Bargain parts/flips

[Boycie]

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 

[Lankytim]

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. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

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...

[Bren]

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.

[sierraman]

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. 

[RoverFolkUs]

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 🤷‍♂️

[Timewaster]

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.

[omegod]

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  

[yes oui si]

Bought for £130

205 wheels bought for £50

Tuscan Challenge wheels bought for £80.

[Wibble]

23 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Probably came off the Bini up the road in Maybole...

Not again, Maybole, more shivers up spine🫣

[Blake's Den]

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!

[grogee]

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. 

[RoverFolkUs]

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

[SiC]

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.

[sporty-shite]

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! 

[Boycie]

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 

[Boycie]

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 

[yes oui si]

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.