Originally Posted by
NORTH YORKS RS SPARES
That car will cost you much more than 2-3k to fix and make it look new again
you can pick these up for 20-22k all day long so by the time you have paid 15k then sorted the little hidden extras at the auction , got it home , repaired it ,, by then they will have dropped a bit more in value IMO you may as well forget it
I started out buying salvage as im a panel and paint man by trade but the arse fell out of turning a proffit years ago
The only way to make money from salvage now is by either steeing the parts to repair or steeling a car and ringing it , lol
The days of proffit from salvage went like most other things when the world
wide webb kicked of big time and idiots started bidding wars with each other and just simply paid over the odds
I used to go to salvage yards buy the cars and you could have a deal there and get money of plus some of the parts needed to repair thrown in
Oh the good old days before the keyboard " i must ave it " fools
Tbh,you're right in your synopsis of the salvage market at the moment especially,in fact I've dabbled with the idea of buying roughish cars with no tax ticket etc and selling them as salvage on eBay etc as prices are silly.agreed also that the little clips,screws bits of trim really add up.that's why I like doing ka's as it's the same shape effectivley from 1997-2008 so if you need to make cuts etc you can get the panels somewhere rather than frauds,as their silly on prices tbh.