Negative Creep Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 What puzzles me is when it's something basic like a mint one-owner MK1 Punto - even if you look under the bonnet and the engine is completely blown-up, you could get a replacement one fitted for buttons. I can understand the big barges being in there, or tatty high-mileage stuff, but never the simple ex-pensioner runarounds. Most likely they'd be people of zero mechanical aptitude so would rely on the garage. Probably quote a silly price for repairs so cut their losses. Or were trying to sell it and got fed up of being messed around by mouth breathers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksy Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 My '03 Rav4 is on borrowed time. The fact that it as been abused by successive staff, and the company not wanting to spend anything on servicing etc. Been quoted 8000chf (£5000) to fix it up and replace the engine, which attempted to seize up on the motorway. I changed and flushed the oil, which was like treacle, and took an hour and a half to drain!! It's sad, was looking in the history, and it cost 32,000chf (£19,000) 7 years ago, and now it's pretty much scrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 As far as I can recall the Civic had some catastrophic mechanical failure that wasn't covered by warranty, either because it was obvious abuse or it was modified I suppose. I didn't know the owner very well, I worked beside his wife. The car lasted longer than their marriage though. The Punto was one of the first of the angular ones. IIRC I think he just neglected it until there were too many things wrong to fix and now I think of it there might have been a bit of a bump on third party insurance too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capsuleboy Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 The ex wife recently scrapped the mark 11 shape V reg Punto we bought new in 1999 as the head gasket had gone, and it was getting towards MOT time... thats just the way people think these days if there not into cars.My tale starts with a house on the otherside of town where I regularly saw a lovely DS on the drive and a super Renault 16TX in period perfect metalic chocolate brown keeping it company...Then one day driving to work a scrap wagon pulled up next to me with the hiab whacked down on the roof of a .... beautiful brown 16 TX ... the same one? Could have cried...Somebody in the Leicester area tell me it aint so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brammy777 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Today I saw yet another prefacelift MKII Granada on a recovery flatbed, and yet again it appeared to be rotten and missing a few parts. Shame, but not really a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Couple of years ago I remember passing a house with a tidy-ish Scorpio 2.8 4x4 parked outside. I thought it of interest as I hadn't seen one for ages. A few days later I passed the same house to see the Scorpio bodyshell sticking out of a skip having been angle-grindered into bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Saw a tidy looking Citroen AX GT on the back of a hiab a few days ago near Brierley Hill. Though it had a bit of a bump on the front end. It wasnt clear if the car was going for scrap or repairs as the truck had no writing on it. Seen a few Taroni trucks going about, one had a Rover 800 diesel on the back and towing a tidy Peugeot 106 (i think) phoned up Taroni's the next day and they had fragged both cars. Saw another Taroni's truck with a tidy '02 Rover 25 on the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprig Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 a couple of expensive cars I've seen go for scrap........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreepingJesus Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Hondas might be for export. Oddly enough, there seemed to be a 2- or 2.2 litre VTEC bent to his acquisitions. I'd a suspicion or two, that it had to do with sticking said engines in boggo Civics. That and him stacking them 3-high on his flatbed...most of them ended up wafer thin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 a couple of expensive cars I've seen go for scrap........ Anyone else completely unmoved by this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Anyone else completely unmoved by this? By what..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claypole Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Only as it probably added another penny to everyone's premiums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I have to say if that had been a Miura and a Dino I might have been shedding a tear, but those Playstations on wheels do absolutely nothing for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprig Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 I have to say if that had been a Miura and a Dino I might have been shedding a tear, but those Playstations on wheels do absolutely nothing for me. I must admit not really my cup of tea either, I'd be more interested if they were kupfer metallic with chrome bumpers, & maybe swap the rev counter for a clock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Then one day driving to work a scrap wagon pulled up next to me with the hiab whacked down on the roof of a .... beautiful brown 16 TX ... the same one? Could have cried...Somebody in the Leicester area tell me it aint so... Welford road - not seen that Renault for a year or two now. Sad to think you could be right as it was a really smart car. The DS annoys me though as they have been using it 2 years or so on french plates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel bickle Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Might be a 'bit' guilty of that myself. But then I do have a French address, and take them back for their CT's - occasionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Today I saw a MK1 Jaguar on the way to the scrappy. A very rare car in this part of the lost world. It looked to be ok and all the glass was in place, but the hi-ab had been used to crush the roof in ( do they do that just for fun ? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 the hi-ab had been used to crush the roof in ( do they do that just for fun ? ) AFAIK they do it so the boom holds the load in place, thus saving the trouble of strapping/chaining the load. But yeah, it does look gratuitious, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Bye, turbo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreepingJesus Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 the hi-ab had been used to crush the roof in ( do they do that just for fun ? ) AFAIK they do it so the boom holds the load in place, thus saving the trouble of strapping/chaining the load. But yeah, it does look gratuitious, doesn't it? My former neighbour did it to 'flatten' the bottom two layers of cars. His strapping was 'creative' to say the least - the time a Punto's front struts popped with the weight of Mondeo on top of it was interesting. Most of them have the straight arm type HIAB (i.e doesn't park down the back of the cab), 'cos they buy them s/h off builder's merchants and lop the dropsides off.Mind you, he had a trailer for his Cargo, and a beavertail Tranny for the motors he was keeping good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 That's it, nightmares for me tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George-Roper Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 That's it, nightmares for me tonight Only if you bought the bugger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 That Biturbo pic makes my heart sink Yes, so would owning it. Doesn't deserve a HIAB on the bonce though. But not if I'd pulled the engine out and snuck an Alfa V6 in. At least it would stay on the road, look tidy, have a bit of oomph, and have a nice clock to look at. Unless someone knows of a cat-B 8c with the arse stoved in? For cheap. Thought not. Would be an around the house way to get a Maserati engine back in it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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