Cars scrapped through Scrappage - How are they destroyed

Minister Boyce

In the bangernomics thread there was a youtube clip of how cars are destroyed in the USA that are scrapped. The clip of the volvo S60 being more or less killled was brutal:mad:

Do the irish cars being scrapped go through the same treatment or are they just crushed?? The scheme has propably seem some great cars being destroyed. I remember seeing a top gear programme and them showing pictures of massive fields full of very good cars that were scrapped.

aujopimur

They're sold to dismantlers who then break them for parts to sell.

L-M

aujopimur wrote: »

They're sold to dismantlers who then break them for parts to sell.

No they're not *cough*, they're crushed into a cube *cough cough*

-Corkie-

There is a guy that posts here called greener metals iirc and he was talking about this one night. He was saying he had seen a few tasty 7ers and other nice stuff going for the crusher...

Minister Boyce

-Corkie- wrote: »

There is a guy that posts here called greener metals iirc and he was talking about this one night. He was saying he had seen a few tasty 7ers and other nice stuff going for the crusher...

Thats the kind of horror stories I was expecting. Any enthusiast seeing or hearing of that happening it must be soul destroying.

aujopimur

aujopimur wrote: »

They're sold to dismantlers who then break them for parts to sell.

I'll rephrase, thre're crushed but sometimes bits fall off in the breakers.

2 stroke

I managed to get an almost new battery out of one. Saw it in a dealers and knew the cars history/tried to buy it, car had new timing belt, battery, rad, starter, alternator and clutch. Dealer said he couldn't sell the car but he turned a blind eye while I salvaged the battery. Absolutely sinful the way that car was traded in, half full of petrol.

Eric Cartman

-Corkie- wrote: »

There is a guy that posts here called greener metals iirc and he was talking about this one night. He was saying he had seen a few tasty 7ers and other nice stuff going for the crusher...

to be fair if anything more than the shells and some panels were crushed id be amazed, especially on something like a 7er

greenermetals

Cant speak for other yards but we didnt sell any parts, we took the fluids out, as many recyclable plastics etc as we could and crushed the rest. The 7 series got the same treatment.

Dont worry, it sickened me too.

The best of the cars we got on the scheme is on our blog, www.scrapmycar.ie/blog it was a while ago so youll have to go back a bit.

the reason we didnt sell the parts is because we are contracted to the car importers (as are most breakers and LEGAL scrapyards) and the contract explicitly states that you cant sell anything from the safety system, braking system or the steering system. With car being so integrated, curtain airbags etc, whats left? Wings? Also the part can only be sold to licensed mechanic and all part numbers to be eradicated.

We decided early on that this, along with possible insurance ramifications, made it more hassle than it was worth.

Maybe we are a little too far ahead of ourselves though as not many others think like us.:rolleyes:

Brian

Can you buy seats from a scrapyard or is that considered part of the safety system?

greenermetals

you CAN buy seats out of a scrapyard, but whether you SHOULD be able to is another matter. I know the more recent cars have the seatbelt as part of the unit, and as such are part of the safety system for sure. Also, the seltbelt pretensioners are linked to the cars ECU, a bit like airbags, and if you crash, and they are not linked properly to the ECU, it might get a bit nasty.

Its an insurance minefield, and why weve opted out of it tbh

L-M

Baza210 wrote: »

Can you buy seats from a scrapyard or is that considered part of the safety system?

Lol, in simple terms, yes, yes you can.

Damokc

Id say some of these "scrapped" car are the same as "write off cars"........alot of em just get sold on again to some poor unknowing crater:eek:

L-M

Damokc wrote: »

Id say some of these "scrapped" car are the same as "write off cars"........alot of em just get sold on again to some poor unknowing crater:eek:

I can't imagine them being sold on tbh. Well it's always a possibility, but I'd say more of them were broken for parts than scrapped.

Any of the Dealers that took them in on the scrappage scheme would be held responsible for their where abouts, so I'm sure they would have picked reputable guys to take them away.