Scrap or try and sell?
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Ok, so i bought a 1990 Range Rover Vogue back in March off ebay. Tooled around in it for a bit, splashed about in bit of mud and generally liked it.
However, my girlfriend couldn't drive it (dodgy power steering) and when I took it to get some more off road bits fitted to it i was advised that it wasn't worth spending money on it as it needed loads of and that i'd be better off getting one in better nick to start with.
Being a man of impulse I followed their advice immediately and bought another V8 petrol rangie - this one a 95 soft dash and all very nice. I'm very happy with it but my happiness was soon punished..
I had the old one to get rid of, which would be easy enough activity if one night some toerag hadn't smashed 2 of the windows, stolen the radio, pulled the cowling from the dash to try and hotwire the car and beggared the key barrel with a screwdriver. It's been parked where he attacked it since, and i don't know whether to just scrap it or try and sell it for spares or something.
Is it really worth anything bearing in mind that i can't start it, it has 2 broken side windows, the power steering is dodgy, various electric bits and bobs don't work and it's rusty as hell in lots of serious places? It had an mot on it that runs to feb nect year i think but let's just say it's not likely to get through the next one without <some> work. Gearbox and engine were working fine before it got broken into.
Cheers,
Chris
ps - got a letter from the police saying they'd caught the scrote who did it amazingly! Was rather shocked.
However, my girlfriend couldn't drive it (dodgy power steering) and when I took it to get some more off road bits fitted to it i was advised that it wasn't worth spending money on it as it needed loads of and that i'd be better off getting one in better nick to start with.
Being a man of impulse I followed their advice immediately and bought another V8 petrol rangie - this one a 95 soft dash and all very nice. I'm very happy with it but my happiness was soon punished..
I had the old one to get rid of, which would be easy enough activity if one night some toerag hadn't smashed 2 of the windows, stolen the radio, pulled the cowling from the dash to try and hotwire the car and beggared the key barrel with a screwdriver. It's been parked where he attacked it since, and i don't know whether to just scrap it or try and sell it for spares or something.
Is it really worth anything bearing in mind that i can't start it, it has 2 broken side windows, the power steering is dodgy, various electric bits and bobs don't work and it's rusty as hell in lots of serious places? It had an mot on it that runs to feb nect year i think but let's just say it's not likely to get through the next one without <some> work. Gearbox and engine were working fine before it got broken into.
Cheers,
Chris
ps - got a letter from the police saying they'd caught the scrote who did it amazingly! Was rather shocked.
)There are a couple of chaps on e-bay who run business to break rangies. I have bought stuff from Alan Coote, he is near Chippenham. http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUse... The going rate a couple of years back for a 90's classic was iro £500. I broke the car myself and raked £1400 + I have a garage shelf full of nearly new bits of the old car that I may need to use on the newer Range Rover Classic or when I can get my arse round to it e-baying the rest of it out.
Breaking the car took me a week or so, the misses was very tolerant of the wreck in the yard, so probably not everybodys cup of tea. I sold the chassis, engine block, auto gearbox, pair of axles stripped of anything that I had put on the car in the 8 months running up to its demise and the stripped body, for 99p on e-bay! Chap came over from Wales with a trailer and four wheels to pick it up. Local scrappy with a hiab quoted £30 to take it away so by reckoning I was £30.99 better off.
There was something quite satisfying about dismantling the old gal but then I was into Meccano as a kid and don't mind getting my hands dirty.
The car was high mileage, tatty paintwork, terminal engine liner issue and the body was very rusty, rear x-member, sills etc etc. Cheaper to buy a better car than to fix up this snotter.
Good luck
Breaking the car took me a week or so, the misses was very tolerant of the wreck in the yard, so probably not everybodys cup of tea. I sold the chassis, engine block, auto gearbox, pair of axles stripped of anything that I had put on the car in the 8 months running up to its demise and the stripped body, for 99p on e-bay! Chap came over from Wales with a trailer and four wheels to pick it up. Local scrappy with a hiab quoted £30 to take it away so by reckoning I was £30.99 better off.
There was something quite satisfying about dismantling the old gal but then I was into Meccano as a kid and don't mind getting my hands dirty.
The car was high mileage, tatty paintwork, terminal engine liner issue and the body was very rusty, rear x-member, sills etc etc. Cheaper to buy a better car than to fix up this snotter.
Good luck
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