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I need some bits for the Golf (little things like springs from the door locks, bumpers to practice spraying etc. etc.) so I've been trying to find a good scrappy near me (South Wales) but I can't find any. So I called my dad to see if the big ones near where I used to live were there, they are all gone too.
So where are all the big scrap yards?
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I know of plenty down South.......
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Uk Scrap yards,..DarrenW
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Most of the big ones round here have gone too! European regulations I think - something to do with having to put down a sealed surface to prevent oil seeping into the ground and that sort of thing.
I used to spend many an afternoon with a mate scouring scrapyards when I should've been in college... The faded glory of an old, musty jag or MkII Cortina Estate was much more appealing than a Physics lecture!
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I'm sure there's a few on-line scrap-yards about.
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Yep, it is all todo with EU regs for hard surfaces to prevent oil soaking, proper removal of all fluids from the car before it is stacked, and not stacking cars more than a certain height, or using fixed racking for the cars, and also % of all materials (not just metal) that has to be recycled otherwise there are EU fines.
Those that haven't complied already, will have to soon, or have already closed
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  Scrap yards ROCKED..... It was a cool way to pass time..... Poxy EU legislation.... 
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Apr 20, 2004 10:00:02 GMT
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Hmm dunno how good they will be but found a few "vehicle dismantlers" round here,.. but I suspect they will be more like a shop than a scrappy where you can go round and browse the cars....
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Apr 20, 2004 10:07:37 GMT
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it's going to happen in the future, that the scrappy that we know and love will go forever.
Instead, you go to a huge hanger/warehouse on an industrial estate, where a dis-assembly line will be manned by YTS's, work placements and Umpa Loompas, stripped cars down to every nut and bolt.
Each part will be checked for wear, cleaned bagged, tagged and put on a database, and shelved.
you will go a parts counter, and another YTS, work placement or Umpa Loompa, will tap in the description or partnumber you want and go and fetch it for you.
All the fun will be gone, all the dirt hidden and all the life fluids sucked into big tanks. Of course prices will be higher because they will have to pay for the waste fuilds to be processed, and you as the end customer will pay for that.
Depressing isn't it.
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Apr 20, 2004 16:08:43 GMT
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Cheer up Carl. You could always  .......or maybe .....well.. you could  . Oh heck, stuff like thats starting here too. Environmental lobbyists, litigation & personal injury lawyers and the scarcity of useable heaps. Things that break or wear out on your own vehicle have likely done the same to what ever ends up in the wreckers. They're shredding them quicker all the time. |
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Apr 20, 2004 17:37:41 GMT
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Last Edit: Apr 20, 2004 18:30:05 GMT by RetroMat
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Apr 21, 2004 10:39:56 GMT
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I still have fond memories if our local 'stack 'em up' scrappy. I remember taking a friends Mum's Mk1 Cavalier down and weighing it in. As we were collecting the money we spotted a set of Lotus steels on an otherwise standard MkII 'tina and took them instead. There's several amazing things there: a. The scrappy paid us for a car (remember when they did that?). b. There was a MkII 'Tina in the yard. c. It had Lotus rims on it! d. We got those rims for the equivalent of £30! I also remember fondly the Sumbeam Rapier they had...everytime I went there I wound the back window up and down with a grin on my face.  up...and down...and up....and down....and up.... ;D |
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Apr 21, 2004 10:47:31 GMT
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up...and down...and up....and down....and up.... ;D You sad, sad man rmad  |
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Last Edit: Apr 21, 2004 10:48:27 GMT by iRocco
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Apr 21, 2004 11:04:04 GMT
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You sad, sad man rmad Have you ever tried an early Sunbeam rapier rear window winder? Or a Saab 95/96 front window winder? It could keep someone amused for hours! ;D |
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Apr 21, 2004 11:31:06 GMT
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Have you ever tried an early Sunbeam rapier rear window winder? Or a Saab 95/96 front window winder? It could keep someone amused for hours! ;D Nope, can't say I have. But next time I get the chance.......... |
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Uk Scrap yards,..DarrenW
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Apr 21, 2004 12:00:47 GMT
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I can relate to that RMad! used to sit in the back of an old MkII Jag in a local scrappy for hours...
The window winders on our old P6 were amazingly low-geared, something like two turns from top to bottom! The Golf is quite high geared in comparison, I'd guess at about 4 or 5 turns... ;D
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Apr 21, 2004 16:02:20 GMT
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Have you ever tried an early Sunbeam rapier rear window winder? Or a Saab 95/96 front window winder? It could keep someone amused for hours! ;D Apparently it did  |
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Apr 21, 2004 19:45:47 GMT
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Apr 21, 2004 19:48:36 GMT
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 ...and up...and down...and up...and down... |
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Apr 21, 2004 20:21:31 GMT
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The blue and white one..is that a Rapier?
Pretty ;D
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Apr 21, 2004 21:00:08 GMT
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That's a Saab 95, I was actually inside it winding the window up and down when this shot was taken*
*that's not true.
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.......or maybe 
. Oh heck, stuff like thats starting here too. Environmental lobbyists, litigation & personal injury lawyers and the scarcity of useable heaps. Things that break or wear out on your own vehicle have likely done the same to what ever ends up in the wreckers. They're shredding them quicker all the time.
