Buying a write-off at salvage auction?
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Buying a write-off at salvage auction?
I am wondering if anyone has experience of buying from a salvage auction? I was at one on Saturday and there was an excellent low mileage 98R ZX TDSX one owner FSH 77k miles with a scrape all along one side, not that bad and to be honest I could live with it, for £260. It however was a cat C. There were lots of others with very little damage that were "C" . Seems a great way of getting a very cheap car. What are the catches?
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With labour costs as they are, it doesn't take much to write a car off now so you can get a bargain if you know what you are doing. Make sure it was only the damage that wrote it off and check that everything else is OK. I got £400 knocked off my XM because a lot of the electrics didn't work, took me a couple of days to fix them and I now have one of the very few XMs on which everything works!
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No knowledge of salvage auctions, but my car was written off as a cat C, and they let me keep it for £50 (Its a P-reg, mondeo td ghia) which I thought was brilliant, and for a new bumper and wing (the parts damaged) cost £150, and took 4 hours to fit. not bad. To be honest, im not at all bothered about having cars that have been written off, as 9 times out of 10 theres very little wrong with them. The only thing you have to have done is a harmless VIC check, costs £36 and takes all of 20 minutes at your local VOSA test centre.
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I saved my mates BX a few years ago, he bought it back as a write off well cheap, it needed a wing, headlamp, indicator, bonnet and front bumper. we fitted it all and took it to my garage for a new MOT explained it needed an engineers report, showed him pictures of the damage and I think he charged about £60 including the test.
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ive brought quite a few salvaged vehicles mate and in my opinion dont buy anything that has any suspension damage or heavy front end damage.
Ive lost more then i gained a few times
Go for something that has minor body damage like a scrape or wing/door replacement and you will pick up a great bargain.
Cat D salvage does not require a VIC
Cat C requires a VIC
Be on the safe side and re-MOT the vehicles after you have repaired due to some of the salvage vehicles standing for such a long time the breaks/drums might have seized a little or gone rusty or any other little problems.
Ive lost more then i gained a few times
Go for something that has minor body damage like a scrape or wing/door replacement and you will pick up a great bargain.
Cat D salvage does not require a VIC
Cat C requires a VIC
Be on the safe side and re-MOT the vehicles after you have repaired due to some of the salvage vehicles standing for such a long time the breaks/drums might have seized a little or gone rusty or any other little problems.
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2005 ZX SX Diesel 64K
2004 ZX Aura TD 150k
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