Are AGS cars sold off after 300,000 on the clock?

Hi all,

Discussing this on Facebook. Being told that AGS demolish their cars after 300,000 (or whatever the designated life-span is - I believe vans are supposed to go for longer?).

I'm of the belief that AGS put the cars up at auction after they hit their mileage capacity.

Does anyone know what the correct answer is?

Cheers

The Maverick

I don't think they're auctioned. There was a photo on a thread in here showing a pile of scrapped Garda cars in a yard.

I don't think they could be sold on anyway. I'm sure you've seen the posts on here detailing the state they're in: the manufacturer's mileage limit will have been exceeded, most will have had body damage as well as numerous part replacements, I imagine by the time any electrics are removed the car is in a state and how would it look after luminous stripe and crest were removed? Just can't see anyone having any interest in them.

POGAN

Deleted User wrote: »

Hi all,

Discussing this on Facebook. Being told that AGS demolish their cars after 300,000 (or whatever the designated life-span is - I believe vans are supposed to go for longer?).

I'm of the belief that AGS put the cars up at auction after they hit their mileage capacity.

Does anyone know what the correct answer is?

Cheers

Car are destroyed after 300k due to h&S.there some of the new vans and jeeps are 600k now

timmywex

Used to sell them off at auction, or at least some of them. Battered white cars with new orange reflectors where wing lights used to be never seemed too appealing to me really!

kub

There must surely be a market there for the unmarked cars.

POGAN

timmywex wrote: »

Used to sell them off at auction, or at least some of them. Battered white cars with new orange reflectors where wing lights used to be never seemed too appealing to me really!

They did untill they changed mileage to 300k

Zambia

kub wrote: »

There must surely be a market there for the unmarked cars.

It would be lunacy to buy a police car after 100,000.

After 300,000 the car would be held together with spilit coffee and old Macdonalds wrappers

Bosh

Zambia wrote: »

It would be lunacy to buy a police car after 100,000.

After 300,000 the car would be held together with spilit coffee and old Macdonalds wrappers

That's just the Guards themselves

They're scrapped after 300k, Manufacturers won't stand over them.

Commercials (vans, jeeps etc) go to 500k+ partly the reason they went for the Connects.

MarkR

Isn't it 300,00 km? So only 186411 miles. My avensis was at 386000 miles and was going fine when I sold it. And I still got money for it. Can't see why the state can't sell it off for some value. Suppose mine was diesel though, are the garda cars petrol?

POGAN

Here the end reason of 300,000

POGAN

MarkR wrote: »

Isn't it 300,00 km? So only 186411 miles. My avensis was at 386000 miles and was going fine when I sold it. And I still got money for it. Can't see why the state can't sell it off for some value. Suppose mine was diesel though, are the garda cars petrol?

Most of the cars are petrol up to 07 are petrol new ones in 08 up where bought as diesel cars

pa990

op
would you really consider buying a car that had been crashed, rallied, raced. abused.
and had people p1ss and puke and bleed in the back (never mind what goes on in the front)

and has had 40 to 100.drivers over it's life, been bounced on, off , over and into kerbs/walls/speed bumps/ potholes.

has been driven hard from stone cold and has spend more time ideling than actually been driving.

if so.. you're on to a winner

pa990

pa990 wrote: »

op
would you really consider buying a car that had been crashed, rallied, raced. abused.
and had people p1ss and puke and bleed in the back (never mind what goes on in the front)

and has had 40 to 100.drivers over it's life, been bounced on, off , over and into kerbs/walls/speed bumps/ potholes.

has been driven hard from stone cold and has spend more time ideling than actually been driving.

if so.. you're on to a winner

... But has also had about 15 times it's value in repairs over the course of it's life by a genuine and accountable garage.


Police cars are sold off after usage in a fair few places, aren't they? I'm not sure why AGS aren't doing it anymore.

pa990

KKV wrote: »

... But has also had about 15 times it's value in repairs over the course of it's life by a genuine and accountable garage.


Police cars are sold off after usage in a fair few places, aren't they? I'm not sure why AGS aren't doing it anymore.

when those cars are getting over 200k I don't even want to drive most of them, let alone buy one.
it's not treated in any way like a family car, they are used and abused to an extreme.

repairs by a dealer or not.. they are buckets of sht by the time they hit 300k. and are only fit for scrap.

there . is a good reason why the manufacturer won't even stand over the car, even with its fsh.

Mr Simpson

MarkR wrote: »

Isn't it 300,00 km? So only 186411 miles. My avensis was at 386000 miles and was going fine when I sold it. And I still got money for it. Can't see why the state can't sell it off for some value. Suppose mine was diesel though, are the garda cars petrol?

Do you drive your car hard, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

MarkR

MarkMc wrote: »

Do you drive your car hard, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

Nope! And I just realised I wrote miles instead of km. I suppose we've heard from people who have driven these high milers, and in their first hand experience, they are balls of ****.

Shame they can't get some value out of it. Interior, smells of wee. Dash, bits missing and screw holes everywhere. Wheels, kerbed. Panels, dented.

Nothing worthwhile left!

POGAN

MarkR wrote: »

Nope! And I just realised I wrote miles instead of km. I suppose we've heard from people who have driven these high milers, and in their first hand experience, they are balls of ****.

Shame they can't get some value out of it. Interior, smells of wee. Dash, bits missing and screw holes everywhere. Wheels, kerbed. Panels, dented.

Nothing worthwhile left!

Don't forget rust " large holes in the foot wells

Bosh

And the quarter pounder with cheese under the drivers seat that's been there so long a mini-civilisation has developed to the point of inventing the wheel....:eek: