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Advice re broken down car

  • 20-01-2011 8:39am
    #1
    Shurwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm just looking for some advice in relation to my car which is on its last legs. It's a '00 Seat Leon with a cracked timing belt (happened Tuesday morning). Would cost an arm and a leg to fix and the car is worth €1,500 max, so i'm thinking my only option is to ring a scrap yard. Anyone have any idea what i might get offered for it? Or would i be better off ringing a few garages to see if they would take it?


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  • #2
    thenightrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭thenightrider


    If it is a diesel i would buy it of you as a scrap yard would prob only give you about 50 euro and thats if they will even give you any money thats all they offered me for my 02 focus


  • #3
    Shurwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭Shurwhynot


    It's petrol. I'm waiting til places open for business at 9 before i start ringing. I would surely be expecting more than 50 euro


  • #4
    thenightrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭thenightrider


    Your best bet is to sell it private as i cant see many garages wanting to buy it check out donedeal and adverts


  • #5
    markc1184
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭markc1184


    Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think many scrap yards buy cars in anymore. You have to pay them to take it in. All to do with recycling or something similar.


  • #6
    Shurwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭Shurwhynot


    Ok well the first place i called said they'd give me 200 if i got it towed down there


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  • #7
    greenermetals
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 151 ✭✭greenermetals


    feel like a broken record im saying this so often, but please please make sure that you get a certificate of destruction if you dont want it to go back on the road, or change of ownership if you think it will. I work in a scrapyard and the amount of people i have phoning me looking for certs etc, that we cant give them because we dont have the car is unreal. A lot of unscrupulous people are putting them back on the road and incurring fines etc which are being posted through the letterbox of the last owner


  • #8
    greenermetals
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 151 ✭✭greenermetals


    oh and for the record, the recycling process is laborious (i can give you a link to a flash presentation on our website which gives a brief summary of the process, if you pm me or the mods allow it.) but it is currently being balanced by relatively high scrap prices. Most scrapyards if they are licenced and contracted to the car manufacturers have to accept the car for nothing, but some charge for collection. For cars in greater dublin we dont, but others do


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