on a salvage site i use, they have a white 3door d reg 1987. it looks clean enough around it, as does the interior, but its had a heavy front end, looks like its gona need all front end including wings.

realsticly what is it worth? only thinking of buying it for myself. as the cat d wouldnt bother me on my own car if it was cheap enough.

it seems to be going up quick, only been on a few hours and at 2k already

 

depends on if it has any go faster bits or standard

is the running gear OK?

what's it on? copart?

 

yes fella on copart in the classic section, wouldnt know what its got, but has white comps on, dont know if its a know car on here the only part of the reg i can see is d487

it says the owner was paid out 11.5k

 

I assume its a cosworth? Do you know anything about the history? A link might help

 

bet it goes for mega money, as with anything on copart

 

Looks like a heavy hit !

http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/homeSearc...SEARCH_RESULTS

 

i would say thats fooked , a breaker


a shame really as it looked a nice car

 

fook me that looks nasty. The way the engine sits looks a " bit" unnatural

 

yeah as said with the engine, cars as bent as a banana

 

I only just noticed how far back the engine was!

 

Reshell time, still on a T3 so can't see there being that many go faster bits on it, 4k max IMHO at a push for it to be even remotely worthwhile.

 

The gear stick position sort of gave that away

And if they've run it up with a fucked engine to take the picture what else could be wrong with it now?

 

It says cat d, I thought that was for cars with a 'slight knock', the whole front end looks fucked.

 

i cant see myself how that could be a cat d

i have a s1 cat d because it was vandalised ,seats ripped ,paint thrown over it ,a few widows broke and was pretty mint before ,

 

Cat d my arse!!
That's gotta be a write off completely

 

Also looks like its been sat around for along time.
Nothing is ever cheap on copart.

 

I thought that
Maybe a dispute over pay out making it sit up for a while

 

Hmmmmm dangerous when you have a 3 door shell sat in ya garage doing nothing!

 

to be cat C the value of repairs need to exceed the value, if a shell was available i doubt a reshell would be 11.5k repair.

cat D is because they can't / don't want to repair it (i'e because a shell isn't available)

 

that is proper fucked,wouldnt surprize me if the lugs on the engine aren't snapped off seeing its been pushed back,up to £2500 must be fucking mad

 

Shell is toast unless you want an uneconomical and time consuming repair to what will now be a recorded car.

The struts are squint, not much wonder it ended up there I wouldn't want that fixed if it was my own car.

 

The engine has been pushed back because the weak crossmember has bent, They are the first thing to fold up, hence you go up a kerb hard in a sierra the tca and the wheels fold up and go under the car,
It would need a proper strip down to see if the bulkhead, front chassis legs and A posts and floorpan haven't folded/Bent.
It does look like the inner wings and struttops are out off align though

Would it be economical to repair no not at all, but the pictures could look worse than what it actually is.

 

bump for rich

 

Tempting I must admit but my garage ain't as big as tours James lol. Plus it's far to much money!

 

I cant seem to find that car on their site

 

Thats fooked

3k max

 

as Paul says looks a right mess

 

Would be interested to see who bought it as it was on £5100 before the live auction plus your indemnity etc on top have noticed any thing like this sells for mental money on copart makes you wonder if they up the price there selfs ?

 

The car sold for £6500 as I watched the auction.

 

Jesus, someone must be in the trade to repair it as it's really an uneconomical repair for average joe. The front look like the whole thing needs replacing and to do right needs genuine panels so £200 for the two outer wings, what ever for the inners, the cross member can't be founds so copy has to be used so would have to have the original toe eye welded on so it didn't look odd. all that and it still looks like it need a lower crossmember and other parts.

 

yep sod that.. if I was in that position id re-shell it but that will still need a lot of bits to put it right and paint and at the end of it if its kept on its 'cat d' id it will worth much less than a hpi clean one which would make it financially pointless

 

someone must have got excited to pay that ,i would think it will need a complete front from the bulkhead forward .thats if the bulkhead isnt bent aswell

 

come on rich spill the beans mate


you can always extend the garage rich

 

And the strut towers are totally out of alinement

Looks twisted badly

 

I would say that is going to get an id transfer

 

yes so if anyone sees it being driven around next week looking like new we'll know how it was done

 

Lots of the cars on copart are put through by third party owners not the ins co, I bet that was bid up and gets relisted.

 

No mate not for me it's far to dear. I near enough have another 3 door here just would need running gear so probably better to buy a rotten saff to put into other shell as be cheaper lol.

 

why else would you pay double the value of something if you knew that the originals was double that again?

change of numbers and an instant £6k in your pocket

 

so maybe anyone who has had a 3door stolen in the past might want to check out whatever car this reg/id ends up on in the future?