Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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Does anyone know of any salvage dealers?
Seems like a cheap way to get a car.
I know all the drawbacks, but I'm not bothered...
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City
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Registered: 30th Dec 03
Location: Wakefield Drives: Red GSi
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back of autorader loads of em with pics
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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good point, forgot about them, cheers.
any online ones I can look at now?
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Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
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plenty on ebay
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City
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quote: Originally posted by Robin
good point, forgot about them, cheers.
any online ones I can look at now?
dunno mate, some of them in the back of the trader has web sites
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All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
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Try 'A5 salvage', they're local.
Theres also a breakers yard in Milton Keynes.
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Ian
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Bit far from you but my mate uses http://www.simpson-salvage.co.uk/
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Robin
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quote: Originally posted by All Torque
Try 'A5 salvage', they're local.
Theres also a breakers yard in Milton Keynes.
Cheers.
I know there's a recycling place in Daventry, but I doubt they actually have whole cars in half decent nick
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Jambo
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whats the definition of cat d?
pro's cons?
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All Torque
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According to my dad A5 Salvage only do Renault/Pug/Citreon 
But theres another breakers yard in MK. One near Ikea, and one in Bletchley (who 'recycle' cars).
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Robin
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quote: Originally posted by Jambo
whats the definition of cat d?
pro's cons?
quote: Category D:
Vehicle damaged and insurer has decided not to repair. Has to pass an inspection to be re-registered as damaged repaired.
but that's not an issue for what I'm after 
pros are the cheapness, cons are the resale price, if its on the road.
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Jambo
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ah read it on the site 
What you want ot get robin?
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Robin
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Not sure really, but hopefully, the mini is going, so i'll be replacing it. I thought it made sense to buy something cheap, with a bigger engine, and bolt new wings/bonnet/bumpers on over the winter.
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Jambo
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how cheap is cheap tho? examples?
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Robin
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depends how bad the car is.
on a 1000 car, you'll probably save 300 quid after repairing it.
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Jambo
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be ideal conversion cars really.....
(brain is ticking over )
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All Torque
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Very hard to sell on though, tbh I'd spend no more than £2000.
Then again £2000 will get me a fairly good written off car
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Marc
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quote: Originally posted by Ian
Bit far from you but my mate uses http://www.simpson-salvage.co.uk/
They have some decent cars inside that won't take a lot to get back on the road. They had a nice Elise the other year. It was half cream half red, seperated by a green stripe. I couldn't work out why it was there until I walked around it, the drivers side wasn't there
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Robin
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Thats the thing Jambo, you can get a 1.4 corsa C for about 1600 quid, which needs a new front wing, bonnet and bumper.
and Bs are VERY cheap, like 200 quid cheap
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flash22
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there a few down in kent but can remember the name of the main one
http://www.trents.co.uk/
oh have a look here.................
http://www.bvsf.org.uk/members_list.php
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Jambo
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quote: Originally posted by Robin
Thats the thing Jambo, you can get a 1.4 corsa C for about 1600 quid, which needs a new front wing, bonnet and bumper.
and Bs are VERY cheap, like 200 quid cheap
Find me an arde nblue sxi/sport please for £200 ill buy it
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Ben D
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try http://vehicles.hills-motors.com & http://gowing.co.uk theres quite a few bargains on these, the biggest bargains i find are Mk2 Monddeo's Rover 200 (bubble Shapes) & the Late 106's
benji
[Edited on 02-11-2006 by benji_2k5]
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p4uls corsa
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quote: Originally posted by Robin
quote: Originally posted by Jambo
whats the definition of cat d?
pro's cons?
quote: Category D:
Vehicle damaged and insurer has decided not to repair. Has to pass an inspection to be re-registered as damaged repaired.
but that's not an issue for what I'm after 
pros are the cheapness, cons are the resale price, if its on the road.
cat d does not need vic check and will usually have logbook with them if not its £20 quid and a form from post office and the dont usually show its been smashed on logbook
cat c will need vic test and to be re-registered it will also show on bottom of logbook thats its been vic tested
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STEvieXE
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id be very doubtfil if ud find a corsa c 1.4 needing a bumper/ wing and bonnet cause it be cheap enuff to fix. write offs are written off because of the labour and parts/ materials bill to fix makes it cost effective. so for a diyer to fix it would need to be very light which would beg the question as to why its been written off in the first place??
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SAL
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there is 1 in kent i went to, lee m will no the name there are 1.6 sports etc goin for £400 - 600. the one i looked at was a 1.4 brocade yellow stolen recorverd just door lock and collom damage 45 k mint £ 400
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