Car Breaking/Money Making Ideas
Discussion
the breakers make a killing on what they get
when my 2004 A2 Sport was taken to the breakers for a minor bumper ding (which i bought back off them for peanuts)
the guy told me that if i sold the car i'd get between £4500 -£5000
if he broke it up for parts he could make about £8000- £10000 over a year from the parts, but he mainly made a killing from Focus, Astra, etc
when my 2004 A2 Sport was taken to the breakers for a minor bumper ding (which i bought back off them for peanuts)
the guy told me that if i sold the car i'd get between £4500 -£5000
if he broke it up for parts he could make about £8000- £10000 over a year from the parts, but he mainly made a killing from Focus, Astra, etc
Very mainstream car as said such as astra, focus, vectra.
Anything with a slight following. MR2? CRX? MK2 Golf?
Any slightly older car where a good, clean, rust free example will be worth a lot but you can pick up a cheap, rust bucket version and sell parts to those wanting to keep their clean example in good order.
Quick example:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3686166.htm
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOYOTA-MR2-MK2-TURBO-ENG...
Sell the seats, alloys (both sets of), spoiler, other engine bits. You could probably at least make your money back having only sold the big stuff. It doesn't seem in that bad a nick as a complete car either. Could buy a front end right off for less and still be able to sell all the stuff I listed.
Anything with a slight following. MR2? CRX? MK2 Golf?
Any slightly older car where a good, clean, rust free example will be worth a lot but you can pick up a cheap, rust bucket version and sell parts to those wanting to keep their clean example in good order.
Quick example:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3686166.htm
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOYOTA-MR2-MK2-TURBO-ENG...
Sell the seats, alloys (both sets of), spoiler, other engine bits. You could probably at least make your money back having only sold the big stuff. It doesn't seem in that bad a nick as a complete car either. Could buy a front end right off for less and still be able to sell all the stuff I listed.
I don't think there's anything to stop you breaking your old car at home, although you're expected to get a proper certificate of destruction rather than just sending the V5 back with the 'scrapped' box ticked. You can get one by taking the shell to a licensed scrapyard.
What's being discussed here is breaking cars for money, which nowadays requires you to be licensed. it's not cheap to set up - You need hardstanding with waste tank drainage, leakproof containers for storing parts, you've got to thoroughly de-pollute the vehicle (to the extent of draining shock absorbers and emptying the windscreen washer bottle), it's a huge faff. Obviously not the sort of operation you can run on your driveway.
Even if you aren't breaking the cars yourself, just picking them up and taking them to a scrapyard, you need to be registered as a 'waste carrier'.
What's being discussed here is breaking cars for money, which nowadays requires you to be licensed. it's not cheap to set up - You need hardstanding with waste tank drainage, leakproof containers for storing parts, you've got to thoroughly de-pollute the vehicle (to the extent of draining shock absorbers and emptying the windscreen washer bottle), it's a huge faff. Obviously not the sort of operation you can run on your driveway.
Even if you aren't breaking the cars yourself, just picking them up and taking them to a scrapyard, you need to be registered as a 'waste carrier'.
I've broken 2 cars at home; down to not far off an empty shell.
If poss leave oils etc in the engine/box, if you have to remove for shipping just take it to the oil container at the nearest dump, same as you would do if you serviced your own car at home.
I would say break a car that will be owned by the kind of people that will look on eGay for bits.
One of the cars I rang the scrap man, he came with a hi-ab and took the shell and unsold bits away. He declined to touch the v62 but I just wrote the DVLA a letter and they were OK.
The other shell I quite hilariously sold to a passing rag & bone man, who manhandled it onto the back of his tranny flatbed with a few of his
mates, only once nearly crushing themselves to death in the process. They set off up the road with it hanging off the back like a scene from Police Camera Action.
-tastic 
Edit, I can't believe Pie Key is censored now!
If poss leave oils etc in the engine/box, if you have to remove for shipping just take it to the oil container at the nearest dump, same as you would do if you serviced your own car at home.
I would say break a car that will be owned by the kind of people that will look on eGay for bits.
One of the cars I rang the scrap man, he came with a hi-ab and took the shell and unsold bits away. He declined to touch the v62 but I just wrote the DVLA a letter and they were OK.
The other shell I quite hilariously sold to a passing rag & bone man, who manhandled it onto the back of his tranny flatbed with a few of his
mates, only once nearly crushing themselves to death in the process. They set off up the road with it hanging off the back like a scene from Police Camera Action.-tastic Edit, I can't believe Pie Key is censored now!
Galaxys seem to have lots of bits, was worth about 200 scrap, sold everything I could on ebay for about 1000. Just donated the shell to charity, the scrap guy was not happy at the state of it as I used a pair of grips to turn the steering wheel as I got 30 for the steering wheel.
The problem is it took a couple of weeks of graft to strip working on and off, and they tend to sell for 500 upwards on the bay of fleas, so there isn't a great margin in it.
The problem is it took a couple of weeks of graft to strip working on and off, and they tend to sell for 500 upwards on the bay of fleas, so there isn't a great margin in it.
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