after hearing the prices of damaged cars sold by insurance companies and seeing the price of engines for my mk3 mondeo ive decided i might try and get hold of a written off mk3 with the right engine, take the running gear and flog on the rest on ebay or the like.

just insure the best place to look for getting these motors?

i live near bristol by the way, so if anyone knows anywhere locally i should be going thatd be brill!

 

i know of a y reg mk3 diesel for a grand

 

know anything about it? mileage history etc?

 

Most writeoff stuff is sold by the likes of d hales and stays only for trade

 

theres deffo salvage auctions up your way, pop along to one.....

google it

 

What is wrong with your engine? Would it not be easier and far less hassle to buy a new mondeo to replace your one, and break the fucked one for spares?

 

nothing it runs and drives perfect, mot and tax it had new flywheel clutch and starter motor less than a year ago aswell

 

most places need to have you registered first

 

ure best just buyin one from a decent breakers yard ,

as going by the price of salage just now cars are making a fortune and uve got there selling fee on top of the hammer price and whose to guaretee its a good engine

 

http://www.hbc.co.uk
http://www.centurysalvagesales.co.uk
Loads about mate, but you do have to be registered to buy/bid, you also have to have a breakers licence to buy cat A + B

 

you ll be surprised what you ll find on ebay! theres always salvage on there

 

surprised nobodys mentioned the back of the autotrader, its full of smacked up motors.
i also use a company called universal salvage copart, join there and you will have access to the biggest salvage company in the uk.

link http://www.universal-salvage.com/

hope my information is of help,i always try to help fellow ford fans

 

Look in freeadds, but some of the traders want undamaged money for a crock o shit!!
tabetha

 

There is a company called south west salvage, might be worth a shot?

 

thanks for the info guys, ill get on it in the week and see what the score is.

reason i think buying a writeoff and transfering the good stuff over is a 1/2 decent undamaged one if going to set me back 1500 quid or more. whereas im guessing looking at prices ive seen that a low mileage writeoff will be well below a grand from the right place. meaning once ive swapped the engine box and any other bits, then stripped and sold any bits on ebay or the like, i should only be a few hundered quid down, but with a low mileage engine and box in a car i know is already otherwise straight and sound.

might seem backward but makes sense to me lol!