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TooT wrote:Oh sorry. It went for £600
It's criminal! I would have put up the cash in the blink of an eye for that price!Welton wrote:Lost
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Dunno about Toot, but in a lot of the UK you have no option but to park your car in the street where the average house width is smaller than the length of most cars - houses with garages or carports are rare and usually bloody expensive. In my street there's room to park around 20-25 cars, yet there's 60 houses. Also to park a car in the street it needs to have tax and be in a roadworthy condition - it's highly likely a wreck would be removed and crushed within a week or 2. Or set fire to by the local yobs.eoin27 wrote:You were hardly stuck for cash if you settled for £600.
You should have kept onto it and sold it in parts. You can make about £4,000 on ebay selling good parts.
Yep im in the same boat. My house is an end terrece so ive got next to f*ck all room to park. Some of my neighbours have two cars some have work vans taking up the spaces. Sometimes i have to park on a different street. So that means no room for breaking. Oh and aswell as having road tax and insurance to pay on a car sat in the street i have to have a parking permit too in my areamjb wrote: Dunno about Toot, but in a lot of the UK you have no option but to park your car in the street where the average house width is smaller than the length of most cars - houses with garages or carports are rare and usually bloody expensive. In my street there's room to park around 20-25 cars, yet there's 60 houses. Also to park a car in the street it needs to have tax and be in a roadworthy condition - it's highly likely a wreck would be removed and crushed within a week or 2. Or set fire to by the local yobs.
Not everyone has the luxury of being able to break a car. Given how utterly skint I am, I would have killed to be able to break my turbo exec, but I had to take a pathetic £50 for it from the breakers. Why? Because 1) I don't have anywhere to store a wreck, 2) I don't have the time to faff about packaging stuff up and 3) I don't have the ability to get to a post office during opening hours. I didn't even have any way of storing the 5 alloys from it which would have easiliy net me £100+ on ebay...
Think you're being a bit optimistic with those prices... But then you've got the buttons, stalks, display, parcel shelf, courtesy lights, engine mounts (£), glove box, ashtray, gearknob+gaiter, boot lining, bonnet, bonnet soundproofing, grille, radiator, fans, accelerator cable, hydraulic clutch (£)Welton wrote:Doors = £200.00
Bumpers = £100.00
Levver Steering Wheel = £45.00
Carpet? = £50.00
JBL Amp/speakers = £100.00
Self dimming mirror/sunblind etc = £75.00
You'll get more that that private with good service history, i did and mine had 165k on the clockWelton wrote:Take my HDi exec for example, a 1999 should sell for £1200.00 ???