Most comically 'repairable' salvage

[lordlee]

Seeing this Audi made me wonder what other comically 'repaiable' salvage there is out there and also how much people will charge for it.

It should be easy to better this but its a good place to start....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-AUDI-TT-1-8-TURBO-D...

[fozzymandeus]

Worst of all I think it's the 2wd one!

[lordlee]

Bargsin...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-Audi-A4-S-Line-Salv...

[pidsy]

There are some horrendously smashed tvr's available for salvage.

[TheEnd]

lordlee said:

It looks like they've done half the panel beating already, so not a big job to finish.


Wasn't there a completely burnt out shell of something interesting, a Lamborghini or Ferrari maybe.
I think all you could salvage from it was genuine brake dust.

[Rickyy]

I'm not in the trade, nor do I have the slightest clue, but surely there isn't much profit margin to be had with these cars once repaired?

The A4 is a 2.0 Petrol (assuming N/A) that has damage to the suspension, bodywork, windscreen and airbags. A Cat C repaired wont be worth that much surely?

[tercelgold]

What's scary is the prices they reach, £1K under a secondhand identical with 20K more miles.

How do the people get labour that cheap to make a profit on a Cat C,D?

[TTwiggy]

There's a breakers that deals mainly with Porsches (probably against forum rules to name them, but not hard to find). Their 'comic' take is not so much the level of damage, but their attempts to secure more money for a wreck than you'd pay for a perfectly road
worthy model.

[rallycross]

tercelgold said:

What's scary is the prices they reach, £1K under a secondhand identical with 20K more miles.

How do the people get labour that cheap to make a profit on a Cat C,D?

There's a lot of eastern europeans buying our salvage - taking it away in containers and flat bed trucks.

[kambites]

http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/lotus-elise-l...



OK I suppose it doesn't actually say it's repairable, but still...

[anonymous-user]

Rickyy said:

I'm not in the trade, nor do I have the slightest clue, but surely there isn't much profit margin to be had with these cars once repaired?

The A4 is a 2.0 Petrol (assuming N/A) that has damage to the suspension, bodywork, windscreen and airbags. A Cat C repaired wont be worth that much surely?

Just what I was thinking, a 6 year old 111000 mile A4 with the 129bhp NA petrol engine according to the ad, hardly a hugely desirable car is it!

£3k buys you this http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3972861.htm - 71k mile 1 owner FSH A4 with the V6, a few couple of years older but what would you rather have!

[lordlee]

TTwiggy said:

There's a breakers that deals mainly with Porsches (probably against forum rules to name them, but not hard to find). Their 'comic' take is not so much the level of damage, but their attempts to secure more money for a wreck than you'd pay for a perfectly road
worthy model.

In unrelated news....

http://www.douglasvalley.co.uk/item.asp?prodid=416...

Edited by lordlee on Monday 25th June 19:49

[TTwiggy]

kambites said:

http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/lotus-elise-l...

It'll polish out...

Seriously though, how can they charge money for that? There's maybe one brake disc that salvageable.

[rswift]

rallycross said:

tercelgold said:

What's scary is the prices they reach, £1K under a secondhand identical with 20K more miles.

How do the people get labour that cheap to make a profit on a Cat C,D?

There's a lot of eastern europeans buying our salvage - taking it away in containers and flat bed trucks.

I have seen a few transports on Lithuanian plates taking damaged cars abroad ... whats the market ? Spares, cheaper repair costs .... ?

[FourWheelDrift]

Comical?



http://www.car-transplants.co.uk/repairable-vehicl...

[Strawman]

kambites said:

OK I suppose it doesn't actually say it's repairable, but still...

€2,500 for what exactly, I can see maybe a couple of tail lights that could be re-used, in the UK wouldn't that be a cat A(?), hazardous waste nothing to be taken from it because of carcinogenic chemicals from the fire?

[kambites]

Some oddity of German law that makes the registration worth-while for someone who wants to import another one, perhaps?

[FourWheelDrift]

It says "Leather seats" on the advert, could someone point them out please

[Flawless Victory]

[Perd Hapley]

FourWheelDrift said:

Comical?



http://www.car-transplants.co.uk/repairable-vehicl...

Poor Allegro.

Looked in good condition too. Someone's lost their P&J