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I have to travel about 90 minutes to find a yard in Scotland like this, which is one of 2 yards in the UK called U-Pull-It.
They charge £1 admission and their prices are pretty set in stone – they display a price list on their website.
However, they also do wheelbarrow days. The last one I went to cost £60 + VAT, which meant £72. I shared that cost with a mate bringing it down to £36 each. For your money, you take a wheelbarrow and fill it with as much stuff as you like. If you’re after a number of parts for one model, or a number of parts for various models, then it can save you a load of money. For our £72, my mate and I managed a great haul of parts: He got a spare set of Xenon headlights for his Ford Focus, an alternator off a little Daihatsu for his kit-car, a steering rack for his Ford Focus, a headlight washer jet for his Ford Focus, plus a load of other bits and bobs. I got a pair of headlights and a pair of tail lights for my wife’s Peugeot 206CC, also managed to get a pair of front struts, a pair of front hubs, a pair of front brake calipers, a rear exhaust silencer (which still had the sticker on, it must’ve been put onto the car days before the owner wrecked it!), and also several other smaller bits. Probably £400-500 worth of used parts for our £72, and a fun day out in the process.
They used to even leave wheels on the cars, so you could go in and get a set of wheels in your wheelbarrow. Sadly they seem to have become wise to that, and now remove all wheels from all of the cars.
-T
In the description of this video (posted June 22nd), you said your next video would be on June 1st.
Have you secretly bought a DeLorean, and then driven it at 88MPH? 🙂
-T
These are all the cars I’ve owned here in Scotland
March 2002 to February 2004: 1990 Ford Fiesta 1.1, mk3 3-door in white, 74,000 miles when bought, 123,000 when sold
February 2004 to October 2004: 1995 Ford Escort 1.8TD, mk6 5-door in white, can’t remember the mileages, but I put something like 20,000 miles onto it in the 8 months I had it!
October 2004 to November 2012: 1999 Ford Focus 1.8TDDi, mk1 5-door in white Bought with 127,000 miles, had 209,000 when I sold it.
January 2007 to August 2007: 1993 Daihatsu Fourtrak 2.8TD, 4×4 in red over silver (owned as a second vehicle). 62,000 when bought. 66,000 when sold
August 2007 to January 2009: 1999 Ford Focus 1.8TDDi, mk1 5-door estate in white. Bought with 101,000 miles. Sold with 114,000 miles
November 2012 to February 2014: 2008 Fiat Bravo 1.4 T-Jet 150PS, 5-door in black. Bought with 48,000 miles. Sold with 65,000 miles
February 2014 to February 2015: 2006 Ford Focus 1.8TDCi, mk2 5-door in dark blue. Bought with 111,000 miles. Sold with 139,000 miles
February 2015 to date: 2011 Kia Rio 1.1 CRDi, mk3 (UB) 5-door in electronic blue. Had 26,800 miles on the clock when I bought it, now has 61,800.That means since passing my driving test in April 2002, I have driven about 248,000 miles in my own cars. This doesn’t include miles driven in works vehicles, hire cars, etc.
Cars owned with my wife:
When we got together at the end of 2006, she had a 2003 Suzuki Alto 1.1GL, 5-door in light blue, which she’d had since late 2003, early 2004.
March 2010 to March 2013: 2010 Suzuki Alto 1.0 SZ4, 5-door in Metallic Pearl Grey. First time either of us had bought a brand new car!
March 2013 to March 2014: 2003 Smart CityCoupe (ForTwo) 0.6, red over silver
March 2014 to date: 2002 Peugeot 206CC 2.0 16v, 2-door with folding hardtop in electric blue.Picture of my Kia Rio. It’s had the Kia badges replaced, a few stickers added, and now rolls on 18″ BMW Mini John Cooper Works alloys
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It isn’t even just big projects, I tend to find the same applies with any larger repairs on your own car.
On one of my previous cars, a 1999 Ford Focus mark 1 with the 1.8 TDDi turbo diesel engine, my fuel pump failed (Common failure on the electronic Bosch pumps as fitted to this model). An overhauled Bosch fuel pump was £450 GBP, which is substantial enough, but add in the other bits that you need to replace and soon you’re spending nearly as much again on the little bits – obviously the timing belt has to be replaced, then you’re replacing seals and gaskets, new fuel pipes, nuts and bolts, and add in a hand primer fuel pump because Ford don’t fit one at the factory. In total that one cost me £750-800 in parts, that doesn’t include fuel costs for travelling to go and pick up some of those extra little bits, and doesn’t account for the time spent going for all those little bits.
But these are the joys of motoring, and us car enthusiasts enjoy all of the excitement!
-T
