Snog, marry, avoid - er I mean, break, scrap or fix?

[51octytdi]

Oh dear. I've been offered £350 as scrap, but there's at least £300 worth of satnav and dashpod in there. I'd like to get it off my drive as soon as possible but I just don't know what to do with it. The wheel may have been shunted (it certainly wobbles a lot), besides I don't really fancy driving it again.

TDi 110 Elegance

170,000 miles

Ivory bamboo cloth interior

Skoda MFD Satnav

Full maxidot

Manuals, service history, pile of receipts

It had some new front discs on Monday

Three good alloys, three good tyres, unused spare on steel.

My punishment (as if that wasn't bad enough) is having to buy a £1500 03 plate Kia Rio. Sporty.

J

[jaymd]

Strip it and sell everything.

[jaymd]

I will be the 1st in with...........

I will have

Grill

Wing mirrors

Might as well.

[matt_theforce]

agreed, strip and sell the parts or keep and turn into a track car

[mbames]

Does it have the covers for the wheel bolts (on the alloys)? Mine does't, so I might take those off your hands....

Maybe I should have your turbo, MAF and n75 too, sooner or later I must be able to replace what ever is broken on mine!!!

[51octytdi]

If I do break the car (and no you can't reserve bits on this thread, I'll start a new one in For Sale if it happens), how do you price items and how do you manage all that shipping?

Maybe I should just say "Bring a spanner ... and cash ..."

J

[SimonJ]

Strip it, but if you don't have the time or space make sure you take the satnav out at the very least.

[mbames]

Maybe I should just say "Bring a spanner ... and cash ..."

I'll bring my scrap-yard trousers/pockets then

What actually happened?

[shark_90]

I would strip it also but it's a messy job. Shipping is good a cheap through UK Courier Services | Parcel Delivery | DHL, FedEx and City Link and you can buy boxes/bubble wrap etc directly from them too.

[Guest westallc]

i wull have the sat nav and maxi dot:thumbup:

[Tom_vRS]

TBH I'd sell the nav & dashpod, and then let it go to the scrappers. Breaking it would be a lot of time and effort for sure.

[Royston]

Why not wait til the 22nd April. Gordon Clown is expected to make an announcement about this here scrappage scheme. May be worth £2000 off a new car.

[51octytdi]

pittVRS: I heard the scrappage scheme will be for cars over 9 years old. This one's only 7 and a half.

I forgot the fourth option: I have comprehensive insurance, so I could give to to the insurer and collect (about) £500.

I'm currently thinking the best option would be to put it on ebay as is. You would get the lot - a £300 nav unit with aux cable and p'n'p adaptor, a (rare) £150 maxidot dashpod, an original dashpod (minus the speedo foil), the original rad/cass, a pile of paperwork and a very reasonable collection of parts, ready assembled to save space. You could fix it, or break it at your leisure. Does £700 sound fair?

J