What to do with surplus new and used car parts?!
What to do with surplus new and used car parts?!
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PUA

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1,060 posts

186 months

Monday 3rd September 2012
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Evening all!

For my thousandth post (biggrin - awaiting my nobel piece prize) I am looking for practical advice on what people do with car parts they don't need! For example I looked in my garage before and found:

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Anyone use any other methods, e.g. selling a few items together to a parts specialist or do we all have garages and driveways full of old rubbish!

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Too much detail and the thread will be removed. smile

Edited by Big Al. on Monday 3rd September 19:09

Ozzie Osmond

21,189 posts

273 months

Monday 3rd September 2012
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There's no easy way. It's essentially ebay or the skip!

Don't waste time cleaning things just take some photos and do short listings - with a firm insistence that "buyer pays in full immediately on close of auction and collects within 7 days, failing which the item will be disposed elsewhere". IMO it gives the best balance between the skip and undue hassle.

Monkeylegend

28,877 posts

258 months

Monday 3rd September 2012
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You could always list them on here and see if anybody wants them.

Xtriple129

1,173 posts

184 months

Monday 3rd September 2012
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Seriously, I sold the contents of our garage on ebay in its entirety. Just listed a couple of the better bits and said collect the lot.

Got about £47 for it all and got the garage cleared for free!

PUA

Original Poster:

1,060 posts

186 months

Monday 3rd September 2012
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Monkeylegend said:
You could always list them on here and see if anybody wants them.
I think I will do that for a couple of the more valuable items and see what happens, everybody likes a good bargain!

Petrolhead_Rich

4,659 posts

219 months

Monday 3rd September 2012
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PUA said:
For example I looked in my garage before and found:

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How big is your garage that you've "found" these things?