E300TD 1998 - what is a reaonable scrapping price including alloy wheels?

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Finally replaced my (formerly) superb Black E300TD.

Best price offered online is £230. The car comes with original alloys is £230 a good price. The car is an MOT failure.
 
Hi,just purchased a e300 td 99s had it serviced new glow plugs etc any advice for me regarding any other issue I should address on it sorry doesn't sort your issue out don't think it's a bad price they say scrap metal price rock bottom,have you tried dronsfields of Oldham merc dismantle rs,worth a call,cheers.
 
Hi,just purchased a e300 td 99s had it serviced new glow plugs etc any advice for me regarding any other issue I should address on it sorry doesn't sort your issue out don't think it's a bad price they say scrap metal price rock bottom,have you tried dronsfields of Oldham merc dismantle rs,worth a call,cheers.

There are better specialists than me for advice, but with a car like that I would do repairs as and when needed rather than preventively as you can easily spend 1,2,3 ... thousands that would certainly improve the car and perhaps make it more reliable but it will always be a 99 car. I like the classic shape, the bigger size than W211 ... bur W211 facelift E320CDI is much more powerful and up to date.
 
Why did it fail it's MOT?

Nearside rear brake pipe leaking / excessively corroded

Exhaust has a major leak

Due to leak brake performance not tested

Due to leak emissions not tested

Service brake - efficiency below requirements.

Also 2 out five glow plugs were gone - so required quite some effort to start in winter, less of an effort in summer - but if one more were to go I strongly suspect it just would not start in winter however hard I try.
 
Finally replaced my (formerly) superb Black E300TD.

Best price offered online is £230. The car comes with original alloys is £230 a good price. The car is an MOT failure.

That's a very very good price.

Frag feed - ie cars is around £25 a tonne, and alloys wheels around £750-£800.

So in terms of metal value its worth about £49 inc the battery.

Why are they offering so much??
 
That's a very very good price.

Frag feed - ie cars is around £25 a tonne, and alloys wheels around £750-£800.

So in terms of metal value its worth about £49 inc the battery.

Why are they offering so much??

It is not just rusty steel, I suppose metals that engine, gearbox, alloys, radiators etc are made of are much more expensive.
 
It is not just rusty steel, I suppose metals that engine, gearbox, alloys, radiators etc are made of are much more expensive.

If sold for scrap the whole car will be £25 a tonne, so perhaps £35 at most.

Scrap is at an all time low - and falling.

They radiators are alloy, but there's very little value to them.

So an offer of £230 is really good.
 
A brake pipe and exhaust section may get it through the MOT and it will then be worth a lot more than £230.
 
Agreed.

Advertise it on here & it will live on.
 
That's a very very good price.

Frag feed - ie cars is around £25 a tonne, and alloys wheels around £750-£800.

So in terms of metal value its worth about £49 inc the battery.

Why are they offering so much??

Because the scrappy will make money breaking it and selling parts , then what's left will go to the crusher .
 
Because the scrappy will make money breaking it and selling parts , then what's left will go to the crusher .

Old 210s don't really break for anything anymore, there are very few parts that are worth more than £10, and even then you're up against a sea of parts on ebay.

Plus everyone always forgets about the labour aspect of stripping a car - that's £500, so £730, plus what ever it costs to fetch it, maybe £800, would you ever get that back?

If you loaded up a lorry with what's left you'd make a loss as the diesel to get it to the scrapyard would cost more than the value of the shell.
 
One scrappy near me has maybe 20 or 30 assorted 210's , 202's , 203's , early A Class ( 169?) and one each 140 and 124 ; the others round about tend to have the same sort of mix but in smaller numbers . You don't really see anything newer in the yards .

Unless somebody wants the engine or suchlike ( for which you pay a reasonable amount anyway ) there's no labour in stripping as the customers do that themselves ( not many yards around here where the car is stripped for you , and I don't go to these ones ) .
 
Unless somebody wants the engine or suchlike ( for which you pay a reasonable amount anyway ) there's no labour in stripping as the customers do that themselves ( not many yards around here where the car is stripped for you , and I don't go to these ones ) .

