SCRAPPAGE CARS 2010

greenermetals

An Irish Times article last week about abandoned cars got me thinking, what were the best cars we scrapped on the scrappage scheme. Here follows a list of some of the cars we destroyed on scrappage deal last year. Some of them are clinkers. We dont sell parts so this is not an advertisement. Just the impotent ire of a car enthusiast combined with the thought that some of youse might find it interesting..

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SCRAPPAGE CARS 2010
Posted on March 8, 2011
You can argue all you like about the relative merits of the scrappage deal, the effects it has on emissions, the loss of perfectly good cars with big engines, against the lower CO2 emitting new ones. You can also argue about the governments taxation policy whereby the owner of the BMW 740 had to pay more than E1500 per annum in road tax and God knows what in petrol charges. But it has to be admitted that there have been some nice cars got rid of during this scrappage scheme.

Take a look at the table below, these are only the pick of the cars we received last year. It must be said that the vast majority of vehicles that we destroyed last year were way past their sell by date, some were dangerous in the extreme and it was a huge advantage to both the environment and road safety to have these taken out of circulation. (The pictures are only illustrative and are not the actual vehicles scrapped.)

Cars Scrapped 2010

Audi A6 2.4 Automatic x2
BMW 523i, full leather interior
BMW 740i, Mint condition
1984 Mercedes Estate, 2 ltr petrol
Mazda MX 5 Driving perfectly
MG F roadster
Lexus LS 400 faultless
(N.B. These cars are all destroyed, there are no parts available for them, and we do not sell parts to the public anyway)

Each of these cars was traded in for a low tax, small engined car. The 740i was exchanged for a Toyota Aygo.

Notable scrapped cars that did not make the top seven include.

BMW 520 x4

Mercedes Benz E Class

Subaru Impreza (non WRX) with 24,000 miles.

Nissan Micra with 19,000 miles.

Audi a4 x3

You can see the reasoning behind the owners getting rid of these vehicles. Service costs are exorbitantly expensive for some of these cars, petrol is increasing exponentially, car tax continues its inexorable rise, insurance is going bananas. They are simply too expensive to keep. This fact leads to them having a very low resale value. The owners are trading them in for small cars, Aygos, Clios and the like and it makes sense from an economic perspective.

Being a car enthusiast can be difficult when one has to crush such lovely cars, at times I feel like an alcoholic forced to flush good Guinness down the drains, but this is the world in which we live.

Max Power1

greenermetals wrote: »

. The 740i was exchanged for a Toyota Aygo.

I just got a little bit sick

Padraig Mor

Max Power1 wrote: »

I just got a little bit sick

+1. I'm nearly ****ing crying! And if that's a pic of the actual car in the link - mint Sport model - what a waste......

greenermetals

no theyre not actual pics, but the cars were all mint, especially the merc, it was unbelievably tidy, it had less than a 100000 miles on it

Padraig Mor

I'm sure that LS400 would have motored on happy out for another 10 years!

blastman

That's depressing.

greenermetals

just driving them up to the depolluting rig you could tell how tight a car they were. One of the a6s was like a brand new car with cream interior and not a blemish on it. We ahd a corolla owned by a priest brought in with 29000 miles and the back seats were never sat in

Padraig Mor

Could you not just *pretend* to scrap them and send them to a loving home instead??!!

Guy:Incognito

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Could you not just *pretend* to scrap them and send them to a loving home instead??!!

No but peopel would be more than welcome to go buy them back for the scrappage price, nothign stopping that.

But just like the last thread it's all idealistic internet folk giving out but wouldnt actually part with the cash to save something they "love"

Padraig Mor

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No but peopel would be more than welcome to go buy them back for the scrappage price, nothign stopping that.

But just like the last thread it's all idealistic internet folk giving out but wouldnt actually part with the cash to save something they "love"

Well there is something stopping that - if a car is put under the scrappage scheme, it can't be sold.

greenermetals

Dont think i havent thought about it im only human, but if ever it gets into an accident and the chassis number matched up with one that has been scrapped through our site, there would be a world of sh1te to sort out. dont think it doesnt happen though i have heard a few stories about less scrupulous yards, but i dont want to be up in court so thats as far as i go on that one.

The thing about it is, after the scrappage is over, inland revenue will have 30000 extra cars to trace through scrapyards, and if they dont have their paperwork in order, itll be found out. Revenue have the next 4 years to pick through all this with a fine tooth comb and if we lose our license we have no business.

