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[Webby the Bear]

Hey guys, hope you're all well and had a good bank holiday. 

I've had advice from you guys about scrapping the car (many thanks for that) and this will be done shortly.

However I got a lot of bits that have come off the car that I don't know what I should keep. The engine is the same 2.5v6 as in my good car so the parts swap over. So far I've kept all the nuts and bolts as I know for a fact they'll come in handy in the future.... already I've fixed my broken brake spreader tool with the minituare ''C'' clip from the cruise control 

I've also kept the dispac, ht leads and ICV for spares.

Anything else you reckon? I have the plenum off, the cam shafts out and just waiting to get some time to whip the drivers' head off so everything is accessable. I may keep the MAF as well actually while I think about it.

Anything else yuou reckon? If not the plenum and cam shafts are just being bunged in the boot when it goes.

Oh and the tyres have loadsa tread on so would love to save and possibly sell these if worthwhile but i dont know how that affects me when getting them to pick it up being on bricks lol

not looking to make money..,.... just want to keep hany bits and possibly give someone a nice set of alloys ifneeded 

Any advice would be wonderbra! 

[aaronjb]

I had a car collected that was sat on it's belly - it was a pain in the arris as nobody had a hiab to come pick it up, so it got dragged up my (block paved) drive on trolley jacks and my giant chassis trolleys.. then dragged up the flatbed.

Keep everything that you can possibly unbolt?

[Elite Pete]

Remove the cats and weigh them in separately as they are worth about £60 each at the moment

Fuses, bulbs and relays always come in handy as well

[Webby the Bear]

ok thanks aaron. theres obviously a lot of stuff that i cant keep and is crap.... drive belt, timing belt, water pump etc so tharts all good but its stuff like the plenum im wondering whether to keep or not.

do you reckon theyll take it without the wheels on? lol

[Webby the Bear]

Remove the cats and weigh them in separately as they are worth about £60 each at the moment

Fuses, bulbs and relays always come in handy as well

cheers pete! good thinking! 

[aaronjb]

If you can find someone with a hiab (crane on a flatbed) then wheels are inconsequential Might take some ringing round, though, nobody round here had one Well.. nobody who'd scrap a car without the V5, anyway.

I wouldn't keep 'non mechanical' stuff like the Plenum - when is a plenum ever going to go wrong but mechanical or electrical stuff that you know was good I'd be tempted to keep 

[Webby the Bear]

brilliant, cheers aaron - ill do some ringing 

pure interest..... the tyres are 16" like on my good car. if i kept them, when its time to change tyre would somewhere take them off the old rim and plonk them on my good cars' rims? 

[aaronjb]

Yeah - KwikFitup etc might say no, but a 'local' tyre place will do it for cash cost me £40 last time..

[Webby the Bear]

Yeah - KwikFitup etc might say no, but a 'local' tyre place will do it for cash cost me £40 last time..

cheers mate 

[Webby the Bear]

ooooh sorry just a quickie on a quickie 

when you replace tyres do the other numbers have to match up as opposed to just the rim sizes i.e.....

255/55/R16

?

 

[symes]

yes it does matter-1st set of numbers is width 2nd is aspect ratio ie hight of sidewall

[Webby the Bear]

yes it does matter-1st set of numbers is width 2nd is aspect ratio ie hight of sidewall

ok cool thanks... so they have to be same size. got ya 

[albitz]

Follow the truck to the scrappy and remove the wheels before they weigh it in.

[Webby the Bear]

Follow the truck to the scrappy and remove the wheels before they weigh it in.

good idea. cheers albus 

[cem_devecioglu]

 
here , we would leave nearly nothing
 
all sensors (maf, lambda, throttle position, crank,cam, knock, coolant temperature)
most body parts ( boot, hood, front wings , doors)
head-tail lights (related elecrtonic parts)
engine (crank, pistons, heads , lifters)
injectors
ECU
steering pump
fuel tank, fuel pump
most parts on the front drive train
differential
shaft
 
bumpers
door cards, windows switches , chairs
sunroof motor
roof cover
front panel
rear curtain
mirrors
etc etc
 
you asked