RE: Scrappage carnage detailed

[M3Maverick]

No way someone has turned in an Audi Quattro, Lancia Delta etc for a £2k scrappage trade in. Something is wrong with that list or something dodgy has gone on

[shakotan]

People scrapped Qashqais? An - at worse - 2 year old car when the Scheme ran?

[RyanTank]

I hope the Audi Quattro, both sport and coupé, were just sloppy model designation by the garage accepting the scrappage scheme.



Otherwise WTF was someone thinking!?

And far too many mini's on that list.
I fear some used the scheme not knowing the actual value of their car as projects/fixerupers

[jamespink]

Baz2000 said:

80+ Morris Minors

Whilst we can all point to more than one Moggi 1000 we have spent money on, for the most part they are wholly uneconomic to restore properly. Most are crusty in the extreme needing re-shelling (or the equivalent of) so given a roadworthy one is £5k to £10k what's the point of mourning the loss of wreckers?

[365daytonafan]

A BMW 3.0CSI with an MOT even in 2009 that had to be worth more than £2K surely? Restoration projects are £6k now.

[Dr G]

Roo said:

Those that worth more than the scrappage allowance were taken in as normal part exchanges and sold on.

Dealers aren't stupid

[bmthnick1981]

loudlashadjuster said:

bmthnick1981 said:

I think a current MOT was one of the requirements of the scheme; http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1...

No, you could use an MOT fail within 14 days of the days of MOT expiry. I should know, I managed to turn £100-worth of scrap ex-Micra into £2,000 off a £4,995 Panda.

Sold the Panda three years later for £3,200

Fair enough, happy to be corrected by someone with real world experience of the scheme.

[P4ROT]

LOL at the amount of Alfas...

[DottyMR2]

I read that list as an obituary to some true classics that unfortunately had a calous and stupid (seriously, a Delta HF?!?!?!) owner who either had no idea what they had or too lazy to bother selling on for a bigger profit than £2k...

[Roma101]

I didn't know the Renault Megane family was so big. There is the Meagane, the Meagne, the Mears, the Mecane, Megaane, the Megae, the Megaine, the Megame and many more.

[Mr.Jimbo]

Of all the desirable cars on there, it's the 'Ford Fista' that really brings a tear to the eye.

I, err, would imagine.

[Dr Interceptor]

Lots of Beetles on the list, two Volvo P1800ES, two SD1's, and a Renault Avantime

[thatguy11]

Such a waste of some lovely metal...

[bobfett]

bmthnick1981 said:

loudlashadjuster said:

bmthnick1981 said:

I think a current MOT was one of the requirements of the scheme; http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1...

No, you could use an MOT fail within 14 days of the days of MOT expiry. I should know, I managed to turn £100-worth of scrap ex-Micra into £2,000 off a £4,995 Panda.

Sold the Panda three years later for £3,200

Fair enough, happy to be corrected by someone with real world experience of the scheme.

I seem to remember the MOT had to be valid/just expired at order, not delivery, time.

[Zod]

Is there a Sport Quattro on there?

[Devil2575]

loudlashadjuster said:

bmthnick1981 said:

What a shame. Alpina B7? An M5? Lots of Merc 560's and 600's. Shame the govt couldn't allow enthusiasts access to this vast stock for a flat rate of £1k or £2k per car.

I'm sure there were very good reasons that most if not all of the cars that were ostensibly worth saving ended up crushed.

We see the PH-worthy names and like to think they were worth saving, but in reality most would probably have been rusty, poorly-maintained junk, or been accident damaged or MOT fails but still within the terms of the scrappage scheme.

This.

People that own PH worthy cars tend to be enthusiasts who understand a cars value. Why put a car through the scrappage scheme when it's worth more?

It's very easy to get all misty eyed at the name of a car on a spreadsheet. However I suspect that many of the cars scrapped weren't worth saving. To assume they were and get worked up about it just seems daft to be honest.

[Devil2575]

M3Maverick said:

No way someone has turned in an Audi Quattro, Lancia Delta etc for a £2k scrappage trade in. Something is wrong with that list or something dodgy has gone on

Lots of Audis can be described as a Quattro. It's probably not the 2.2 20V Turbo model that most of us think of though. There did a N/A 10V 2.3 Coupe with 136 bhp IIRC.
Lancia Delta 1.6ie?

[AndrewEH1]

Anyone know what actually happened to all these cars?

I remember there being pictures of airfields full of them. I guess they have all been crushed by now?

[PhantomPH]

That list isn't worth the processing power it's using up.

Such inaccurate data it's unbelievable - perfect example, "PEUGEOT,BEETLE 106,1". Oh yeah, I remember the Peugeot Beetle....

Bottom line is that it looks like dealers have just entered the closest thing to the scrapper they could find. It was not in their interests to record accurate data - just ENOUGH data to get their £2k.

[LotusOmega375D]

We weren't alone though: take a look at the list of countries on here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrappage_program