Boycie Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 After seeing Jack thrusts bargain 99p mx5 rear light have anymore of you had any part bargainsor earned a nice coin out of a part , I bought a Bini alloy a few years back for £15 in Maybole for £15 quid , picked it up when in the area with other business and flogged to a fella from Edinburgh for £45 , perfect spare with a conti with 3mm on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 I once won a Rover P6 3500S manual on eBay for a fiver. I was stored in a shipping container at one of these self storage places and had been subsequently blocked in by other containers added to the growing self storage complex. The owner had abandoned it, stopped paying rent years prior and couldn't be traced. To remove the Rover I had to cut it to pieces small enough to fit down a 5ft wide walkway between the containers. Anyway I broke it up via eBay and Facebook and saw about £1000 worth of sales, I got to meet lots of nice people from the P6 community too. mk2_craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 6 hours ago, Boycie said: I bought a Bini alloy a few years back for £15 in Maybole Probably came off the Bini up the road in Maybole... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I bought a few pairs of SD1 self levellers when Rover went bust. New old stock. Sold for five times what I gave for them. RichardK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Was given a new old stock Escort Mk3 indicator stalk, the red bit always faded within a year or three, these were factory fresh genuine Ford bits, can’t off hand remember what I got for them but it was a fair whack. On a concours RS Turbo or whatnot they’d have finished it off nice. Would love one day to find a load of NOS Sierra dash tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Just yesterday actually... An auxiliary tensioner which was "for a Citroen" Brand new, Dayco branded, minty fresh, idler bearing perfect etc. Literally as new. Was a quid! Yes, £1! He had loads of other bits, mainly for Citroen C4 Picassos (shame) Unfortunately it turned out not to be the one for my Citroen Xsara Picasso, different shape, but for £1 my money is well and truly safe. Apparently it fits the newer 1.2 VTi engine, so the Corsa F, Peugeot 108, new shape Citroen C1 etc Could probably put it on eBay with the part number and get £40 or £50 for it, then just buy the correct one. So I basically still end up getting a new tensioner for £1 I suppose if you look at it that way 🤷♂️ sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 My friends dad was a regular at the local car auction, he was always changing his cars. Sadly he died a few years ago, he would have fitted right in around here. Anyway, one Monday night auction he won a 3500 SD1 Rover for £250. Stood in the queue at the payment window, another man came up to him and said "Did you buy that gold Rover? I wanted that but I missed the bidding!" "You can have it for £300!" He replied. The other guy went for it, took his place in the queue and handed over £50 for the privilege. He never even sat in it. mk2_craig, Lankytim, Matty and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I had a sticky period some years ago and basically put bread on the table by cherry picking parts from a local scrappy and selling via ebay and owners clubs An early 80's E21 323i came out of the scrappy in pieces, struts and hubs were £20 each and went to a 2002 owner for £200, rear disc set up £250, rear spoiler £10 and sold to Germany for £140 and I think the dash went to somewhere mad like Nepal or Peru I did very well on Hyundai Coupe Body control modules and hoovered them up at £20 each then knocking them out for £140 via ebay I still do the odd bits but I'll keep these to myself mk2_craig and RichardK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yes oui si Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Bought for £130 205 wheels bought for £50 Tuscan Challenge wheels bought for £80. Lankytim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wibble Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 23 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said: Probably came off the Bini up the road in Maybole... Not again, Maybole, more shivers up spine🫣 AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake's Den Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I got 2x Rover Mini MPI ECUs, 2x Lucas 5as immobiliser units and two key fobs for £40 off eBay. A used ECU normally sells for £250! I think that the £40 was a buy it now price too. And they work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I got a stainless 4-2-1 manifold for my Puma for £20. Yes, £20, brand new, delivered. I still don't know why they let it go for that, I'm assuming it was an administrative fuqup. I haven't seen the same thing for less than £120 before or since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I suppose this counts, a load of parts are stupidly cheap from ECP for the Xsara Picasso E.g: Charcoal cabin filter for less than 3 quid Lower arm bushes, 79p a piece!! And front lower arms, £8 a piece! Well worth checking before ordering from eBay and the likes. It's not even like a Picasso is an oddball car, they're still pretty mainstream so parts must be in decent demand still. I recall earlier in the year doing a petrol pump on a Saab 900. Turned out the complete sender unit was about only about £21 from ECP AnnoyingPentium and RichardK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said: a load of parts are stupidly cheap from ECP for the Xsara Picasso Usually when this happens, it's because they're thinning out their stock on that vehicle. Presumably they aren't selling enough parts for that model any more to justify keeping a large inventory for it. Looking at HML, they're thinning out quickly. https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?page=1&q=xsara+picasso E.g. There was more than 30k of the "XSARA PICASSO SX HDI" trim at the peak in 2004 to 2011. Now there is less than 2k registered on the road. Tbh I don't see anywhere near as many on the roads as I used to either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sporty-shite Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 2 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said: I suppose this counts, a load of parts are stupidly cheap from ECP for the Xsara Picasso E.g: Charcoal cabin filter for less than 3 quid Lower arm bushes, 79p a piece!! And front lower arms, £8 a piece! Well worth checking before ordering from eBay and the likes. It's not even like a Picasso is an oddball car, they're still pretty mainstream so parts must be in decent demand still. I recall earlier in the year doing a petrol pump on a Saab 900. Turned out the complete sender unit was about only about £21 from ECP I've noticed a few bits like this in ECP. Got a set of rear pads for Mrs S's Astra for £3 over the weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 14, 2022 Author Share Posted June 14, 2022 9 hours ago, Timewaster said: My friends dad was a regular at the local car auction, he was always changing his cars. Sadly he died a few years ago, he would have fitted right in around here. Anyway, one Monday night auction he won a 3500 SD1 Rover for £250. Stood in the queue at the payment window, another man came up to him and said "Did you buy that gold Rover? I wanted that but I missed the bidding!" "You can have it for £300!" He replied. The other guy went for it, took his place in the queue and handed over £50 for the privilege. He never even sat in it. Remember reading a car buying magazine years ago where a one of the journos did sim with a P38 Rangie at auction , think he got a couple of hundred in top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 14, 2022 Author Share Posted June 14, 2022 8 hours ago, yes oui si said: Bought for £130 205 wheels bought for £50 Tuscan Challenge wheels bought for £80. Jesus some nice bargains there , where we the Tuscan wheels advertised , deg didn't know what they had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yes oui si Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 47 minutes ago, Boycie said: Jesus some nice bargains there , where we the Tuscan wheels advertised , deg didn't know what they had On ebay titled 'old car wheels'. I hit Buy It Now immediately and drove to Manchester and back for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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