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Title: Scrap value
Post by: ffcgary1 on 14 January 2008, 15:13:19

Well i am gob smacked at the price of scrap metal now, i have finally got rid of the elite that i broke and a mate helped to tow it to the local scrap metal yard and got £131 for it and that was for just the shell without the engine and box.They even gave an extra £10 for the alloys which were fubered any way. :) :y

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Golfbuddy on 14 January 2008, 15:19:05

RESULT!!!

It's not that long ago that you had to pay them to take your car.  :y

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Markie on 14 January 2008, 15:22:19

aye, approximate £70 per tonne......going rate here anyway

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Jay w on 14 January 2008, 15:24:39

price of scrap is certainly on the up.

The other thing that is a bit of an earner is old cats, my old rattler that i just took off the car got me £24 and a complete one will get me £40

 :y

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: zippo on 14 January 2008, 15:32:00

that'll explain why the scrap fella near me drives a brand new range rover then

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Kevin Wood on 14 January 2008, 15:40:22

.. and why they can't be bothered to help you out with bits and pieces worth a couple of quid any more.

 >:(

Kevin

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Tab on 14 January 2008, 16:04:21

i scrapped an old set of astra alloys the other week, got £16.

took an old cat before that and got £15.

i'm in the process of saving up all my old welding tips/diffusers from work to weigh them in :y

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Timbuk on 14 January 2008, 18:22:15

just gone up here today to 95 quid a ton :)

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 14 January 2008, 18:28:02

I guess the scrap metal dealer near me, will start selling soon then.......he stockpiles it when the price is low and at present has several large mountains of cubes of metal.

He runs about in a RR  ::)

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: STMO123 on 14 January 2008, 18:32:14

There's a few cars round here that wouldn't fetch £130 on ebay.

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: hotel21 on 14 January 2008, 18:40:39

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I guess the scrap metal dealer near me, will start selling soon then.......he stockpiles it when the price is low and at present has several large mountains of cubes of metal.

He runs about in a RR  ::)

Theres one near me who does something the same.  At some magical time, theres a fire on the premises which conveniently guts out the interiors etc of hundreds cars stacked quite a few high.  They then get cubed and sold on as a higher grade scrap 'cos it saves stripping them down to plain steel shells and gets a better weigh in value......   ::)

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: markey mark on 14 January 2008, 22:01:45

£90 a ton here owner drives a bently !!! ;D

Title: Re: Scrap value
Post by: IrmscherKris on 14 January 2008, 22:15:34

They drive a brand new ML AMG and a SL55 AMG at the one near me.

DAMN, I'm in the wrong business!