For the most part all the yards like that have gone, the cars are on racks, and about as close as you'll get is the parts counter.

That said the vast majority of yards now don't even sell spares, the cars just get shredded.

Ironically the low price of metal means that it's not even worth shredding them.
 
For the most part all the yards like that have gone, the cars are on racks, and about as close as you'll get is the parts counter.

Not here in Scotland : apart from one yard over in Fife , and one in Aberdeen , neither of which are very popular , every yard I can think of leave you to wander and remove what you want from the cars . Unless you want something major like an engine , there is no help removing it .

I know of a couple of dozen traditional yards local to me where I can wander round and remove what I want .

There are a few yards which process scrap metal , as opposed to breakers , who don't sell parts , but they deal in metal from all sources and the breakers normally sell the unwanted remains to them .

202's and 210's are still an almost everyday sight here ( I saw two 210's and numerous 202's on the road today - just ordinary cars in daily use ) so still plenty of demand for parts . 124's are a rarer sight now but I still see 190's in regular use , although not as much as I used to - even so , the market for parts for these cars is still quite healthy .
 
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A brake pipe and exhaust section may get it through the MOT and it will then be worth a lot more than £230.

I can have £230 and the car is gone in the next two days. I will even have a good battery as will put the old in for scrappage.

Exhaust and brake pipes - even if we assume can be done for £400 then still I would have to get £630 for the car to break even. And would endure a trouble of organising repairs and then selling a car which can stretch into months if it sells that is.

Starting the car takes 30 seconds as two glow plugs are gone - one more and it will not start at all. So realistically I would have to fix those as well at a cost up to £2k-£3k. Then something else could go wrong with a car like this.

So quite frankly even if I had to pay £230 (rather than receive) it would still look like a more attractive option than fixing and selling. With cars like this it might make sense to fix and continue driving but not to fix to sell.
 
Agreed.

Advertise it on here & it will live on.

Well, if someone wants it and are able to collect it quickly from Welwyn - Stevenage area (bearing in mind that it does not have effective brakes and MOT is 10 month expired and lots of other problems of which glow plugs and the fact that it was standing SORNed for 10 months are most significant) then they could reply with their offer.

Or if someone wants RAD bolts for putting W211 wheels onto W210 and can collect them.
 

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I can have £230 and the car is gone in the next two days. I will even have a good battery as will put the old in for scrappage.

Exhaust and brake pipes - even if we assume can be done for £400 then still I would have to get £630 for the car to break even. And would endure a trouble of organising repairs and then selling a car which can stretch into months if it sells that is.

Starting the car takes 30 seconds as two glow plugs are gone - one more and it will not start at all. So realistically I would have to fix those as well at a cost up to £2k-£3k. Then something else could go wrong with a car like this.

So quite frankly even if I had to pay £230 (rather than receive) it would still look like a more attractive option than fixing and selling. With cars like this it might make sense to fix and continue driving but not to fix to sell.

I did the glow plugs myself on my E250D at a cost of under a tenner each , and a couple of hours of my time , only because I had to remove the inlet manifold to do them ; four came out easily ( having first sprayed penetrating oil in ) and the last one came out using a bit of persuasion from a cordless drill on the torque limiter setting which loosened it within about a minute ) .

Brake pipes are cheap as chips ( I'm about to replace all on my 190 as part of the brake rebuild ) and if selling the car an aftermarket exhaust can be put on .

Maybe you can't be bothered to do this to sell the car , but these are very minor issues which shouldn't put a buyer off .

As already stated , put a free classified ad on here , pictures are a big help selling , and you will probably find a buyer .
 
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Well, if someone wants it and are able to collect it quickly from Welwyn - Stevenage area (bearing in mind that it does not have effective brakes and MOT is 10 month expired and lots of other problems of which glow plugs and the fact that it was standing SORNed for 10 months are most significant) then they could reply with their offer.

Or if someone wants RAD bolts for putting W211 wheels onto W210 and can collect them.

That's not a bad looking car , if it doesn't sell here it should go on Gumtree .

It would be a shame to see a perfectly good car scrapped .
 

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