation works a few months ago, I can't find it with the search (sorry), but I've explained the process there. There is a categorisation process. This process is primarily based around the pre-accident value of the car vs the repair costs. You can’t just look at a car and say ‘that looks like a Cat C’ with exception of clearly destroyed cars e.g burnt out cars (A).The engineer should ask themselves ‘Can/should the car be repaired?’. This is a subjective question that should focus on the ability to repair. Note ‘can vs should’. If the answer is no, then the salvage will need categorising.There is nothing which states an A/B car shouldn’t appear on the road again. If an engineer thinks a car shouldn’t be repaired and returned to the road, then this imposes the A/B classification, not the other way round.

That says to me there is hope for scrappage cars, it's just prizing them off the companies that have them! As the scrappage cars are only given Cat B as part of the scheme, and have to have an MOT, why couldn't they be saved?

[brammy777]

As with all cars supposedly heading to the supermarket shelves, the certificate of destruction has to be issued, and once thats done its curtains. As far as I know, all scrapyards round here will do that as soon as the car enters the yard. So, these cars kept on the road have perhaps been intercepted between the dealer and the scrapyard.I once spotted a MKV Escort XR3 which had no records on the DVLA, yet was still driving around for ages. If one slips through the net, Im sure others can. Im only being hypothetical here, Im not preaching gospel.I dont understand the MOT bit though, sure its to ensure the car is still roadworthy, but it sends out the 'hey this still works but lets destroy it anyway' message to people. Ah well, anyone who was going to use the scheme probably has now anyway, I cant imagine any person (oldies in particular) waiting this long to cash in.Has anyone actually seen a drop in shite on the roads? I havent, a couple of cars I used to see regularly have gone, but others have appeared.

[504GL]

I dont understand the MOT bit though, sure its to ensure the car is still roadworthy, but it sends out the 'hey this still works but lets destroy it anyway' message to people.

I guess it's to stop people using cars which were never going to be driven anyway to get a 2k discount. Funny thing is my 406 had an MOT but had a cracked head or blown headgasket and was never going to get back on the road. 2k discount for me. Yay!But I take your point, I even know people who had to spend money and get things done to their car to get it past an MOT and then scrapped it. Ridiculous situation....