Im as gutted as the rest of you sometimes, i feel like herods soldier thats after been told to kill all the newborns, its a sin, but im only following orders (bad analogy, sorry for any insult:D)

Guy:Incognito

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Well there is something stopping that - if a car is put under the scrappage scheme, it can't be sold.

The scrappage is a VRT rebate. Pay the scrappage and it's not part of the scrappage scheme anymore. The car is just sold as a standard cash sale . Makes no difference to the government (in fact they are now getting VRT they otherwise woulnt get).

Padraig Mor

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

The scrappage is a VRT rebate. Pay the scrappage and it's not part of the scrappage scheme anymore. The car is just sold as a standard cash sale . Makes no difference to the government (in fact they are now getting VRT they otherwise woulnt get).

And you expect the "idealistic internet folk" who won't "actually part with the cash" to hang around the Toyota dealer all day in the hope someone tootles up in a mint 740i?

Guy:Incognito

Padraig Mor wrote: »

And you expect the "idealistic internet folk" who won't "actually part with the cash" to hang around the Toyota dealer all day in the hope someone tootles up in a mint 740i?

No, but if they were that interested, a form email sent to dealers wouldnt take that much time. Ask for a call if anythign specific comes in.

TBH I'm not looking to save anythimg, so devising a system to find cars isnt really in my interest. But I'm sure with a minimum of effort some people could be drivign around in some of these cars. But actual effort would be required.

Padraig Mor

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No, but if they were that interested, a form email sent to dealers wouldnt take that much time. Ask for a call if anythign specific comes in.

TBH I'm not looking to save anythimg, so devising a system to find cars isnt really in my interest. But I'm sure with a minimum of effort some people could be drivign around in some of these cars. But actual effort would be required.

As someone driving around in a fuel guzzling car (if a bit newer), I'm not looking to save either. I think you're being a bit optimistic with your email idea - it's a result to actually get a dealer in this country to ring you back when you've talked to them face to face, not to mind reply to an email!

Guy:Incognito

Padraig Mor wrote: »

As someone driving around in a fuel guzzling car (if a bit newer), I'm not looking to save either. I think you're being a bit optimistic with your email idea - it's a result to actually get a dealer in this country to ring you back when you've talked to them face to face, not to mind reply to an email!

TBH it was the first thing that popped in to my head. The point was that if people really did want to save these cars, they should do something. Sitting at home giving out about it on the internet is the easy way out.

People like the idea of saving them. But the actual practice of doing it they would rather someone else did.

greenermetals

as i said on the original post, it is a sin to scrap these cars, but these days, and in this economic environment it makes more sense to get rid of them. we dont know the underlying circumstances in any of these cases, they probably all have perfectly good reasons for doing what they did in getting rid of them. I know i wouldnt like to keep that lexus going in tax and petrol, the bmw 570 mustve been awful sore on juice. Its just a shame that its come to this i suppose.

I have heard of people being able to buy these cars back off the govt for E2000 (think it was on another thread) but i havent heard of it ever happening myself, could be an old wives tail.

Most of our business comes from people who want to know for sure that their car is gone for good, it would be counterproductive for us to start doing otherwise.

cest la vie

greenermetals

old wives tale i meant, sorry, an old wives tail is an entirely different thing,it would be like the boot on a skoda superb:pac:

VolvoMan

If I was a Toyota salesman and had someone come in and ask to scrap their 10 year old luxury car against an Aygo, I'd have to resist the urge to kick the living sh1t out of them.

corktina

VolvoMan wrote: »

If I was a Toyota salesman and had someone come in and ask to scrap their 10 year old luxury car against an Aygo, I'd have to resist the urge to kick the living sh1t out of them.

you'd take there hand off at the shoulder only grateful of enough dosh going into the business to keep your job going another week.....:rolleyes:

Max_Damage

While most of you probably won't care, this very clean '86 Mazda 323 was scrapped for a new Corolla a few months ago:



RIP.

greenermetals

we had a 1980 toyota, think it was an import and it had rear wheel drive. still driving away, and hardly any rust. it had a brown interior, with brown dash etc. but still a good car after 30 years

Esel

greenermetals wrote: »

We had a corolla owned by a priest brought in with 29000 miles and the back seats were never shat in.

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