What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
Would be interesting to see what you get up north.
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
Sometimes the only way of making sense of these decisions is to stump up and enjoy the thing for a bit....
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
I've just remembered another one, I had a nice old Talbot Samba as a winter car as my old 200SX was a bit lairy, the Samba only needed a backbox and drove fine, the mot was due and I couldn't be arsed spending 70 quid on a backbox and putting it through the test so I scrapped it for 20 quid.
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I've only scrapped one car - that had munched it's high pressure diesel fuel pump and likely injectors+fuel rail sensors. So not trivial to scrap.
I'd say it's because I never buy broken and fucked cars. But as you all know, the reality is that I spend too much fixing them to contemplate throwing them away
I'd say it's because I never buy broken and fucked cars. But as you all know, the reality is that I spend too much fixing them to contemplate throwing them away
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
It's on the drive, I don't think it'd even fit through my garage door, let alone have room for me to get out once in there.LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:51 pm After all this time off the road can you still class the Jag as a car as opposed to garage storage like shelves?
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
Never scrapped a car.
I’ve essentially given a few away.
I bought a Hyundai something or other FROM A STUDENT from a ‘mate’ for $500 with 200k miles on the clock and counting. Ran it for a winter (got it stuck on the ice on the lake and would have walked away if I wouldn’t have been fined) and swapped it for a bit of welding on another old car that I couldn’t be arsed to do.
I had a mk1 golf gti that I would loved to have seen mangled very slowly.
Everything went wrong on the bloody thing. A bit like triggers broom.
Some things (like the engine) even went twice. Needed a replacement engine - on test drive the oil pressure was low and I was too daft to read between the lines of ‘they all do that sir’, then when the water pump went it needed another rebuild. Shocks, radiator, exhaust, steering, put a new clutch in with the replacement engine.So many things that I’m struggling to remeber them all.
I got in to the situation where I had as much in on the repairs as I bought the damn thing for.
Sold it easily, as they were popular back then and the lucky bar-steward that bought it, told me that he can now see what they meant by VW longevity as it never ever went wrong.
I’ve essentially given a few away.
I bought a Hyundai something or other FROM A STUDENT from a ‘mate’ for $500 with 200k miles on the clock and counting. Ran it for a winter (got it stuck on the ice on the lake and would have walked away if I wouldn’t have been fined) and swapped it for a bit of welding on another old car that I couldn’t be arsed to do.
I had a mk1 golf gti that I would loved to have seen mangled very slowly.
Everything went wrong on the bloody thing. A bit like triggers broom.
Some things (like the engine) even went twice. Needed a replacement engine - on test drive the oil pressure was low and I was too daft to read between the lines of ‘they all do that sir’, then when the water pump went it needed another rebuild. Shocks, radiator, exhaust, steering, put a new clutch in with the replacement engine.So many things that I’m struggling to remeber them all.
I got in to the situation where I had as much in on the repairs as I bought the damn thing for.
Sold it easily, as they were popular back then and the lucky bar-steward that bought it, told me that he can now see what they meant by VW longevity as it never ever went wrong.
Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
Aye, because you'd fucking replaced everything! It was probably well-sorted car at that point.
However, it all sounds familiar. I've had the same. Spending shitloads on a car and it feels like it'll never end, so you sell it. However it's just after it's crested the point where it's actually a decent car due to almost everything critical on it being new, but you still hate it and just want rid of it.
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
I sent my 340 to the fire station so it could suffer first before getting fragged. The only other car I owned that got the same treatment was a Phase 1 Pug 305 estate.
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Re: What's the most trivial reason you've scrapped a car for?
I've owned a 340 and a 440,both auto. The 340 was a dog. Couldn't get the thing to run right. A variomatic with an idle issue didn't make for good motoring in traffic. Bought it off as and sold it to someone from as. Dire on fuel too. I also resemble the cunt remark.AutoshiteBoy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:51 amI hated those Volvos and likely as not, the owners were cunts.
I've got form for scrapping shit. Usually when things push me over the edge. I'll buy a cheap car,spend a few hundred on getting it right and then weigh it in when it passes me off by being needy. Seen the error of my ways a little now. Owned the focus for 9 months and won't part with it until it falls to bits and it will then get sent over the bridge. Should see a few years from it though all being well.