Breakers

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 731

Once I've finished stripping the car how much needs to be left in order to get a scrappy to collect it. Mainly i just wanna know if it's possible to take the wheels off and sell em and still get it taken away without having to buy a set of steelies or anything.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Well it wont have rear wheels anyway as youâ€™re taking the rear beam off it arenâ€™t you Wink

But anyway yeah, you can usually just leave one bolt in the wheels then whip the remaining ones out and the wheels off when he lifts it into the air with the hiab.

If itâ€™s metal they will take it.

Retroholic Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 3315

if they got a hiab.

Laughing

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 731

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Well it wont have rear wheels anyway as youâ€™re taking the rear beam off it arenâ€™t you

I have the old one to put back on! Very Happy

It'll roll but will be lop sided lol

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

a lot of them are arsey about taking away cars with no wheels.

like bb said make sure they have a hi ab!

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 731

Yeah decided to phone the local boys and they want about Â£50 to crane it onto a flatbed, I can prob sell the alloys for that anyway so it'll be worth it i think.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

pah, bollocks to that, find someone who will take it away for nothing. They make money from the scrap anyway.

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 395

Pay to have it taken away???? haha

Yea, find someone who will at least do it for free.
The places round me will pay you if its going to be broken or take it for free if its going to be crushed straight away.

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 731

Hmmm interesting, I'll ring around a few other companies then. They said they would have picked it up free if there was tax left. Thought it was a bit steep when they'd be making money from it. Was Billy Bridges up in Crawley (Pease Pottage)

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I shoudl have waited a few days on got the 30 quid for the xec, I let em take it for free cos it woudl be gone than day.

if you can get it down the scrappers yourself load it up with scrap might get a ton for it. scraps dropped back down to about 70 quid per ton again though.

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 731

Might be a possibility to get a trailer and so just that.

Do you think I'd get away with filling the doors with hardcore? lol. Got plenty lying round in the garden and the local dump closes soon, two birds with one stone lol.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

they have a nose in and around it, you need to have all fluids drained and all the tyres gone (just take the wheels off and leave it)

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 731

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you need to have all fluids drained

LOL, It had new engine and gearbox oil about 50 miles before the brakes went, bloody typical.

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

my old hatch got craned out of my garden and with no wheels and cost me Â£0

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:33 pm

Wicked Neo";p="106501 wrote:

my old hatch got craned out of my garden and with no wheels and cost me Â£0

They will nick anything round your way eh? Very Happy

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

lol mals, funnily enough . . i had a set of ph2 wheels in the garden for 6 weeks with all good tyres on them and they was not touched, had someone come and knock on the door wanting to buy them, so i sold them to him for Â£80 lol

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 395

Remember when i took my old clio up to nottingham.
Parked it up outside my house in the afternoon, three hours later (5pm) got back to it sitting on its belly, all wheels gone and a note on the windscreen saying "If scrap, call Keith for free removal" and his number lol

That took the piss lol