Scrap or keep?

supersaint3

Hi folks,

Maybe these type of threads have been done before, if so I apologise.

I have a 2002 Jag S-Type (2.5 petrol) which I ran as my daily for 3 years.

Recently the bug hit me and putting in the petrol started bothering me and I picked up a diesel merc estate (09 w211) as a replacement.

I love the jag and I have been mulling over keeping it in a shed, perhaps even the 12 years until it's vintage, then taking it out and giving it a recommission and paint job... Mechanically and interior wise it is 100%, the bodywork could use a little attention but not much.

It's basically unsaleable at the minute if I did decide to put it up on donedeal for 400 quid, I mean it's worth more to me than that... and a scrappy only offered me €100, which would be a shameful end for a mechanically sound and reliable car with plenty of enjoyment left in it.

However I do wonder whether it will weather 12 years in a cold shed, whether it will ever be worth anything in any event, and whether it will be so deteriorated in 12 years so as not to be worth restoring...

Should I just scrap it now and have a drink to it, or stick it in the barn?? :eek:

Toyotafanboi

If you had somewhere to store it at no inconvenience I'd probably do that but I'm a bit of a boarder. It wouldn't keep much to keep the car in ok shape once it's out of the elements, just start it and run it a little once or twice a year.


As you say, shame to scrap it and shame to let someone rag it for a couple of hundred you don't need.

Del2005

supersaint3 wrote: »

Hi folks,

Maybe these type of threads have been done before, if so I apologise.

I have a 2002 Jag S-Type (2.5 petrol) which I ran as my daily for 3 years.

Recently the bug hit me and putting in the petrol started bothering me and I picked up a diesel merc estate (09 w211) as a replacement.

I love the jag and I have been mulling over keeping it in a shed, perhaps even the 12 years until it's vintage, then taking it out and giving it a recommission and paint job... Mechanically and interior wise it is 100%, the bodywork could use a little attention but not much.

It's basically unsaleable at the minute if I did decide to put it up on donedeal for 400 quid, I mean it's worth more to me than that... and a scrappy only offered me €100, which would be a shameful end for a mechanically sound and reliable car with plenty of enjoyment left in it.

However I do wonder whether it will weather 12 years in a cold shed, whether it will ever be worth anything in any event, and whether it will be so deteriorated in 12 years so as not to be worth restoring...

Should I just scrap it now and have a drink to it, or stick it in the barn?? :eek:

Once you can keep it dry it'll be fine. Cold won't harm anything if it is dry. The normal perishables will need to be replaced when putting it back on the road if its stored cold or warm for 12 years.

ednwireland

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Buffman

supersaint3 wrote: »

Should I just scrap it now and have a drink to it, or stick it in the barn??

If you have the room keep it, even if you don't use it you can sell it on as a 'barn find' when it reaches the 30.

supersaint3

Buffman wrote: »

If you have the room keep it, even if you don't use it you can sell it on as a 'barn find' when it reaches the 30.

Thanks a mil to all for the replies!!

It appears the consensus is keep and so keep it is! No point killing off a lovely car for scrap value anyway..