Was at my local breakers today grabbing a couple of trim parts only to stumble across a very tidy Mk5b Escort RS2000 4x4. What a complete waste. Guy was telling me how clean it was but you just can't put them back on the road under the scheme. He said it was one of the few cars he felt guilty about stripping

 

Seen cars like that every other day whilst the scheme was running
Most didn't need to be destroyed but had no option
Good thing is it put the used parts down of the joy average car, esp as there was so much of the stuff !
Mind you now its stopped I can see the prices going back up

 

Which scrappy was that in?

 

B&T I would think.

 

shame

 

This is the sort of thing thats wasted daily
Luvly little granny car
Shame it was destroy only !




Sorry about the pic quality

 

But would someone pay Ł2000 for them in the real world........NOPE.......

 

I can't see how a car in the scrappage scheme would end up at a scrappy? They are all supposed to be crushed straight away aren't they?

 

but at the same time do these people really think they got 2k off of there new car
come on the goverment nick the vat back from the dealers and the dealers raised all the car prices

 

No parts can be removed from the cars but the shell must be crushed!

 

imo it's not about that, its about the waste of good usable cars

 

cant you get it neways? my locsal will sell em but not id

could ding it up nice without any real victim, i was gonna export a few but no time, they had stacks on 30-50k mk4/5 fiestas! some minter than mint mk3 fiestas, ideal to reshell a frst but still no real value then, they had a few v plate jags too, they just put em in a barn, wonder where they will end up lol

 

Yeah,if your in with the scrappy they can arrange for you to strip it and just bring back the "cube",which of course could be anything.

There's a cracking mk2 astra gte 16v in a scrappy near me,really clean car too,even the rear arches look oringinal!!!they've had so many cars in under 30-40k miles it's unreal.there was a 16k micra in my mates scrappy,looked like new,but as said not worth 2k.the scrappy pay Ł50+ vat per car,no matter what.

Some of the vw's in there still look like new,there was a nice lupo diesel with really nothing wrong with it!!they had a mk4 vr6 golf in,totally mint.there's a lovely 205gti in dark green down there,loads of clios and 206's,millions of mk4 fiestas.

There was even a nice gas guzzler 540i on a t plate,gloss black,black leather,very pimp daddy!!!

 

which breakers did you see these in?

 

It was like on Top Gear where they showed the ariel picture of that run way, which I suspect was Thurliegh in Bedfordshire, and there were so many usuable vehicles there.

If the government are so hard up they are going to have to close prisons perhaps they should auction off these vehicles, ok, not in the spirit of scrapage, but who gives a shit, I'd rather have some useable cars back on the roads than scallys on the streets.

 

thats nothing i found a granada cosworth at my local scrappy.

 

Lets face it, if they had 1000 cars and sold each one for Ł1000 that would be a cool million to pay for some school milk.

 

its all balls anyway, the government makes these silly 'eco' schemes but they dont work
the pollution that rs2K would make is so little it would have to cover give or take 350,000 miles to produce the same amount as the PRODUCTION of a toyota aygo. the cars that are being crushed have already been through there production, so the most eco friendly thing to do it keep them on the road, not bin them.

 

matt274-exactly,hit the nail on the head,goverment are just plain thick