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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.
Why did it fail it's MOT?
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??
It is not just rusty steel, I suppose metals that engine, gearbox, alloys, radiators etc are made of are much more expensive.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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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