wanted to do something like this for a while, this is a big forum so someone on here must do it/done it!

how do you go about buying writtan off/damaged cars then fixing and selling ?

 

probably sign up to Copart to get a chance to buy a vehicle

 

go to your local salvage yard..my local sell damaged cars to anyone and everyone..some places like copart and blue cycle you will need to register with them

 

Plenty of auction sites out there, copart & HBC being quite popular ones.
Its not easy tho buying salvage with the intenion of repairing and selling them on.
Repairs can often cost alot more then you first think even doing them yourself, alot of people have a big problem with buying cat C & D cars and can be difficult to shift sometimes and even when you can sell them there often isnt a great deal of profit in them, plus waiting for logbooks VIC checks etc can be a fucking pain can take weeks/months sometimes and all that time you will have the car sat there as hardly anybody is going to buy a car with no logbook. Its not the big money maker alot of people think it is.

 

Don't think the prices aren't bumped either
Breakers will know what the cars are worth in parts aswell !

 

Used to be good money in it, not the same now

 

Bought quite a few cars through D Hales (you have to be in the trade for an account) but Copart has bought out most of Hales`s sites and has foooked it.

 

bluecycle, copart, hbc, hewwitts, cartransplants/motorhog, scratchanddent to name a few

at the moment iam doing good business just buying and selling salvage as is, only repair a few choice cars most are done and dusted within a week of buying them

the prices of salvage have shot up in the past 18months

 

Yeh I know a few guys that buy from auctions and sell through Ebay etc, making a couple of hundard a car and not doing anything to them. Market will be flooded soon I expect.

 

dont sell much on ebay salvage wise, all my stock is sold locally at the mo, sell the odd repaired car on there and the odd piece of salvage (dont have any salvage on there at the mo, but have around 13 salvage cars in stock that are unsold, 8 that are sold)

 

I would say check that you can get the parts to repair if your working on a budget , some parts are rare and very hard to get hold of at times so prices will be high and know what your getting into and how much work there is beneath the crumples mess .
Good luck