Classified Ads - Rant

[vroom]

Why do I keep seeing salvage ads in the TVRs for sale section in the classifieds?

Surely these should be confined to the err breaking / salvage section?

Rant over.

[OldSkoolRS]

And priced at £1 or otherwise very low, so they come up near the top if you filter by price lowest.

[flysuper]

I often laugh at some of the daft posts you know ,what colour car should i buy and do the think my bum looks big in this ,but getting upset with adverts that dont look prity in the shiny car section! "I THINK YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE"!!!!

[Gazzab]

I too dont get out much but I agree it should not include scrap etc otherwise it will end up like ebay where if you type in TVR you get 100's of pages of useless items that actually wont even fit a TVR.

[Chilliman]

Completely agree. Potential new owner looking for the first time would surely have his excitement quelled when the first thing he sees is a scrappy's yard.

ETA: Sorry, should have read his or her excitement quelled..etc etc

Edited by Chilliman on Friday 15th July 13:16

[flysuper]

ALL THE USAL SUSPECTS

[Chilliman]

Hmmm, the lurker is strong in this one

[vroom]

flysuper said:

ALL THE USAL SUSPECTS

Really?

I don't mind buying old bits and grazing my knuckles fitting them, but there is a place for everything.

I'm going to nip down to my local car showroom and ask them to replace all of their shiny bits in their shop window with the old oily / rusty cack they just taken off the last car serviced there.

[davemac250]

flysuper said:

ALL THE USAL SUSPECTS

You need to add a profession.

[Flintstone]

Oh, I dunno. Given that these dealers ask the same price for a cat C or D car that you'd pay for a scruffy runner....

[Alex200mph]

Fly, you based in Newcastle or Ashington?..

[OldSkoolRS]

davemac250 said:

flysuper said:

ALL THE USAL SUSPECTS

You need to add a profession.

Well I hope it's not an English teacher.

I don't need to get out more either, just not sift through a load of crap when I'm trying to find a used car. I used to buy salvage cars years ago, but found that it wasn't worth the cost of rebuilding them as the sums just didn't add up. These days you get a marker on the log book too, so no chance of selling on a repaired car for a decent price as everyone expects a good discount for the Cat C/D cars.

[Gazzab]

On eof the usual suspects here. Careful or some people who live in a certain area of the country will start personalising this ie anything remotely negative regarding scrap yards and then the personalised abuse starts.
On the positive front they do provide parts to keep our cars on the road. Thanks for that.

[vroom]

Gazzab said:

On eof the usual suspects here. Careful or some people who live in a certain area of the country will start personalising this ie anything remotely negative regarding scrap yards and then the personalised abuse starts.
On the positive front they do provide parts to keep our cars on the road. Thanks for that.

Agree. Breakers have been / still are a life saver for me in my quest to keep the old plastic bath tubs on the road.

But lets keep the salvage adds where they belong though!

[OldSkoolRS]

Gazzab said:

On eof the usual suspects here. Careful or some people who live in a certain area of the country will start personalising this ie anything remotely negative regarding scrap yards and then the personalised abuse starts.
On the positive front they do provide parts to keep our cars on the road. Thanks for that.

Really? I'm used to abuse...I drive an Audi for work. However, I agree with the thanks for helping keep our cars on the road (although it's a long time since I found anything for my RS2000 in a scrap yard it might be the case once I get a TVR).