breaking cars

[96terrano]

Have thought of this for a while and decided I'm going to do it, buy a car dirt cheap and break it for spares, done that with my white and red terranos and made my money back about 3 times with those


Might look at getting somthing popular like a landrover, ford, Vauxhall etc

[larson]

there are many doing landrovers and parts are cheap.. i would just buy anything cheap and do it..

if you can drive it first to see everything works and its cheap enough you will not loose but i would stick to what you know and break mavericks/terrano's while there are still enough left to break

[Fez_uk]

I'd also stick to what you know, You may pick up a landrover disco cheap but most parts sell cheap too. Axles can be like £50-80 2nd hand.

[clivvy]

as above, forget Landrover for a start. Plenty of people wanting spares for the terrano. End of the day, they don't make 'em no more, so the cars are only getting older, and the parts getting scarcer.

Also, id consider a more sportier car perhaps. Such as a Mazda or a Nissan - just something to think about. These days, people look after their prized sports cars a bit more, and so are ready to source spares for themselves. When I was a Mazda owner, spares for the MX3, MX6 and MX5 were always in demand, especially since there were so few on the road-the trick here though, is that the cars are very cheap to buy, and if a V6, people buy the engines alone to implant elsewhere, I saw a lot of people buying a standard Mazda 323f, and implanting the 2.0 V6 engine into that.....so that's about £300 there for a V6 aluminium engine.

[larson]

Originally Posted by Fez_uk

I'd also stick to what you know, You may pick up a landrover disco cheap but most parts sell cheap too. Axles can be like £50-80 2nd hand.

but if its a good 200 engine that will sell and you get to weigh the shell in..

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by larson

but if its a good 200 engine that will sell and you get to weigh the shell in..

also, another fair point, Landrovers aren't exactly cheap to buy in any condition.

[makeitfit]

But they will make a very big mess on your garage floor
You'll need one of those oil barrage things from Environmental Spills

[spiderpig37]

Cars with no tax and test tend to be cheaper but how do you get them to where your going to break them
Dont forget the enviro issues with disposal of oils and stuff
Dont forget about mr tax man
All eat into your profits

[Fez_uk]

Originally Posted by larson

but if its a good 200 engine that will sell and you get to weigh the shell in..

200tdi landrovers won't really go that cheap because of this. They are getting rarer and rarer.

[makeitfit]

A driving license would help
Then some trader insurance
That said, one can drive legally a non taxed and mot'd car IF it's to a pre-arranged MOT test at a garage.
I usually book it in and do a 24 hour ins on it drive it home and cancel MOT test appt . Simples
Then again I'm over 25 and have a license

[96terrano]

So, landrover is out of the equation then?

Wondering if I could buy dads mr2 as its needing a lot of work, might speak to him later. It's a mk2 jap import.

[cncfabs]

Originally Posted by 96terrano

Have thought of this for a while and decided I'm going to do it, buy a car dirt cheap and break it for spares, done that with my white and red terranos and made my money back about 3 times with those


Might look at getting somthing popular like a landrover, ford, Vauxhall etc

I would do lots of research before buying cars to break.Popular cars like fords vauxhalls etc are waste of time scrapyards are full of them.You need to find cars that not so many people are breaking so its worthwhile them either traveling to you or paying postage.Simply buying cars because they are cheap wont necessarlily make you money if the parts arent in demand.

[clivvy]

wise words from CNC Ryan...

[larson]

i did think that crash dammage/pannel damaged merc m class 4x4 would be a good vehicle or something similar as all parts will be expansive

problem with that is the car will not be cheep to start with if you could find one